AWARDS AT THE 2023 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association announced the 2023 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cormac O’Grada, University College Dublin, and Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin were awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this JOURNAL in the September 2022 to June 2023 issues, for “Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics” published in the September 2022 issue of The Journal of Economic History. The editorial board selected the winner.
Hannah Postel, Stanford University, received the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for her dissertation “Records of Exclusion: Chinese Immigration in Historical Perspective,” completed at Princeton University. Advisors: Leah Boustan (chair), Beth Lew-Williams, Douglas Massey, Tod Hamilton, and Brandon Stewart. (This prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press.)
Lukas Rosenberger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for his dissertation “Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and the Knowledge Economy: Essays in (Macro-)Economic History,” completed at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Advisor: Uwe Sunde.
Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was awarded the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize honoring excellence in teaching economic history.
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, was awarded the Lindert-Williamson Prize for an outstanding book in Global, African, Asian, Australian, and/or South American Economic History. She was awarded for her book Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980, published by Cambridge University Press.
David Todd, Sciences Po, was awarded the Gyorgy Ranki Prize for an outstanding book on the Economic History of Europe. He was awarded for his book A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, published by Princeton University Press.
Price Fishback, University of Arizona, was awarded the Gallman-Parker Prize for creating, compiling, and sharing data and information with scholars over the course of a career.
James Fenske, University of Warwick, was awarded for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Economic History.
James Kung, University of Melbourne, was awarded for Exceptional Service to the Journal of Economic History Editorial Board.
Also announced was the Larry Neal Prize for the best article published in Explorations in Economic History, awarded to Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Peter Nencka, Miami University for the article “The Census Place Project: A Method for Geolocating Unstructured Place Names,” published in the January 2023 issue.
Awarded for Excellence in Refereeing for Explorations in Economic History were Federico Tadei, University of Barcelona, and Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 6–8 SEPTEMBER 2024 DOUGLAS A. IRWIN
The theme for the EHA 2024 meeting is Globalization: Perspectives from the Past. Globalization refers to the movement of goods, services, people, capital, and technology across countries. By many measures, the twenty-first century has become more globalized than at any time in history, yet its future is in doubt with the rise of geopolitical conflict and doubts about its benefits to workers in advanced countries. How do earlier eras of globalization compare and what also can be learned from the interconnected nature of markets and people, which goes back to ancient times? How have government policies toward globalization differed across countries and changed over time? New data sources and methodologies have allowed researchers to examine the political, economic, and social consequences of increased trade and finance as well as migration across countries over longer periods of time and spanning a richer set of countries across the globe.
Globalization in past centuries has been marred by colonialism and forced migration, even as it has allowed technology to spread around the world. Over the past century, globalization has presented tremendous opportunities for economic growth for many countries, but one with pitfalls as well, as those seeking to manage cross-border capital flows have discovered with financial crises. Globalization also has had short-run and longer-run impact on the environment, including increased greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, habitat destruction, and invasive species. All of these facets of globalization have profound implications for society. The theme of this conference will explore past episodes, past events, and past evidence to understand how globalization affects the world in all its dimensions, for good and for ill.
The Program Committee, chaired by Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University), welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that fit the theme of the conference. Papers should be submitted individually, but authors may suggest to the Committee that three particular papers fit well together in a panel. Papers should in all cases be works in progress rather than accepted or published work. Submitters should let the program committee know at the time of application if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper given at the 2023 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2024 program. The submission system will be available on the EHA website no later than 1 November 2023. Paper proposals should include a 3–5-page proposal and a 150–word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Paper proposals should be submitted by 31 January 2024, to ensure consideration. Please note that at least one of the authors must be an active member of the EHA.
Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting, and the association offers students subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. The poster submission system will open on 1 March 2024. Applications for the poster session are due no later than 21 May 2024, online on the meetings website. The dissertation session, convened by Vellore Arthi (University of California, Irvine) and Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2023–2024 academic year. The submission deadline is 31 May 2024. The Allan Nevins and Alexander Gerschenkron prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on North American and non-North American topics respectively. Dissertations must be submitted as a single PDF file. Files of less than 5 MB in size may be sent directly to the conveners as an email attachment. To submit a file over 5 MB, please supply a download link in an email message. The Nevins prize submissions should be sent to: varthi@uci.edu and the Gerschenkron prize submissions to: P.H.Wallis@lse.ac.uk. All submissions will be acknowledged by return email.
EHA GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
The Committee on Research in Economic History (CREH) of the Economic History Association is charged with administrating the Association’s project of assisting young scholars as a way of strengthening the discipline of economic history. The CREH made three types of awards for 2023: fellowships to graduate students writing their dissertations; travel/data grants to graduate students in the early stage of research; and Cole Grants to recent PhDs.
Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships
Auriane Terki-Mignot of University of Cambridge for “Patterns of Female Employment in France, 1792–1906.” Advisor: Alexis Litvine.
Qiyi Zhao of Stanford University for “The Reformation and Urban Institutional Change.” Advisor: Timothy Guinnane.
EHA Dissertation Fellowships
Arielle Alterwaite of University of Pennsylvania for “Empire of Debt: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.” Advisor: Sophia Rosenfeld.
William Cockriel of University of Chicago Booth School of Business for “Boots and Shoes: Long Run Impacts of Job Destruction.” Advisor: Richard Hornbeck.
Amy Cross of American University and NBER for “Three Essays on the Impact of Military Policy on Gendered Civilian Work.” Advisor: Mary Hansen.
Cambridge University Press Dissertation Fellowship
Dongkyu Yang of University of Colorado–Boulder for “Internal Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Long-Run Adjustment to Economic Change.” Advisor: Taylor Jaworski.
Cambridge University Press Pre-Dissertation Exploratory Grants
Pablo Andrés Valenzuela Casasempere of The University of British Columbia for “Highway Site Selection and Race: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System.” Advisor: Nathan Nunn.
Alvaro Calderon of Stanford University for “Can Market Access disrupt Property Rights? Evidence from Railroads Construction in 19th Century Peru.” Advisor: Ran Abramitzky.
EHA Pre-Dissertation Exploratory Grants
Ellen Anderson of University of California, Davis for “Equity and Efficiency in the US Civil Service: Evidence from the Classification Act of 1923.” Advisor: Santiago Perez.
Alina Bykova of Stanford University for “Extraction Islands: Environment, Politics and Security in Svalbard, 1850s to Present.” Advisor: Amir Weiner.
Leo Dolan of UC3M Madrid for “Labour and Corporate Enterprise in Africa since the 20th Century.” Advisor: Dacil Juif.
Kexin Feng of California Institute of Technology for “The Economic Effects of Political Instability: Evidence from China’s Warlord Period.” Advisor: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Christoph A. Hess of University of Cambridge for “Family Constraints on Mobility in Pre-Industrial China.” Advisor: Sheilagh Ogilvie.
Benjamin Jaros of Clemson University for “Taxation and Wealth Accumulation in the Colonial Chesapeake.” Advisor: Howard Bodenhorn.
Guohui Jiang of University of Zurich for “Tipping in Norm Change: Evidence from Patriotism in WWII U.S.” Advisor: Hans-Joachim Voth.
Zachary Luther of Vanderbilt University for “Trade Policy Behavior in Colonial America.” Advisor: Eric W. Bond.
Spencer McCloy of Florida State University for “Hospital Expansion and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the Hill-Burton Program.” Advisor: Shawn Kantor.
Arthur H. Cole Grant in Aid
Christopher Absell of University of Gothenburg for “Welfare Effects of Trade Policy Instruments: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century British Sugar Market.”
Jingyi Huang of Brandeis University for “Interlocking Directorates and Railroad Collusion.”
Hannah Postel of Stanford University for “The Effects of Immigration Restrictions: Evidence from Chinese Exclusion.”
Ethan Schmick of Marquette University for “Collective Action and American Agricultural Development.”
Hanna Schwank of University of Bonn for “Tracing the Fate of San Francisco’s Business Owners: An Analysis of the Economic Consequences of the 1906 Fire.”
The Association is grateful to the members of the CREH for their work in selecting the award winners. Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee–Knoxville chaired the committee. She was assisted by Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado–Boulder, Edward Kosack, Xavier University, Marc Weidenmier, Chapman University, Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, and Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii.
