AWARDS AT THE 2022 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association announced the 2022 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
CHICHENG MA, The University of Hong Kong, was awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this JOURNAL in the September 2021 to June 2022 issues, for “Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits,” published in the December 2021 issue of The Journal of Economic History. The editorial board selected the winner.
JINGYI HUANG, Harvard University and Brandeis University, received the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for her dissertation “The Impact of Innovation, Regulation, and Market Power on Economic Development: Evidence from the American West,” completed at the University of California, Los Angeles. Advisors: Dora Costa (co-chair), John Asker (co-chair), Michela Giorcelli, and Nico Voigtländer. (This prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press.)
HANZHI DENG, Fudan University, received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for the dissertation “A History of Decentralization: Fiscal Transitions in Late Imperial China, 1850–1911,” completed at the London School of Economics. Advisor: Kent G. Deng.
GREGORY CLARK, University of California, Davis, was awarded the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize honoring excellence in teaching economic history.
ROBERT GALLMAN, PAUL RHODE, and ZORINA KHAN shared the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for the outstanding book on North American Economic History. GALLMAN and RHODE were awarded for their book Capital in the Nineteenth Century, published by Chicago University Press, 2019. KHAN was awarded for the book Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy, published by Oxford University Press, 2020.
ALAN TAYLOR, UC Davis, was awarded the Engerman-Goldin Prize for his contributions in the past six years in creating, compiling, and sharing data in the JST Macrohistory Dataset.
VELLORE ARTHI, University of California, Irvine, was awarded for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Economic History.
LATIKA CHAUDHARY, Naval Postgraduate School, 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 American History, awarded to TIMUR NATKHOV, HSE University, and NATALIA VASILENOK, Stanford University, “Skilled Immigrants and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the German Settlements in the Russian,” published in the July 2021 issue.
Awarded for Excellence in Refereeing for Explorations in Economic History were GUIDO ALFANI, Bocconi University, and MARK KOYAMA, George Mason University.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION PITTSBURGH, PA 8–10 SEPTEMBER 2023 JANE HUMPHRIES
The theme for EHA 2023 is “Love and Toil, Care and Work.” While Adam Smith defined economics in terms of wealth creation and Lionel Robbins in terms of limited means and unlimited ends, Alfred Marshall thought of it as “…a study of men (sic) as they live and move and think in the ordinary business of life.” Nothing could be more ordinary than caring. It takes place all the time and all around us. It involves diverse tasks, which can be commercialized but are often unpaid, although sometimes very labor intensive. Care can be provided domestically, or in the community, but today it is increasingly globalized. Most importantly, care adds significantly to wellbeing, and simultaneously enhances productivity. However, (and here I build on last year’s theme), caring work is hidden in plain sight. Since it is often unpaid and performed in private households this is perhaps understandable, yet we recognize and impute values to other non-market activities. Moreover, commercialized caring is also neglected and under-valued, despite constituting a significant sector of most economies. It takes a pandemic of catastrophic proportions to reveal care’s importance. But while we applauded our careers not so long ago, they and their product are already fading from our economic consciousness. The program committee calls for papers that identify caring’s importance, not only to secure a more complete account of the ordinary business of life, but also to augment, perhaps even correct, standard interpretations of economic history framed in terms of Smithian enrichment or Robbinsian rational allocative order.
The Program Committee, chaired by Eric Schneider (London School of Economics), 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 2022 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2023 program. Papers and session proposals should be submitted online, with the following submission form: https://eh.net/eha/2023-eha-meeting-proposal/. The submission system will be available starting 18 September 2022. 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 31 2023, to ensure consideration. Please note that at least one of the authors needs to be a member of 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 2023. Applications for the poster session are due no later than 21 May 2023, 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 2022–2023 academic year. The submission deadline is 31 May 2023. 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 2022: 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
Katherine Hauck of University of Arizona for “An Empirical Estimation of a Structural Option Value Model of Homesteading.” Advisor: Price Fishback.
Hillary Vipond of London School of Economics for “Locating Technological Unemployment in 19th Century England.” Advisors: Patrick Wallis and Chris Minns.
EHA Dissertation Fellowships
Nicholas Bartos of Stanford University for “Human Geographies and Maritime Economies of the Western Indian Ocean, 100 BCE–700 CE.” Advisor: Justin Leidwanger.
Laura Montenegro of University of Chicago for “Forging the Nation of Apartheid: Market Access and the Rise of Afrikaner Identity.” Advisors: James Robinson, Christopher Blattman, and Richard Hornbeck.
Cosimo Petracchi of Brown University for “Monetary-Policy Regimes and Large Exporter-Importers.” Advisors: Gauti B. Eggertsson, Oded Galor, Matteo Maggiori, and Pascal Michaillat.
Cambridge University Press Dissertation Fellowship
Madison Arnsbarger of University of Pittsburgh for “Essays on Women’s Labor and Politics in United States History.” Advisors: Andy Ferrara, Allison Shertzer, Daniel Berkowitz, and Laura Salisbury.
Cambridge University Press Pre-Dissertation Exploratory Grants
Thomas Storrs of University of Virginia for “FHA Multifamily Housing after WWII: Sheltering Americans Together and Separately.” Advisor: Andrew Kahrl.
Danielle Wilson of American University for “Long-Run Effects of Mexico’s Historic Interregional Rail Network.” Advisor: Gabriel P. Mathy.
EHA Pre-Dissertation Exploratory Grants
Jasmin Bath of University of Cambridge for “(In)dependent Mothers and Economic Survival in Antebellum New York City, 1827–1857.” Advisor: Nicholas Guyatt.
Miquel Faus Faus of University of Valencia for “Work and Living Standards in Medieval Valencia (1300–1460).” Advisor: Antoni Furió Diego.
Jaeyoung Ha of University of California, San Diego for “Mineral for Empire, Mining for Nation: U.S. Techno-Imperialism in South Korea’s Tungsten Mining Initiatives in the 1950s.” Advisor: Todd Henry.
Anne Kruse of Vanderbilt University for “Economic Impacts of State Antitrust Laws, 1880–1940.” Advisor: Ariell Zimran.
Francis Russo of University of Pennsylvania for “Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: First Wave Socialism and Antislavery in the 1820s.” Advisor: Daniel K. Richter.
Rohan Shah of Columbia University for “Reluctant Globalists: U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, ‘Interdependence,’ and the End of Bretton Woods.” Advisors: Kim Phillips-Fein and Anders Stephanson.
Kaitlin Simpson of University of Tennessee, Knoxville for “The Flowers of El Dorado: Gender, Production, and the Cut Flower Industry in Colombia and the United States.” Advisor: Tore C. Olsson.
Qiyi Zhao of Stanford University for “The Reformation as Institutional Change.” Advisors: Timothy Guinnane and Gavin Wright.
Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid
Michael Andrews of University of Maryland Baltimore County for “Private Patent Values: Evidence from a 1919 Illinois Blue Sky Law.”
Jeff Chan of Wilfrid Laurier University for “The Local Labour Market Effects of Steamship Adoption in America, 1870-1910.”
Tamoghna Halder of Azim Premji University for “Residential Segregation in Calcutta (India): 1871–2021.”
Sarah Quincy of Vanderbilt University for “The “Mortgage Piggy Bank,” Intergenerational Mobility, and Financial Stability.”
Cory Smith of University of Maryland for “Democracy on the Margin: Evidence from Pakistan’s Local Governments.”
The Association is grateful to the members of the CREH for their work in selecting the award winners. Antoine Parent, Sciences Po Lyon chaired the committee. He was assisted by Gregg Huff, University of Oxford, Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder, Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Marc Weidenmier, Chapman University, and Edward Kosack, Xavier University.
