AWARDS AT THE 2024 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association announced the 2024 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held in Sacramento, California.
Pier Paolo Creanza, Princeton University was awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this JOURNAL in the September 2023 to June 2024 issues, for “Institutions, Trade, and Growth: The Ancient Greek Case of Proxenia” published in the March 2024 issue. The editorial board selected the winner.
Laura Weiwu, Stanford University1, received the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history, for her dissertation “Essays on Inequality in Cities,” completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: David Autor. (This prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press.)
Mallory Hope, University of Wisconsin, Madison, received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-U.S. or Canadian economic history, for her dissertation “Underwriting Risk: Trade, War, Insurance, and Legal Institutions in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire,” completed at Yale University. Advisor: Laura Benton.
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College, was awarded the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize honoring excellence in teaching economic history.
Richard N. Langlois was awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for the outstanding book on North American Economic History. He was awarded for his book The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise, published by Princeton University Press, 2023.
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University, Leah Boustan, Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis, Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis, and Myera Rashid, Northwestern University, were awarded the Engerman-Goldin Prize for creating, compiling, and sharing data and information with scholars for “The Census Linking Project.”
Ian Keay, Queen’s University, was recognized for Excellence in Refereeing for the Journal of Economic History.
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College, was recognized 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 Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, Robert Margo, Boston University, and Paul Rhode, University of Michigan for the article “De-skilling: Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing,” published in the October 2023 issue.
Awarded for Excellence in Refereeing for Explorations in Economic History were Michael Huberman, Université de Montréal, and Steven Nafziger, Williams College.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 5–7 SEPTEMBER 2025 PAUL RHODE
Information and Communications in Economic History is the theme of the 2025 meeting. The theme is inspired in part by Allan Pred’s classic work on the Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information and by the location of the meetings in Philadelphia, headquarters and key hub of the first postal system in the United States. “Spreading the news” helped encourage the creation and diffusion of new technologies, stimulated market integration and population flows, and fostered the dissemination of new social values and norms. But information flows and their control also re-enforced systems of oppression. Economic historians, moreover, are familiar with how the structure and content of information was generated in the past conditions and constrains what we can learn today. The surviving quantitative data and qualitative evidence are selected, with possible biases; and they are structured in ways reflecting past concerns and capabilities. Research exploring how information flows and communication systems of the past impact our current understanding also fits within the conference theme, as does work engaging with and reflecting on the ongoing information explosion in economic history.
The Program Committee, chaired by Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan), 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 2024 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2025 program. To submit a paper, use the following URL:https://eh.net/2025-eha-meeting-proposal-2/. Paper proposals must include a 1,000-word proposal with a 150–word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Paper URLs can be provided within the form above, but no attachments will be allowed. Paper proposals should be submitted by 31 January 2025, to ensure consideration. Please note that at least one of the authors must be an active member of the EHA. If you have difficulty with the form, please reach out to Jeremy Land at jeremy.land@helsinki.fi.
Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. The poster submission system will open on 1 February 2025. Applications for the poster session are due no later than 15 April 2025, online on the meetings website. The dissertation session, convened by Joshua Hausman (University of Michigan) and Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2024–2025 academic year. The submission deadline is 31 May 2025. The Allan Nevins and Alexander Gerschenkron prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on North American and non-North American topics, respectively. To be eligible for the prizes, you must be a current EHA member at the time of submission. Dissertations should be submitted via the form at the following URL: https://eh.net/2025-dissertation-submission-form/. The form will also ask for 150-word abstract to be used for the program, if chosen as a finalist. For files above 10MB, the application form will include a space for a URL or link to download the full dissertation. 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 2024: fellowships to graduate students writing their dissertations; travel/data grants to graduate students in the early stage of research; and Arthur H. Cole Grants to recent PhDs.
Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships
Anne Schaller of Vanderbilt University for “Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era.” Advisor: Ariel Zimran.
Pablo Andrés Valenzuela Casasempere of University of British Columbia for “Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System.” Advisors: Victor Couture, Nathan Nunn, Réka Juhász, and Kevin Milligan.
EHA Dissertation Fellowships
Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira of Geneva Graduate Institute for “Opening the Black Box of Financial Negotiations: The IMF, Argentina, and Brazil in the Post-war Era (1945–1964).” Advisors: Rui Esteves and Nathan Sussman.
Henry Downes of University of Notre Dame for “Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom.” Advisors: Kasey Buckles and William Evans.
Yannis Kastis of University College London for “Organizational Practices and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Jewish Immigration and the Tailoring Industry in England.” Advisor: Christian Dustman.
Cambridge University Press Dissertation Fellowship
Gabriel Groz of University of Chicago for “The Politics of State Finance in Early-Modern China and England, 1590–1720.” Advisors: Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Pincus.
Cambridge University Press Early-Stage Dissertation Grants
Nathaniel Barlow of UCLA for “The Short Run and Intergenerational Effects of Reparations to Japanese Americans.” Advisors: Martha Bailey and Dora Costa.
Danielle Graves Williamson of Boston University for “Segregation Academies.” Advisor: James Feigenbaum.
EHA Early-Stage Dissertation Grants
Tamar Matiashvili of Stanford University for “Does Diversity Matter? Evidence from the First Female Physicians.” Advisor: Ran Abramitzky.
Myera Rashid of Northwestern University for “Engine of Intergenerational Mobility: Typewriter Adoption and Women’s Economic Outcomes.” Advisor: Joel Mokyr.
Carolina V. Vera Rivera of University of Arizona for “The Flooded Path: Exploring Intergenerational Mobility Amidst the 1937 Ohio River Flood.” Advisor: Price Fishback.
Matthias Weigand of Harvard University for “How Autocracies Form: State Capacity, Absolutism, and the Thirty Years’ War.” Advisor: Edward Glaeser.
Arthur H. Cole Grant in Aid for Post-Doctoral Research
Victor Degorce of Princeton University for “Exchange Controls and the Segmentation of International Currency Markets.”
Jon Denton-Schneider of Clark University for “Rags to Rags: The Multi-Generational Effects of Ending Cash Transfers in Victorian Britain.”
Katherine Hauck of University of California Davis for “Crops Vs. Fences: Did Homesteaders and Purchasers Follow Different Investment Strategies in Their Land?”
Pawel Janas of California Institute of Technology for “U.S. Insurance Capital in the Long Run.”
Luka Miladinović of University of Gothenburg for “Crossed by the Iron Curtain: The Economic Consequences of Forced Migrations between Italy and Yugoslavia (1945–1954).”
Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero of University of Wisconsin-Madison for “Liquidity Support, Banking Competition, and Welfare: Evidence from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in 1929.” Co-author with Jingyi Huang of Brandeis University.
Aradhya Sood of University of Toronto for “Succession of Exclusion: Zoning Regulations as a Substitute for Racial Covenants.”
The Association is grateful to the members of the CREH for their work in selecting the award winners. Marc Weidenmier, Chapman University chaired the committee. He was assisted by Edward Kosack, Xavier University; James Feigenbaum, Boston University; Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii; Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta; and Carol Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder.
