AWARDS AT THE 2014 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association announced the 2014 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held recently in Columbus, Ohio.
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan, and Nicolas Duquette, University of Southern California, were awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this JOURNAL in the September 2013 to June 2014 issues, for “How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Politics and Economics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity,” published in the June 2014 issue of The Journal of Economic History. The winner was selected by the editorial board.
Joshua Lewis received the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for his dissertation “The Impact of Technological Change Within the Home,” completed at the University of Toronto. Advisors: Dwayne Benjamin, Robert McMillan, Aloysius Siow, and Mark Stabile. (This prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press.)
Tyler Beck Goodspeed received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-US or Canadian economic history, for his dissertation “Essays in British Financial History,” completed at Harvard University. Advisor: Richard Hornbeck.
Gavin Wright, Stanford University, was awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Prize for the outstanding book in North American economic history published in 2013–2014 for Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South(Harvard University Press, 2013).
David F. Weiman, Columbia University, was awarded the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize honoring excellence in teaching economic history.
Also announced was the Larry Neal Prize for the best article appearing in Explorations in Economic History awarded to Rowena Gray, “Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in early Twentieth Century United States,” published in the June 2013 issue.
THE 2015 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS SHERATON NASHVILLE DOWNTOWN HOTEL NASHVILLE, TN SEPTEMBER 11–13, 2015 ROBERT MARGO, PRESIDENT
“Diversity in Economic History”
The theme for EHA 2015 is “diversity” in economic history. Diversity refers to differences in economic outcomes by race, ethnicity or tribal group, religion, location within countries (for example, urban vs. rural, or North vs. South), gender, and other attributes and how these evolve over the course of economic development. Papers documenting these differences in historical settings are welcome, as are papers that measure the impact of various institutions or government policies (for example, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States) or that examine long-run trends in economic inequality more broadly construed.
The Program Committee (Martha Bailey, University of Michigan (chair), together with Tomas Cvrcek, TheresaGutberlet, and Suresh Naidu) welcomes submissions on ALL subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that specifically fit the theme. 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 2014 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2015 program.
Papers and session proposals should be submitted online, with details to follow on the meetings website: http://www.eh.net/eha/meetings. The submission system will be available from 1 November 2014 onward. Paper proposals should include a 3–5 page précis and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in The Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by 31 January 2015 to ensure consideration.
Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session are due no later than 22 May 2015 online: https://www.eh.net/eha/node/add/posters. The poster submission system will open on 1 March 2015. The dissertation session, convened by Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee) and Eric Chaney (Harvard University), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2014–2015 academic year. The submission deadline is 15 May 2015. The Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on non-North American and 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 size of more than 5 MB, please supply a download link in an email message.
Gerschenkron prize submissions should be mailed to echaney@fas.harvard.edu. Nevins prize submissions should be emailed to wanamaker@utk.edu. All submissions will be acknowledged by return email.
EHA GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
The Committee of 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 2014: fellowships to graduate students writing their dissertations; travel/data grants to graduate students in the early stage of research; and Cole Grants to recent Ph.D.s.
Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships
James Lee of Harvard University for “Agglomeration and Resource Access: American Economic Development, 1860–2010.” Advisor: Richard Hornbeck.
Elisabeth Perlman of Boston University for “The Geography of Innovation: Patents in Early America.” Advisor: Robert A. Margo.
EHA Dissertation Fellowships
Daniel Gross of University of California, Berkeley for “Essays in Innovation, Past and Present.” Advisor: Barry Eichengreen.
Anne Ruderman of Yale University for “Supplying the Slave Trade: How Europeans Met African Demand for European Manufactured Products, Commodities and Re-exports, 1670–1790.”Advisor: Naomi Lamoreaux.
Marlous van Waijenburg of Northwestern University for “Financing the African State: Development and Transformations of Fiscal Systems in the Long Twentieth Century.” Advisor: Joel Mokyr.
Data Grants
Andreea Maerean of University of Southern Denmark for “Sovereign Bond Prices from Berlin Stock Exchange, 1870–1913.”Advisor: Paul Sharp.
AriellZimran of Northwestern University for “Italian Immigration in the Age of Mass Migration.”Advisor: Joel Mokyr.
Carlos Eduardo Hernandez of University of California, Los Angeles for “Technology Adoption and Brewery Survival during Prohibition.” Advisor: Leah Boustan.
Cong Liu of University of Arizona for “The Impact of Capital Inflows on Chinese Society in the Early Twentieth Century.”Advisor: Price Fishback.
Edward S. Fertik of Yale University for“Nationalist Globalization: Brazil, Steel, and the World, 1890-1950.”Advisor: Naomi Lamoreaux.
Fan Fei of University of Michigan for “The Determinants and Economic Impacts of U.S. Highway Construction in the 1920s and 1930s.”Advisor: Paul Rhode.
Guillermo Ruiz-Stovel of University of California, Los Angelesfor “The Amoy-Manila Merchant Network in China's Long Eighteenth Century: Data from the Archives of the Indies in Seville.”Advisor: R. Bin Wong.
Haikun Zhu of Tilburg University for “Credit Crunches and the Real Economy: Evidence from 1930s China.”Advisor: Fabio Braggion.
Michela Giorcelli of Stanford University for “Transfer of Production and Management Model across National Borders: Evidence from the Technical and Assistant Program.” Advisor: Ran Abramitzky.
Ruth Maria Schueler, IFO Center for the Economics of Education and Innovation, “The Effect of Religious and Linguistic Fractionalization on the Public Provision of Primary Schooling.” Advisor: Ludger Woessmann.
Seyedeh Soudeh Mirghasemi of University of Arizona for “Philosopher's Stone: Dam Construction and Farmland Value, Historical Evidence from the Western United States.” Advisor: Price Fishback.
Shameel Ahmad of Yale University for “Trade and Demography in Colonial India.” Advisor: Timothy Guinnane.
Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid
Katherine Eriksson of California Polytechnic State University and Gregory Niemesh of Miami University for “Mortality and Migration in the Early 20th Century U.S.: Infants and Cities.”
Eric Schneider of University of Sussex for “Assessing the Health of London Children: Medical Records of the Foundling Hospital, 1893–1919.”
Jessica Bean of Denison University for “Female Workers and the First World War in Britain: Why No Labor Supply Shock?”
William Walker Hanlon of University of California, Los Angeles for “Directed Technical Change, Lock-in and Leapfrogging: Wood vs. Iron in the 19th Century Shipbuilding Industry.”
The Association is grateful to the members of the CREH for their work in selecting the award winners. Mary Eschelbach Hansen of American University chaired the committee. She was assisted by William Collins, Vanderbilt University; Ann Carlos, University of Colorado; Jason Long, Wheaton College; Steven Nafziger, Williams College; and Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College.
