UPEL WORKSHOP
The UPEL workshop aims to give scholars of nineteenth-century US political economy a broad interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. We cover periods and places that extend well beyond but nevertheless cast light on nineteenth-century America. Papers are generally works-in-progress but we sometimes meet with authors to discuss recent publications, especially if they are outside of the typical US history literature.
From Plantation to Prison: The Origins of Mass Incarceration, John Clegg @UMass Amherst and Adaner Usmani @Harvard
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Maya Adereth / LSE & Phenomenal World / Worlds of Mutualism: Law and Comparative Politics of Trade Unions
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Teddy Paikin / history @ McGill / Capitalism in America: Michel Chevalier and the Transatlantic Constitution of Bonapartist Political Economy (1833-1835) ( ⏰ CET time-zone adjustment for this event)
⏰ Due to the temporary shift in the U.S.–Europe time difference before Europe’s clock change, the 18 March 2026 session will start one hour earlier than normal for European attendees.
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Ibanca Anand / history @ Johns Hopkins / Disciplining the American Countryside: Progressive Economists and the Origins of Agricultural Economics
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Nicholas Mulder / history @ Cornell / The Age of Confiscation: Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Richard R. John / journalism @ Columbia / Town-Born and City-Bred: Anti-Monopoly and the Populist Vision
For Workshop participants, access the paper here and the images here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Jessica Lepler / history @ University of New Hampshire / Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Seokju Oh / history @Columbia / “'Almost an International Organization': The US Food Administration and the Internationalism of Wartime Price Control"
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Walter Friedman / Business History Initiative & Business History Review @Harvard Business School / "Freeman Hunt and Commercial Civilization in Antebellum America"
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Stephanie McCurry / history @ Columbia / Money and Debt in the South during Reconstruction
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Christoph Nitschke / business history @ Stuttgart / Boom Diplomacy: Reconstructing the United States for Global Markets, 1857-1880
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Allison Powers Useche / history @ Wisconsin-Madison / Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Brendan Greeley / history @ Princeton / The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.
Dillon Banis / history @ Columbia / The Roots of Modern Sugar: Sugar Beets, Globalization, and Geopolitics in Prussian Central Europe
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Mary Shi / sociology @ Michigan / Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Caitlin Tully / law @ NYU / The Silent Power: Federal Incorporation as Constitutional Finance
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Samantha Payne / history @ College of Charleston / The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Ann Daly / history @ Mississippi State / Minting America: Labor and the Political Economy of Making Money in the Early United States
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Max Edling, history@ King's College & Daniel Peart, history @ Queen Mary / The Contours of North American Federalism: An Analysis of Patterns of US Congressional and State Legislation, 1789-1809
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Sofia Valeonti, econ @ AUP & Ariel Ron, history @ SMU / Central Monetary Services without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Monetary Architecture in the US Civil War Era
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Emilie Connolly / history @ Brandeis / A Fiscal Empire Divided: War and the Reconstruction of Fiduciary Colonialism
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Anton Jäger / politics & international relations @ Oxford / The Political Theory of American Populism
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Samantha Iyer / history @ Fordham / Agrarian Superpower: Empires and Economies in Egypt, India, and the United States, 1870s-1970s
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Mary Bridges / history @ SAIS / Branching Out: Banking and the Globalization of US Power
For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Mark Peterson / history @ Yale / The Domesday Machine in Action: The US Constitution and the Creation of a Developmental State
Thursday, October 12, 2023
6:30-8:00pm Central European Time
12:30 - 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time
For Workshop participants, access the paper “The Domesday Machine in Action” here. Please email Ariel Ron or Noam Maggor for the password.
Sebastian Mazzuca and Adam Sheingate / poli sci @ Hopkins / Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
6:30pm-8:00pm Central European Time
For Workshop participants, access the paper “Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective” here.
