UPEL Workshop 2026-27

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.

Gary Herrigel @ Chicago / Ante-industrialization Politics in Agriculture: Competing Conceptions of Production, Nature and Self-Rule in Long 19th Century Germany and the US
Nov
4

Gary Herrigel @ Chicago / Ante-industrialization Politics in Agriculture: Competing Conceptions of Production, Nature and Self-Rule in Long 19th Century Germany and the US

For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.

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Ryan Quintana @ Wellesley / The Business of Transportation Like All Other Things Is Open to Abuse: Toward a Political Economy of Labor Mobility in the Age of Emancipation
Oct
21

Ryan Quintana @ Wellesley / The Business of Transportation Like All Other Things Is Open to Abuse: Toward a Political Economy of Labor Mobility in the Age of Emancipation

For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.

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Mikael Omstedt @ Toronto / Central Bankers and Colonial Economies: The Federal Reserve in Cuba and the Boundaries of U.S. Capitalism
Sep
23

Mikael Omstedt @ Toronto / Central Bankers and Colonial Economies: The Federal Reserve in Cuba and the Boundaries of U.S. Capitalism

For Workshop participants, access the paper here. Please email Noam Maggor or Ariel Ron for the password.

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Past Workshops