Graduate Students
Dissertation Session
Note: The deadline for applying for the dissertation awards has passed.
Six finalists, three in each category, will be chosen to present summaries of their dissertations in the Dissertation Session of the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association.
Finalists participating in the dissertation will receive an award of $250 to defray travel expenses. Awards for the Nevins and Gerschenkron Prize are $1,000 each.
Allan Nevins Prize
The Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed during the previous year. The 2008 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting in September in New Haven.
The person awarding this prize is:
Associate Professor Zorina Khan
Department of Economics
Bowdoin College
The shortlist for the 2008 Nevins Prize is:
Marco Sunder,
Doctorate in Political Economy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Passports and economic development: an anthropometric history of the US Elite in the 19th Century
Sternstrasse 13
06108 Halle/Saale, Germany
Chair:
John Komlos and Claude Hillinger
Employed:
Post Doc at Halle Institute for Economic Research
John Parman,
PhD Economics, Northwestern
The Private and Public Effects of School Reform
Chair:
Joe Ferrie
Evan Roberts,
PhD, History, University of Minnesota
Married Women’s Labor Force Participation in the United States, 1860-1940
Chair:
Steven Ruggles
Employed:
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, University of Wellington, Victoria, New Zealand
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize
The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in all other areas of Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association for the best dissertation in non-North American economic history completed during the previous year. The 2008 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting in September in New Haven.
The person awarding this prize is:
Professor Kevin O’Rourke
Department of Economics
Trinity College
The shortlist for the 2008 Gerschenkron Prize is:
Amílcar Eduardo Challú,
PhD, Harvard University, Department of History.
Grain Markets, Food Supply Policies and Living Standards in Colonial Mexico
Advisor:
John Coatsworth
Employed:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bowling Green State University
Victor Lapuente Giné,
PhD, Department of Political Science, Oxford University.
A Political Economy Approach to Bureaucracies
Advisors:
José Maria Maravall and Iain McLean
Employed:
Researcher, The Quality of Government Institute, Goteborgs Universitet, Sweden
John Pao-En Tang,
PhD, Department of Economics, Berkeley
The Yellow Non-Pareil: Industrialization and the Making of Modern Japan
Advisor:
Barry Eichengreen
Employed:
US Census Bureau