Capitalism

Tomás Bartoletti is a Senior Lecturer at the Chair for History of the Modern World of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently Principal Investigator for the project "Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations, c...

Siân Davies  received her PhD in Economic and Social History from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where she works in the Global History cluster. In 2024, she was the...

Research Interests: Genealogy of wealth, capital, and poverty in Brazil and US; and urban inequality.

Pablo Pryluka is a modern Latin American and global historian interested in the intersection of economic, social, and environmental history. At the Weatherhead Center, he will be working on his book manuscript: “Developing Consumers: A History of Wants...

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and a visiting doctoral student at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). My current research focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality and political conflict, the...

Jaewoong Jeon received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2021. His work focuses on the history of capitalism in Korea and Taiwan, approaching them from the perspective of contemporary issues in the capitalist world. His many interests...

Jayita Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. From July 2022, Dr. Sarkar will be Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in...

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She works across the disciplines of history, anthropology and international politics. Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist...

During his stay at the WCFIA, Thomas David will complete his monograph on the history of the International Chamber of Commerce (with Pierre Eichenberger, New School for Social Research). Entitled "‘Businessmen of the World, Unite!’ The International...

Zach Sell received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently an associate producer for Firelight Films and a visiting assistant professor at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) at Brown...