Carolyn Biltoft received her doctorate in modern world history from Princeton University in 2010. She has a broad interest in both the structural and conceptual effects of global integration as traceable in the history of international institutions, multinational corporations, and theories of political economy. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Governing Babel: The League of Nations and the Global Information Age." Her book project presents the League of Nations as not just a novel institutional form, but also as a site through which to analyze the emerging centrality of information to the nature and functioning of the global political economy. From questions of language, to economic intelligence and the standardization of nomen- clature, the League's archives demonstrate early evidence of the inherent fragilities of a global system wherein material life came to pivot increasingly on the immaterial world of data, credit, and communication flows.
Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings