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Adam Rome

Professor of Environment and Sustainability, SUNY - Buffalo (Bio)
Sustainability, environmental history, green capitalism

Caitlin Rosenthal

Assistant Professor of History, University of California-Berkeley (Bio)
Numeracy

Travis E. Ross

Lecturer (Bio)
Knowledge and capitalism, publishing, Higher Education

Andrew Russell

Professor of History and Dean, College of Arts & Sciences (Bio)
information technology, standardization, Technology, Organizations

Jason Russell

SUNY Empire State College (Bio)
Labor-Management Relations, Unions, Management, Technological Change

Daniel Rust

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Superior (Bio)
Transportation

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School (Bio)
US History since 1865; history of capitalism; antimonopoly; politics of consumption

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Assistant Professor, Miami University (Bio)
Early Republic United States, Political Economy, Diplomacy, Manufacturing

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl

Associate professor, University of Lausanne (Bio)
US business groups, US foreign policy, European Common Market, Cold War history, multinationals

Benjamin Schwantes

Managing Editor, Johns Hopkins University (Bio)
history of communication, Transportation, Business Management, Immigration, Technology and Business

Rahima Schwenkbeck

Policy Studies Organization (Bio)
Utopian Societies, Consumer Culture, Economic Development, Marketing, Entrepreneurism

Daniel Scroop

Senior Lecturer in US History (Bio)
US History since 1865, the New Deal, History of Capitalism, antimonopoly, politics of consumption

Simone Selva

L'Orientale University of Naples (Bio)
International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization

Melanie Sheehan

PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bio)
Labor History, Political Economy, Business Political Activism, Trade Associations

Rui Shi

Lecturer, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (Bio)
Retailing, History of Consumption, Consumer Cultures, Department Stores, Supermarkets, Business and social history of socialist systems, Fashion and Textiles, supply chains and globalization

David Sicilia

Henry Kaufman Chair in Financial History and Associate Professor, University of Maryland (Bio)
Capitalism, Financial history, Public policy and regulation

Joseph Slaughter

Wesleyan University (Bio)
Early America, Religion, Transportation

Angel Soto

Profesor de Historia. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de los Andes, Chile (Bio)
Historia económica, Historia del pensamiento económico, Latinoamérica, Chile, Historia de los impuestos, Historia empresarial

Susan V. Spellman

Associate Professor of History, Miami University (Bio)
History of Capitalism, Small Business, retail history, Consumerism, History of technology

Ellan Spero

Co-Founder and Chief Curriculum Officer, Station 1 (Bio)
Industrial Research, Material Culture, Higher Education, Fashion and Textiles

Jane Shaw Stroup

Graduate student, North Carolina State University (Bio)
Education, Business and Economic History

Denise H. Sutton, PhD

Assistant Professor (Bio)
Consumer Culture, Fashion, Marketing, Advertising, Publishing.

Philip Thai

Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University (Bio)
Modern China, East Asia, Legal History, Economic and Business History, Cold War history, Smuggling, State Formation, Diplomacy

Janis Thiessen

Associate Professor of History, University of Winnipeg (Bio)
family business, privately held companies, oral history, labour history, Mennonite history, food history

Anneke van Mosseveld

Adjunct Junior Research Fellow, School of Humanities, University of New England, Australia (Bio)
Military Uniforms, Defence Industries, Innovation

Sean H. Vanatta

University of Glasgow (Bio)
Public policy and regulation, Consumer Culture

Saša Vejzagić

PhD researcher, European University Institute (Bio)
Business and social history of socialist systems

Grietjie Verhoef

Professor, School of Accounting (Bio)
African business history

Stephanie Michelle Vincent

Kent State University (Bio)
Business Management, Advertising and Marketing Industries, Trade Associations, Consumer Culture, Pottery, Deindustrialization

Benjamin Waterhouse

Associate Professor of History and Grauer Scholar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Bio)
Business-Government Relations, Lobbying, Business Political Activism, Trade Associations, Small Business

Johnathan Williams

PhD Candidate, Boston University (Bio)
20th century, Consumerism, environmental history, political history, retail history

Robert Wright

Nef Family Chair of Political Economy, Augustana University (Bio)
Financial history, Public policy and regulation, Slavery (then and now)

JoAnne Yates

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bio)
standardization

Mary Yeager

Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (Bio)
American Economic History

Zhaojin Zeng

Faculty member, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh (Bio)
Business and Economic History, East Asia, China