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Ella Coon
Doctoral candidate, Columbia University (Bio)
Commodity Chains, Political Economy, Multinational Corporations, history of computers, History of technology

Colleen Dunlavy
Professor emerita of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bio)
Political Economy, Corporate Governance, Corporate organization, Commodities, Business and Economic History, History of Capitalism, History of technology
Twitter@cad608
Jordan Howell
University of Manitoba (Bio)
20th c. US., Multinational Corporations, Labor History, Corporations and the Environment, Political Economy, Transnational history
Twitter@jordanohwell
Richard John
Columbia University (Bio)
Political Economy, history of communication, 19th c. US

Ben Kodres-O'Brien
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Columbia University (Bio)
Energy, Political Economy, History of technology, 20th c. US., Public policy and regulation, Communication, Innovation, uses of the past, US History since 1865; the New Deal; history of capitalism; antimonopoly; politics of consumption
Twitter@bens_280_chars
Rob Konkel
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University (Bio)
Political Economy, geopolitics, Business and Economic History, institutions, Economic Development, Multinational Corporations

Ellen Nye
Yale University (Bio)
Economic History, Political Economy

Nicholas O'Neill
University of Chicago (Bio)
Economic and Business History, Industrialization, Consumer Culture, consumer information economy, Advertising and Marketing Industries, International Trade, Political Economy

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Associate Professor, Miami University (Bio)
Early Republic United States, Political Economy, Diplomacy, Manufacturing

Melanie Sheehan
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Center for the Study of American Democracy and Department of History, Kenyon College (Bio)
Labor History, multinationals, International Trade, Business Political Activism, Political Economy, Trade Associations

Matthew Wormer
University of Massachusetts Amherst (Bio)
British Empire, Colonial India, Political Economy, Commodities, Labor History

Boyao Zhang
University of Toronto (Bio)
Modern China, Accounting, Political Economy, Business and social history of socialist systems