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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
Jonah Estess
PhD Candidate, American University (Bio)
Political Economy, History of Capitalism, History of Money, Money and finance, State Formation, Early Republic United States, United States History
Twitter@jonahbklyn
Evan Fernández
University of California, Berkeley (Bio)
Commodity Chains, Political Economy, Latin America, Immigration, geopolitics, 20th century, Agribusiness

Richard R. John
Columbia University (Bio)
Political Economy, history of communication, 19th c. US

Robert Konkel
PhD Candidate, Princeton University (Bio)
Political Economy, geopolitics, Business and Economic History, institutions, Economic Development, Multinational Corporations

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