John Handel

Assistant Professor, Baylor University

Finance, Technology, Slavery, History of financial infrastructure
Business Historians at Business Schools

History of finance, market structure, technology, and slavery in the 19th century British world.

Emerging Scholars Committee 2025 - 2028 [Chair 2027 - 2028]

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "The British Financialization of American Slavery, 1820s–1840s"
2025 BHC meeting: Discussant, Global Currency, Monetary Policy, and Economic Development
2024 BHC Meeting: Discussant, Economic Transformations: How Diverse Business Actors Reshaped Britain’s Economy between 1860 and 1920
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Unstandardized Settlement: Market Structure and the Limits to Arbitrage in the First Age of Financial Globalization"