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Sharon Ann Murphy

Providence College, Professor of History
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19th c. US, Financial history
Women in Business History

Sharon Ann Murphy is a professor of history at Providence College in Providence, RI. She is the author of Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (2010, Johns Hopkins University Press), winner of the 2012 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history, and Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (2017, Johns Hopkins University Press). Her latest projects are an investigation of the public perception of banks around the Panic of 1819, and an examination of the relationship between banking and enslavement in the nineteenth century United States.

Service to the BHC

Associate Editor of Enterprise & Society 2015 - 2021
Hagley Book Prize Committee 2020 - 2021
Nominating Committee 2018 - 2020
Hagley Book Prize Committee 2017 - 2018
Associate Editor of Enterprise & Society 2011 - 2015
Electronic Media Oversight Committee 2010 - 2013 [Chair 2012 - 2013]
Board of Trustees 2010 - 2013
Kerr Prize Committee 2009 - 2012 [Chair 2010 - 2011]
Emerging Scholars Committee 2008 - 2011

Prizes and Grants from the BHC

Hagley Prize in Business History, 2012
K. Austin Kerr Prize, 2005
Harold F. Williamson Prize, 2020

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