Spencer Tompkins

Ph.D. candidate, Fordham University

20th c. US., Capitalism, Diplomacy, Globalization, International Development

Spencer Tompkins is a PhD student in the History Department at Fordham University. He researches 20th-century US history from the perspective of US Foreign Relations and the History of Capitalism. His current project uncovers the centrality of the Department of Commerce to national and foreign economic policy in the 1960s and after.

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Negotiating Industrial Decline: Embraer's Push into US Markets and the Politics of Commercial Diplomacy, 1972-1983"
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "Privatizing Diplomacy: The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Rise of Commercial Policy in Brazil during Globalization"
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "Urban Crisis and Information Systems: Lockheed Missiles and Space Company’s Analysis of California’s Earthly Problems"
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Presenter, "From Regulating Markets to Managing Individuals: The Diebold Group’s Planning for Change"