Laura Clerx

Boston College

Knowledge and capitalism, Political Economy, Early Republic United States

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "'Improving… Our Countrymen': University Science, Mechanics Institutes, and Agricultural Societies in the United States, 1820-1850"
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "The Science of Settlement: Western Land Companies and Eastern Scientific Societies in the Early National United States"
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, ""'...Productive of Great Benefit to the Public': Invoking the Public Good in the U.S. Canal Age"