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Participant Biographies

Evelyn Atkinson is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation is a legal history of corporate personhood in the 19th century.

Edward Balleisen writes about the evolution of American regulatory institutions and contemporary debates on regulatory governance. His publications include Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017); Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crisis, co-edited with Lori Bennear, Kimberly Krawiec, and Jonathan Wiener; the three-volume edited research collection, Business Regulation (2015); and Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (2009), co-edited with David Moss. As a Vice Provost at Duke, he fosters interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement, especially through cross-school undertakings. Balleisen is also the lead PI on Duke’s “Versatile Humanist” three-year NEH grant, which seeks to prepare doctoral students to engage in the public square, whether within or outside academia.

Brian Balogh is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the Miller Center and Professor of History at the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Balogh focuses his interest on 20th Century U.S. Politics, American Political Development, Environmental History, the history of Science and Technology and the history of Media and Politics. He shares his enthusiasm for American history as co-host of Backstory with the American History Guys, a nationally syndicated podcast. Balogh is the author of The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), and A Government out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is currently working on two book-length projects: Liberalism’s Crossroads: Reconciling Progress and Participation; and Building a Modern State: Gifford Pinchot and the Tangled Roots of Administration in the United States.

Margaret Blair is an economist who focuses on corporate law and finance. Her current research focuses on four areas: team production and the legal structure of business organizations, the role of private sector governance arrangements in contract enforcement, the legal concept of corporate “personhood,” and the historical treatment of corporations by the Supreme Court. Professor Blair joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2004 as part of the team supporting the Law and Business Program and was appointed to the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise in 2010. She had previously taught at Georgetown University Law Center, where she became a visiting professor in 1996 and served as a Sloan Visiting Professor and as research director for the Sloan-GULC Project on Business Institutions, from 2000

through June 2004. She has also been a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where she wrote about corporate governance and the role of human capital in corporations. She served on the board of directors of Sonic Corporation from 2001-06 and currently serves on the board of WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production).

Howard Bodenhorn is an economic historian interested in banking and financial history, the economics of crime, and the economics of race and racial identity. His research in banking history focuses on two issues: (1) the connection between banking and economic development in the nineteenth-century; and (2) how alternative corporate governance institutions within banks influence lending choices. His research into the history of crime focuses on recidivism, plea bargaining, immigration and crime, and the connection between alcohol prohibition and violence. His research into race focuses on color-based disparities among African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has received major grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2006) and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2009). He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Development of the American Economy group.

Daniel Carpenter is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. His recent research on petitioning and democracy is exemplified in “When Canvassers Became Activists: Antislavery Petitioning and the Political Mobilization of American Women” (American Political Science Review 2014); “Recruitment by Petition: American Antislavery, French Protestantism, English Suppression,” (Perspectives on Politics 2016); and “Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition Canvassing” (American Journal of Political Science 2017). He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and has held grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Alfred Sloan Foundation, among other funders.

Elisabeth Clemens is William Rainey Harper Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Her scholarship explores organizational and institutional change in the context of American political development. Her publications include The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890- 1925, What is Political Sociology?, and a number of edited volumes, most recently Politics and Partnerships: Voluntary Associations in America’s Political Past and Present. She is now completing Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Chicago).

Jonathan Cohen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History Department at the University of Virginia where he is writing a dissertation on the history of American State Lotteries. He is currently a visiting fellow in the History Department at Harvard University.

Daniel Crane is the Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. His scholarship primarily focuses on antitrust and economic regulation. He is the author of six books on antitrust law, including The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press), The Making of Antitrust Policy (Oxford University Press, with Herbert

Hovenkamp), and Antitrust (Aspen). In the last two years, he has become increasingly involved in questions regarding the regulation of connected and automated vehicles. He is also the author of a novel, Girl with Egg Basket (Dartfrog Books).

Claire Dunning holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society. Her current book project, Nonprofit Neighborhoods: Poverty Policy and Privatization in Boston, 1949-present, brings together histories of governance, social movements, and capitalism to understand how changing methods of social welfare provision in the postwar period expanded the nonprofit sector and shaped urban neighborhoods. She holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College and previously worked in philanthropy. For the 2013-2014 academic year Claire was a graduate fellow at The Tobin Project.

Laura Edwards is Peabody Family Professor of History at Duke University. This academic year, she is the Neukom Fellows Visiting Chair in Law and Diversity at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. She works on legal culture in the nineteenth century, with a focus on areas of law that did not rely on the framework of rights and the legal status of women as well as African American and propertyless white men. Her most recent book is A Legal History of the Civil War: A Nation of Rights (Cambridge, 2015).

Walter A. Friedman is a Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and Director of Curriculum Development at the High School Case Method Project. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004) and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (2013), which won the Hagley Prize in Business History. He is co-editor of Business History Review and Director of the HBS's Business History Initiative. He is a past president of the Business History Conference.

Archon Fung is the Academic Dean and Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses on public participation, deliberation, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). He has authored five books, four edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in professional journals. He received two S.B.s — in philosophy and physics — and his Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Gary Gerstle is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. His books include Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (2015), winner of the Hawley Prize for the best book in American political history, and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001), winner of the Saloutos Prize for best book in immigration and ethnic history. He is currently at

work on The Rise and Fall of America’s Neoliberal Order, 1970-2020, a sequel to his book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989).

Eric Hilt received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, and is Associate Professor, Economics at Wellesley College and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the history of American business organizations and their governance, and more generally on the role of legal institutions in shaping economic and financial development. His papers have been published in business history, economic history, and economics journals. In 2009 he was the winner of the Economic History Association’s Arthur Cole Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Economic History.

Robert Horwitz is Professor in the Department of Communication at UC San Diego. The focus of his scholarship is democracy, communication, and political reform. He is author of three books. The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications (Oxford, 1989) was a critical history of US communications policy and regulation. Communication and Democratic Reform in South Africa (Cambridge, 2001) examined the reform of the communication sector in South Africa from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions. America’s Right: Anti-establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party (Polity, 2013) studied the rise of the particular form of American conservatism that has captured the Republican Party.

Richard R. John is a professor of history and communications at Columbia University. His publications include Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010) and Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995). Network Nation received the Ralph E. Gomory Prize for the best historical monograph on business and society. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center, a visiting professor at the École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and the president of the Business History Conference.

William P. Jones is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, and an expert on race and labor in the 20th Century United States. He is author of two award-winning books, most recently The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. Will has been a guest on the PBS News Hour, NPR’s The Takeaway, and C-Span’s Book TV and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation and other publications. He is currently writing a book about race and collective bargaining in the public sector following the Second World War.

Jeremy K. Kessler is a legal historian whose scholarship focuses on First Amendment law, administrative law, and related topics in constitutional law. His forthcoming book, Fortress of Liberty: The Rise and Fall of the Draft and the Remaking of American Law (Harvard), explores how military conscription transformed the relationship between civil liberties law and the American administrative state. Kessler's articles on the First Amendment, administrative law, constitutional theory, and legal history have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Texas Law Review,

among other publications. Kessler is co-director of Columbia University’s 20th Century Politics and Society Workshop and Columbia Law School’s Legal History Workshop. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the University’s Center for Science and Society, and the American Bar Association’s Committee on the History of Administrative Law.

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the explanation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. A significantly revised and updated edition of The Right to Vote was published in 2009. His 1986 book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded three scholarly prizes. Keyssar is coauthor of The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 (2008), and of Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history. In addition, he is coeditor of a series on Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections, and writes frequently for the popular press about American politics and history. Keyssar's current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty. He is currently completing a book entitled Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?.

Jennifer Klein is a Professor of History at Yale University in the field of 20th Century U.S. history. She specializes in U.S. labor history, urban history, social policy, and political economy. Her publications include Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 2012), co-authored with Eileen Boris, which was awarded the Sara A. Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association; and For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2003), which was awarded the Ellis W. Hawley Prize in Political History/Political Economy from the Organization of American Historians and the Hagley Prize in Business History from the Business History Conference. Klein was the winner of the 2014 Hans Sigrist Prize, awarded by the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Hans Sigrist Foundation for her contribution to the field of “Women and Precarity: Historical Perspectives." She recently served for five years as co-Senior Editor of the journal International Labor and Working Class History. Her new research is on confinement institutions, the chemical industry, labor, and waste in Louisiana.

Robert Korstad is Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include twentieth century U. S. history, labor history, African American history, and contemporary social policy. His publications include: To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (coauthor); Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth- Century South; Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South (coeditor); Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (coauthor).

Naomi Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, Chair of the Yale History Department, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has written The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895- 1904 and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, edited seven other books, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history. Her current research interests include patenting and the market for technology, the rise and decline of innovative regions, the organizational roots of the right to privacy, and general incorporation and the institutional transformation of the U.S. economy.

Maggie McKinley (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) researches and writes on legislation, theories of interpretation, minority rights and representation, the architecture of lawmaking institutions, and federal Indian law. Her most recent project combines empirical, historical, and theoretical inquiry to define the practice, function, and constitutional contours of federal lobbying and petitioning. Maggie currently serves as co-principal investigator of the "Language of Lobbying" Project at the University of Chicago, a qualitative and quantitative study of federal tax lobbyists, and as a collaborator with the North American Petitions Project at the Harvard Department of Government.

Robert Mickey is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he focuses on US democratic development, racial politics, and political economy. He is the author of Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America’s Deep South, 1944-1972 (Princeton University Press), which won two APSA awards. An article on the southern origins of our current crisis appears in Foreign Affairs. Mickey is currently writing a book on why nation-building fails that compares the cases of Iraq and America’s Reconstruction. Other projects concern the politics of public sector unions amidst neoliberalism, and racial conflict and elite appeals.

David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Tobin Project. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in History from Yale University. His early research focused on the history of social and economic policy and especially the government’s role as a risk manager. He has authored three books on these subjects, as well as numerous articles, chapters, and case studies. More recently, Professor Moss has devoted increasing attention to questions involving government regulation, economic inequality, and democratic governance. His latest book, Democracy: A Case Study, explores key episodes in the history of American democracy from the Constitutional Convention to Citizens United.

Sharon Ann Murphy, a Professor of History at Providence College, examines the complex interactions between financial institutions and their clientele during the nineteenth century. She is the author of Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (2010), winner of the 2012 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history. Her newest book, Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic, was just released by

Johns Hopkins Press. She is now working on a new book project which examines the relationship between commercial banks and slavery in the antebellum US.

William J. Novak is a legal scholar and historian at the University of Michigan Law School. He previously was a professor of history at the University of Chicago and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. He is the author of The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, which won the American Historical Association's Littleton- Griswold Prize for Best Book in the History of Law and Society. He has co-edited volumes on The Democratic Experiment in 2003 with Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer, Boundaries of the State in U.S. History in 2015 with Jim Sparrow and Steve Sawyer, and, most recently, Corporations and American Democracy with Naomi Lamoreaux. He is currently completing a new monograph A New Democracy: Law and the Creation of the Modern American State, 1866-1932.

Jeffrey L. Pasley is Professor of History and Journalism, and Associate Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, at the University of Missouri. A graduate of Carleton College and Harvard University, he is the author of “The Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic, and most recently, The First Presidential Contest: The Election of 1796 and the Beginnings of American Democracy, a finalist for the 2014 George Washington Book Prize.

Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His academic interests include the culture and practices of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; and the cultural sociology of poverty and underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean and African American youth. Professor Patterson is the author of numerous academic papers and five major academic books including, Slavery and Social Death (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991); The Ordeal of Integration (1997); and The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (2015). Professor Patterson was, for eight years, Special Advisor for social policy and development to Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica. He was a founding member of Cultural Survival, one of the leading advocacy groups for the rights of indigenous peoples, and was for several years a board member of Freedom House, a major civic organization for the promotion of freedom and democracy around the world.

Elizabeth Pollman is Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics in business law, with a particular focus in her scholarship on corporate personhood, the constitutional rights of corporations, and law and entrepreneurship. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Pollman was a research fellow and lecturer at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. She previously practiced as a business lawyer at Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. She clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Claire Priest is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches classes in Property Law and American Legal History. Her research examines the evolution of

property and inheritance law in America (from 1650 through 1850) through the lens of credit and financial markets, slavery, and debtor/creditor relations.

Sabeel Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and a Fellow at New America and the Roosevelt Institute. His first book, Democracy Against Domination (Oxford University Press, 2017) offers a new account of how ideals of democracy can respond to persisting disparities of economic power, particularly in context of debates over economic regulation and reform debates after the 2008 financial crisis. His next book project expands these themes to explore the structural roots of inequality and the construction of economic opportunity. His popular writings have appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and Salon.com. Rahman earned his J.D. and Ph.D in Government, both at Harvard University, as well as an M.Sc in economics and M.St in sociolegal studies from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Tobias Resch is a Ph.D. Candidate in Government at Harvard University.

The Honorable Patti B. Saris is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and former Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. She previously served as Staff Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, as a United States Magistrate Judge, and as an Associate Justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court. She is a past President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and has served on visiting committees to Harvard College, Law School, the Graduate School of Education, and the Kennedy School of Government. She has been elected a member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of various law review articles and publications, including books with the Honorable Abner Mikva, The American Congress: The First Branch, and with Justice Margot Botsford and Barbara Berenson, Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts.

Laura Phillips Sawyer received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. Before joining the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at HBS, she held the Harvard-Newcomen Fellowship in business history. She also held a postdoc at Brown University's Political Theory Project. Her work has appeared in Business History Review and Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Her book, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Associations, and the "New Competition," 1880-1940, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Currently, she is writing an historiographical essay on 20th century American business culture and an article-length study of transatlantic competition policy during the interwar era.

Arthur Segel is the Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice in the Finance Department at Harvard Business School and a member of the Tobin Project’s Board of Directors. He was a co-founder and co-owner of TA Associates Realty, a large private equity real estate development and investment advisory firm. Previously, he worked as a Vice President at Boston Properties and as Deputy for Finance and Administration at Massport under Governor

Dukakis. He co-founded and serves as chair of the Advisory Committee of Xander Funds, a real estate private equity firm in India. He helped found the 21st Century Fund, a non-profit for public education, and is a member of the Urban Land Institute, PREA, NAIOP, a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a board member of the Rothschild Family Foundation Yad Hanadiv in Jerusalem, overseer of the Brookline Foundation and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the 2009 Boston co-chair of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and a lifetime trustee of Temple Israel. He holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Benjamin Schneer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2016. His research is in American politics, and has focused in particular on: (1) Documenting the long-run career incentives faced by government officials and how these incentives shape policy-making; and, (2) Understanding how groups seek to influence lawmakers through forms of organized political expression such as petitioning.

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is an assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She has written extensively on twentieth-century U.S. political and urban history and is the author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (2013), editor of Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (2013), and co-editor, with Nelson Lichtenstein, of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (2012). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American History, American Historical Association Perspectives, Bloomberg News, Huffington Post, and History News Network. Shermer was previously the assistant director at the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2009. She currently serves as co-editor of the book series “American Business, Politics, and Society” at the University of Pennsylvania Press and is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library.

James T. Sparrow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 2003. His first book was Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is currently completing the sequel to that book, which considers the problem of legitimacy in the mass politics of the American Century. He is also completing another book manuscript that traces the intellectual history of political theory in the middle decades of the twentieth century, which saw the systematic marginalization of democratic conceptions of knowledge, agency, and accountability.

Michael Stamm, is Associate Professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011 and recently reprinted in paperback in 2016. Stamm received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 2006 and was a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at McGill University in 2012-13. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on topics in media and journalism history.

Peter Temin is the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, 1962-65; the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, 1985- 86; Head of the Economics Department at MIT, 1990-93; and President of the Economic History Association, 1995-96. Professor Temin’s most recent books are The Roman Market Economy (Princeton University Press, 2013), Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England’s Financial Revolution after 1700 (Oxford University Press, 2013, with Hans-Joachim Voth), The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It (Princeton University Press, 2013, with David Vines), Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy (MIT Press, 2014, with David Vines) and The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy (MIT Press, 2017).

Heidi Tworek, Heidi Tworek is Assistant Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia. In 2016-17, she is a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, housed at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She has published over a dozen articles and book chapters on the history of media and communications in Europe and the United States. Her dissertation received the Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history. She is currently completing her first book on German attempts to control global news in the first half of the twentieth century.

Kyle G. Volk is a historian of U.S. democracy and a history professor at the University of Montana. His first book, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy (Oxford, 2014), explores the pioneering popular struggles over majority rule and minority rights that developed out of conflicts over race, religion, and alcohol in mid-nineteenth-century America. Moral Minorities won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Prize for Best Book in American Intellectual History and honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for Best First Book in American History. He is currently working on a new book project that investigates the problem and politics of personal liberty in U.S. history.

John Wallis is an economic historian who works on the interaction of political and economic development. He is particularly interested in how patterns of economic institutions change over time and specifically how patterns of economic institutions interact with political institutions in a way that makes both economic and political institutions sustainable over time. Most of his work has been in American history, but over the last decade he has begun working on contemporary development problems around the world. His interests span economics, institutional economics, political economy, economic history, development economics, political science, history, anthropology, and sociology.

Arne Westad is the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard Kennedy School. Among his books are The Global Cold War, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Decisive Encounters, a history of the Chinese civil war. He also co-edited the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. His most recent books are Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, which won the Bernhard Schwartz Award from the Asia Society, and the sixth edition of The Penguin History of the World.

Mark Wilson is a professor of history at UNC Charlotte. He is the author of two books about the history of the business and politics of US military-industrial relations: The Business of Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), and Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). At UNC Charlotte he teaches a variety of courses on US history, including one, which he has been teaching since 2004, on the history of democracy in America.

Adam Winkler teaches constitutional law at the UCLA School of the Law. He is the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America and the forthcoming We the Corporations: How American Businesses Gained Their Civil Rights.