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Joint Centre for History and Economics JOINT CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS AT CAMBRIDGE AT HARVARD DIRECTORS DIRECTOR Emma Rothschild Emma Rothschild Gareth Stedman Jones ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Lizabeth Cohen Melissa Lane Robert Darnton William O’Reilly Dale Jorgenson Charles Rosenberg DIRECTORS OF STUDIES Emma Rothschild Elaine Scarry Caitlin Anderson Richard Tuck William Nelson RESEARCH FELLOWS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES William Nelson Angus Burgin David Todd Philipp Lehmann Julia Stephens ASSOCIATE RESEARCH FELLOWS VISITING RESEARCH STUDENTS Sunil Amrith David Motadel Caitlin Anderson David Singerman Bernhard Fulda William O’Reilly COORDINATOR Gabriel Paquette Meg LeMay Paul Warde WEBMISTRESS OFFICE STAFF Amy Price Inga Huld Markan ~ Executive Officer Mary-Rose Cheadle ~ Administrative Officer CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Amy Price ~ Computer Officer/Webmistress HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, S-422 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TELEPHONE: (617) 495 4001 FAX: (617) 496 0621 The Provost of King’s (Chair) http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon A. B. Atkinson C. A. Bayly Nancy Cartwright Olwen Hufton JOINT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Quentin Skinner Barry Supple E. A. Wrigley Ross Harrison Emma Rothschild Gareth Stedman Jones CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Barry Supple KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE CB2 1ST Richard Tuck TELEPHONE: (01223) 331197 / 331120 FAX: (01223) 331198 http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 The Joint Centre for History and Economics at King's College, Cambridge and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University was established on 1 July 2007, and the collaborative programme has developed throughout the year. The Centre's major research programme in 2004-2009, Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a joint activity of scholars in the two universities. At Harvard, the Centre will be supported in 2007-2012 by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and at Cambridge, the Centre has been awarded a grant by the Isaac Newton Trust to support the development of the new Joint Centre for History and Economics in 2007-2010. In 2007-2008, the Joint Centre organised a History and Economics seminar series at both Cambridge and Harvard, a graduate workshop series at both universities, and supported three other seminar series. There were six continuing research programmes, and the Centre organised nine colloquia at Cambridge, and five at Harvard. There were six History and Economics students and four Mellon visiting students at Cambridge, and three History and Economics students and two visiting students at Harvard. There are informal meetings over tea on Wednesday afternoons at both Cambridge (in Trinity Hall) and Harvard (in the Center office, CGIS-S422.) There has been an active programme of exchanges between the two universities, with visits to the Cambridge Centre in 2007-2008 by Professors Lizabeth Cohen and Richard Tuck (Harvard Executive Committee) and Professors Sugata Bose and Mary Lewis (Exchanges of Ideas programme), and visits to the Harvard Centre by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (Director of the Centre), Professor Tony Atkinson (Cambridge Executive Committee), Dr William O'Reilly (Associate Director, and Exchanges of Ideas programme), Dr Sunil Amrith (Prize Student, 2001-2002, Coordinator, UN History project), Professor William St Clair (Research Associate), and Dr Adam Tooze (Research Fellow, 1995-1996, Research Associate). Other visitors to the Harvard Center in 2007-2008 included Professor Erik Grimmer-Solem (Wesleyan) (Centre Graduate Student Associate, Leverhulme project on the Rise and Fall of Historical Political Economy, 1998-2001), Professor Stephan Klasen (Göttingen) (Centre Research Fellow, 1996-1997), and Professor Megan Vaughan (King's College.) Of the three graduate student associates at the Harvard Centre, Angus Burgin was a Mellon visiting student at the Cambridge Centre in 2006-2007, Philipp Lehmann was a Prize Student at Cambridge in 2006-2007, and Julie Stephens was a student associate of the Foundations of Democracy project at Cambridge. Meg LeMay, the coordinator of the Harvard Centre, visited Cambridge in July 2007, and Inga Huld Markan, the Executive Officer of the Cambridge Centre, visited Harvard in February 2008. At Cambridge, three former Centre students were elected to research fellowships in 2008, D'Maris Coffman, Mellon visiting student, 2005-2006 (Newnham), Victoria Harris, Prize Student, 2004-2005 (King's), and Isaac Nakhimovsky, Prize Student 2001-2002 (Emmanuel). The other former Centre for History and Economics students in research or teaching positions at Cambridge in 2007-2008 were: Sunil Amrith (2001- 2002) (Trinity College/Birkbeck College, London), Bernhard Fulda (1998-1999) (Sidney Sussex College), Michael Edwards (2001-2002) (Christ's), Magnus Marsden (Affiliated Student, 2000-2001) (Trinity College/SOAS), Daniel Matlin (2003-2004) (Christ’s), Gabriel Paquette (2001-2002) (Trinity College), and Paul Warde (1995- 1996) (Pembroke/UEA), in addition to Caitlin Anderson (Trinity College, former Research Fellow at Harvard in connection with the Mellon Project), William Nelson (Research Fellow at the Centre and Trinity Hall), William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall, former Research Fellow at the Centre), David Todd (Research Fellow at the Centre and Trinity Hall), Adam Tooze (Jesus College, former Research Fellow at the Centre); and Melissa Lane (King’s College), Emma Rothschild (King’s College), and Gareth Stedman Jones (King’s College). The Centre's main website displayed 92,575 pages in 2007 to visitors from 153 countries. This is an average of 253 pages each day or 1,775 pages each week. The new website at Harvard was launched in summer 2007. Two new websites were started in 2007, for the Digitization of History project and for the French Empires project. The environmental history website is now concerned with history and sustainability. The Centre web site addresses are to be found on the inside back cover. In the course of 2007-2008, the Joint Centre has begun to develop two new research projects, which we expect to undertake over the coming five years. One, in cooperation with scholars at the Harvard Law School and at the University of Edinburgh, will be concerned with the history of the law and the use of legal sources in economic and social history; the other will be concerned with the history of economic thought and economic practices in India, and will be undertaken in cooperation with the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the South Asia Initiative at Harvard. We also hope to encourage a continuing discussion of new sources and opportunities for economic history and the history of economic ideas. Emma Rothschild Gareth Stedman Jones Introduction The Centre for History and Economics was established at King’s College, Cambridge in 1991 with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to promote research and education in fields of common importance for historians and economists, and to encourage collaboration between the two disciplines. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic ideas and through economic history. The Centre’s point of departure is fundamental research interest in the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in continuing efforts to address issues of immediate and practical public importance, including economic security, poverty and inequality, political and economic nationalism, and globalization. The Centre hosts numerous conferences and colloquia each year. It awards several History and Economics Prize Research Studentships, through a studentship competition held in the spring. In addition, a small number of Prize Research Grants are awarded in connection with the Cambridge/Harvard research programme on Exchanges of Economic and Political Ideas since 1760, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Centre is currently supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. The offices of the Centre in Cambridge are at 3d King’s Parade, Cambridge, and the postal address is King’s College, Cambridge CB2 1ST. The web address is www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk. The two Directors are Emma Rothschild and Gareth Stedman Jones. Melissa Lane and William O’Reilly are Associate Directors. The Research Fellows at the Centre in 2007- 2008 are William Nelson and David Todd. Sunil Amrith, Caitlin Anderson, Tracy Dennison, Bernhard Fulda, William O’Reilly, Gabriel Paquette and Paul Warde are Associate Research Fellows. The Directors of Studies at the Centre in 2007-2008 are Caitlin Anderson and William Nelson. The staff are Inga Huld Markan, Executive Officer/Editorial Associate; Mary-Rose Cheadle, Administrative Officer/Research Assistant; Amy Price, Webmistress/Editorial Assistant. The members of the History and Economics Executive Committee are Professor Sir A. B. Atkinson, Professor C. A. Bayly, Professor Nancy Cartwright, Professor Olwen Hufton, The Provost of King’s (Chair), Professor Quentin Skinner, Professor Barry Supple (Deputy Chair), and Professor
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