Gavin Wright William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History, Emeritus Economics Curriculum Vitae available Online

Bio

BIO Gavin Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History Emeritus at , where he has taught since 1982.

Professor Wright received his BA from and his Ph.D. from . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and is a past president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society. The author of numerous books and articles, Wright was an editor-in-chief for the 5-volume collaborative reference work, Historical Statistics of the United States.

Professor Wright’s research centers on the historical record of the American economy, specifically the institutional and cultural foundations of the country’s rise to world economic pre-eminence. He also has a longstanding interest in the economy of the American South and has published three books on that subject. The most recent is Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South, published by Harvard University Press in 2013. The book was named as a Choice Top 25 Outstanding Academic Title for 2013, and won the Alice Hanson Jones Prize as the best book in North American Economic History 2013-2014. The paperback edition was released in 2018.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Fac Ret Replacement Teaching, Economics

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University, (1969-1972) • Assistant Professor of Economics, , (1972-1974) • Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, (1974-1978) 3 OF 14

HONORS AND AWARDS • Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Society (1965) • Fellow, Woodrow Wilson (1965 - 1966) • Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation (1966 - 1968) 3 OF 18

BOARDS, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993) • Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Economic History (1977 - 1982)

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PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS • American Studies • Science, Technology and Society

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Ph.D., Yale University , Economics (1969) • M.A., Yale University , Economics (1966) • B.A., Swarthmore College , Economics (1965)

LINKS • Personal web site: https://gavin-wright.humsci.stanford.edu/

Research & Scholarship

CURRENT RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS Professor Wright is now studying the economic implications of voting rights and vote suppression in the American South. He is also revisiting the relationship between slavery and Anglo-American capitalism.

Teaching

COURSES 2021-22 • U.S. Economic History: ECON 226 (Spr)

2020-21 • U.S. Economic History: ECON 226 (Aut)

2019-20 • U.S. Economic History: ECON 226 (Aut)

Publications

PUBLICATIONS • NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement (Book Review) TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Review Authored by: Wright, G. 2021; 62 (1): 301–2 • King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality (Book Review) JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Wright, G. 2020; 50 (3): 467–68 • Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America (Book Review) JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Wright, G. 2020; 51 (2): 329–30

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