Cover design by Dennis Laffoon Bloomington, Indiana Table of Contents President’s Welcome .................................................................................................... 2 Officers and Committees ........................................................................................ 3 – 6 SSHA Information .................................................................................................. 7 – 8 Book Exhibit ................................................................................................................ 8 SSHA Committee Meetings .......................................................................................... 9 Network Representatives .................................................................................... 10 – 11 Network Meetings ...................................................................................................... 12 Special Conference Events ......................................................................................... 13 Presidential Address and Reception Association Business Meeting Presidential Sessions .................................................................................................. 14 Session Listing by Network ................................................................................. 15 – 16 Program at a Glance .................................................................................................... 17 Conference Program ......................................................................................... 18 – 134 Chicago Information ....................................................................................... 135 – 137 Tour Description........................................................................................................ 138 Author Index ................................................................................................... 139 – 149 Advertisements ................................................................................................ 150 – 151 Hotel Maps .......................................................................................... 152 – Back cover 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association President’s Welcome Welcome to Chicago for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. The conference program this year includes an exciting range of papers, some related to the theme of “Beyond Social Science History,” and many others demonstrating the breadth of work that always characterizes our meetings. I want to extend a special welcome to the many graduate students in attendance. You are a big part of this meeting, contributing to nearly one-third of the papers on the program, and blazing new trails for us. The association is delighted to recognize your importance by offering a prize for the best graduate student paper and contributing to travel expenses for promising graduate students. You are our future. The Program Committee has again done an outstanding job. Geoff Cunfer (University of Saskatchewan), Susan Hautaniemi Leonard (University of Michigan), and Regina Werum (University of Nebraska), our co-chairs, worked diligently and creatively with our fabulous Network Representatives to forge a call for papers and then assemble and schedule an exceptionally rich and rounded program. Thank you! The network meetings are scheduled for mid-day on Friday. Ours is a participatory organization, and the meetings help us identify emerging topics and shape sessions that bring together the intellectual stimulus and diversity that make our meetings so exciting. Whether you are new to the meeting or a long-time member, I urge you to participate in the Network meetings and help the Network Chairs get started on next year’s program. The Network meetings are your opportunity to become involved. Finally, please join us on Saturday evening for the Business Meeting and the Presidential Address. We will follow them with the President’s Reception, generously sponsored this year by the Institute of Behavioral Science and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. Enjoy the meetings and take advantage of the many cultural highlights of historic Chicago! Myron P. Gutmann University of Colorado Boulder SSHA 2016 President 2 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Officers and Committees Social Science History Association 2015-16 President Myron Gutmann University of Colorado (History) Vice President Alice Bee Kasakoff University of South Carolina (Geography) Treasurer Philip VanderMeer Arizona State University (History) Executive Director William C. Block Cornell University (CISER) Past Presidents Susan Carter University of California, Riverside (Economics) Thomas Sugrue University of Pennsylvania (History) Elisabeth S. Clemens University of Chicago (Sociology) 3 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Executive Committee Term Expires 2016 Ajay Mehrotra American Bar Foundation (Law / History) Tessie Liu Northwestern University (History and Gender Studies) Pavla Miller RMIT University (Global, Urban and Social Studies) Term Expires 2017 Rebecca Emigh University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology) Kris Inwood University of Guelph (Economics and History) Kenneth Sylvester University of Michigan (ICPSR) Term Expires 2018 Simone Wegge City University of New York (Economics) Elizabeth Popp Berman University at Albany, SUNY (Sociology) Steven Ruggles University of Minnesota (Minnesota Population Center) Editor, Social Science History Anne McCants Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History) 4 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association 2016 Program Committee Geoff Cunfer University of Saskatchewan (History) Susan Hautaniemi Leonard University of Michigan (ICPSR) Regina Werum University of Nebraska (Sociology) Publications Committee Term Expires 2016 Dan Slater University of Chicago (Political Science) Anna Korteweg University of Toronto (Sociology) Term Expires 2017 David Mitch University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Economics) Ann Knowles Middlebury College (Geography) Term Expires 2018 Amy Kate Bailey University of Illinois, Chicago (Sociology) Janet Golden Rutgers University (History) Allan Sharlin Memorial Award Committee Term Expires 2016 Brian Gratton Arizona State University (History) Mary Ann Dzuback Washington University (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Education) Fabian Drixler Yale University (History) Matthew Norton University of Oregon (Sociology) 5 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Presidents Book Award Committee Term Expires 2016 Susannah Ottaway (Chair) Carleton College (History) Dan Slater University of Chicago (Political Science) Aaron Panofsky University of California, Los Angeles (Public Policy) William C. Block Cornell University (CISER) 2016 Nominating Committee Ann Orloff (Chair) Northwestern University (Sociology) Jan Kok Radboud University Nijmegen (History) Kimberley Johnson Barnard College, Columbia University (Political Science) Mara Loveman University of California, Berkeley (Sociology) Kris Inwood University of Guelph (Economics) 2016 Travel Award Selection Committee Geoff Cunfer University of Saskatchewan (History) Susan Hautaniemi Leonard University of Michigan (ICPSR) Regina Werum University of Nebraska (Sociology) With advice from the SSHA Network Representatives Conference Management Judy Warner Indiana University Conferences, Senior Manager 6 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association SSHA Membership The Social Science History Association is an interdisciplinary group of scholars that shares interests in social life and theory; historiography, and historical and social- scientific methodologies. SSHA might be best seen as a coalition of distinctive scholarly communities. Our substantive intellectual work ranges from everyday life in the medieval world – and sometimes earlier -- to contemporary global politics, but we are united in our historicized approach to understanding human events, explaining social processes, and developing innovative theory. The term “social science history” has meant different things to different academic generations. In the 1970s, when the SSHA’s first meetings were held, the founding generation of scholars took it to reflect their concern to address pressing questions by combining social-science method and new forms of historical evidence. Quantitative approaches were especially favored by the association’s historical demographers, as well as some of the economic, social and women’s historians of the time. By the 1980s and 1990s, other waves of scholars – including culturally-oriented historians and anthropologists, geographers, political theorists, and comparative-historical social scientists -- had joined the conversation. New intellectual directions continue to emerge at the outset of the 21st century. Today’s SSHA incorporates a diversity of scholarly styles, with lots of crosstalk among them. Information regarding SSHA membership is available at http://ssha.org. SSHA Journal Social Science History, the journal of the Social Science History Association, is published quarterly and is sent to members of the association. Submissions are invited via the online platform supported by Editorial Manager. To submit an article, please visit www.editorialmanager.com/ssha. Further information can also be obtained by contacting [email protected]. 7 41st Annual Meeting of the Social