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 2 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