Schedule & Past Participants

Participants (Fall 2024 & Spring 2025)

• October 3, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Audrey Ke Zhao – “Monetization in Taizhou from Song to Ming dynasties”
  Discussant: Richard von Glahn
  
• October 10, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Ellen Munroe – “Intergenerational Power Mobility”
  Discussant: Felipe Valencia Caicedo
  
• October 17, 2024 – 11:30 AM EST – 12:30 PM EST:
  Krzysztof Krakowski – “Settlement Structure and Social Cohesion”
  Discussant: Paweł Charasz
  
• November 14, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Natalia Vasilenok – “Establishing a Parliament: the Political Economy of Elections in Late Imperial Russia”
  Discussant: Didac Queralt
  
• November 21, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Massimiliano Onorato – “Roads to Fascism? State capacity and the spread of political violence”
  Discussant: Gemma Dipoppa
  
• December 5, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Otto Kienitz – “Capturing the State: Decentralization, Franchise Expansion, and Elite Representation in the Russian Empire”
  Discussant: Elena Korchmina
  
• January 16, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Line Skoglund – “The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed”
  Discussant: Victor Gay
  
• January 23, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Janne Tukiainen – “Candidate Exit and Voter Loyalty During Early Democratization”
  Discussant: Toke Aidt
  
• January 30, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Federica Carugati – “Writing and the Early State: An Empirical Study of Mesopotamia”
  Discussant: David Stasavage
  
• February 13, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jorge Mangonnet – “Coercion, Slavery, and the Modern State: Evidence from Brazil”
  Discussant: Giuliana Pardelli
  
• February 20, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Anne Degrave – “State Centralization, Justice and Offices: Evidence from Early Modern France”
  Discussant: Emily Sellars
  
• February 27, 2025 – 8:30 AM EST – 9:30 AM EST:
  Charles Miller – “An Economic Theory of Military Castes”
  Discussant: David Skarbek
  
• March 13, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Erik H. Wang – “Centralization and Its Discontents: External Threats and the Paradox of State-Building in Medieval Japan”
  Discussant: Nick Anderson
  
• March 20, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Htet Thiha Zaw – “When Subalterns Vote: The Impact of Franchise Expansion on the British India Legislature, 1901-1940”
  Discussant: Guilhem Cassan
  
• March 27, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Alexander Taylor – “The King’s French”
  Discussant: Andreas Link
  
• April 24, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Roberto Valli – “Who Pays for the Church? Political Connections and Religious Clientelism in Post-War Italy”
  Discussant: Jared Rubin
  
• April 30, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Stefano Falcone – “Inequality, Revolutionary Ideology, and Class Conflict in Catalonia”
  Discussant: Ana Tur-Prats
  
• May 8, 2025 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Vlad Surdea-Hernea – “A Protestant Ethic Sans Protestantism: The Developmental Role of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church”
  Discussant: Anna Grzymala-Busse
  
• May 15, 2025
  Online Conference in Historical Political Economy

Past Participants (Fall 2023 & Spring 2024)

• October 5, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Maayan Mor – “Social Democracy and the Birth of Working-Class Representation in Europe”
  Discussant: Alexander Fouirnaies
  
• October 19, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Saumitra Jha – “Revolutionary Contagion”
  Discussant: Cedric Chambru
  
• October 26, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Bogdan Popescu – “Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier”
  Discussant: Lotem Halevy
  
• November 2, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Austin Mitchell – “Democracy and State Development: Patterns of Public Spending in the First Two Waves of Democratization”
  Discussant: Mark Dincecco
  
• November 9, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jean Lacroix – “Domino Secessions: Evidence from the US”
  Discussant: Jeffrey Jensen
  
• November 30, 2023 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Michael Becher – “Trade Origins of Proportional Representation”
  Discussant: Amel Ahmed
  
• December 7, 2023 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Viktor Malein – “Public Good Provision and the Outcomes of the 1917 Russian Revolution”
  Discussant: Luca Bagnato
  
• December 14, 2023 – 11:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jian Xu – “SOE Reform and Foreign Businesses: Unemployment, Market Competition, and Trade Attitudes”
  Discussant: Matias Giannoni
  
• January 11, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jeongmin Park – “Recruited Men, Breadwinning Women, and the ‘Re-gendering’ of Postwar Societies”
  Discussant: Hannah Simpson
  
• January 18, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Allison Hartnett – “After the Commons: Legacies of Colonial Land Privatization on Economic Opportunity”
  Discussant: Scott Gehlbach
  
• January 25, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  David Stasavage – “The Written Word and the Development of the State in China and Europe”
  Discussant: Peng Peng
  
• February 8, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Valeria Umanets – “Who Fills the Seats? State-Employed Women in Russian Municipal Politics”
  Discussant: Cathrin Mohr
  
• February 22, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Agustina Paglayan – Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
  Discussant: Jane Gingrich
  
• March 7, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jeremy Bowles – “Decolonizing the State: Evidence from the Tanzanian Civil Service”
  Discussant: Jan Pierskalla
  
• March 14, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Jonathan Chapman – “Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law”
  Discussant: Gabriel Leon-Ablan
  
• April 18, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Abhishek Chatterjee – “Elites, Colonialism, and Property Rights in Historical Perspective”
  Discussant: Shivaji Mukherjee
  
• April 25, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Anil Menon – “Conflict and Gender Norms”
  Discussant: Eleonora Guarnieri
  
• May 2, 2024 – 12:30 PM EST – 13:30 PM EST:
  Erik Bengtsson – “The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison”
  Discussant: David Andersen
  
• May 9, 2024
  Online Conference in Historical Political Economy

Past Participants (Fall 2022 & Spring 2023)

• October 20, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Jingyuan Qian – “State Repression, Loyalty Signaling, and Bureaucratic Control: Evidence from China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957–58)”
  Ning He and Wenbing Wu – “The Social Costs of State Violence: Evidence from Bureaucratic Purges in China”
  Co-Host: Lachlan McNamee
  
• November 3, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Dmitrii Kofanov – “Does Past Labor Coercion Cause Conflict?: Evidence from the Late Russian Empire”
  Ekaterina Travova – “For God, Tsar and Fatherland? The Political Influence of Church”
  
• November 17, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Lindsey Pruett – “Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa”
  Joan Ricart-Huguet – “The Origins of Elite Power in Contemporary Africa”
  Co-Host: Htet Thiha Zaw, Additional Discussion: Jeremy Bowles
  
• December 1st, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Maria Carreri, Julia Payson, and Daniel M. Thompson – “The Political and Economic Effects of Progressive Era Reforms in U.S. Cities: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data”
  Mona Morgan-Collins and Dylan Potts – “Suffrage, Turnout and the Household: The Case of Early Women Voters in Sweden.”
  Additional Discussion: Htet Thiha Zaw

• January 12, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Antonella Bandiera, Horacio Larreguy, and Jorge Mangonnet – “Family Ties and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites in Paraguay, 1954 – 2003”
  Tine Paulsen – “Democracy and Taxation Types”
  Co-Host: Dmitrii Kofanov, Additional Discussion: Josef Woldense and Otto Kienitz
  
• January 26, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Volha Charnysh and Ricardo Pique – “Erasing a Nation: The Enduring Effect of Nazi Repression in Poland”
  Hojung Joo – “Repression during Wars: Evidence from the Korean War”
  Additional Discussion: Giacomo Lemoli & Jan Vogler
  
• February 9, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Harunobu Saijo – “Appeal to a Higher Power: How Settlement and Inter-Ethnic Conflict Over Property Rights State Capacity”
  Daniel Gingerich and Jan Vogler – “Self-Government Interrupted: Legacies of External Rule in Brazil and Poland”
  Additional Discussion: Shelley Liu, Roya Talibova, Volha Charnysh
  
• February 23, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Peiyuan Li – “Who Lost China?” Land Reform, Class Struggle, and War Mobilization”
  Jeremy Bowles, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, and Michael Olson – “Land Redistribution, Political Inequality, and Crisis: Evidence from the Cromwellian Settlement in Ireland”
  Co-Host: Shelley Liu, Additional Discussion: Dmitrii Kofanov and Henry Thomson
  
• March 9, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Hannah Simpson – “The Political Origins of Unequal Protection: Women and the State in Medieval England”
  Arthur Spirling and Brandon M. Stewart – “What Good is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research”
  
• March 23, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Francesc Amat, Enrique Jorge-Sotelo, and Pau Vall-Prat – “Bank Failures and Elite’s Democratic Consent in the Interwar Period: An Exploration with Individual Data”
  André Walter and Patrick Emmenegger – “Who Counts? Malapportionment and the Overrepresentation of Urban Interests”
  Additional Discussion: Maria Carreri
  
• April 6, 2023 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Htet Thiha Zaw – “The Societal Origins of State Education: Evidence from British Burma”
  Mac Winkler, Jonathan Schulz, and Joe Henrich- “Sociocultural Diversity, Surnames and Innovation”
  Co-Host: Joan Ricart-Huguet, Additional Discussion: Ashrakat Elshehawy, Shivaji Mukherjee, and Pablo Balan

Past Participants (Fall 2021/Spring 2022)

• May 19, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Cory Smith, Amrita Kulka – “Agglomeration Over the Long Run: Evidence from County Seat Wars”
  Discussants: Steffen Hertog,
  Ferdinand Eibl, Steffen Hertog – “From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Nice to Their People?”
  Discussants: Cory Smith
  
• May 5, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Jan Vogler – “Rivalry and Empire: How Competition among European States Shaped Imperialism”
  Discussants: Megan Stewart, Marcus Kreutzer
  Megan Stewart and Karin Kitchens – “Explaining Variation in Challenges to Social Conventions: Black Political Leadership and “Contraband Camps” in the U.S. Civil War”
  Discussants: Jeffrey Jensen
  
• April 21, 2022 – 1:30 PM EST – 3:00 PM EST:
  Daniel Bischof and Vicente Valentim – “The Consequences of Punishing Political Ideologies in Democracies – Evidence from Employment Bans in Germany”
  Discussants: Steven Nafziger, Charles Crabtree
  Dmitrii Kofanov, Scott Gehlbach, Paul Castaneda Dower, Steven Nafziger – “Diversity and Contagion in Conflict: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Late Imperial Russia”
  Discussants: Roya Talibova, Daniel Bischof
  
• April 7, 2022 – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM:
  Joowon Yi – “Once a Slave? The Slave Trade and Military Formation under Colonialism”
  Discussants: Martha Wilfahrt

Past Participants (Spring 2021)

• April 28, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Aditya Dasgupta – “Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains”
  Discussants: Melissa Rogers
  
• April 14, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Tuğba Bozçağa & Asli Cansunar – “Local Elites, Land Inequality, and Nation-building through Public Education”
  Discussants: Hannah Simpson & Tine Paulsen
  
• March 31, 2021 – likely 10 am EST:
  Gedeon Lim “Intergroup Contact and Ethnic Politics: Evidence from Malaysia”
  Discussants: Tom Pepinsky & Sebastian Dettman
  
• March 17, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Thiha Zaw – “The Pre-colonial Roots of Colonial Coercion: Evidence from British Burma”
  Discussants: Joan Ricart-Huguet & Dan Mattingly
  
• March 3, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Raluca Pahontu “Insuring Against Hunger? Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine” Discussants: Ali Cirone & Roya Talibova
  
• February 17, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Robert Venyige – “Endogenous Property Rights and the Dismantling of the Feudal Production System”
  Discussants: Jan Vogler & Christopher Paik
  
• February 10, 2021 – 12 EST:
  Marcus Kreuzer – “Grammar of Time”
  Discussants: Marcus Kurtz & Jason Wittenberg

Past Participants (Fall 2020)

• December 16, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Emily A. Wolff – “Kingdom-mates in the welfare state: The social inclusion of Dutch migrants from East Indies, 1945-1968” Discussants: Pavithra Suryanarayan and Inés Valdez
  
• December 2, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Massimo Pulejo – “Religious Mobilization and the Selection of Political Elites: Evidence from Postwar Italy”
  Discussants: Carles Boix and Mario Cannella
  
• November 18, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Mario Cannella, Alexey Makarin, and Ricardo Pique – “The Legacy of Nazi Annexation”
  Discussants: Andrea Ruggeri and Roya Talibova
  
• November 11, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Richard J. McAlexander & Joan Ricart-Huguet – “State Disengagement: Evidence from Former French West Africa” Discussants: Abhit Bhandari and Martha Wilfahrt
  
• October 28, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Lasse Aaskoven – “The Inequality Roots of Weak Partisan Attachment: Evidence from Denmark”
  Discussants: Noam Lupu and Jaakko Merilainen
  
• October 14, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Anne Degrave – “State Capacity, Fiscal Legibility and Legitimacy: Evidence from the French Napoleonic Cadaster” Discussants: Francisco Garfias & Pablo Beramendi
  
• September 30, 2020 – 12 EST:
  Anil Menon – Practice Job Talk “Refugees and the Radical Right: Evidence from Post-WWII Forced Migrations”
  Discussants: Elias Dinas
  
• September 16, 2020 – 12pm EST:
  Asli Cansunar – Practice Job Talk “Distributional Consequences of Philanthropic Contributions to Public Goods” Discussants: Alexandra Blackman

Past Participants (Summer 2020)

• August 14, 2020:
  Daniel Gingerich & Jan Vogler: “Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany” Discussants: Alexandra Cirone, Mark Koyama, Emily Sellars
  
• July 29nd, 2020, 12:00 PM EST:
  Mona Morgan-Collins: “Competing for New Votes: Mobilization of Women in the Wake of Democratization.”
  Discussants: Chitralekha Basu, Marcus Kreuzer, Lucas Leeman
  
• June 24th, 2020:
  Jaakko Meriläinen: “Tracing out the Finnish Kuznets Curve: Famine, Threat of Revolution, and Democratization.” Discussants: Kristin Bakke, Volha Charnysh, Arturas Rozenas
  
• June 3rd, 2020:
  Adriane Fresh: “Enfranchisement and Incarceration After the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”
  Discussants: Ariel White, Steven White, Christopher Muller
  
• May 12th, 2020:
  Dean Dulay: “The Search for Spices and Souls: Catholic Missions as Colonial State in the Philippines.”
  Discussants: Cesi Cruz, Jared Rubin, Pablo Querubin
  
• April 22, 2020:
  Mark Hup: “Corvée Labor and State Expansion in Colonial Indonesia.”
  Discussants: Melissa Rogers, Nicholas Kuipers, Gedeon Lim