Jeremy Land, PhD

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Education

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

August 2019 – Doctor of Philosophy in History, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States – Committee: Ghulam Nadri (Chair), Julia Gaffield, Ian Fletcher, Jari Eloranta – Dissertation Title: Boston, New York, and Philadelphia in Global Maritime Trade, 1700-1775 – Research Fields: Atlantic World, Empires in World History, Indian Ocean World

May 2010 – Master of Arts in History, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States – Thesis Title: The Price of Empire: Britain’s Military Costs during the Seven Years’ War – Committee: Jari Eloranta (Chair), Judkin Browning, Michael Turner

May 2008 – Bachelor of Science in History Secondary Education, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States

Professional Experience

January 2025-Present – University Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. Working as part of the ERC-funded project WORK-IT and various individual research projects.

July 2024-Present – Executive Director, Social Science History Association. Administratively leading the largest organization of social science historians in North America.

September 2019-Present – Meetings Coordinator, Economic History Association, USA. Organizing the annual meetings of the Economic History Association.

January 2023-December 2024 – Postdoktor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Three-year postdoctoral position creating and managing my individual research projects.

January 2021-January 2023 – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. Academy of Finland project funded position in the Economic and Social history unit for the project titled, “Nordic Fiscal States: From Warfare to Welfare.”

September 2020-December 2020 – CRISES Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Short term research fellowship in the CRISES profiling area.

October 2019-August 2020 – Research Historian, Edwards-Pitman, Atlanta, GA, USA. Led the development of a new research and archives division in addition to surveying historic structures and sites.

January 2019-September 2020 – Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA. Assisted in data analysis for academic research.

August 2016-August 2019 – Graduate Teaching Associate, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Taught Survey of United States History and Survey of World History since 1500.

August 2015-July 2016 – Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Assistant Editor for the World History Bulletin.

2015-2018 – Conference Manager, XVIII^th World Economic History Congress, Boston 2018 via MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Organized the 1,500-attendee, triannual global meeting of economic historians.

August 2011-July 2013 – Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.

August 2010-May 2011 – Adjunct Professor of History, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA. Taught survey courses titled History and Culture and Society and History.

August 2008-May 2010 – Graduate Assistant, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.

Books and Edited Volumes

Jeremy Land, Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. https://brill.com/display/title/64597?rskey=B9BZyD&result=4

Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, and Price Fishback, eds., The Routledge Handbook on the Economic History of War. London and New York: Routledge, May 2025. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Economic-History-of-War/Eloranta-Land-Kuorelahti-Fishback/p/book/9781032230252

Articles and Book Chapters

Jeremy Land, “Sibling Rivalry: The Fairfax Resolves and British and American Mercantile Competition on the Eve of Revolution” in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Forthcoming 2026.

Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, and Price Fishback, “Introduction: Why Study the Economic History of War?” in The Routledge Economic History of War, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Economic-History-of-War/Eloranta-Land-Kuorelahti-Fishback/p/book/9781032230252

Henric Häggqvist and Jeremy Land, “Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition – England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna”in The Routledge Economic History of War, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Economic-History-of-War/Eloranta-Land-Kuorelahti-Fishback/p/book/9781032230252

Jeremy Land, “News and Profit: News, Newspapers, and Business in Colonial America” in Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World, edited by Sophie Jones and Siobhan Talbott. Brill, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004689879_007

Marzagalli, Silvia, Werner Scheltjens, and Jeremy Land, “The Contribution of Historical Databases to the Current State of Digital Maritime History,” in Histoire et Mesure, Vol. 38, No. 2 (December 2023), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.4000/histoiremesure.19773

Jeremy Land, “Dealing with Weights, Measures, and Currencies in Eighteenth-Century Invoices,” in Annales Mercaturae: Yearbook for the History of International Trade and Commerce, Vol. 9 (2023), 49-64. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Annales-Mercaturae-9-2023/9783515139441

Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Lisbeth Rodrigues, Jeremy Land and Jari Eloranta, “Introduction to the Thematic Dossier: Economy and Society: Politics, Practices, Agents, and Institutions,” in Configurações: Revista Ciências Sociais, No. 26/2020: Special Issue: “Economy and Society: Politics, Practices, Agents and Institutions.” https://doi.org/10.4000/configuracoes.10367

Jeremy Land and Vincent Geloso, “Colonial Military Garrisons as Labor-Market Shocks: Quebec City and Boston, 1760–1775,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 4 (July 2020), 1326-1344. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12797

Jeremy Land and Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, “Illicit Affairs: Philadelphia’s Trade with Lisbon before Independence, 1700-1775.” Ler História, Vol. 75, December 2019, pp. 179-204. https://doi.org/10.4000/lerhistoria.5936

Jeremy Land, Jari Eloranta, and Maria Cristina Moreira. “American Trade and Neutrality: 1783-1860” in Small and Medium Powers in Global History: Trade, Conflicts and Neutrality from the 18^th to 20^th Centuries edited by Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedburg, and Maria Cristina Moreira. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. 29-51. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315180946-2/trade-new-republic-jeremy-land-jari-eloranta-maria-cristina-moreira

Jari Eloranta and Jeremy Land, “Wartime Economies, 1939-1945: Large and Small European States at War” in Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945 edited by Nicholas Doumanis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 461-79. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199695669-e-25

Jeremy Land and Jari Eloranta. “Hollow Victory? Britain’s Public Debt and the Seven Years’ War.” Essays in Economic and Business History, XXIX, Pp. 101-118, 2011. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/215

Jeremy Land “Lyman Beecher: Conservative Abolitionist, Theologian and Father,” Madison Historical Review, Vol. 6, Article 2, 2009. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol6/iss1/2/

Pedagogical and Teaching Publications

Jeremy Land, “Short Teaching Module: Global Approaches to Maritime Trade in Colonial North America,” in World History Commons. https://worldhistorycommons.org/short-teaching-module-global-approaches-maritime-trade-colonial-north-america

Editing

2023-Present – Library of Economic History Series, Brill. https://brill.com/display/serial/LEHI?language=en

Guest Editing

Histoire et Mesure, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023: Special Issue: “Maritime History through the Lens of the Digital Humanities.” Coedited with Silvia Marzagalli and Werner Scheltjens. https://doi.org/10.4000/histoiremesure.19763

Configurações: Revista Ciências Sociais, No. 26/2020: Special Issue: “Economy and Society: Politics, Practices, Agents and Institutions.” Coedited with Rodrigo Dominguez, Lisbeth Rodrigues, and Jari Eloranta. https://journals.openedition.org/configuracoes/9136

Published Book Reviews

Richard C. Maguire, Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership: The Burtons of Norfolk, 1788-1846, in American Historical Review, Vol. 130, No. 4 (Dec. 2025), 1755-1756. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf445

John Morrow, The Naval Government of Newfoundland in the French Wars, 1793-1815, in The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 111, No. 4 (2025), 492-494. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2025.2560239

Gijs Dreijer, The Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15^th-16^th Centuries) in International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 36, No. 4 (November 2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/08438714241274990

Esther Sahle, Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1800, inThe Economic History Review, Vol 76, No 4 (November 2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13290

Thomas M. Truxes, The Overseas Trade of British America: A Narrative History, in Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 109, No. 3 (July 2023), 373-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2023.2226975

Simon Mills, A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600-1760 in World History Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022), 77-78.

David Wilson, Suppressing Piracy in the Early Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Merchants and British Imperial Authority in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, in Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 108, No. 2 (April 2022), 251-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2022.2055850

Henning Hillmann, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite under the Ancien Regime, in Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. 108, No. 1 (January 2022), 121-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2022.2026610

Craig VanGrasstek, Trade and American Leadership: The Paradoxes of Power and Wealth from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump, in The Economic History Review, Vol 74, No 2 (May 2021), 574-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13077

Joseph Adelman, Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789, in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol 38, No.1 (2020), 355-357. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/383/353

Strother E. Roberts, Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England, at Eh.Net Book Reviews (September 2020). https://eh.net/book_reviews/colonial-ecology-atlantic-economy-transforming-nature-in-early-new-england/

Jesse Cromwell, The Smuggler’s World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela in The Economic History Review, Vol 72, No. 3 (August 2019), 1114-1115. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12895

Jane T. Merritt, The Trouble with Tea: The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. 36 (2018), 330-332. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/37/30

John Tutino, ed., New Countries: Capitalism, Revolutions, and Nations in the Americas, 1750–1870 in History: Reviews of New Books, 46 (2), p. 56 (2018), 56. https://doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2018.1412782

Abigail L. Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire, in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. 34 (2016), 267-269. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/258/239

Sherrylynne Haggerty, ‘Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815, in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. 33 (2015), 199-201. https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/247/229

Barbara Gannon, The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic in The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, Vol. 21, November 2013.

Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, eds., Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History in the Southern Historian, Spring 2010, 149-150.

Working Papers

Eloranta, Jari, Henric Häggqvist, Petri Karonen, and Jeremy Land, “The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency – Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire,” Göteborg Papers in Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Unit for Economic History, no. 41. https://swopec.hhs.se/gunhis/abs/gunhis0041.htm

Press, Media, and Other Public Events

“War and Economy: Past, Present, Future,” University of Helsinki Think Corner, Helsinki, Finland. Public Event, 19 May 2025

“Tullupproret som startade den amerikanska revolutionen,” Historia Nu. Podcast, 16 April 2025. https://historia.nu/historia-nu/tullupproret-som-startade-den-amerikanska-revolutionen/

“Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776),” New Books Network. Podcast, 18 October 2023. https://newbooksnetwork.com/colonial-ports-global-trade-and-the-roots-of-the-american-revolution-1700-1776

Grants and Fellowships

• 2025-2026       ERC Boost Grant – University of Helsinki Rector Grant, Finland: 2 years, €200,000
• 2022-2023       Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, USA: $2,000
• 2020                CRISES Fellowship, University of Jyväskylä, Finland: €10,000
• 2018-2019       Georgia State University Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia, United States: $24,000
• 2016                Economic History Association, Exploratory Travel and Data Grant: $2,500

Journals Refereed

Journal of Economic History

Essays in Economic and Business History

Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters)

International Journal of Maritime History

Invited Presentations

“Estimating Illegal Maritime Trade in the Early Modern Era” in the Economic History Seminar (EKH) at the Department of Economic History at Lund University, Sweden, 12 November 2025.

Book Talk: Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution at Georgia State University, 14 February 2025

“Sibling Rivalry: British and American Mercantile Competition on the Eve of Revolution” – The Origins of the Revolution: 250th Anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves co-hosted by The George Washington Presidential Library, David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and George Mason’s Gunston Hall, Washington, D.C., United States, 24-25 July 2024 – Public Event

“Currency, Credit, and Imperial Deficiencies: Colonial American Business Practices and Maritime Trade before Independence” at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 April 2024

Book Talk: Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution at the University of Pittsburgh, 14 March 2023.

“Dating Mining, 18^th Century Style: Creating Datasets from Disparate Sources” at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 22 April 2022

“Trans-Imperial Trade, Colonial America, and the Roots of Revolution” at the University of Arizona, Department of Economics Seminar Series, USA, October 25, 2021

“Boston, New York, and Philadelphia in Global Maritime Trade, 1700-1775” at the UCBH Seminar at Uppsala University, Sweden, March 25, 2019

“The Trans-Imperial Maritime Trade of Colonial Boston, New York, and Philadelphia” at the York Management School, University of York, UK, February 28, 2019

“Trans-Imperial Trade in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, 1700-1775” at the LSE Graduate Seminar in Economic History, London School of Economics, UK, February 27, 2019

“Illicit Affairs: Philadelphia’s Trade with Lisbon before Independence, 1700-1775” at Texas Christian University, Department of Economics, USA, October 8-10, 2018

Conference Presentations

“Author Meetings Critics: Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700-1776) by Jeremy Land” – 50^th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, United States, 20-23 November 2025

“Roundtable Discussion on the Handbook on the Economic History of War” – 50^th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, United States, 20-23 November 2025

“Illicit and Neutral: The Transition from Colonial Smuggling to Free Trade in the American Colonies and Early U.S. Republic” – Eighth European Congress on World and Global History (ENIUGH), Växjö, Sweden, 10-12 September 2025

“Towards Rethinking Economy and Society through Informal Taxation and Bourdieu” – 25^th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Berlin, Germany, 11-15 August 2025

Organized Panel: “Greasing the Wheels of Globalization: Mechanisms and Institutions of Early Moden Maritime Trade” – XX^th World Economic History Congress, Lund, Sweden, 28 July – 1 August 2025

“Limiting Uncertainty: State Capacity and the Institutional Foundations of Nordic Welfare States” – XX^th World Economic History Congress, Lund, Sweden, 28 July – 1 August 2025

“American Irony: Early American Tariffs, Free Trade, and Historical Memory” – XX^th World Economic History Congress, Lund, Sweden, 28 July – 1 August 2025

“Towards Studying Temple Labor in the Persian Southern Levant” 2025 Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 23-27 June 2025

“Quantifying the Scale of Smuggling in the Early Modern Economy” – Workshop on 18^th Century Nordic Economic Statistics, BI Norwegian Business School, Olso, Norway, 12-13 June 2025

“Quantifying Illicit Commerce between Stockholm and Amsterdam in the 18th Century” – 6^th Annual Baltic Connections Conference in Social Science History, Helsinki, Finland, 21-23 2025

“Private Enterprise, Public Benefits: Colonial American Road Building and Global Markets” – 2025 Business History Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 13-15 March 2025

“Living Standards in the Nordic Countries 1700-1914: Comparing Different Metrics” – 5^th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History, 24-25 October 2024

“On Tariffs: An Analytical Framework” – 84^th Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, Sacramento, California, United States, 6-8 September 2024

“Sibling Rivalry: British and American Mercantile Competition on the Eve of Revolution” – The Origins of the Revolution: 250th Anniversary of the Fairfax Resolves co-hosted by The George Washington Presidential Library, David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and George Mason’s Gunston Hall, Washington, D.C., United States, 24-25 July 2024

“Currency, Credit, and Imperial Deficiencies and Colonial American Business Practices in Maritime Trade” – 49^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference and Association of Business Historians Conference, York, United Kingdom, 27-29 June 2024

“Colonial Charleston’s Economic Entanglements with British North America and the Global Economy” – 5^th Annual Baltic Connections Conference in Social Science History, Jyväskylä, Finland, 12-14 June 2024

“From Hinterland to Hinterland: Ports, Merchants, and Consumers in the 18^th Century Atlantic” – Merihistorian päivät (Maritime History Days) 2024, Jyväskylä, Finland, 22-24 March 2024.

“Is Neutrality Dead? Neutrality and Economics during War” – 49^th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., United States, 16-19 November 2023

“From Mercantilism to Tariffs: The American Experience of Protectionism from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1750-1830” – 15^th Swedish Economic History Meeting in conjunction with the 4^th Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History, Lund, Sweden, 27-29 September 2023

“Sticky Costs: Tar and Outfitting Ships in Colonial North America” – 4^th Annual Baltic Connections Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 2-3 June 2023

“Eastern North American Ports and Consumer Demand for East Asian Goods: 1763-1800” – 48^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Porto, Portugal 25-27 May 2023

“Reinforcing Mercantilism: Seven Years’ War Debt and Britain’s Efforts to Make America Pay” – From Crecy to Waterloo: War and the Development of the Fiscal State in Europe (14th-18^th Centuries), University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain, 2-3 February 2023

“The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire” – 48^th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17-20 November 2022

“Public Banking and Global Marketplaces in Antebellum Georgia and South Carolina” – 34^th Annual Meeting of the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA), James Madison University, Virginia, United States, 4-6 November 2022.

“The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire” – 82^nd Annual Economic History Association Meeting, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, 16-18 September 2022

“Dealing with Weights, Measures, and Currencies in 18^th Century Invoices” – XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, 21-27 August 2022

“Imperial Deficiencies and Early State Capacity Development in Colonial North America” – XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, 21-27 August 2022

“Early United States Tariffs: Protection for Local Merchants or Fiscally Necessary?” – XIX^th World Economic History Congress, Paris, France, 25-29 July 2022

“Trans-Imperial Trade and the American Revolution” – XIX^th World Economic History Congress, Paris, France, 25-29 July 2022

“Quantifying the Invisible: New Estimates for Trans-Imperial Trade of British America before Independence” – 8^th Annual International Maritime Congress, Porto, Portugal, 28 June-2 July 2022 (Postponed from 2020, due to Covid-19)

“Creating Datasets from Disparate Digital Archives: 18th Century Colonial American Merchant Networks” – 3^rd Annual Baltic Connections Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, 16-17 June 2022

“Creating Datasets from Disparate Digital Archives: 18th Century Colonial American Merchant Networks” – German Historical Institute Conference on Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data, 9-11 December 2021 – Delayed to 2-4 June 2022

“Trading Places: American Nationalism and the Changing Face of Atlantic Commerce during the Era of Revolution, 1783-1816” – 47^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 18-21 May 2022

“Currency, Credit, and Imperial Deficiencies: Colonial American Business Practices and Maritime Trade before Independence” – 2022 Meeting of the Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 6-9 April 2022

“Guns, Butter or None of the Above: Defining State Capacity in the Long Run” – 47^th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 11-14 November 2021

“New Perspectives on Global Maritime History” – Roundtable Discussion – 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA), Virtual, 22-23 October 2021

“State Capacity, Institutions, and Trade: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire” – 2^nd Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society for Economic and Social History in conjunction with the 14^th Swedish Economic History Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, 7-9 October 2021

“Public Banking and Global Marketplaces in Antebellum Georgia and South Carolina” – 46^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Virtual, 18-21 May 2021

“Hidden Trade Routes? US-Scandinavian Ties, 1750-1865” – 2^nd Annual Baltic Connections: Conference in Social Science History, Virtual, 20-21 April 2021

“A Regional Complex: Colonial Business Networks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia” – 32^nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA), Virtual, 24-25 October 2020

“Public Banking and Global Marketplaces in Antebellum Georgia and South Carolina” – 80^th Annual Economic History Association Meeting, Virtual, 11-13 September 2020

“A Complementary Relationship: Origins and Nature of Portuguese-British American Trade” – 45^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 28-30 May 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

“Hidden Trade Routes? US-Scandinavian Ties, 1750–1850” – 2^nd Annual Baltic Connections: Conference in Social Science History, Jyväskylä, Finland, 26-27 March 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

“A Regional Complex: Colonial Business Networks in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia” – 2020 Business History Conference Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 12-14 March 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

“Locally Global: Capital Investment and Merchants in Colonial Boston, New York, and Philadelphia” – 44^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 5-8 June 2019

“Boston, New York, and Philadelphia in Trans-Imperial Trade, 1700-1775” – Baltic Connections: Conference in Social Science History, Helsinki, Finland, 21-23 March 2019

“Like Father, Like Son: Philadelphia’s Rise as a Major Port, 1700-1775” – XVIIIth World Economic History Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 29 June-3August 2018

“‘Send Me, Sir, if You Please’: Consumer Preferences and Trans-Imperial Trade in Colonial Boston” – 43^rd Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, 30 May-2 June 2018

“Boston and Philadelphia in Trans-Imperial Maritime Trade, 1700-1775: A Comparative Study” – New Directions in Global Economic History: A Workshop, Georgia State University History Department, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 16 February 2018

“Illicit Affairs: Philadelphia’s Trade with Lisbon before Independence, 1700-1775” – 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2-5 November 2017

“Unlikely Friends: British America and Portugal before Independence, 1700-1775” – 29^th Annual Meeting Southeast World History Association, Dahlonega, Georgia, United States, 6-7 October 2017

“Boston and Philadelphia in Trans-Imperial Maritime Trade, 1700-1775: A Comparative Study” – Graduate Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in San Jose, California, United States, 15-17 September 2017

“Illicit Affairs: Philadelphia’s Trade with Lisbon before Independence, 1700-1775” – 42^nd Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 25-27 May 2017

“Empire of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia’s Maritime Trade before Independence, 1700-1775” – 12^th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 1-2 April 2017

“Empire of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia’s Maritime Trade before Independence, 1700-1775” – 57^th Annual Meeting of Florida Conference of Historians, Punta Gorda, Florida, United States, 10-12 March 2017

“Labor Markets and Military Occupations in Colonial Port Cities, 1760 to 1775” – 41^st Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Montreal, Canada, 26-28 May 2016

“The Great Speckled Bird and Global Economic Research Opportunities” – Association of Historians at Georgia State University Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 23-25 March 2017

“Trade and the New Republic – U.S. Trade during the Napoleonic Wars, 1783-1830” – XVII^th World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, Japan, 3-7 August 2015

“Feeding the ‘Lower Sort’: Military Occupation and Poor Relief in Colonial Port Cities” – 40^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, 28-30 May 2015

“Fighting for Neutrality: U.S. Trade during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1783-1815” – 33^rd Association of Portuguese Economic and Social Historians Conference, Braga, Portugal, 15-16 November 2013

“Fighting for Neutrality: U.S. Trade during the Revolutionary Wars, 1783-1815” – 38^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 23-25 May 2013

“Upsetting the Balance: Boston Workers during British Occupation, 1768-1775” – 8^th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 20 April 2013

“Trade and the New Republic – U.S. Trade with Great Powers and Weak States, 1783-1830” – XVI^th World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 July 2012

“Upsetting the Balance: Boston Workers during British Occupation, 1768-1775” – 37^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 26-28 April 2012

“Price of Empire: Britain’s Transportation Costs during the Seven Years’ War” – 36^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 14-16 April 2011

“Hollow Victory: Britain’s National Debt and the Seven Years’ War” – 35^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Braga, Portugal, 26-29 May 2010

“Price of Empire: Britain’s Transportation Costs during the Seven Years’ War” – 2010 Carolinas Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, United States, 9-10 April 2010

“Price of Empire: Britain’s Transportation Costs during the Seven Years’ War” – 2010 Appalachian Phi Alpha Theta and Graduate History Association Paper Symposium, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 27 March 2010

“Hollow Victory: Britain’s National Debt and the Seven Years’ War” – 5^th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 20 March 2010

“Price of Empire: Britain’s Transportation Costs during the Seven Years’ War” – 2010 Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Conference, San Diego, California, United States, 6-9 January 2010

“The Price of Loyalty: The Economic Dynamics of the Seven Years’ War” – 4^th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 18 April 2009

“The Price of Loyalty: The Economic Dynamics of the Seven Years’ War” – 2009 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Graduate History Association Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 3-4 April 2009

“The Many Loyalties of Cherokee Chief John Ross” – 2009 Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Regional Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 28 March 2009

“The Many Loyalties of Cherokee Chief John Ross” – 2009 Appalachian Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 28 February 2009

“Lyman Beecher: Conservative Abolitionist, Theologian and Father” – 2008 Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Regional Conference, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina, United States, 29 March 2008

“Lyman Beecher: Conservative Abolitionist, Theologian and Father” – 2008 Appalachian Phi Alpha Theta and Women’s History Symposium, Boone, North Carolina, United States, 23 February 2008

Awards and Honors

2022 International Economic History Association Dissertation Prize in Pre-Modern Economic History at the XIX^th World Economic History Congress in Paris, 25-29 July 2022 – https://www.wehc2022.org/news/prize-winners

Outstanding Thesis in Arts/Humanities Award for MA Thesis “The Price of Empire: Britain’s

Military Costs during the Seven Years’ War”, 2010

Best Graduate Paper at the 2010 Carolinas Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, April 9-10, 2010

Graduate Panel Winner at 2010 Carolinas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Appalachian State University, March 8, 2009

Second Prize Graduate Paper at Appalachian Phi Alpha Theta Conference, February 28, 2009

Panel Winner at Phi Alpha Theta Regional Paper Conference at UNC Pembroke March 29, 2008

First Prize Paper at the Phi Alpha Theta and Women’s History Month Paper Symposium at Appalachian State University February 23, 2008

Cum Laude graduate, Appalachian State University, May 2008

Phi Alpha Theta Society, Inducted November 2007, Vice-President Omicron-Phi Chapter, 2008-2009, President Omicron-Phi Chapter, 2009-2010

Robert D. Warren Scholarship, Appalachian State University History Department in Spring 2007

Courses Taught

Imperial States and Economies from the Ancient World to the Early Modern (Helsinki)

Creating and Regulation Markets (Gothenburg)

The Relationship between Sea and Society (Gothenburg)

Advanced Graduate Seminar in Economic History (Helsinki)

Survey of World History since 1500 (GSU)

Survey of United States History (GSU)

History and Culture (ASU)

Society and History (ASU)

Courses Assisted

Survey of United States History (GSU)

Survey of World History since 1500 (UT) (GSU) (ASU)

Survey of World History before 1500 (UT)

Development of Western Civilization (UT)

Survey of U.S. History before 1850 (UT) (ASU)

Survey of U.S. History since 1850 (ASU)

Introduction to Business History (ASU)

Post-Graduate University Pedagogy Training

UP1 – Learning in Higher Education (Helsinki)

UP2.1 – Constructive Alignment in Course Design (Helsinki)

UP2.2 – Assessment of Learning and Giving Feedback (Helsinki)

PIL201 – Supervision in Postgraduate Programmes (Gothenburg)

Academic and University Service

Executive Director – Social Science History Association (https://ssha.org/), 2024-PresentMeetings Coordinator – Economic History Association (https://eh.net/eha/), 2020-Present

Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair – Economic and Business History Society, 2020-Present

Co-Organizer – Baltic Connections: Annual Conference in Social Science History, Helsinki, Finland, 2019-Present (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/baltic-connections)

Program Chair – 44^th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference, Detroit, MI, June 5-8, 2019 (www.ebhsoc.org)

Panel Organizer: “Port Cities, Empires, and Global Maritime Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Connections and Comparisons” – XVIII^th World Economic History Congress, Boston, MA, USA, July 29-August 3, 2018 (http://wehc2018.org/port-cities-empires-and-global-maritime-trade-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries-connections-and-comparisons/)

Conference Manager – XVIIIth World Economic History Congress, Boston, MA, July 29-August 3, 2018 (Active August 2014-December 2018) (www.wehc2018.org)

Co-Organizer – Annual Appalachian Spring Conference, Boone, NC, 2011-2018

Co-Organizer – New Directions in Global Economic History: A Workshop, February 16, 2018, Georgia State University History Department

President – Graduate Student Alliance, Georgia State University, 2017-2018

Graduate Student Representative – Georgia State University Library Master Plan Committee, 2016-2017

Assistant Editor – World History Bulletin, 2015-2016, Assistant to the late Denis Gainty, editor.

Assistant Organizer – 5^th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference, Boone, NC, March 20, 2010

Graduate Assistant to Organizer – Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, Tucson, Arizona, September 11-13, 2009

Professional Affiliations

Social Science History Association, 2015-Present, Executive Director, 2024-Present

Economic History Association, 2012-Present, Meetings Coordinator/Trustee 2020-Present

Economic and Business History Society, 2010-Present, Program Chair 2019 & 2023, Trustee 2015-2025, Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair 2020-2025

Business History Conference, 2019-Present

American Historical Association, 2012-Present

Southeastern World History Association, 2017-2025, Council Member-at-large, 2018-2020

Association of Historians at Georgia State University, 2015-2019

Economic History Society, 2019-2025

Pi Gamma Mu – International Social Science Honor Society, 2010-Present

Appalachian State University Graduate History Association, Charter Member, 2009-Present, Chair of Conference Committee 2009-2010

Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society 2007-Present

Language Competencies

English – Native Language

Swedish –Reading Proficiency

Spanish – Research Proficiency

French – Research Proficiency

Dutch – Research Proficiency

Portuguese – Research Proficiency

Finnish – Basic Proficiency