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Senior Management Team
Professor Patrick Wallis - Head of Department
Research interests: early modern European economic and social history; human capital and training, especially apprenticeship; health and medicine.
Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk
Professor Olivier Accominotti
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: 19th and 20th century monetary and financial history; international financial instability during the Great Depression; financial crises and contagion.
Email: o.accominotti@lse.ac.uk
Mr Dudley Baines
Emeritus Reader in Economic History
Research interests: 19th and 20th century European demographic history; international and internal migration; development of the international economy; development of British labour market in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Email: d.e.baines@lse.ac.uk
Dr Gerben Bakker
Associate Professor, Economic History
Research interests: creative industries, especially motion pictures, live entertainment, music, and news; the financing of early-stage R&D; the industrial origins of US productivity growth in the 20th century.
Email: g.bakker@lse.ac.uk
Dr Jordan Claridge
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests: medieval economic history; agriculture; regional and urban history; financial markets and institutions; monetary economics; labour and consumers; government.
Email: j.claridge@lse.ac.uk
Professor Kent Deng
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: China’s economic and social history, especially peasantry and literati; maritime economic history; merchants; pre-modern and early modern history; state formation.
Email: k.g.deng@lse.ac.uk
Professor Sara Horrell
Professor in Economic History
Research interests: Gender, Labour, Living standards. Modern British and European economic history.
Other titles: Deputy Head of Department (Research), PHD Tutor)
Email: s.h.horrell@lse.ac.uk
Professor Jane Humphries
Centennial Professor
Research Interests: Labour markets, industrialization, links between the family and the economy, gender, the family, the history of women's work, causes and consequences of economic growth and structural change.
Email: j.humphries@lse.ac.uk
Dr Tehreem Husain
Power Fellow
Research interests: Railway financing during the first age of globalisation (1880-1913); the role of underwriterin railway financing; financial history of British India; evolution of banking in India.
Email: t.husain@lse.ac.uk
Professor Janet Hunter
Emeritus Professor in Economic History
Research interests: Modern Japanese history, the female labour market, the history of economic relations between Britain and Japan, development of communications, business ethics in Japan
Email: j.e.hunter@lse.ac.uk
Dr Alejandra Irigoin
Associate Professor in Economic History
Research interests: early modern global economic and monetary history; economic history of Latin America, especially in the colonial period; comparative political economy of empire.
Email: m.a.irigoin@lse.ac.uk
Professor Colin Lewis
Emeritus Professor, Economic History
Research Interests: political economy of development and state-formation, fiscal and monetary history, social policy and welfare, industrial growth and industrialisation, and Latin American business history
Email: c.m.lewis@lse.ac.uk
Professor Chris Minns
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: North American economic history; labour market history, particularly migration and education; price history.
Email: c.minns@lse.ac.uk
Dr Safya Morshed
LSE Fellow
Research interests: economic history of developing regions; comparative historical development; political economy; Asian, Middle Eastern and African economic history.
Email: s.morshed@lse.ac.uk
Professor Mary S Morgan
Albert O. Hirschman Professor
Research interests: History and philosophy of economics and statistics over last two centuries, and especially the usages of those fields of knowledge in academic and public domains to change the way economies work
Email: m.morgan@lse.ac.uk
Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay (on leave 2023-24)
Assistant Professor
Research interests: financial history of the 19th and 20th centuries; financial, banking and monetary crises, especially the Great Depression and the Great Recession; mortgage and household debt; public finance: the impact of fiscal policy on the business cycle.
Email: n.m.postelvinay@lse.ac.uk
Professor Albrecht Ritschl
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: debt crises; financial crises; historical business cycles; macroeconomic history; monetary history. Modern European history, especially Germany.
Email: a.o.ritschl@lse.ac.uk
Professor Joan Roses
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: economic geography; economic growth; economic history; housing; human capital; regional inequality. Modern European history, especially Spain.
Email: j.r.roses@lse.ac.uk
Professor Tirthankar Roy (on leave 2023-24)
Professor of Economic History
Research Interests: History and development of South Asia, global history, empires, environmental history.
Email: t.roy@lse.ac.uk
Dr Anne Ruderman
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests: early modern Europe and the Atlantic world; race and slavery; social and economic history.
Email: a.e.ruderman@lse.ac.uk
Dr Mohamed Saleh
Associate Professor, Economic History
Research interests: Economic History, Political Economy, and Development Economics. Dr Saleh's research is focused on the Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa.
Email: m.saleh@lse.ac.uk
Professor Max Schulze (on leave 2023-25)
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: 19th Century European economic history; continental European history, especially Austria; industrialization, trade, and economic development.
Email: m.s.schulze@lse.ac.uk
Dr Sabine Schneider
LSE Fellow
Research Interests: International economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries; financial and monetary policy, particularly currency unions and state-building, central banking, financial crises, and economic diplomacy
Email: s.a.schneider@lse.ac.uk
Professor Oliver Volckart
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: Economic History; New Institutional Economics; late medieval and early modern Continental European History, especially constitutional history.
Other titles: UG Programmes Director
Email: o.j.volckart@lse.ac.uk
Professor Patrick Wallis
Professor in Economic History
Research interests: early modern European economic and social history; human capital and training, especially apprenticeship; health and medicine.
Other titles: Head of Department
Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk
Dr Melanie Meng Xue
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests: political economy; gender; folklore; early modern and modern Chinese history.
Email: m.m.xue@lse.ac.uk
Professor Robert J Bennett
Research Interests: History of entrepreneurship, and SME policy; history of Chambers of Commerce; local and regional economic development: the role of institutions
Email: rjb7@cam.ac.uk
Professor David Chambers
Visiting Professor
Research interests include: Covered Interest Party (CIP) condition in foreign exchange markets.
Email: d.chambers1@lse.ac.uk
Ying Dai
Visitor
Research interests: occupational structure of the 20th century Yangtze Valley
Email: yd282@cam.ac.uk
Terry Gourvish
Research interests: Business history of UK; US and Europe; especially in public sector; including privatisation; railways; infrastructure projects [Channel Tunnel]; brewing
Email: t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk
Dr Niccolò Valmori
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests: financial history; history of financial crises; history of financial elites; banking history.
Email: n.valmori@lse.ac.uk
Oli Harrison
MSc Programmes Officer
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: o.harrison1@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (020) 7955 7046
Areas of responsibility include: Managing Economic History master's programmes, including MSc in Financial History and Erasmus Mundus MA Global Studies; student engagement.
Kamilah Hassan
Operations Assistant
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: k.hassan4@lse.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility include: providing administrative support to the department; social media
Helena Ivins
Departmental Tutor and Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Room: SAR 3.05
Email: h.ivins@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7110
Areas of responsibility include: Departmental Tutor and EH undergraduate programmes manager; website management; moodle management; managing editor for LSE Economic History blog.
Tracy Keefe
PhD Programme Manager; Research Projects Manager, Deputy Department Manager
Room: SAR 3.06
Email: t.j.keefe@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7860
Areas of responsibility include: PhD Programme Manager (all aspects of administration); Management of research projects within the Department; Academic Visitor programme.
Darren Townsend
Assessment and Regulations Officer
Room: SAR 3.04
Email: d.a.townsend@lse.ac.uk
Areas of responsibility include: Manages assessment and assessment regulations for Economic History students. Point of contact for authorising extension and deferral requests.
Joshua Banerjee
Research interests: British economic history; macroeconomic history; time series econometrics; history of economic and econometric though.
Email: j.banerjee@lse.ac.uk
Eoin Dignam
Research interests: Climate history and climate change adaptation, French economic history, environmental economics.
Email: E.A.Dignam@lse.ac.uk
Junqi (Debbie) Fan
Research interests: East Asian modern economic history, gender and labour market, feminist economics, feminist history.
Email: j.fan11@lse.ac.uk
Nick Fitzhenry
Research interests: Economic history of developing regions; comparative historical development; political economy; regional inequality; economic geography; economic history of Africa.
Email: n.a.fitzhenry@lse.ac.uk
Zane Jennings
Research Interests: Political economy of corporate finance, financial development, strategic relationships between corporations and states, and English history
Email: z.jennings@lse.ac.uk
Jennifer Kohler
Sadly, Jennifer passed away late in 2022. The Department offers its condolences to her family and friends.
Research interests: African economic history; colonial history; social capital and the economic history of women’s empowerment.
Email: j.kohler@lse.ac.uk
Yangyang Liu
Research interests: Chinese Economic History ; Monetary and Banking History; ESG and Sustainable Finance.
Email: y.liu131@lse.ac.uk
Xizi Luo
Research interests: Chinese economic History; social mobility in China, quantitative economic history; women in Imperial China.
Email: x.luo10@lse.ac.uk
Viren Mahurkar
Research interests: US financial and macroeconomic cycles; history of modern biology and the US biotech industry; innovation and technological progress in the US economy; comparative evolution of US, European and Asian biotech industries.
Email: v.mahurkar@lse.ac.uk
Nick Peyton
Research Interests: early modern England, the economics of religion and religious networks, expropriation, and popular rebellion.
Email: n.peyton@lse.ac.uk
Matthew Purcell
Research Interests: Social and economic determinants of health, social mobility, health and mortality, 19th and 20th Century US
Email: m.purcell@lse.ac.uk
Yitong (Nora) Qiu
Research interests: Long-run economic growth, consumption pattern, material culture, wealth accumulation, institution and law, global trade.
Email: y.qiu14@lse.ac.uk
Noah Sutter
Research interests: Social mobility in the 19th century, 19th century continental European elites, early industrial capitalists, wealth inequality, history of empirical inequality studies, German Historical School of Economics
Email: n.w.sutter@lse.ac.uk