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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; craft and skill; labour markets; guilds; urban history; 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
Pamfili Antipa
LSE Fellow
Research interests: Monetary and financial history, central banking, history of public finances, political economy of asset holdings
Email: p.antipa@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
Professor Kent Deng (on leave 2024-25)
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
Dr Youssef Ghallada
Visiting Fellow
Research interests: Monetary regimes, international trade, financial intermediation, trade finance, ICT development, 19th century monetary and financial history
Email: youssef.ghallada@uclouvain.be
Professor Sara Horrell (on leave 2024/25)
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
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
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
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 2024-25)
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 (on leave 2024-25)
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: Modern European Economic History; Historical Economic Geography: housing, regional inequality, structural change, and regional policies; long-run Economic Growth: innovation, productivity, and human capital; Economic and social history of pandemics.
Email: j.r.roses@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 (on leave 2024-25)
Associate Professor, Economic History
2024-25 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow
Research interests: Historical political economy, economic history of identity, Middle East and North Africa
Email: m.saleh@lse.ac.uk
Professor Max Schulze (on leave 2024-25)
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
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; craft and skill; labour markets; guilds; urban history; health and medicine.
Other titles: Head of Department
Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk
Dr Julian Wells
Guest teacher (EC311)
Dr Melanie Meng Xue
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests: political economy; gender; culture and narrative; early modern and modern China.
Email: m.m.xue@lse.ac.uk
Sara Bagagli
Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance
Department of Geography and Environment
Research interests: drivers of thhe (unequal) distribution of people and economic activity across space, with a focus on the role of transportation infrastructure and urban forms.
Email: s.bagagli@lse.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Benson
Sudans Research Director, Conflict and Civicness Research Group
LSE IDEAS
Research interests: intersection of social and economic history and political economy with a focus on how marginalised communities might be able to disrupt historic patterns of state predation.
Email: m.s.benson@lse.ac.uk
Jean-Paul Faguet
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Department of International Development
Research interests: Historical institutions; Inequality; State capacity; Identity; Political cleavage; Choice; Revolution and development; Decentralisation; Federalism; Latin America
Email: j.p.faguet@lse.ac.uk
Dr Nadia Matringe
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Department of Accounting
Research interests: Accounting history; financial history; history and sociology of organizations; history of risk management; diffusion of accounting and financial techniques in the early modern period
Email: n.matringe@lse.ac.uk
Zoey (Ziyue) Shen - EH207
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
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 Karolina Hutkova
Visiting Academic
Research Interests: global economic relations, trade and industry in early modern period and 19th century; role of institutions, organisation and political economy for creating conditions for entrepreneurship and business activity.
Email: k.hutkova@lse.ac.uk
Paul V. Kelly
Visiting Academic
Research interests: Pre-modern rates of return on investment. Ancient Roman financial markets. The economy of eighteenth-century Ireland.
Email: p.v.kelly@lse.ac.uk
Dr Deepanshu Mohan
Visiting Fellow
Research Interests: Informality, Welfare, Contemporary Economic History of Postcolonial Nation States, Feminist Ethnographies, Urban Spatial Development focusing on South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Email: dmohan@jgu.edu.in
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 (on leave)
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 undergraduate 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; Manager of faculty research projects; Manager of Academic Visitor programme; Manager of department/alumni relations; REF2028 Co-ordinator.
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 requests.
Ruoran Cheng
Email: r.cheng4@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Economic History, Economic Geography, Digital Humanity, Historical GIS, The Origin and Evolution of Civilization
Marco Cokic
Research interests: International Trade, Political Economy, Modern Economic History of Central and Eastern Europe.
Email: m.cokic@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
Florentine Friedrich
Research Interests: gender and labour; French economic history; economic growth; religion and cultural economics.
Email: f.j.friedrich@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
Dwi Anggi Novianti
Research interests: 1918–1919 Influenza pandemic; economic history of Indonesia and Southeast Asia; health; colonial economic history.
Email: d.novianti@lse.ac.uk
Johann Ohler
Research interests: Economic history; population economics, and political economy
CV: Johann Ohler CV
Email: j.p.ohler@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
Greg Salter
Research interests: Economic history of the medieval period, in particular, looking at methods of risk management using the evidence from land transactions
Email: g.d.salter@lse.ac.uk
Ziyue 'Zoey' Shen
Research interests: Chinese Economic History; Monetary and Financial History; East Asian Development; Long-term growth and financial inclusion; Institutional Analysis.
Email: z.shen19@lse.ac.uk
Jingwen Shi
Research interests: poor laws; public economics; altruism and charitable giving; cultural evolution; early modern England.
Email: j.shi42@lse.ac.uk
Mek Ajay Sribhibhadh
Research interests: comparative economic development of Southeast Asia; terms of trade; colonialism; neo-institutionalism.
Email: m.a.sribhibhadh@lse.ac.uk
Noah Sutter
Research interests: Social Mobility in the 19th century, Persistence of Old Regime Elites, Early Industrial Capitalists, Wealth Inequality, French Economic History
Email: n.w.sutter@lse.ac.uk
David Teeters
Research interests: Financial market history of bond markets and household sector balance sheets: the role of government debt as safe asset collateral in credit intermediation and the financialisation of the British economy from the 17th to the 20th century.
Email: d.j.teeters@lse.ac.uk
John W. Z. Zhang
Research interests: Basic Income Programs in Regency England; Welfare Impact of Technological Change; Applied Microeconometrics; Quantitative Social History; Historical Political Economy
Email: w.zhang59@lse.ac.uk