PhD Job Market 2021-22

Thea Don Siemion

Placement: Lectureship, Caius College, Cambridge

Research Interests: Macroeconomics; financial history; the Great Depression; hyperinflations.

Thesis title: 'Money, Debt and the Balance of Payments in Poland's Great Depression'

CV available here: Thea Don-Siemion [PDF]

Personal website: theadonsiemion.com

Hanzhi Deng

Placement: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political Science, Fudan University, Shanghai

Research Interests: Public finance; state capacity and local governance; institutional transitions and economic development; political economy of modern and contemporary China

Thesis Title: The Making of Regional Fiscal States in China: Striving Paths towards Modernization, 1850s-1930s

Personal website: www.hanzhideng.com

Maanik Nath
Placement: LSE Fellow

Research Interests: Business and economic history, political economy and development studies. 

Thesis title: 'The State and Rural Credit Markets in South India, 1930-1960'.

CV available here: Maanik Nath CV [PDF]

Personal website:
 https://sites.google.com/view/maaniknath

Dr Enrique Jorge Sotelo

Placement: Visiting Professor at the Department of Economic History and Institutions at Universitat de Barcelona (UB Economics)

Research interests:  Monetary and Financial History; Financial Crises; Central Banking; Monetary Policy Implementation; Political Economy of Financial Development and Financial Crises.

Thesis title:  “Escaping” the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises and banking in Spain, 1921-1935 

CV: Available here

Personal website: 
https://sites.google.com/view/ejorgesotelo

Sijie Hu

Placement: Assistant Professor, Renmin University of China

Research interests: Historical and economic demography, Chinese population history, social stratification and social mobility.

Thesis title: 'A New Examination of Chinese Fertility, 1400-1900'

CV available here: Sijie Hu CV [PDF]

Personal website: www.sijiehu.com