Dr Elizabeth  Ingleson

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson

Assistant Professor

Department of International History

Room No
SAR.2.06
Office Hours
Tuesday, 11.10am - 11.50am; and Tuesday, 4.10pm - 5.30pm
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Languages
English, Mandarin
Key Expertise
U.S. in the World 

About me

Elizabeth Ingleson specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labor. She is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade (Harvard University Press). Ingleson has published several articles and chapters on US-China relations and US capitalism and is currently writing a book under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, China and the United States since 1949: An International History.  

Ingleson serves on the editorial board of the Cold War History journal and the Conference Committee of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). She is co-organiser of two seminars: the North American History Seminar run by the Institute of Historical Research and the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History. Ingleson is Academic Director of the LSE-NUS double degree MA in Asian and International History and a Centre Affiliate at the Phelan US Centre. 

Prior to her appointment, Ingleson held fellowships at Yale University, Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History, and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She earnt her PhD in history from the University of Sydney. 

Expertise Details

United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy;  Multinational Corporations

News and Media

2025

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson interviewed on Bloomberg UK

Dr Ingleson was interviewed about the recent changes in tariffs between the USA and China, speaking specifically about US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva.

Watch the interview HERE

2021

New specialist on US History

The Department is delighted to announce that from September 2021 its new specialist on US history will be Dr Elizabeth Ingleson.  Dr Ingleson, who joins us from Yale where she has been a Henry Chauncey Jr ’57 Postdoctoral Associate, is a specialist on US-China relations. We’re greatly looking forward to all that she will bring to the department.

Teaching and supervision

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson teaches the following courses in the Department:

At undergraduate level:

HY245: The United States and the World since 1776

At postgraduate level:

HY4B9: China and the United States since 1949

HY510: Cold War History Research Seminar

Publications