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.

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson teaches the following courses in the Department:

At undergraduate level:

At postgraduate level:

HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949

HY458 LSE-Columbia University Double Degree Dissertation

• "Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade", Harvard University Press, 2024
• “U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras,” Tyson Reeder (ed.), Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations, (Routledge: 2021): 341-356.
• “The Invisible Hand of Diplomacy: Chinese Textiles and American Manufacturing in the 1970s,” Pacific Historical Review 90, no. 3, (Summer 2021): 345–376.
• “‘Four Hundred Million Customers:’ Carl Crow and the Legacy of 1930s Sino-American Trade,” Australasian Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (July 2016): 103-124.