People
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Senior Management Team
Professor Sara Horrell - Head of Department
Professor in Economic History
Research interests: Gender, labour, living standards, modern British and European economic history.
Email: s.h.horrell@lse.ac.uk
Professor Neil Cummins - Deputy Head for Teaching
Research interests: The origin of modern economic and demographic behaviour, fertility decline, social mobility.
Co-director of Historical Economic Demographygroup.
Email: n.j.cummins@lse.ac.uk
Professor Eric Schneider- Deputy Head for Research
Research interests: Health, historical demography, living standards, long-run economic growth
Co-director of Historical Economic Demography group.
Email: e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk
Jennie Stayner - Department Manager
Email:j.c.stayner@lse.ac.uk
Faculty and Fellows
Professor Olivier Accominotti (On leave 2025-26)
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
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
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
Assistant Professor, History of Economics
Research interests: history of economics; inequality; gender discrimination; racial discrimination; equal pay; history of labour economics.
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests:medieval economic history; agriculture; labour and consumers; markets and industries
Email: j.claridge@lse.ac.uk
Professor of Economic History
Deputy Head for Teaching 2024-2026
Research interests:the origin of modern economic and demographic behaviour; fertility decline; social mobility.
Co-director of Historical Economic Demography group.
Email: n.j.cummins@lse.ac.uk
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 Leigh Gardner (On leave 2025-26)
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: Africa; economic development; institutions; local government; monetary policy; public finance.
Email: l.a.gardner@lse.ac.uk
Dr Youssef Ghallada
LSE Fellow
Research interests: Monetary regimes, international trade, financial intermediation, trade finance, ICT development, 19th century monetary and financial history
Email: y.ghallada@lse.ac.uk
Head of Department
Professor in Economic History
Head of Department 2025-2027
Research interests:Gender, Labour, Living standards. Modern British and European economic history.
Email: s.h.horrell@lse.ac.uk
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 of Economic History
Undergraduate Programme Director 2025-2027
Research interests:North American economic history; labour market history, particularly migration and education; price history.
Email:c.minns@lse.ac.uk
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
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Economic History, Economic Geography, Trade, Labour Economics
Email: t.raster@lse.ac.uk
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 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
Professor of Economic History
Research Interests: History and development of South Asia, global history, empires, environmental history.
Email: t.roy@lse.ac.uk
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
Professor in Economic History
Research interests: Historical political economy, economic history of identity, Middle East and North Africa
Email: m.saleh@lse.ac.uk
Professor of Economic History
Deputy Head for Research
Research interests: Health, historical demography, living standards, long-run economic growth
Co-director of Historical Economic Demography group.
Email: e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk
Professor Oliver Volckart (On leave 2025-26)
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: Economic History; New Institutional Economics; late medieval and early modern Continental European History, especially constitutional history.
Email: o.j.volckart@lse.ac.uk
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.
Email: p.h.wallis@lse.ac.uk
Dr Melanie Meng Xue (On leave 2025-26)
Assistant Professor, Economic History
Research interests: political economy; gender; culture and narrative; early modern and modern China.
Email:m.m.xue@lse.ac.uk
Teaching Fellow
Research interests: Economic History, Social Mobility, Labour Economics, UK
Email: z.zhu11@lse.ac.uk
Emeritus
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
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
Email: m.a.irigoin@lse.ac.uk
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
Graduate Teaching Assistants and Guest Teachers
EH209
Email:w.zhang59@lse.ac.uk
EH307
Shankar Nair
Sudans Research Director, Conflict and Civicness Research Group
LSE IDEASResearch Interests: financial history of war and peace; predatory peace; war and peace finance; civic fiscal resistance; fiscal fragmentation; global political economy; African economic history; fiscal governance and justice.
Email: m.s.benson@lse.ac.uk
EH449
David Chambers
Visiting Professor, Department of Economic History / Invesco Professor of Financial History, Cambridge
Email: adc53@cam.ac.uk
Public Engagement and Impact
Engagement and Impact Lead
Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance
Department of Geography and EnvironmentResearch interests: Drivers of the (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
Sudans Research Director, Conflict and Civicness Research Group
LSE IDEASResearch interests: Financial history of war and peace; predatory peace; war and peace finance; civic fiscal resistance; fiscal fragmentation; global political economy; African economic history; fiscal governance and justice.
Email: m.s.benson@lse.ac.uk
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of EconomicsResearch Interests: economic Growth; economic History; macroeconomics; applied econometrics
Email: j.e.dittmar@lse.ac.uk
Professor of Economics
Department of EconomicsResearch Interests: macroeconomics; family economics; economic development
Email: m.doepke@lse.ac.uk
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Department of International DevelopmentResearch interests: Historical institutions; Inequality; State capacity; Identity; Political cleavage; Choice; Revolution and development; Decentralisation; Federalism; Latin America
Email: j.p.faguet@lse.ac.uk
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Department of AccountingResearch 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
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of EconomicsResearch interests: firm dynamics, innovation, labor markets, and growth.
Email: J.Olmstead-Rumsey@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Academics
Research Interests: economics of environmental policy, especially land use; interaction among local environmental quality, local real estate markets;demographic composition of cities.
Email: hsbanzh2@ncsu.edu
Visiting Professor
Research interests: banking and financial history, business history.
Email: y.cassis@lse.ac.uk
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 John Howells
Senior Visiting Fellow
Research interests: Patents and economic development
Email: j.howells@lse.ac.uk
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
Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow
Research interests:economic history, political economy, and development economics.
Email: lmontenegro@uchicago.edu
Research interests: financial stability and regulation, banking, corporate governance, public finance
Email: n.m.postel-vinay@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Professor
Research interests: 19th and 20th century labour markets, impact of public policy.
Email: a.seltzer@lse.ac.uk
PhDs
Research interests: Financial History, art Market, Asset Pricing, Market Inefficiencies
Research interests: Economic History, Economic Geography, Digital Humanity, Historical GIS, The Origin and Evolution of Civilization
Email: r.cheng4@lse.ac.uk
Marco Cokic
Research interests: International Trade, Political Economy, Modern Economic History of Central and Eastern Europe.
Email: m.cokic@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Economics of climate change, development economics, demographic economics, French and Spanish economic history
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
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
Research interests: Historical mortality; the 1918 influenza epidemic; the demographic impacts of crises
Email: h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk
Aris Grivokostopoulous
Research interests: Monetary policy, sovereign debt, Greece.
Gillian Hollebone
Email: g.hollebone@lse.ac.uk
Bruce Jeffery
Email: b.a.jeffery@lse.ac.uk
Research Interests: Political economy of corporate finance, financial development, strategic relationships between corporations and states, and English history
Email: z.jennings@lse.ac.uk
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.
Mikhail Kolosov
Email: m.kolosov@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Japanese economic history, industry history, comparative economic history, East Asian industrialisation
Email: t.learmouth@lse.ac.uk
Yangyang Liu
Research interests: Chinese Economic History ; Monetary and Banking History; ESG and Sustainable Finance.
Email: y.liu131@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
Anna Melnikova
Email: a.melnikova@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
Research interests: Economic history; population economics, and political economy
Email: j.p.ohler@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: Economic growth, regional inequality, historical economic geography, industrial location and urban economics
Email: b.park4@lse.ac.uk
Sheila Pugh
Email: s.m.pugh@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
Jingwen Shi
Research interests: poor laws; public economics; altruism and charitable giving; cultural evolution; early modern England.
Email:j.shi42@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: US capital markets during the Great Crash and Great Depression
Email: c.l.smith@lse.ac.uk
Mek Ajay Sribhibhadh
Research interests: comparative economic development of Southeast Asia; terms of trade; colonialism; neo-institutionalism.
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
Yuankai Jin
Email: y.jin51@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
David Vieira Marques Da Costa
Ningzhu Wu
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
Tianning Zhu
Email: t.zhu8@lse.ac.uk
Research interests: occupational mobility in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Email: z.zhu11@lse.ac.uk
Professional Support Staff
Oli Harrison
MSc Programmes Officer
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: o.harrison1@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (020) 7955 7046Areas 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 Maternity Leave 2026)
Operations Assistant
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: k.hassan4@lse.ac.ukAreas 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 7110Areas 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 7860Areas of responsibility include: PhD Programme Manager; Manager of faculty research projects; Manager of department events; Manager of Academic Visitor programme; Manager of department/alumni relations; REF2028 Co-ordinator.
Jennie Stayner
Department Manager
Room: SAR 3.07
email: j.c.stayner@lse.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7857
Undergraduate Support Team
Dr Alex Green
Academic Mentor Years 1 and 2
Academic, career and wellbeing support for first and second year students. Appointments via Student Hub.
Email: a.j.green@lse.ac.uk
Helena Ivins
Departmental Tutor and Undergraduate Programmes Manager
SAR 3.05
Advises students on School procedures and processes., for example, transferring programmes, interruptions, and repeat teaching, and supports student wellbeing.
Available via email and to meet in person 10am-5pm.
Email: h.ivins@lse.ac.uk
Master's Programmes Support Team
Oli Harrison
Master's Programmes Manager
Oli manages all Economic History master's programmes, and can advise students on academic and wellbeing issues.
Email: o.harrison1@lse.ac.uk
Professor Albrecht Ritschl
Director of Master's Programmes, Department of Economic History
Email: a.o.ritschl@lse.ac.uk
PhD Support Team
Professor Tirthankar Roy
Email: t.roy@lse.ac.uk
Tracy Keefe
PhD Programme Manager / Academic Research Manager
Tracy manages both the MPhil/PhD programme and the VRS scheme. She can advise on all logistical aspects of the programme from application through to viva. She operates an open door policy and is always happy to chat.
Email: t.j.keefe@lse.ac.uk