
About
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 is the co-organiser of the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History. She serves on the Management Committee of the LSE’s Phelan US Centre, the Conference Committee of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and as Membership Secretary for Historians of Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS).
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.
Other titles: MA in Modern History Programme Director
Expertise
United States History, Chinese History, Trade, Labour, Diplomacy, Multinational Corporations
Teaching
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
Engagement and impact
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.