Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert, Professor of American History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (Cambridge University Press, 2001), an economic, social and political history of New York's economic elite and numerous articles on various themes in nineteenth-century history. His research and teaching focuses on the nineteenth-century United States, with particular emphasis on social and economic history. He teaches and writes on the history of capitalism, both in the United States and elsewhere, on the history of American business, on the history of labor in the United States, and on the Gilded Age. He is in particular interested in transnational perspectives on United States history and currently at work on a global history of cotton, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Contact information: Sven Beckert, History Department