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Center for History and Economics
Introduction



The Joint Center for History and Economics is based at Harvard University and at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge. It was established in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, through the history of economic and social thought, through economic history, and through the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Center is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.

In conjunction with its counterpart Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Harvard Center undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the current research project at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Centre for History and Economics, Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas, which is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

The Center for History and Economics is delighted to congratulate Robert Darnton on the award of the National Humanities Medal for 2011.
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/2011_Medalists.html#No3
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/10/monday-president-obama-award-2011-national-medal-arts-and-national-human 

The Joint Center is delighted to congratulate Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center since 2008, on the award of a European Research Council grant for "the very best creative researchers of any nationality and age." His new project, Coastal Frontiers: Water, Power, and the Boundaries of South Asia, will be undertaken from 2012 to 2017.

 

Next Center Seminar:

April 11 2012
Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)
Warfare and welfare: how social pressure and global conflict in World War II changed China

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New Center Publications

The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
by Emma Rothschild

 

Migration and Diaspora in
Modern Asia
by Sunil Amrith

 

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