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Replica of The Susan Constant, one of the first three ships to bring English Settlers to Jamestown in 1607

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Dr Sunil Amrith, Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London, will be visiting the Center until mid-May 2010. Dr Amrith, the author of Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 (Palgrave, 2006), works on the history of the Bay of Bengal region since the late eighteenth century, and is currently focusing on the history of migration and cultural circulation between south India and Southeast Asia. He is writing a general history of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia for Cambridge University Press. Dr Amrith can be reached at the Center office or on amrith@fas.harvard.edu.

The joint Center for History and Economics was established at Harvard University and King's College, Cambridge 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 King's College, 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.

Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises 1830s-1930s, a new Exhibit at the Historical Collections of the Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Website »

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