Federico Tadei is Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic History at the University of Barcelona. His research interests focus on the history of long-run economic development of Africa, with a particular emphasis...
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Marlous van Waijenburg is Assistant Professor of Economics and Postdoctoral Scholar in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on comparative and long-term analyses of African economic...
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Klas Rönnbäck is Associate Professor in Economic History at the Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg. He has published research on African and Atlantic economic history in many different journals....
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Ewout Frankema is Professor and Chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University and elected member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research...
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Sven Van Melkebeke is affiliated to the Department of History at Ghent University (Belgium) where he recently completed his PhD thesis. His main interests are the development of commodity frontiers, labor, rural and environmental...
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Kazuo Kobayashi is a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo. He is now finalising his monograph on West African consumer demand for Indian textiles that shaped the pattern of globalisation...
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Felix Meier zu Selhausen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Sussex. His research project "Conversion out of Poverty?" explores the origins and long-term consequences of historical Christian missionary activities...
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Leigh Gardner is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Research Associate at Stellenbosch University. Her research focuses on the history of public finance and monetary policy...
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Kleoniki Alexopoulou is a PhD Researcher within the VIDI-Project ‘Is Poverty Destiny? Exploring Long Term Changes in African Living Standards in Global Perspective’ at the Rural and Environmental History Group at Wageningen...
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Gabriele Cappelli focuses on research concerning the long-term evolution of education and human capital, as well as their socio-economic and institutional determinants, across European and African regions. He is interested in the...
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Angus Dalrymple-Smith is a PhD Candidate (2013-present) at the Rural and Environmental History Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on the causes and impact of the nineteenth century commercial transition...
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Jutta Bolt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on understanding long-term comparative economic development patterns, with a special focus on Africa. Current research projects include understanding...
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Kostadis J. Papaioannou is currently working as a Postdoc on the research project “Spatial Inequalities in African Political Economy” at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE). He obtained his...
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Dácil Juif is a junior assistant professor at Carlos III University of Madrid. Her current research focuses on the economic history of central and southern Africa, especially on the well-being of mining workers,...
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Michiel de Haas is a PhD Candidate (2013-present) at the Rural and Environmental History Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on welfare development, agricultural commercialization and agrarian change in Central and...
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Johan Fourie is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University and coordinator of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP). His research focuses on the evolution of...
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Jutta Bolt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on understanding long-term comparative economic development patterns, with a special focus on Africa. Erik Green is an Associate...
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Vellore Arthi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Essex, and recently completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on household labor, early-life health, and human...
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Nonso Obikili is Director of the Applied Economics program at the African Heritage Institution. His research primary focuses on African economic history and political economy. He earned his PhD in economics from...
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Karin Pallaver is Associate Professor of African History at the University of Bologna, where she teaches Modern African History, Africa and the World, and Indian Ocean History. She previously worked as a...
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Rémi Jedwab is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School and the Department of Economics of George Washington University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the...
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Boris Gershman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2012 and held a visiting scholar appointment at the...
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