Economics | Washington Area Economic History Seminar

A Brief History

Founded in the mid-1970s by Cynthia Taft Morris, the Washington Area Economic History Seminar (WAEHS) holds monthly meetings throughout the academic year. The seminar traditionally meets on the first Friday of the month and invites prominent economic historians to present their current work. Past speakers include Nobel laureates Douglass North and Robert Fogel.

Cynthia Taft Morris, a retired Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University and a past president of the Economic History Association, hosted the seminars at AU for many years before it expanded to include other sites such as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Johns Hopkins University, and George Mason University.

The current organizers of the WAEHS are John Wallis, University of Maryland, College Park, and David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

 

Spring 2013 Speakers

February 1, 2013: Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University)
Location: University of Maryland College Park

March 8, 2013: Martha Olney & Aaron Pacitti
(University of California, Berkeley & Siena College)
Location: American University

April 5, 2013: Oded Galor (Brown University)
Location: Mercatus Center, George Mason University

April 26, 2013: Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)
Location: University of Maryland College Park


 

Fall 2012 Speakers

October 5, 2012: Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
Location: George Mason University

November 9, 2012: Noam Yuchtman (University of California Berkeley)
Location: American University

December 7, 2012: Katharine Shester (Washington and Lee University)
Location: American University


Spring 2012 Speakers

February 10, 2012: Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Location: George Mason University

March 2, 2012: John Parman (College of William and Mary)
Location: American University

April 6, 2012: James Bessen (Boston University School of Law)
Location: University of Maryland Baltimore County

May 4, 2012: Dan Fetter (Wellesley College)
Location: University of Maryland College Park

 

Fall 2011 Speakers

October 14, 2011: Nicola Tynan (Dickinson College)
Location: University of Maryland Baltimore County

November 4, 2011: Gavin Wright (Stanford)
Location: University of Maryland College Park

December 2, 2011: Philip Hoffman (Cal Tech)
Location: Mercatus Center, George Mason University

 

Spring 2011 Speakers

Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee

Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University

Joyce Burnette, Wabash College

Fall 2010 Speakers

Steven Nafziger, Williams College

Carola Frydman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sam Allen, Virginia Military Institute

 

Spring 2010 Speakers

John Wallis, University of Maryland College Park

Charles Calomiris, Columbia University 

Robert Margo, Boston University

 

Fall 2009 Speakers

Martha Bailey, University of Michigan

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology

Alexander Engel, University of Gottingen, Germany

 

Visit the archive to view past speakers and presentation topics.

UPCOMING SEMINARS

"The Politics of Development in the Aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution"

Dan Bogart
University of California, Irvine

April 26 at 8 p.m.
University of Maryland College Park
Tydings Hall

Download announcement here

View paper here