Conference Program

October 19, 2024

8:15 am: Opening Comments

8:30 – 10:00 am: Parallel Faculty Panels 1

Panel 1a (Room 100):
“Iron Fist of Development: Coercive Institutions and Public Services”
Asli Cansunar (University of Washington)
“After the Commons: Economic Opportunity and Colonial Legacies of Land Privatization”
Allison Spencer Hartnett (University of Southern California)
Discussant: Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

Panel 1b (Room 308):
“Race and Representation in Local Legislative Politics: Evidence from the Great Migration”
Michael Olson (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Electrifying Extremism? Rural Electrification and Democratic Backsliding in the Early 20th Century United States”
L. Jason Anastasopoulos (University of Georgia)
Discussant: Nicholas Napolio (UC-Riverside)

10:00 – 10:15: Break

10:15 – 11:45: Parallel Faculty Panels 2

Panel 2a (Room 100):
“Ideational Diffusion and the Great Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe”
Steven Pfaff (Chapman University)
“Bootstrapping Sovereignty: Petitions and Power in Nascent States”
Daniel Carpenter (Harvard University)
Discussant: Jonathan Homola (UCLA)

Panel 2b (Room 308):
“Popular Support for Disenfranchisement during the Backsliding Era in American Politics”
Thomas R. Gray (University of Texas at Dallas)
“Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire”
Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King’s College London)
Discussant: Francisco Garfias (UCSD)

11:45 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 2:30: Parallel PhD Student Panels

Panel A (Room 100):
“European Settlements and Affirmative Action: The Long-term effects of Whitening Policies in Brazil”
Mateo Villamizar Chaparro (Duke University)
“Diversity, Conflict and Agglomeration in African Cities”
Andre Gray (UCSD)
“Securing the Urban Frontier: State Legibility Projects in Post-Conflict Settings”
Shenali Pilapitiya (USC)
Discussants: Raul Aldaz Peña (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Henry Thomson (Arizona State University), and Federica Carugati (King’s College London)

Panel B (Room 308):
“Fear the Reaver: Roving Bandits and Urban Destruction in Eurasia, 1-1800 AD”
Daniel S. Smith (Ohio State University)
“Rulers, Resistance, and Retreat: Flight as a Constraint on Predatory Rule”
Kimberly Renk (UCSD)
“One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage”
Alice Calder (University of New South Wales)
Discussants: Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus University), Daniel Carpenter (Harvard University), and Mirya R. Holman (University of Houston)

2:30 – 2:45: Break

2:45 – 4:15: Parallel Faculty Panels 3

Panel 3a (Room 100):
“Getting the Context Right in Quantitative Historical Analysis”
Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus University)
“Spatial Units of Analysis and Causal Inference in HPE”
Hillel David Soifer (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant: Clayton Nall (UCSB)

Panel 3b (Room 308):
“The Social Origins of Democracy: Evidence from 17th Century England”
Aditya Dasupta (University of California, Merced)
“Parliamentary Representation and Right-Wing Violence: Evidence from Nazi Street Brawls in the Weimar Republic”
Henry Thomson (Arizona State University)
Discussant: Sebastian Saiegh (UCSD)

4:15 – 4:30: Break

4:30: Keynote Presentation (Room 100)
“Building Generalizable Knowledge in HPE”
Sean Gailmard (University of California, Berkeley)

6:00: Reception (Moreton Fig)

October 20, 2024

8:15 am: Preliminary Comments

8:30 – 10:00: Parallel Faculty Panels 4

Panel 4a (Room 100):
“Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia”
Federica Carugati (King’s College London)
“State-Building or State-Weakening? The Consequences of Military Control in Medieval China”
Erik H. Wang (New York University)
Discussant: Thomas R. Gray (University of Texas at Dallas)

Panel 4b (Room 308):
“Governing the Gilded Age City: A New Dataset on Local Institution Building During the Machine and Progressive Eras”
Christina Wolbrecht (University of Notre Dame)
“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists: How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking”
Benjamin Schneer (Harvard University)
Discussant: Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine)

10:00 – 10:15: Break

10:15 – 11:45: Parallel Faculty Panels 5

Panel 5a (Room 100):
“Unequal Burden: Colonial Taxation and Living Standard Disparities Within Minorities”
Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University)
“The Politics of Obsolescence: Deindustrialization and Economic Nationalism in Colonial South Asia”
Zuhad Hai (New York University)
Discussant: Tanu Kumar (Claremont Graduate University)

Panel 5b (Room 308):
“Kingdoms of Their Own: County Creation and Black Political Power During Reconstruction”
Michael Greenberger (University of Denver)
“Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau”
Kareem Haggag (UCLA Anderson)
Discussant: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)

11:45 – 1:00: Lunch and Business Meeting

1:00: Book Manuscript Review (Room 100)
“Why the Rush? An Institutional Economic Analysis of Homesteading and the Settlement of the West”
Bryan Leonard (University of Wyoming)