{"id":2475,"date":"2024-10-07T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:35:32","slug":"first-annual-historical-political-economy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/2024\/10\/07\/first-annual-historical-political-economy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"First Annual Historical Political Economy Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/10\/1-2-768x432.png\"\n          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id=\"h-october-19\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2024\/10\/First-Annual-Historical-Political-Economy-Conference-Program.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conference Program<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 id=\"h-october-19\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">October 19, 2024<\/h2>\n<p>8:15 am: Opening Comments<\/p>\n<p>8:30 \u2013 10:00 am: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parallel Faculty Panels 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 1a (Room 100):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Iron Fist of Development: Coercive Institutions and Public Services&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aslicansunar.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Asli Cansunar<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(University of Washington)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;After the Commons: Economic Opportunity and Colonial Legacies of Land Privatization&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonhartnett.io\/\">Allison Spencer Hartnett<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(University of Southern California)<br \/>\nDiscussant:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaredcrubin.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Jared Rubin<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Chapman University)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 1b (Room 308):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Race and Representation in Local Legislative Politics: Evidence from the Great Migration&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelpatrickolson.com\/\">Michael Olson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Washington University in St. Louis)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Electrifying Extremism? Rural Electrification and Democratic Backsliding in the Early 20th Century United States&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anastasopoulos.io\/\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">L. Jason Anastasopoulos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #990000;\">\u00a0<\/span>(University of Georgia)<br \/>\nDiscussant:<span style=\"color: #990000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasnapolio.com\/\">Nicholas Napolio<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(UC-Riverside)<\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 10:15: Break<\/p>\n<p>10:15 \u2013 11:45: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parallel Faculty Panels 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 2a (Room 100):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Ideational Diffusion and the Great Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/our-faculty\/steven-pfaff\">Steven Pfaff<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Chapman University)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Bootstrapping Sovereignty: Petitions and Power in Nascent States&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dcarpenter.scholar.harvard.edu\/\">Daniel Carpenter<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Harvard University)<br \/>\nDiscussant:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/jhomola.com\/\">Jonathan Homola<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(UCLA)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 2b (Room 308):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Popular Support for Disenfranchisement during the Backsliding Era in American Politics&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomasrgray.com\/\">Thomas R. Gray<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(University of Texas at Dallas)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gabrieljleon.wordpress.com\/\">Gabriel Leon-Ablan<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(King\u2019s College London)<br \/>\nDiscussant:<span style=\"color: #990000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/franciscogarfias.com\/\">Francisco Garfias<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(UCSD)<\/p>\n<p>11:45 \u2013 1:00: Lunch<\/p>\n<p>1:00 \u2013 2:30: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parallel PhD Student Panels<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel A (Room 100):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;European Settlements and Affirmative Action: The Long-term effects of Whitening Policies in Brazil&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/mateovillamizarchaparro.github.io\/\">Mateo Villamizar Chaparro<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Duke University)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Diversity, Conflict and Agglomeration in African Cities&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/andregra.github.io\/\">Andre Gray<\/a>\u00a0(UCSD)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Securing the Urban Frontier: State Legibility Projects in Post-Conflict Settings&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shenali-pilapitiya-3b4064203\/\">Shenali Pilapitiya<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(USC)<br \/>\nDiscussants:<span style=\"color: #990000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/raulaldazpena\/\">Raul Aldaz Pe\u00f1a<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Universidad San Francisco de Quito),\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henrythomson.com\/\">Henry Thomson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Arizona State University), and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/federica-carugati\">Federica Carugati<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(King\u2019s College London)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel B (Room 308):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Fear the Reaver: Roving Bandits and Urban Destruction in Eurasia, 1-1800 AD&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danssmith.com\/\">Daniel S. Smith<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Ohio State University)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Rulers, Resistance, and Retreat: Flight as a Constraint on Predatory Rule&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjXzbVcWik\">Kimberly Renk<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(UCSD)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women\u2019s Suffrage&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/alicecalder\">Alice Calder<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(University of New South Wales)<br \/>\nDiscussants:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/pure.au.dk\/portal\/en\/persons\/skaaning%40ps.au.dk\">Svend-Erik Skaaning<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Aarhus University),\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/dcarpenter.scholar.harvard.edu\/\">Daniel Carpenter<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Harvard University), and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/miryaholman\">Mirya R. Holman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(University of Houston)<\/p>\n<p>2:30 \u2013 2:45: Break<\/p>\n<p>2:45 \u2013 4:15: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parallel Faculty Panels 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 3a (Room 100):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Getting the Context Right in Quantitative Historical Analysis&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/pure.au.dk\/portal\/en\/persons\/skaaning%40ps.au.dk\">Svend-Erik Skaaning<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Aarhus University)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Spatial Units of Analysis and Causal Inference in HPE&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hillelsoifer.com\/\">Hillel David Soifer<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(University of California, Berkeley)<br \/>\nDiscussant:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nallresearch.com\/\">Clayton Nall<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(UCSB)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 3b (Room 308):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Social Origins of Democracy: Evidence from 17th Century England&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/adasgupta\/\">Aditya Dasupta<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(University of California, Merced)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Parliamentary Representation and Right-Wing Violence: Evidence from Nazi Street Brawls in the Weimar Republic&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henrythomson.com\/\">Henry Thomson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Arizona State University)<br \/>\nDiscussant:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.ucsd.edu\/~ssaiegh\/\"><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Sebastian Saiegh<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(UCSD)<\/p>\n<p>4:15 \u2013 4:30: Break<\/p>\n<p>4:30: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Keynote Presentation (Room 100)<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Building Generalizable Knowledge in HPE&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~gailmard\/\">Sean Gailmard<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(University of California, Berkeley)<\/p>\n<p>6:00: Reception (Moreton Fig)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-october-20\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 20, 2024<\/h2>\n<p>8:15 am: Preliminary Comments<\/p>\n<p>8:30 \u2013 10:00: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Parallel Faculty Panels 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Panel 4a (Room 100):<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/federica-carugati\">Federica Carugati<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(King\u2019s College London)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;State-Building or State-Weakening? 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