Presentations

Upcoming Presentations

  • Empty Vessel, Wellesley Authors on Stage, Wellesley, Massachusetts, November 12, 2025.

Past Presentations

  • “One Barge and the Offshore World,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, New York, New York, January 2025.
  • “The Micro and the Global, Offshore,” Capitalism Working Group, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 9, 2024.
  • “n.18: One Footnote and Three Economic Intellectual Biographies,” Workshop on Intellectual Biography, School of History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, December 6, 2024.
  • “Measuring the Cost of Pollution,” Climate, Environment, and Economics, Conference at Harvard University, April 2-3, 2024.
  • “Seeds of Empire,” Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets, Conference at Harvard University, June 2023, June 14-15, 2023.
  • “Our Little Alcatraz: HMP The Weare in Dorset,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, October 22, 2022.
  • “Tariffs and State Capture as Responses to the Great Depression,” New Perspectives on the Great Depression, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9, 2022. 
  • “Imperial Schemes: Empire and the Rise of the British Business-State, 1914-1939,” Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, April 9, 2022.
  • “Industrial Export Assistance and State Growth in Interwar Britain,” Business History Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, April 8, 2022.
  • “‘A British Deutsche Bank’: Imperial Business Competition and the End of Laissez-Faire,” Social Science History Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 11-14, 2021.
  • “Histories of Economic Life and the Environment” Workshop (organizer), Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Virtual Meeting, May 4, 2021.
  • “Inventing the British Egg,” North American Conference on British Studies, Virtual Meeting, November 8, 2020.
  • “The Irish Origins of British Gun Control: Colonial Violence and the Firearms Act of 1920,” part of the panel “Policing Guns and Violence,” (organizer), Northeast Conference on British Studies, Virtual Meeting, October 10, 2020.
  • “Imperial Shelter: Big Business and the End of Free Trade,” History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 13, 2020.
  • “Networks of Corporate Influence on the Interwar British State”, Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 23, 2019.
  • “Imperial Seeds and British Forests,” part of the panel, “Imperial Networks of Scientific Knowledge and the State,” (organizer), North American Conference on British Studies, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 16, 2019.
  • “Selling Empire, Projecting Britain: The Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933,” History of Capitalism Dissertation Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 7, 2019. 
  • “’A few millions were neither here nor there’: Credit, Exports, and an Empire of Commerce,” History of Capitalism Dissertation Workship, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 16, 2019. 
  • “The Imperialism of More-than-Free Trade: Business and State Growth in Interwar Britain,” Center for History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 14, 2019.
  • “The Firearms Act and the Imperial Origins of Modern British Gun Control,” Center for European Studies Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 29, 2018. 
  • “Imperial Seeds and British Forests,” Situating Empire: The Great War and Its Aftermaths Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 15, 2018.
  • “Externalities and A.C. Pigou’s Politics,” History of Economics Society Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 16, 2018.
  • “The First Serious Optimist: A.C. Pigou and the Politics of Welfare Economics,” Core Seminar in Social and Economic History, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, November 9, 2017. 
  • “The Effect of Empire on the British Civil Service, 1912-1925,” Cultures of Imperialism Workshop at the North American Conference for British Studies, Denver, Colorado, November 3, 2017.
  • “Economists and the Management of Red Meat in World War I,” New England Historical Association Annual Conference, Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, April 22, 2017.
  • “Crisis and Management: British Economic Planning of Food in World War I,” Conference entitled “Contexts of Crisis: Danger, Opportunity, and the Unknown,” UCLA, Los Angeles, April 14, 2017.
  • “Refrigeration, Rations, and Red Tape: Meat and Economic Expertise in World War I,” History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, December 1, 2016.
  • “A.C. Pigou, War, and the Concept of Economic Welfare,” History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, November 17, 2015
  • “The First Serious Optimist: A.C. Pigou and the Concept of Welfare,” INET Conference on the History of Economic Thought, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 29, 2014.