AWARDS AT THE 2016 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The Economic History Association announced the 2017 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held recently in Boulder, Colorado.

Brian Beach, College of William and Mary, Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University, Martin Saavedra, Oberlin College, and Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh, were awarded the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article published in this JOURNAL in the September 2015 to June 2016 issues, for “Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation,” published in the March 2016 issue of The Journal of Economic History. The winner was selected by the editorial board.

James Feigenbaum received the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History, for his dissertation “Essays on Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality in Economic History,” completed at Harvard University. Advisor: Claudia Goldin and Richard Hornbeck. (This prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press.)

Réka Juház received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-U.S. or Canadian economic history, for her dissertation “Temporary Protection, Technology Adoption and Economic Development,” completed at the London School of Economics. Advisor: Silvana Tenreyro; Examiners: Thierry Mayer and John van Reenen.

Barry Eichengreen, University of California, was awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for the outstanding book, Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Frank D. Lewis, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, was awarded the annual Jonathan Hughes Prize honoring excellence in teaching economic history.

Also announced was the Larry Neal Prize for the best article appearing in Explorations in Economic History awarded to John Parman, College of William and Mary, “Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: Nature Reinforcing Nature during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic,” published in the October 2015 issue.

THE 2017 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGSSan Jose HiltonSan Jose, CaSEPTEMBER 15–17, 2017Michael Bordo, PRESIDENT

The theme for EHA 2017 is “Macroeconomic Regimes and Policies: The Quest for Economic and Financial Stability and Growth.” Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, economic historians began to explore macroeconomic history, creating a vast new realm for research. This year the conference will be devoted to this continuing development inviting institutional, narrative, theoretical, and empirical research in macroeconomic history. Topics of interest are wide ranging including: the history and origins of monetary, fiscal, and financial institutions and markets; monetary and exchange rate regimes (specie, fiat); fiscal regimes; the history of central banks and monetary policy; and the relationship between macroeconomic regimes and policy in causing or correcting major economic and financial disturbances (depressions, recessions, inflations, deflations, and financial crises) as well as influencing economic growth. The studies could be comparative, country specific, or global.

The Program Committee (Christopher M. Meissner, UC Davis (chair), together with Carola Frydman (Northwestern University), Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College), and Dave Donaldson (Stanford University)) welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that fit the theme of the conference. Papers should be submitted individually, but authors may suggest to the Committee that three particular papers fit well together in a panel. Papers should in all cases be works in progress rather than accepted or published work. Submitters should let the program committee know at the time of application if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper given at the 2016 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2017 program.

Papers and session proposals should be submitted online, with details to follow on the meetings website: http://eh.net/eha/category/meetings/2017-meeting/. The submission system will be available from 1 November 2016 onward. Paper proposals should include a 3–5 page proposal and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in The Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by 31 January 2017 to ensure consideration. Please note that at least one of the authors needs to be a member of EHA.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session are due no later than 21 May 2017 online on the meeting's website. The poster submission system will open on 1 March 2017. The dissertation session, convened by Lisa Cook (Michigan State University) and Claude Diebolt (Strasbourg University) will honor six dissertations completed during the 2016–2017 academic year. The submission deadline is 15 May 2017. The Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on non-North American and North American topics, respectively. Dissertations must be submitted as a single PDF file. Files of less than 5 MB in size may be sent directly to the conveners as an emailattachment.

To submit a file of more than 5 MB, please supply a download link in an email message. Gerschenkron prize submissions should be emailed to [email protected] and the Nevins prize submissions to [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by return email.

EHA GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

The Committee of Research in Economic History (CREH) of the Economic History Association is charged with administrating the Association's project of assisting young scholars as a way of strengthening the discipline of economic history. The CREH made three types of awards for 2016: fellowships to graduate students writing their dissertations; travel/data grants to graduate students in the early stage of research; and Cole Grants to recent Ph.D.s.

Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships

• Gillian Brunet, University of California, Berkeley for “When Does Government Spending Matter? Studies on Fiscal Stimulus.” Advisor: Christina Romer.

• Arianna Ornaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for “Civil Service Reforms: Evidence from U.S. Police Departments.” Advisor: Benjamin Olken.

EHA Dissertation Fellowships

• Edward Fertik of Yale University for “Steel and Sovereignty: Finance, Technology, Nationalism, and the Global Condition in the Interwar Years.” Advisor: Naomi Lamoreaux.

• Santiago Perez of Stanford University for “Essays on Economic and Geographic Mobility in 19^th Century Argentina.” Advisor: Ran Abramitzky.

Cambridge University Press Dissertation AwardFootnote ^⋆

• Eduardo Montero of Harvard University for “Essays on Economic Development and Institutional and Cultural Persistence.” Advisor: Nathan Nunn.

Data Grants – Cambridge University PressFootnote ^⋆

• Erin McGuire of the University of Arizona for “Investigating the Impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps on Health and Human Capital.” Advisor: Price Fishback.

• Cathrin Mohr of the University of Munich for “De Facto and De Jure Power in Prussia.” Advisor: Davide Cantoni.

Data Grants – Economic History Association

• Aviv Derri of New York University for “Non-Muslim Financial Networks in the Ottoman Empire: An Institutional Analysis.” Advisor: Zachary Lockman.

• Victor Gay of the University of Chicago for “Railroads in British India and the Dynamics of Linguistic Heterogeneity.” Advisor: Richard Hornbeck.

• Trevor Jackson of the University of California Berkeley for “An Economic History of Impunity in France and Britain, 1720–1825.” Adviror: Jan de Vries.

• S. Wright Kennedy of Rice University for “Disease and Economics in New Orleans, 1877–1910: The Effects of Mortality Terrains on Socioeconomic Development.” Advisor: Alida Metcalf.

• Jeremy Land of Georgia State University for “Socioeconomic Implications for the British Occupation of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, 1768–1783: An Atlantic Maritime Economy Perspective.” Advisor: Ghulam Nadri.

• Scott Miller of the University of Virginia for “Merchant's Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760–1807.” Advisor: Mark Thomas.

• Samuel Milner of Yale University for “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Business, Government, and Wage-Price Policy, 1945–1980.” Advisor: Naomi Lamoreaux.

• Maria Montalvo of Rice University for “All Could Be Sold: Making and Selling Enslaved People in the Antebellum South.” Advisor: W. Caleb McDaniel.

• Chenzi Xu of Harvard University for “The Effect of Financial Distress on Trade: Evidence from the British Banking Crises of 1857 and 1866.” Advisor: Kenneth Rogoff.

Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid

• D. Mark Anderson of Montana State University for “Technological Innovation and Health: Evidence from the Refrigeration Revolution.”

• Cihan Artunç of the University of Arizona for “Transplantation of Law and Legal Choice in the Ottoman Empire, 1800–1912.

• Amanda Gregg for Middlebury College for “Investigating Russian Firms' Governance, Finance, and Productive Organization Using New Historical Data.”

• Eoin McLaughlin of the University of St. Andrews for “Cui Bono? The Economic, Political and Social Impact of Land Reform in Ireland.”

The Association is grateful to the members of the CREH for their work in selecting the award winners. Kirsten Wandschneider of Occidental College chaired the committee. She was assisted by Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Angeles; Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College, Steven Nafziger, Williams College; Suresh Naidu, Columbia University; Nick Ziebarth, University of Iowa; Price Fishback, University of Arizona, ex officio.