The full line up for the 2025–2026 academic year can be found on our website: historicalpe.org/schedule-pas... If you'd like to get regular invitations to our events, please register for our mailing list via the following Google form: forms.gle/uXcMzct5P35P... I look forward to seeing you there! 😊

🚨 The Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy is back! 🚨 For the new academic year, we have an amazing line up of papers for you! In our inaugural session 2 HPE superstars will join us: @annagbusse.bsky.social (Stanford) will present & @jvoth.bsky.social (Zurich) discuss! I can't wait. 😀

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Link & info in post #2.

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊 I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.

Presentations by @kimberlyrenk.bsky.social, @joungyeobha.bsky.social, @adibmk.bsky.social, @adeeweller.bsky.social, @jnchapman-econ.bsky.social, @janvogler.bsky.social, @nikhaenze.bsky.social, and many many (blue sky-less) others!

We’re pleased to release the schedule for this year’s virtual conference in Historical Political Economy 🎉 historicalpe.org/annual-virtu... Send me a message if you’re not yet on our email list and would like to be!

This week, we have a rare Wednesday session in the virtual workshop in HPE! @pauvallprat.bsky.social is presenting work w. @albahuidobro.bsky.social on the long-term effects of women’s representation under autocracy. Ana Tur-Prats (UC Merced) is discussing, so we’re bound to learn a ton

Polisky Dictatorsky Join us next Tuesday! @dkofanov.bsky.social (Pittsburgh) will present "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) will discuss

Broadstreet, the blog for historical political economy, is now on Substack. Please subscribe at the link!

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

Please join a new session of Virtual HPE Workshop this Thursday at 12:30 EST! Federica Carugati is presenting her paper "Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia" (with @giacomobenati.bsky.social and @gabrielleon.bsky.social), discussed by @stasavage.bsky.social.

Absolute 🔥 start to this year's virtual HPE workshop! @jannetukiainen.bsky.social is presenting a paper titled "Candidate Exit and Voter Loyalty During Early Democratization" on Thursday. Toke Aidt (Cambridge) will discuss. Send me a message if you're not on our list but would like to be!

On March 11, we have @dkofanov.bsky.social (University of Pittsburgh) presenting "Local Democratization and Public Finance: Lessons from the 1870 Municipal Reform in Cities of the Russian Empire" and @stasavage.bsky.social (NYU) and Maria Carreri (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) discussing.

Finally!!! RAISED TO OBEY launches today 🎉🎉🎉 I learned a great deal researching this book It transformed my views on education, politics, and economic development I hope others will learn from it, too! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social #RaisedToObey #Education

Historical Political Economy has new home @ Harvard's Center for European Studies! A new seminar series co-chaired by leaders in the field @vcharnysh @YuhuaWang5 @CChiopris & grad students Daniel Lowery, @JhengShao, M. Weigand). Great line-up this year. See: ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups...

🚨 Virtual Conference in Historical Political Economy 🚨 The VWHPE co-convenors (@tinepaulsen.bsky.social, @dkofanov.bsky.social, & I) are excited to announce the first annual virtual conference in HPE. It will take place on May 9, starting at 10.45 AM ET.   Program: historicalpe.org/annual-virtu...

Reminder of the Mar 1 deadline for the APSA David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award in Politics and History! Paul Herron and I are on the awards committee: apsanet.org/section24

Please join us this Thursday, Feb 22, at 12:30 (EST) as @aspaglayan.bsky.social presents her book "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" in the Virtual Workshop in HPE! Discussion comments will be provided by Jane Gingrich. Email to [email protected] if you need a zoom link.

Please join us this Thursday, Feb 15, at 12:30 (EST) as Khasan Redjaboev presents a paper "Communist Colonialism and Development: Forced Labor and the Making of Progressive Public Goods in Eurasia" in the Virtual Workshop in HPE! Discussion comments will be provided by @ashartnett.bsky.social.

Workshop Call 📢📢 Second edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop. The organizers are @didacqueralt.bsky.social and me and we'll have Ken Scheve (Yale) as keynote speaker. In Barcelona on July 8 and 9, 2024. Send us your papers by March 7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Jan 31 is the submission deadline for SIOE 2024 in Chicago. Grad students will receive a 50% discount on registration fees; low-cost housing is also available. Please apply!

Join us this Thursday at 12:30 (EST) as @ashartnett.bsky.social presents a paper "After the Commons: Economic Opportunity and Colonial Legacies of Land Privatization" in the Virtual Workshop in HPE historicalpe.org! Discussion comments by @sgehlbach.bsky.social.

Hi all - Here is the call for papers for SIOE 2024, which I am organizing @UChicago next summer, June 27–29. All sessions will be at the beautiful Keller Center @HarrisPolicy, with a gala cruise on Lake Michigan + blues band the last night. Please apply! www.sioe.org/conference/2...