Sven Beckert Biography

Harvard University's Laird Bell Professor of History is Sven Beckert. Beckert's work focuses on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, particularly its economic, social, political, and international facets, emphasizing the history of capitalism. His writings have mainly dealt with the history of financial elites, labor, democracy, and, more recently, the global history of capitalism. Beckert offers classes on the political economy of contemporary capitalism, labor history, global capitalism, the history of American capitalism, and Gilded Age America. He serves as co-chair of the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History and the Program on the Study of Capitalism, both at Harvard University. In addition to his work at Harvard, he also serves as co-chair of an international study group on world history, co-editor of a collection of books published by Princeton University Press titled "America in the World," and co-organizer of conferences on the development of capitalism. The Newcomen Fellowship at Harvard Business School and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library are just a few of the numerous scholarships and honors he has won. A Guggenheim Fellow, Beckert. In addition, he has given lectures across the world.

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