Poster Session (Sponsored by Brill)

Location: Regency Foyer

Times: Friday 12:45-5:00pm; Saturday 8:30am-5:15pm

Note: Graduate student posters will be available in the Regency Foyer most of the day Friday and all-day Saturday. Please visit and discuss these posters with the students. Students will be present for discussion during breaks throughout the program.

Assaf Abraham (University of Mannheim), “One Hundred Years of Manufacturing: Long-Term Consequences of the Indiana Gas Boom”

Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia), “Electrification and Immigrant Labor in US Manufacturing”

Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (London School of Economics), “Painted Lemons? The Value of Information in 19th Century British Art Market”

Beau Bressler (University of California, Davis), “Public Housing Construction and the Transformation of American Neighborhoods”

Pier Paolo Creanza (Princeton University), “Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation”

Florentine Friedrich (London School of Economics), “Take Thee to a Nunnery: Holy Orders and Public Goods in 19th-Century France”

Grant Goehring (Boston University), “Trade and Health Externalities: Live Animal Imports in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

Madeline Ho (University of California, Davis), “Exploring the Role of Political Connections in Employment: Evidence from U.S. Elections, 1850-1940”

Donia Kamel (Paris School of Economics), “Between Arab and White: Syrians and the US Naturalization Law”

Michael Karas (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Role of Incumbent Firms in the Adoption of New Energy Sources: Lessons from America’s Natural Gas Energy Transition”

Yibin Liu (Queen’s University Belfast), “Hong Kong Banking Crises Since 1865: Identification, Causes and Consequences”

Yangyang Liu (London School of Economics), “A Millennium of (Un)Change:  Lending Interest Rates and Money Supply in China, 618-1911”

Noah MacDonald (Emory University), “The Effectiveness of Doxxing: Evidence from the Second Ku Klux Klan”

Franco Malpassi (Northwestern University), “General Purpose Technologies and the Evolution of Science: Evidence from the Early Computers”

Spencer McCloy (Florida State University), “From Bedside to Breakthrough: The Role of Medical Infrastructure in Local Innovation”

Michael Mckelligott (University of Chicago), “When the Germ Went Viral: Knowledge Dissemination and the Demand for Disease Prevention”

Saleem Shah (Clark University), “Immunity Through Ages: The Surprising Role of Variolation in Shaping Use of Modern Vaccines”

Noah Sutter (London School of Economics), “Elite Persistence during the French Age of Revolutions”

Joanna Williams (University of California, Irvine), “Religiosity and Education: New Evidence for Nineteenth Century France”