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##  Program Chairs 

 



  [### Sven Beckert

 ](/people/sven-beckert) <beckert@fas.harvard.edu>Laird Bell Professor of History

 

 

 Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social... 

 

 

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   [### Christine Desan

 ](/people/christine-desan) <desan@law.harvard.edu>Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

 

 

 Christine Desan is the author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2014), a book arguing that capitalism took shape when societies radically transformed the way they engineered money, adopting bank-issued... 

 

 

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##  Program Coordinator 

 



  [### Rachel Steely

 ](/people/rachel-steely) <rachelcsteely@gmail.com>Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellowships &amp; Writing Center, Harvard University

PhD, History

 

 

 Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century Rachel completed her PhD in History in 2022. She is a scholar of the history of capitalism and commodities. Her research examines the political economy of commodity frontiers, and her... 

 

 

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