Sven Beckert Explained

Sven Beckert
Birth Date:1965
Birth Place:Frankfurt, Germany
Spouse:Lisa McGirr
Children:2
Alma Mater:University of HamburgColumbia University
Workplaces:Harvard University
Website:https://www.svenbeckert.com/

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history.[1] With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University.[2]

He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow in 2008.[3] He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow.[4] He was a New York Public Library Fellow.[5] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.[6]

Education

He studied history, economics and political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany and then graduated from Columbia University with a PhD in History.

Career

In 2003, Beckert worked at the University of Konstanz as a Humboldt Research Fellow.[7] [8]

In 2020, an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award named by Carnegie Corporation of New York.[9]

Works

Beckert's first book was The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896 (2001).[10] Beckert would go onto author the Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2014), which won the 2015 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History.[11] The New York Times called it "one of the ten best books of 2015."[12] Economic historian Peer Vries wrote that it was "a must read for every historian interested in global history, but in my view it is better as a story on cotton than as an analysis of capitalism."[13] Other economic historians have criticized the book.[14]

Comaroff petition

In February 2022, Beckert was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign an open letter published in The Harvard Crimson defending Professor John Comaroff after a university investigation found that he had violated the Harvard's sexual and professional conduct policies. The letter stated, in part, that "We the undersigned know John Comaroff to be an excellent colleague, advisor, and committed university citizen.” Four days later, after three graduate students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's actions and the university's failure to respond, Beckert was one of several signatories to say that they wished to retract their signatures.

Publications

Books

Journal articles

Edited volumes

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of American Civilization Department Profile. https://web.archive.org/web/20071019044231/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/beckert.shtml. October 19, 2007.
  2. Web site: Christine A. Desan. Harvard Law School. February 28, 2018.
  3. Web site: ACLS profile: Sven Beckert F'08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110108120140/https://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=9b15b780-6641-dd11-b38e-000c2903e717 . January 8, 2011.
  4. Web site: Prof. Dr. Sven Beckert - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726070339/http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/history/fellows/fellows-sven-beckert?language_sync=1. July 26, 2011.
  5. Web site: Past Fellows: 1999-2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727084955/http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/pastfellows.html . July 27, 2011 .
  6. Web site: Sven Beckert - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20111008130836/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16998-sven-beckert. October 8, 2011.
  7. Web site: Prof. Dr. Sven Beckert . 2022-04-06 . www.humboldt-foundation.de . en.
  8. Web site: 2011-01-31 . Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation - The American dream and a hankering for Europe . 2022-04-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110131115049/https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/1688.html . 31 January 2011 . dead.
  9. Web site: Sven Beckert . June 26, 2024 . Carnegie Corporation of New York.
  10. Web site: The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidat… . 2024-06-18 . Goodreads . en.
  11. Web site: The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners History. pulitzer.org. May 16, 2015.
  12. News: The 10 Best Books of 2015. The New York Times. October 12, 2016. 2015-12-03.
  13. 10.1353/jwh.2017.0006 . Cotton, Capitalism, and Coercion: Some Comments on Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton . Journal of World History . 28 . 131–140 . 2017 . Vries . Peter . 148748204 .
  14. 10.1016/j.eeh.2017.12.002 . Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism . Explorations in Economic History . 67 . 1–17 . 2018 . Olmstead . Alan L. . Rhode . Paul W. .

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