Sven Beckert
Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he co-chairs both the Program on the Study of Capitalism and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History.
His research focuses on nineteenth-century United States history, particularly capitalism's economic, social, political, and transnational dimensions.
Beckert has received prestigious fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.
His work examines how capitalism developed globally, with special attention to cotton's role in shaping modern economic systems and the interconnections between industrialization, slavery, and empire.
