George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

The Richards Center would like to invite you to participate in a workshop for Journal of the Civil War Era special issue titled “Capitalism and the Developmental State in the U.S. Civil War Era,” to be held on Friday, April 10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 102 Weaver Building, with Editors Greg Downs, Chair and Professor of History at University of California, Davis and Kate Masur, John D. MacArthur Professor and Professor of History at Northwestern University and featured scholars and guest editors.

Guest editors:

• Nicolas Barreyre, Chair, Center for North American Studies (CENA) and Associate Professor in American History at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (attending via Zoom)

• Noam Maggor, Senior Lecturer in American History, Queen Mary University of London

• Ariel Ron, Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Contributing authors:

• Robert Mickey, Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

• Julie Mujic, Assistant Professor, Global Commerce and Bartlett Family Pre-Tenure Fellow, 2025-2026, Denison University

• Brian Schoen, Associate Professor and J. Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of Humanities in the Charles J. Pink Institute for the Teaching of Humanities, Ohio University

• Sofia Valeonti, Assistant Professor in Economics and Management, The American University of Paris

• David Waldner, Associate Professor of Politics, The University of Virginia (attending via Zoom)