Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert is a German-American historian and the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches United States history of the nineteenth century and global history. With Christine A. Desan, he co-directs the Program on the Study of Capitalism there. His books include Capitalism and Empire of Cotton, and he has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow, a New York Public Library Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.