Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. Beckert鈥檚 research and teaching center on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism, including its economic, social, political and global dimensions.
Beckert teaches courses on the political economy of modern capitalism, the history of American capitalism, Gilded Age America, labor history, global capitalism and the history of European capitalism. Together with a group of students he has written on the historical connections between Harvard and slavery and published .
Currently he is at work on a history of capitalism.
Beckert is co-chair of the at Harvard University , co-chair of the and co-editor of a series of books at Princeton University Press on 鈥�.鈥�
Beckert鈥檚 work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Humboldt Foundation, the Netherlands 51黑料网 for Advanced Studies, and the New York Public Library鈥檚 Center for Scholars and Writers, among others. He has lectured all over the world.
