 Guinnane is named as Bartlett
Professor
in Economic History
Timothy Guinnane, newly designated as the Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economic
History, is a scholar of European economic history.
Guinnane specializes in the demographic and financial history of Western Europe. He is the
author of "The Vanishing Irish: Households,
Migration and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914," which was awarded the
Donald H. Murphy Prize of the American Conference for Irish Studies in 1999, and is
co-editor of "History Matters: Essays on
Economic Growth, Technology and Demographic Change." His current research deals
with financial markets and demographic change in 19th-century Germany. He has two book
manuscripts in preparation: "Financial Intermediation for Poor People: The
Development of Germany's Credit Cooperatives, 1850-1914" and "Population and the
Economy in Germany, 1800-1990."
In addition to teaching in the Departments of Economics and History, Guinnane is a
professor (adjunct) of law and a faculty affiliate at the Law School's Center for the
Study of Corporate Law. He is a fellow of the School of Management's International Finance
Center and a research fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and The
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has received two teaching awards
at Yale: the Department of Economics' Graduate Teaching Award and the Yale College/Lex
Hixon '63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences.
A graduate of Haverford College, Guinnane earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University. He
began his teaching career at Princeton University in 1989 and was a visiting scholar at
the Russell Sage Foundation and the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge before
joining the Yale faculty in 1993. He has held visiting positions at the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Collective Goods in Bonn, the University of
Stuttgart-Hohenheim, the University of Cologne, King's College (Cambridge University), the
University of Mannheim, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Munich.
Guinnane's research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute
of Aging, among others. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of
Interdisciplinary History and Research in Economics and is a referee for numerous
professional journals. He is a member of the board of directors for New Haven's Columbus
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