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Alexander Engel

John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2011-2012

Biography

Alexander Engel

Alexander Engel teaches at the Institute for Economic and Social History at Göttingen University, where he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the emergence of modern markets in the global dye business, Farben der Globalisierung: Die Entstehung moderner Märkte für Farbstoffe 1500-1900 (2009). He has co-authored a volume on the price history of pre-modern times Preisgeschichte der vor industriellen Zeit (2006). His research interests include the history of markets and prices, business and marketing history, globalization, and the history of knowledge and economic thought.

This information was last updated for the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, September 2017.

Affiliations

  • John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
 
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