Thomas Stapleford
Assistant Professor
Program of Liberal Studies
B.M.E., B.A., University of Delaware; M.S., University of Edinburgh; Ph.D., Harvard University
Profile
Tom Stapleford studies the human sciences in the early twentieth century, particularly economics and the mind sciences (psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience). He is currently revising his dissertation into a book manuscript examining cost-of-living statistics and American political economy during the twentieth century, while also pursuing other projects about the functions of economic statistics in American politics and industrial relations. Stapleford’s dissertation won the Josepf Dorfman Award from the History of Economics Society in 2004, and his research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Notre Dame’s Faculty Research Program, and Harvard’s Center for American Political Studies.
Recent Publications
"Market Visions: Expenditure Surveys and Economic Planning in the New Deal," Journal of American History (forthcoming)
"'Housewife vs. Economist': Gender, Class, and Domestic Economic Knowledge in Twentieth-Century America," Labor: Studies in Working Class History in the Americas 1, no. 2 (2004): 89-112.
Contact
342 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7540
tstaplef@nd.edu