David Weiman, a 2016-2017 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, will visit the University of Mary Washington to present a public lecture on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Monroe Hall, Room 346. The lecture is titled “Hamilton v. Jackson: A Monetary Debate.”
During his two-day visit, Weiman also will speak with students and faculty in a variety of history, economics and econometrics classes.
Weiman is the Alena Wels Hirschorn ’58 Professor of Economics and an affiliated member of the graduate faculty in the Columbia University Department of History. He is currently faculty director of Barnard’s innovative Empirical Reasoning Center. In 2014 he was honored with the Economic History Association’s Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History.
Weiman earned a B.A. in 1975 from Brown University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He received an M.A. from Yale University in 1978 and a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984.
Weiman specializes in 19th- and 20th-century U.S. economic history and the political economy of contemporary U.S. criminal justice policy. Among his most recent publications in economic history are “Political Economic Limits to the Fed’s Goal of a Common National Bank Money: The Par Clearing Controversy Revisited” (Research in Economic History 2014) and “Main Street and Wall Street: The Macroeconomic Consequences of New York Bank Suspensions, 1866 to 1914” (Cliometrica 2013). He is currently completing a paper titled “Toward a More Perfect Monetary Union: The Civil War as a Second American Revolution,” part of a larger (co-authored) monographic study on the formation of the American monetary union from Andrew Jackson’s infamous “Bank War” to the formation of the Federal Reserve System.
In addition, Weiman has written about the origins and labor market impacts of the regime of “mass incarceration,” including “The Origins of Mass Incarceration in New York State: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Local War on Drugs” in S. Raphael and M. Stoll, eds., Do Prisons Make Us Safer?
Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has offered undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1776, is the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society, with chapters at 286 colleges and universities and more than half a million members throughout the country.
Additional information about the Visiting Scholar Program can be found on Phi Beta Kappa’s website (www.pbk.org/programs).
Fernando E. Navarrete says
I am not a UMW student, yet very interested in attending Dr. Weiman’s evening presentation at Monroe Hall on September 22nd. Are tickets required, and if so, how might I pursue one? Thank you.