About
Broadstreet is a blog dedicated to the study of historical political economy (HPE). Its goal is to foster conversations across disciplines in the social sciences, namely economics and political science, but also history, sociology, quantitative methods, and public policy. Correspondingly, its editors (and guest contributors) are drawn from these respective disciplines.
Given the boundaries that typically exist across academic disciplines, scholars who work on similar subjects – like HPE – rarely talk to one another or read each other’s work. Our hope in starting Broadstreet is to break down some of these artificial boundaries, generate true cross-disciplinary dialogues, and produce better and more wide-ranging HPE research.
The blog’s name, Broadstreet, is a nod to the legendary John Snow and his study of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. Snow found convincing evidence for a previously unproven water-born theory of cholera transmission, with a rigorous yet interdisciplinary approach — using detailed socio-economic data, ethnography, historical patterns of disease transmission, and early techniques of causal inference. The Broad Street water pump in London’s Soho district was not only a meeting place for the diverse residents of the neighborhood, but served as the focal point for Snow’s interdisciplinary breakthrough. While the Broad Street pump is no more, the legacy of this innovative research lives on. We hope that Broadstreet will be go-to location for all those with interests in HPE.
For more on John Snow and the Broad Street pump, see: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/broad-street-cholera-pump
Team
Managing Editor
Alexandra Cirone, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics School of Public Policy and Government Department (website)
Editors
(in alphabetical order)
Leticia Arroyo-Abad, Associate Professor of Economics at City University of New York - Queens College & Graduate Center (website)
Volha Charnysh, Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT (website)
Tracy K. Dennison, Professor of Social Science History at the California Institute of Technology (website)
Vicky Fouka, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University (website)
Scott Gehlbach, Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago (website)
Jeffery A Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law and Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Citizenship and Democratic Values at USC (website)
Mark Koyama, Professor of Economics at George Mason University (website)
Jared Rubin, Professor in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University (website)
Emily A. Sellars, Assistant Professor in Political Science at Yale University (website)
Pavithra Suryanarayan, Associate Professor in Government at the London School of Economics (website)
Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University (website)
Submissions and Contact
Broadstreet posts are by invitation. If you are interested in being a guest contributor, please contact Managing Editor Ali Cirone at a.e.cirone@lse.ac.uk.
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