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
Research Profile
Tom Stapleford studies the human sciences in the early twentieth century, particularly economics and the mind sciences (psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience). His first book, The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880--2000, will be published by Cambridge University Press in th fall of 2009. He is currently working on a history of "family economics" in the early twentieth century (the first attempt by economists to study the economic aspects of domestic life), while also pursuing other projects about economic statistics and American political economy. Stapleford’s dissertation won the Josepf Dorfman Award from the History of Economics Society in 2004, and he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008-2009.
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
215 O'Shaughnessy
631-7540
tstaplef@nd.edu