Sven Beckert

Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches nineteenth-century American and global history and co-directs the Program on the Study of Capitalism. Trained at the University of Hamburg and Columbia, he won the 2015 Bancroft Prize for Empire of Cotton, which was also a Pulitzer finalist in history, and co-edited Slavery's Capitalism with Seth Rockman.