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Rudi Batzell

PhD Candidate in History

Department of History, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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  • Rudi grew up in the rural midwest of Michigan and Wisconsin, near the towns of Milan and East Troy. He graduated from Columbia University with a double major in History and Sociology in 2009. He then attended Cambridge University, Clare College, as a Kellett Fellow, where he completed an Mphil in Economic and Social History. 

    He is currently finishing a dissertation titled "Reconstructing Global Capitalism: Class, Corporations and the Rise of Welfare States, 1870-1930" 

    In the spring of 2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. 

    His interests are in the social history and politics of inequalities, extending across the intersections of racism, gender, and class formation.  

Recent Publications

  • The Labor of Social Reproduction: Household Work and Gendered Power in the History of Capitalism, 1870-1920"
  • "Introduction: The Global E. P. Thompson"
  • E. P. Thompson, Politics and History: Writing Social History Fifty Years afterThe Making of the English Working Class
  • [Review of Susie Pak, Gentlemen Bankers] Race Gender and the State: Changing Social and Business Networks of Financial Elites in the Progressive Era
  • Free Labour, Capitalism and the Anti-slavery Origins of Chinese Exclusion in California in the 1870s

  • Comparisons Across Empire: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs in the Seventeenth Century
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