Dr. Alexia Yates

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Alexia Yates is a historian specializing in economic life, with a focus on urban political economy and business history in Europe. Her work explores private development in urban environments and aims to enhance the understanding of the spatiality of human life through global processes that transform and contest local production within social spaces. As a historian of capitalism, she examines cultural contexts of business practices and emphasizes the role of moral economies in the structure and functioning of economic systems. Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, Yates completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College and pursued a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her doctoral research was supported by prestigious fellowships including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Quinn Foundation. Yates has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in the USA in 2020. She is currently researching the social history and microfoundations of financial modernity in nineteenth-century France, aiming to understand the role of stock markets in the economic lives of French citizens during that period.

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