Dr. Alexia Yates

Biography

Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, Alexia Yates completed her undergraduate studies at Smith College with honors in early modern British history. Her year abroad at Trinity College, Dublin sparked her interest in the nineteenth and twentieth-century history of France. She received her Master of Arts in history from the University of Toronto and went on to earn her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago, supported by various prestigious fellowships. Yates' career includes significant postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the National Humanities Center in the USA. Her research focuses on urban political economy and business history in Europe. She is particularly interested in the relationship between economic life and the cultural contexts of business practices, as well as the microfoundations of financial modernity. Her book, "Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture at the Fin-de-siècle," discusses the transformations in property development and urban growth in late-nineteenth-century Paris. Yates is currently preparing a volume on real estate and global urban history, alongside ongoing research that investigates how stock market dynamics influenced the economic lives of French citizens in the nineteenth century.

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