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Ellen Nye is an economic historian specializing in the political economy of globalization and early modern empires. She earned her PhD in History from Yale University, an MPhil in Social Economic History from the University of Cambridge, and an AB in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College. Currently an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, Nye previously served as a faculty fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her current book project, 'Empires Obligation: Monetary Governance in a Globalizing World', examines the relationship between interstate private credit and domestic public finance in early modern England and the Ottoman Empire. Her research has been supported by prestigious grants from the Fulbright Commission and the American Research Institute in Turkey, and she has received multiple awards for her dissertation work. Her academic writing has appeared in several notable journals and she is set to be a fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in the 2025-26 academic year.
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