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1 CURRICULUM VITAE - MARLOUS VAN WAIJENBURG LAST UPDATED F EBRUARY 2018 Name: Address: PERSONAL INFORMATION Marlous Femke Marij van Waijenburg University of Michigan Michigan Society of Fellows 0540 Rackham Building Department of Economics 238 Lorch Hall Ann Arbor, MI, mvanwaij@umich.edu 2017 Ph.D. History Advisor: Joel Mokyr 2011 M.A. History EDUCATION Utrecht University 2010 M.A. Comparative History cum laude 2007 B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences cum laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Michigan 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows PUBLICATIONS & WORK IN PROGRESS Refereed journal articles (2018) Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective. African Affairs (with Ewout Frankema) (2018) Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor. The Journal of Economic History 78(1): (2014) Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, The Journal of African History 55(3): (with Ewout Frankema) #1 cited of articles published in the JAH in the last 5 years (h5-index, 23 citations)

2 Refereed journal articles (cont.) (2012) Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, The Journal of Economic History 72(4): (with Ewout Frankema) Recipient Arthur Cole Prize for best article in JEH 2012 Recipient Wageningen Publication Award for best article in the social sciences 2012 #3 cited of articles published in the JEH in the last 5 years (h5-index, 76 citations) Manuscripts under review (2018) From Coast to Hinterland. Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c (with Ewout Frankema). Chapter for edited volume on colonial tax systems (eds. Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth). Currently under review at Cambridge University Press. Manuscripts in preparation Financing the African Colonial State: Forced Labor and Fiscal Capacity. Book manuscript. Here Has All the Education Gone! The Free-fall of Skill-premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in the Long 20th Century. (with Ewout Frankema) Coercion and Colonial Labor Markets: Labor Commodification Strategies in French Africa, c An Africa-specific Path to State Formation? The Material Foundations of the Sub-Saharan African State in Historical Perspective. (with Ewout Frankema) Labor Coercion and Occupational Change. Chapter contribution for AFCHOS project (eds. Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Gareth Austin). Pathways to Fiscal Modernity : A Historical Perspective (with Ewout Frankema). Chapter contribution to a collaborative project on Pathways to Modern Taxation at the European University Institute s Political Science department. Forced Labor and Colonialism. Chapter for open source textbook on African Economic History and Development created by the members of the African Economic History Network. Other (2014) Book review of: Morten Jerven, Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It (Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 2013). In: Journal of Economic History 74(1): (2011) African Economies in Historical Perspective: Is Poverty Destiny? Annual Magazine Netherlands-African Business Council 2

3 PRIZES, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2018 Finalist World Economic History Congress Dissertation Prize category 20 th C MITRE Research Grant, University of Michigan, Department of Economics 2016 University Fellowship, The Graduate School, NU ( ) 2014 Presidential Fellowship, The Graduate School, NU ( ) Dissertation Fellowship, Economic History Association ( ) Equality, Development and Globalization Studies Award, NU 2013 Arthur Cole Prize: Best article in the Journal of Economic History in 2012 Wageningen School of Social Sciences Publication Award: Best article published in the social sciences in Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize: Teaching excellence as a section leader, awarded by the Department of History, NU Summer Research Travel Award, Buffett Center, NU Hans Panofsky Research Award, Program of African Studies, NU Travel and Data Grant, Economic History Association Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, NU 2011 Summer Research Travel Award, Buffett Center, NU Hans Panofsky Research Award, Program of African Studies, NU 2010 University Fellowship, The Graduate School, NU ( ) Winner M.A. Thesis Prize, awarded by the International Institute for Social History (IISH) and national newspaper de Volkskrant Winner M.A. Thesis Prize in the Humanities, awarded by Utrecht University PRESENTATIONS 2018 American Historical Association, Washington D.C.; University of Michigan, African History and Anthropology Workshop, and Michigan Society of Fellows; World Economic History Congress, Boston; 2017 African Studies Association, Chicago; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Economic History Association, San Jose; European University Institute, Florence; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University; University of London, SOAS; University of Michigan, Department of Economics, and Michigan Society of Fellows 2016 American Historical Association, Atlanta; European Social Science History Conference, Valencia;, Society of Fellows; University of Warwick 3

4 2015 Economic History Association, Nashville; George Mason University, Department of Economics; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University, Department of History;, Program of African Studies; Social Science History Association, Baltimore; Wageningen University 2014 Brown University; Social Science History Association, Toronto; London School of Economics;, Program of African Studies 2013 African Studies Association, Baltimore; Economic History Association, Washington D.C.;, Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Department of Economics, and Program of African Studies; Simon Frasier Institute; World Congress of Cliometrics, University of Hawaii 2012 Asian Historical Economics, Hitotsubashi University; Cliometrics Society, Tuscon; International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam; Northwestern University, Program of African Studies; University of Michigan, Department of Economics; World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch University 2011 Economic History Association, Boston; Third European Congress on World and Global History, London School of Economics 2010 International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam; Universidad de la República, Montevideo. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor University Department Course 2018 U. Michigan Economics Global economic history (writing course) Teaching Assistant University Department Course 2014 Northwestern History Biomedicine in global history Northwestern Economics Western economic history (20 th C.) 2013 Northwestern Economics Western economic history (19 th C.) Northwestern Economics Western economic history (20 th C.) 2012 Northwestern History Modern South Africa, Northwestern History Global history, Northwestern Economics Western economic history (19 th C.) 4

5 ACADEMIC REFEREEING Explorations in Economic History Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Economic History of Developing Regions Journal of Economic History Economic History Review Review of Economics and Statistics European Review of Economic History World Development LANGUAGES Fluent Advanced Intermediate Beginner Dutch (native), English French, Spanish German Hebrew SERVICE 2018 Reviewer University of Michigan s Distinguished Dissertation Awards 2017 Dissertation examiner Abel Gwaindepi, Stellenbosch University Reviewer MSF applications Co-organizer Africounters workshop, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2015 Member interview committee for Presidential Fellowship 2014 Co-organizer book launch of Beliefs, Leadership, and Critical Transitions: Brazil (by: Lee Alston, Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Perreira) 2013 Co-organizer working group Program of African Studies 2012 Professional development coordinator History Graduate Student Organisation 2011 Co-organizer graduate student colloquium Buffett Center African Economic History Network African Studies Association American Historical Association Economic History Association Social Science Historical Association PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 5

6 Joel Mokyr (Ph.D. Advisor) Professor of Economics and History 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL Phone: REFERENCES Jonathan Glassman Professor of African History 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL Phone: Helen Tilley Associate Professor of African History 1881 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL Phone: Ralph Austen Professor Emeritus of African History The University of Chicago 1126 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL Phone: Regina Grafe Professor of Early Modern History of Europe European University Institute Via Boccaccio , Florence, Italy Phone: (+39) / Regina.Grafe@eui.eu 6

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B.A., Amherst College, Women s and Gender Studies, Magna Cum Laude (2001) SERENA LAWS Department of Political Science Trinity College 300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106 slaws@trincoll.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Political Science (2011) M.A.,