Prizes and Awards
Faculty Honors
International Economic History Association President
2002-06: Richard Sutch (UC Berkeley)
Economics History Association President
2010-11: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
2009-10: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
2007-08: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis)
2005-06: Gary D. Libecap (UC Santa Barbara)
2004-05: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
2001-02: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
1992-93: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)
1989-90: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)
Business History Conference President
2000-01: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
Fellow of the Cliometrics Society
2010: Lance Davis, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Gavin Wright
Sloan Research Fellowship
2012: Leah Boustan (UCLA)
Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
2009: Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA) (awarded posthumously)
2007: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
2006: Kerry Odell (Scripps College (PhD UC Berkeley)
2002: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1997: Martha Olney (UC Berkeley)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Heineken Prize for History
2000: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)
IZA Prize in Labour Economics
2009: Richard Easterlin (USC)
Arthur H. Cole Prize for Best Article Published in the Journal of Economic History
2011: Michael Huberman and Christopher Meissner (UC Davis), "Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization"
2010: Rui Esteves (Oxford University) and David Khoudour-Castéras, “A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants’ Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period”
2006: Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA), “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World”
2003: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul Rhode, "Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960”
2000: Alan Taylor (UC Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera "Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime”
1997: Shawn Kantor (UC Merced) and Price Fishback "The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century”
1991: Jean Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech, “The Development of Irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860: The French Revolution and Economic Growth”
1989: Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA), “Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence from Patent Records, 1790-1846”
1987: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), “Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case”
1986: Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch (History and Economics, UC Riverside), "Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870-1937."
Prize for best article published in Explorations in Economic History
2007: David Jacks (Simon Fraser University, Ph.D. from UC Davis)
2006: Dan Bogart (UC Irvine, Ph.D. from UCLA)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
1983-84: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis)
Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe:
2009: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) for The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present, Cambridge University Press
2005: Peter Lindert (UC Davis) for Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press
2001: Philip T. Hoffman of the California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA) for Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870, University of Chicago Press
1999: A. M. van der Woude and Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) The First Modern Economy. Cambridge University Press.
Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Price for Outstanding Book on North American Economic History
2010: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul W. Rhode, for Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, New York: Cambridge University Press
2006: B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, PhD from UCLA), for The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920, Cambridge University Press
1995: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), for Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. Cambridge University Press.
Independent Publishers Book Awards
2007: Gregory Clark (UC Davis), Gold Medal, Finance and Economics Category, for A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
2004: Alan Taylor (UC Davis)
2001: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)
1999: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1998: Christina Romer (UC Berkeley) 1990: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
1987: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
1984: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)
Quality of Research Discovery Prize presented by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2009: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul W. Rhode, Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, New York: Cambridge University Press
The Reference and User Services Association, Outstanding Reference Award
2008: Susan B. Carter (UC Riverside), Scott Gartner (UC Davis), Michael Haines, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Richard Sutch (UC Riverside), and Gavin Wright, Historical Statistics of the United States
The Society for History in the Federal Government, Thomas Jefferson Prize
2008: Susan B. Carter (UC Riverside), Scott Gartner (UC Davis), Michael Haines, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Richard Sutch (UC Riverside), and Gavin Wright, Historical Statistics of the United States
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
2004: Christina Romer (UC Berkeley)
1997: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
International Economic History Association President
2002-06: Richard Sutch (UC Berkeley)
Economics History Association President
2010-11: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
2009-10: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
2007-08: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis)
2005-06: Gary D. Libecap (UC Santa Barbara)
2004-05: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
2001-02: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
1992-93: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)
1989-90: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)
Business History Conference President
2000-01: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
Fellow of the Cliometrics Society
2010: Lance Davis, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Gavin Wright
Sloan Research Fellowship
2012: Leah Boustan (UCLA)
Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
2009: Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA) (awarded posthumously)
2007: Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
2006: Kerry Odell (Scripps College (PhD UC Berkeley)
2002: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1997: Martha Olney (UC Berkeley)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Heineken Prize for History
2000: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)
IZA Prize in Labour Economics
2009: Richard Easterlin (USC)
Arthur H. Cole Prize for Best Article Published in the Journal of Economic History
2011: Michael Huberman and Christopher Meissner (UC Davis), "Riding the Wave of Trade: The Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization"
2010: Rui Esteves (Oxford University) and David Khoudour-Castéras, “A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants’ Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment During the Gold Standard Period”
2006: Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA), “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World”
2003: Alan Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul Rhode, "Hog-Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960”
2000: Alan Taylor (UC Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera "Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression: Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime”
1997: Shawn Kantor (UC Merced) and Price Fishback "The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century”
1991: Jean Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech, “The Development of Irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860: The French Revolution and Economic Growth”
1989: Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA), “Inventive Activity in Early Industrial America: Evidence from Patent Records, 1790-1846”
1987: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), “Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case”
1986: Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch (History and Economics, UC Riverside), "Labor of Older Americans: Retirement of Men On and Off the Job, 1870-1937."
Prize for best article published in Explorations in Economic History
2007: David Jacks (Simon Fraser University, Ph.D. from UC Davis)
2006: Dan Bogart (UC Irvine, Ph.D. from UCLA)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
1983-84: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis)
Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize for Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe:
2009: Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) for The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present, Cambridge University Press
2005: Peter Lindert (UC Davis) for Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press
2001: Philip T. Hoffman of the California Institute of Technology, Gilles Postel-Vinay of the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA) for Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870, University of Chicago Press
1999: A. M. van der Woude and Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) The First Modern Economy. Cambridge University Press.
Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Price for Outstanding Book on North American Economic History
2010: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul W. Rhode, for Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, New York: Cambridge University Press
2006: B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, PhD from UCLA), for The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920, Cambridge University Press
1995: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), for Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. Cambridge University Press.
Independent Publishers Book Awards
2007: Gregory Clark (UC Davis), Gold Medal, Finance and Economics Category, for A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
2004: Alan Taylor (UC Davis)
2001: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)
1999: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
1998: Christina Romer (UC Berkeley) 1990: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
1987: Roger Ransom (UC Riverside)
1984: Richard Sutch (UC Riverside)
Quality of Research Discovery Prize presented by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2009: Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis) and Paul W. Rhode, Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, New York: Cambridge University Press
The Reference and User Services Association, Outstanding Reference Award
2008: Susan B. Carter (UC Riverside), Scott Gartner (UC Davis), Michael Haines, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Richard Sutch (UC Riverside), and Gavin Wright, Historical Statistics of the United States
The Society for History in the Federal Government, Thomas Jefferson Prize
2008: Susan B. Carter (UC Riverside), Scott Gartner (UC Davis), Michael Haines, Alan L. Olmstead (UC Davis), Richard Sutch (UC Riverside), and Gavin Wright, Historical Statistics of the United States
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005: Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA)
2004: Christina Romer (UC Berkeley)
1997: Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
