Cliometrics
The application of economic theory and quantitative techniques to describe and explain economic events.
Call for Papers: The 2026 Cliometric Society Conference: May 29- May 30, 2026
The 2026 Cliometrics Conference will be held on Friday-Saturday, May 29 – May 30, 2026, in Logan, Utah, sponsored by Utah State University and the National Science Foundation. The conference will pay most travel and lodging expenses for faculty and graduate students chosen to attend. The conference will begin on Friday morning and end after the conference dinner on Saturday. Lodging will be made available to attendees for the nights of May 28, 29, and 30.
Proposals to present a paper, or to attend the conference without presenting, are now being accepted, with a deadline of midnight Eastern Standard time on Friday, January 30, 2026. Those proposing to present a paper must provide an abstract and a 3-5-page summary of the paper. The summary must be self-contained (do not refer to an online appendix) and no less than one-and-a-half spaced. Graduate students proposing to present a paper must also submit a letter of recommendation from a dissertation advisor. Graduate students whose papers are not selected for the program will automatically be considered for the Graduate Student Research Session(s), one or more “egg timer” sessions in which each student has 10 minutes to give an oral presentation of their research.
Applicants should submit their materials at http://eh.net/2026-cliometrics-conference-proposal-submission/. If you cannot submit this way, email us at cliometrics.vt@gmail.com and we will tell you how to submit another way. Those whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by Friday, March 6, 2026 and must provide the paper in the specified conference format by Monday, April 12, 2026.
The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new economic history research about any geographic region and time period. We welcome applications from doctoral students, junior and senior faculty located anywhere in the world, in academic disciplines including but not limited to economics, history, and economic history. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research and research on populations relatively neglected by existing literature.
About eleven papers will be selected for presentation. A session of 50 minutes will be devoted to each paper, in which the presenter will have five minutes to make an opening statement. The rest of the time is devoted to questions and discussion of the paper among conference participants. All participants will be required to read all papers in advance and to attend the entire conference. At least one author of a paper must be a member of the Cliometrics Society. For membership information contact Melissa Thomasson at mthomasson@miamioh.edu.
All other questions may be addressed to cliometrics.vt@gmail.com or to Matthew Jaremski (conference organizer) at matthew.jaremski@usu.edu.
Sarah Quincy is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University studying how inequality depends on the push and pull between economic and financial development. As labor markets experienced a race between education and technology in the 20th century, large banks also began to dominate the American financial sector. Sarah brings together both micro and macro approaches to understand how these phenomena have shaped United States economic growth. One strand of her research traces out how the rise of bank branching during the Great Depression induced both short-run industrialization and long-run booms. Her other work highlights the contributions of innovation and higher education to long-run race and class-based income disparities.