Atack named president-elect of Economic History Association
Posted 9/29/2010
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A Vanderbilt economics professor has been named the president-elect of the Economic History Association.
Jeremy Atack, professor of economics and history, will take office on Sept. 10, 2011. He was elected during the association’s business meeting this month in Boston.
Atack will be responsible for organizing the program of the EHA’s 2012 meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he will also deliver the presidential address.
The EHA is a professional academic association with about 1,200 members worldwide. It was founded in 1940 to encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history and to encourage and assist in the preservation and administration of the materials for research in economic history. The Association publishes The Journal of Economic History, the leading academic journal in the field. Atack was editor of The Journal of Economic History from 2004 to 2008.
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