CALL FOR PAPERS Appalachian Spring: Third Annual Conference in World…

CALL FOR PAPERS
Appalachian Spring: Third Annual Conference in World History and Economics

This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together scholars from
Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) with scholars from other universities in North
Carolina and the surrounding states. We have already hosted two of these meetings in the
past, which have been very successful. Our model is to bring a prominent keynote
speaker to our campus, a person with wide interdisciplinary appeal. This year's speaker
will be Dr. Peter Lindert from the University of California, Davis, a world-renowned
scholar of the economics and history of government spending and globalization. We will
also feature 5-6 panels with scholarly papers, divided among different topical themes,
including an undergraduate/graduate panel. This year's theme will be Government and
Progress: A World of Experience.

The conference will take place on April 26, 2008, on the Appalachian State University
campus, Boone, in the beautiful North Carolina mountains. Those interested in
participating should let the organizers know by March 1st, 2008. A one-page abstract
describing the scholar's proposal should be submitted to the organizers by that date. A
full paper will be expected by the organizers by April 2nd, 2008. There is no registration
fee. The organizers might provide funding for accommodations (pending on funding), but
not for travel expenses. We will offer meals to the participants during the meeting at no
cost.

Organizers (contacts for paper proposals and practical matters):
· David Johnson, Assistant Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of
History): phone: 1-828-262-6007, email: johnsonda@appstate.edu
· Jari Eloranta, Assistant Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of
History): phone: 1-828-262-6006, email: elorantaj@appstate.edu

Supporting Committee:
· George Ehrhardt, Assistant Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of
Political Science and Criminal Justice), phone: 1-828-262-3085, email:
ehrhardtgc@appstate.edu
· Timothy Perri, Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of Economics),
phone: 1-828-262-2251, email: perritj@appstate.edu
· Dorothea Martin, Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of History):
phone: 1-828-262-6022, email: martinda@appstate.edu
· Anatoly Isaenko, Associate Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of
History): phone: 1-828-262-6028, email: isaenkoa@appstate.edu)
Dr. Peter Lindert




Dr. Lindert, Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis, is a
prolific scholar of modern economic history. He is one of leading experts of the
economics and history of governments and redistribution as well as the long trends in
globalization. His current research interests include the causes and effects of modern
fiscal redistribution; history of inequality, political voice and economic growth. His most
current large-scale research project, comprising researchers from many different
countries, focuses on global prices and incomes in the long run (see the website:
http://gpih.ucdavis.edu/), which features a growing array of downloadable files of
historical data.

Representative Recent Papers:

· Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century.
Two volumes. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Growing Public has been awarded the
2005 Allan Sharlin Prize for best book in social science history published in 2004 and is
also a co-winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize for the best book in European Economic
History in 2003-2004.
· Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Does Globalization Make the World More
Unequal?" in Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.),
Globalization in Historical Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the
NBER, 2003), pp. 227-270.
· "Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?" Journal of Economic History, 63, 2 (June
2003): 315-350.
· Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia (book), MIT
Press 2000.
· "Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America," in A.B. Atkinson and F.
Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier 2000.

Professor Lindert's professional affiliations include: Economic History Association
(President-Elect, Journal Co-Editor, Editorial Board, Board of Trustees); Cliometric
Society (Winner of Its "Can" Award); American Economic Association; Research
Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, among others.