Thomas Stapleford

Assistant Professor
Program of Liberal Studies

Degrees

B.M.E., B.A., University of Delaware; M.S., University of Edinburgh; Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Profile

Tom Stapleford studies the human sciences in the early twentieth century, particularly economics and the mind sciences (psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience). He is currently writing about the functions of economic statistics in American politics and industrial relations, work that includes revising his dissertation (Harvard, 2003; winner of the Joseph Dorfman Award from the History of Economics Society) into a book manuscript that examines cost-of-living statistics and American political economy during the twentieth century.