Sean Vanatta (UGA History alumni): Graduate Student discussion

Graduate students are invited to speak with Sean Vanatta in an informal discussion about topics such as career paths for historians, and research in capitalism. Vanatta will also be giving a lecture hosted by the UGA Russell Libraries (details forthcoming).

Sean Vanatta is a visiting assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he teaches American financial history and the history of economic thought. He received his Master's degree in History from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D in history from Princeton University in May 2018, and is currently revising his book manuscript, "Plastic Capitalism: Credit Cards and the Making of Modern Consumer Finance" (Yale University Press, forthcoming). Articles derived from this work have been published in Business History Review (2016) and Enterprise & Society (2018), the former winning the 2016 Henrietta Larson Award for the best article in that journal. He is also the coauthor, with Peter Conti-Brown, of The Bankers Thumb: The Institutional and Evolutionary History of Bank Supervision in the United States (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).