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Sven Beckert

German-American historian

Sven Beckert

Beckert speaking at University of Massachusetts Amherst in

Born

Frankfurt, Germany

SpouseLisa McGirr
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg, Columbia University
InstitutionsHarvard University
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Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history.[1] With Christine A.

Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University.[2]

He was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow in [3] He was a Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow.[4] He was a New York Public Library Fellow.[5] He is a Guggenheim Fellow.[6]

Education

He studied history, economics and political science at the University of Hamburg, Germany and then graduated from Colum