Biography

Chair in European History, 19th and early 20th centuries

Alexia Yates is a historian of economic life, focusing on urban history and the history of capitalism in modern Europe, particularly France. In her research and teaching, she pursues the challenge of how we might enliven critical political economy approaches to capitalism with a humanist agenda that accounts for the agency of the people, places, and things that embed and produce capitalism in particular historical conjunctures. Empirically, she has focused on two key domains: real estate and its impact on the urban experience, and finance, especially the cultural and social history of mass investment.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Finance and society
• Business History Working Group
• Inequality, welfare and social justice

Supervisees

• Bene Colenbrander
• Ella Müller

Currently second reader for:

• Brecht Rogissart
• Elati Pontikopoulou-Venieri
• Marek Maj
• Simon Neumaier
• Thomas Sorensen

Fields of expertise