Dr Marc-William Palen

Senior Lecturer

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Overview

Office: Amory B308A

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Member, Centre for Imperial and Global History

I specialise in the intersection of British and American imperialism within the broader history of globalisation since c. 1800. I am particularly interested in comparing and contrasting the British and American Empires from the mid nineteenth century and, more broadly, in exploring how political economy, gender, humanitarianism, and ideology have shaped global imperial expansion. I have just finished my second book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, with Princeton University Press exploring the intersections of global capitalism, anti-imperialism, and peace activism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, named among the 'Best Books' of 2024 by New Yorker Magazine.

I believe that connecting the past with the present is an essential part of a historian's craft. I am the co-director (with David Thackeray and Andrew Dilley) of the History and Policy Global Economics and History Forum in London, and contribute to the Mainz-Exeter Global Humanitarianism Research Academy. My commentary on historical and contemporary global affairs has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC, the BBC, the Conversation, the Australian, History Today, Newsweek, and Time, among others. I am also the editor of the Imperial & Global Forum, the blog of the Centre for Imperial & Global History. You can follow me on Twitter @MWPalen

Research

My research focuses on the intersection of globalisation and ideology within the history of modern imperialism. I am particularly interested in comparing and contrasting the British and American Empires from the mid nineteenth century onward. More broadly, I am interested in projects that explore how ideology and the international political economy have shaped global imperial expansion. My first book, The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2016), examines how the ideological conflict between free traders and economic nationalists reshaped Anglo-American party politics and imperial expansion in the mid to late nineteenth century. This ideological battle reverberated throughout the globe, I argue, and laid the foundations for today's global political economy. My second book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, with Princeton University Press, examines the free trade movement’s global struggle for world peace and, conversely, explores the complex relationship between economic nationalism and empire building in the first half of the twentieth century.

Research collaborations

Recent Associations

Visiting Professor, Venice International University (Spring 2024).

Long-Term Research Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society (2021-22).

Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, Universty of Texas at Austin (2016-17).

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University (Autumn 2015).

Caroline D. Bain Fellow, Smith College (2015-16)

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2015-16)

Research Associate in U.S. Foreign Policy at the U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney (2012-15)

Samuel Young Scholar, History of Economics Society (2013-14)

W. A. Williams Junior Faculty Research Award, Society for Historians of U.S. Foreign Relations (2013-14)

Academic Memberships

British Scholar Society; British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH); Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR); Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Society for Historians of Australia’s Foreign Relations.

Invited Lectures/Workshops

Pax Economica,” PEC Research Seminar, co-sponsored with the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre, University of Manchester, April 2024.
"Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World,” Global Economic History Seminar, University of Cambridge, April 2024.
"Free Markets, Natural Resources, and Colonial Sovereignty: The Limits of the Left-Wing Anti-Imperialist Imagination," Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets: Revisiting Socio-Economic Histories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, University of Bern, Aug. 2023.
"Recovering the Left-Wing Origins of the Liberal Economic Order, c. 1846-1946," Modern History Research Colloquium, Bremen University, June 2023.
"Teddy Roosevelt's Economic Evolution: From Free-Trade Globalist to Economic Nationalist," Theodore Roosevelt: Global American, Roosevelt Institute, Middelburg, Netherlands, May 2023.
“Economic Ideologies and Transimperialism: Friedrich List as Case Study,” Transimperial Histories Conference, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, May 2022.
"The Forgotten Leftwing Origins of the Liberal Economic Order," History Colloquium, University of South Florida, April 2022.
“Nationalism, Trade, and Economic Globalization” Roundtable, Political Proteus: Nationalism’s Entangled Histories Conference, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Aug. 2021.
“Nobel Peace Prize in Historical Perspective,” Peace Roundtable (with Atlanta Peace Initiative), University of South Carolina, Oct. 2020.
"Free Trade Ideologies and US Foreign Policy," Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference, Oregon State University, May-June 2019.
"Marxist Free Trade: A Forgotten History," Modern History Seminar, Roehampton University, Feb. 2019.
"The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade," Centre for Public History, Queen's University, Belfast, Oct. 2018.
“The Re-Emergence of Anti-Globalism,” Centre for Modern History, City University of London, Feb. 2017.
“Transnational Economic Ideas and Inter-Imperial Entanglements,” Reconfiguring Imperial Spaces: Intra- and Inter-Imperial Entanglements, Freie Universitat of Berlin, October 2017.
“Marx and Manchester: The Socialist Foundations of Post-1945 Globalization,” The Other Globalizers, University of Exeter, July 2017.
“The Forgotten History of Free Trade and the Far Left,” Institute for History Studies, University of Texas at Austin, April 2017.
“The Feminist Foundations of the Global Economic Order,” International History Seminar, Institute for Historical Studies, London, May 2017.
Chair, “Commonwealth Trade after Brexit: Historical Reflections,” Global Economics and History Forum, History & Policy, March 2017.
“Suffragism, Pacifism, and Economic Liberalism,” Gendering Peace in Europe, 1918-1945, HRI, University of Sheffield, Jan. 2017.
“The Political Economic Vision of the Women’s Peace Movement,” Imagining Markets Network Workshop, Cambridge University, April 2016.
“The Feminist Roots of American Neo-liberalism,” RAI Seminar Series, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Oct. 2015.
“The Feminist Roots of Neoliberalism,” History Seminar Series, Columbia University, Sept. 2015.
“The Political Economy of Women’s Peace,” Fellowship presentation, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Aug. 2015.
Exeter representative, Global Humanitarianism Research Academy, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, July 2015, July 2017.
“The Global Struggle for Free Trade and Peace, 1896-1946,” Hoover Archives Workshop on Political Economy, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, June 2015.
“Copying American Capitalism: The Global Response to American Economic Nationalism,” Varieties of Capitalism Workshop, Centre for Economic and Business History, University of Nottingham, June 2015.
“The Political Economy of Peace, c. 1900,” U.S. Political Economy Workshop, Queen Mary University, April 2015.
“The Ideological Origins of the Twentieth-Century U.S. Peace Movement,” American History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, Feb. 2015.
“Comparing British and American Imperial Historiography,” U.S. Diplomatic History Roundtable, University of Southampton, Nov. 2014.
“The Future of History Departments within the Digital Humanities,” Social Media Workshop, University of Glasgow, Sept. 2014.
“The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism,” AHRC Consortium Workshop, University of Southampton, Sept. 2014.
“Transnational Tariff Controversies in the Early Republic,” American Political Economy from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War Symposium, Bowdoin College, in conjunction with the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Oct. 2013.
“Globalisation’s Protectionist Past and Free-Trade Future, c. 1870-Present,” Globalisation & Uncertainty Workshop, University of Exeter, Sept. 2013.
“The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism,” ISS Brady-Johnson Colloquium in Grand Strategy and International History, Yale University, 26 Feb. 2013.
“Where Global History Meets Anglo-American Relations,” U.S. Studies Centre Fellowship Presentation, Sydney, May 2012.
“The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Anglo-American Imperialism and the Ideological Origins of American Globalization,” History on Monday Seminar Series, hosted by the History Department of the University of Sydney, April 2012.

Conference Presentations

"Roundtable: Reordering the 20th-Century Global Economy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference, Toronto, June 2024.
"Non-State Actors and US Foreign Relations Roundtable," Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Arlington, VA, June 2023.
"The Economic Cosmopolitanism of the US Women's Peace Movement, c. 1914-1971," Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, New Orleans, June 2022.
"America's Forgotten Free-Trade Socialists, c. 1846-1946," BrANCH-Kinder Conference, University of Missouri, April 2022.
"'America First,' Conspiracy Theories, and the 1888 Presidential Campaign," Remaking American Political History Conference, Purdue University, June 2019.
"America's Forgotten Marxist Free Traders," Marx and Marxism in America Conference, University of Nottingham, May 2019.
“Marxism and the Manchester School: An Unlikely Marriage,” Britain and the World Conference, University of Exeter, June 2018.
“The United States and the British World” Roundtable (convener/panelist), Britain and the World Conference, University of Exeter, June 2018.
“Free Trade and the Women’s Peace Movement: A Forgotten History,” European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Madrid, June 2018.
Chair/Commentator, “U.S./U.K. Political Economy of Money and Trade, 1846-1936,” European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Madrid, June 2018.
“American Anti-Imperialism and Economic Liberalism, 1846-1921,” Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, University of Helsinki, May 2018.
“The Transatlantic Economic Cosmopolitanism of American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1920,” The American Century? Conference, Rothermere American Institute, May 2018.
“Transnational Economic Ideas and Inter-Imperial Entanglements,” Reconfiguring Imperial Spaces: Intra- and Inter-Imperial Entanglements, Freie Universitat of Berlin, October 2017.
“Marx and Manchester: The Socialist Foundations of Post-1945 Globalization,” The Other Globalizers, University of Exeter, July 2017.
“Brexit in Historical Perspective,” Roundtable, Britain and the World Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2017.
Organizer and Chair, “Brexit and Food Prices: The Legacy of the Hungry Forties,” Global Economics and History Forum, History and Policy, King’s College, London, July 2016.
“British free trade and feminist peace internationalism in the early twentieth century,” Britain and the World Conference, King’s College, London, June 2016.
“The Political Economy of American Anti-Imperialism, 1846-1918,” Harmsworth Transimperial Conference, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, May 2016.
Roundtable Discussant and Organizer, The Roman World and the Future of Globalization Studies, Centre for Imperial & Global History, University of Exeter, May 2015.
“Richard Cobden’s American Free-Trade Legacy,” Britain and its World, c. 1830-1914, University of East Anglia, March 2015.
“Angell in America,” BrANCH-HOTCUS Conference, University of Reading, Sept. 2014.
“Adam Smith’s Imperial Legacy, 1870-1932,” “Economists and Power” Gide Conference, Lyon, France, June 2014 (by proxy).
“Closed Door Imperialism, 1890-1913,” BrANCH Conference, Houston, TX, April 2014.
“Charles Beard’s Open Door Legacy,” Charles Beard, Economic Interpretation, and History Conference, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK, April 2013.
“Adam Smith as Advocate of Empire,” Britain and the World Conference, Austin, TX, March 2013.
“The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism,” Inter-University United States Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, July 2012.
“The Gilded Age Tariff in Global Perspective,” Policy History Conference, Richmond, VA, June 2012.
Organizer of “The Civil War’s Diplomacy of Trade and Investment” Panel, and presenter of “The Civil War’s Free Trade Diplomacy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2011.
“American Cosmopolitanism as British Conspiracy: The Controversy of Free Trade in Gilded Age America,” Conference in Honor of Professor A. G. Hopkins, Austin, TX, April 2011.
“The Confederacy’s Diplomacy of Free Trade: Reconsidering the Transatlantic Tariff Debate, 1861-1865,” Civil War—Global Conflict, Charleston, SC, March 2011.
“The Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate: Great Britain and the Confederacy’s Diplomacy of Free Trade,” Porter Fortune Symposium on History, Oxford, MS, Oct. 2010.
Moderator, “Traveling Politics in the Cold War II” Panel at the Cold War Cultures Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 2010.
“The 1890 McKinley Tariff and the Demand for Canadian-American Unity,” presented at the Western Conference on British Studies, Austin, TX, Sept. 2010.
“The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890-1894,” presented at the 22nd annual British International History Group Conference, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, Sept. 2010.
Organizer of “Economic Diplomacy in the Age of New Imperialism: Rethinking Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Relations” Panel, and presenter of “Imperialism, Federation, and Unity: The Global Impact of the 1890 McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, WI, Summer 2010.
“100 Years before NAFTA: The 1890 McKinley Tariff and the Demand for Canadian-American Unity,” presented at the Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, Helsinki, Finland, Summer 2010.
“Imperialism and Protectionism: The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the Empire,” presented at the British Scholar Conference, Austin, Texas, Spring 2010.

Supervision

I have supervised numerous MA dissertations and have supervised two PhD students to completion. I am currently supervising two PhD students.

I welcome applications from students interested in my research areas, including those wishing to study remotely from the US.

Possible research topics and themes include:

British Imperialism
American Imperialism
Empires and Globalisation
British World/Greater Britain
U.S. Foreign Relations
Anglo-American Relations
Comparative Empires
Ideology and Imperial Expansion
Imperialism and Political Economy
Theories of Imperialism
History of Ideas
Peace Studies
Women and Foreign Policy

Research students

Donald Luxton, 2nd Supervisor (current), 'Constructing Methodism: Environments of Aggressive Evangelism in British Columbia'

Scott Meyer, 2nd Supervisor (current), 'New Zealand and Imperial Unity'

Yawei Han, 1st Supervisor (submitted/completed), '"The Remaking of Man”---- The Social Reform Proposals of Sidney and Beatrice Webb'

Phil Child, 2nd Supervisor (submitted/completed), 'The Heights of Modernity: The Labour Party and the Politics of Urban Transformation, 1945-70'

Publications

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2024

PALEN M-W. (2024) Pax Economica, JSTOR, DOI:10.2307/jj.7616627.
Palen M-W. (2024) Pax Economica, Johns Hopkins University Press, DOI:10.1353/book.122640.
Palen M-W. (2024) A NOTE ON THE TYPE, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 310-310, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-013.
Palen M-W. (2024) Introduction, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 1-12, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-004.
Palen M-W. (2024) 2 The Anti-imperialism of Free Trade: the liberal radical critique of imperialism and war, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 51-92, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-006.
Palen M-W. (2024) 5 Free Trade, Fraternity, and Federation: the economic cosmopolitanism of christian pacifism, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 153-187, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-009.
Palen M-W. (2024) 6 Pax Economica vs. Pax Americana: the left-wing free- trade fight against neocolonialism, neomercantilism, and neoliberalism, 1945–2022, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 188-222, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-010.
Palen M-W. (2024) 1 The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism: globalizing the American system of protectionism, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 13-50, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-005.
Palen M-W. (2024) 4 Free-Trade Feminism: the international feminist fight for free trade, anti-imperialism, and peace, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 118-152, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-008.
Palen M-W. (2024) Illustrations, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, ix-x, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-001.
Palen M-W. (2024) 3 Marx and Manchester: the pacifistic evolution of the socialist internationalist free- trade tradition, Pax Economica, De Gruyter, 93-117, DOI:10.1515/9780691205137-007.

2023

Palen M-W. (2023) Economic Nationalism in an Imperial Age, 1846–1946, The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 538-558, DOI:10.1017/9781108551458.027.

2022

Palen M-W. (2022) 5 Competing Free Trade Traditions in U.S. Foreign Policy from the American Revolution to the “American Century”, Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations, Columbia University Press, 113-134, DOI:10.7312/nich20180-006.

2021

Palen M-W. (2021) Pandemic Protectionism: Revisiting the 1918 “Spanish” Flu in the Era of COVID-19, Diplomatic History, volume 45, no. 3, pages 571-579, DOI:10.1093/dh/dhab014. [PDF]
Palen MW. (2021) Marx and Manchester: The Evolution of the Socialist Internationalist Free-Trade Tradition, c.1846-1946, International History Review, volume 43, no. 2, pages 381-398, DOI:10.1080/07075332.2020.1723677.

2020

Palen M-W. (2020) 7. Transimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846–1920, Crossing Empires, De Gruyter, 159-182, DOI:10.1515/9781478007432-009.
Palen M-W. (2020) The Open Door Empire, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present, John WIley & Sons, 271-287, DOI:10.1002/9781119166139.ch13.

2018

Palen MW. (2018) British free trade and the international feminist vision for peace, c.1846-1946, Imagining Britain's Economic Future, c.1800-1975: Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets, 115-131, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-71297-0_6.
Palen M. (2018) Empire by Imitation? US Economic Imperialism in a British World System, Oxford History of the Ends of Empire, Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713197.013.12.

2016

Palen M. (2016) U.S. Foreign Trade Policy from the Revolution to World War I, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Oxford University Press. [PDF]
Palen M-W. (2016) The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalization, 1846-1896, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316271353. [PDF]

2015

Palen MW. (2015) Free-Trade Ideology and Transatlantic Abolitionism: A Historiography, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, volume 37, no. 2, pages 291-304, DOI:10.1017/S1053837215000103.
Palen M-W. (2015) The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism, 1890-1913, Diplomatic History, volume 39, no. 1, pages 157-185, DOI:10.1093/dh/dht135. [PDF]

2014

Palen M. (2014) Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877, Wiley, 415-430, DOI:10.1002/9781118607879.ch21. [PDF]
Palen M-W. (2014) Adam Smith as advocate of empire, c. 1870-1932, The Historical Journal, volume 57, no. 1, pages 179-198, DOI:10.1017/S0018246X13000101. [PDF]

2013

Palen M-W. (2013) The Civil War’s Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy’s Free Trade Diplomacy, Journal of the Civil War Era, volume 3, no. 1, pages 35-61, DOI:10.1353/cwe.2013.0011. [PDF]
Palen M-W. (2013) Foreign Relations in the Gilded Age: A British Free-Trade Conspiracy?, Diplomatic History, volume 37, no. 2, pages 217-247, DOI:10.1093/dh/dht003. [PDF]

2012

Palen M-W. (2012) Carey, Henry Charles (1793–1879), The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9781350052451-0069.
Palen M-W. (2012) Carey, Mathew (1760–1839), The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9781350052451-0070.
Palen M-W. (2012) Raymond, Daniel (1786–1849), The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9781350052451-0333.
. (2012) A Canadian Yankee in King Cotton's Court, Civil War History, volume 58, no. 2, pages 224-261, DOI:10.1353/cwh.2012.0002. [PDF]

2010

Palen M-W. (2010) Protection, Federation and Union: The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890-94, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, volume 38, no. 3, pages 395-418, DOI:10.1080/03086534.2010.503395. [PDF]

External impact and engagement

Co-Director (with David Thackeray and Andrew Dilley), History & Policy Global Economics and History Forum, (2016-). The forum brings together academics, business groups, policy makers and the public interested in how understandings of historical trade relations can inform current policy debates through policy workshops and public seminars, in collaboration with History & Policy (King's College, London, and Cambridge University) and the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter.

Organizer and Chair, “Brexit and Food Prices: The Legacy of the Hungry Forties,” Global Economics and History Forum, History and Policy, King’s College, London, July 2016.
Written evidence submitted (co-authored with David Thackeray) to “Brexit: Trade in Food Inquiry” – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, UK Parliament (Oct. 2017), stemming from our “Brexit and Food Prices: The Legacy of the Hungry Forties,” Global Economics and History Forum, History and Policy, King’s College, London, July 2016.

Panelist, "Trade Wars: Deal or No Deal," Cambridge Festival of Ideas (20 Oct. 2018).

Contribution to discipline

Editor, Imperial and Global Forum (2013-present).

Co-editor (with Andrew Thompson, Johannes Paulmann, and Fabian Klose), Online Atlas on the History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights (2016-2019).

Team Member, Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (2015-2019), collaborative summer programme for advanced PhD students and early postdocs working on histories of humanitarianism and human rights, hosted by the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the University of Exeter, IEG Mainz, and the ICRC.

Member, Open Access Task Force, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2019-present).

Editorial Board Member, American Nineteenth Century History

Media

"Le libre-échange de gauche promettait d’instaurer la paix mondiale," Le Monde (4 April 2024).

"Monopoly's Forgotten Left-Wing Origins," Time Magazine (28 Feb. 2024).

"Pax Economica: The Forgotten History of the Free Trade Movement," Big Think (28 Feb. 2024).

Book Interviews with Joy LaClaire at Forthright Radio; Thomas Kingston at New Books Network; Michael Cullinane at The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

"The Dangers of President Trump's Favorite Word - Reciprocity," Washington Post (5 Nov. 2019).

"Competing Free-Trade Ideologies in US Foreign Policy," C-SPAN (31 May 2019).

"The Mind Behind Early American Protectionism," American Conservative (24 April 2019).

"These Persuasive Maps Want You To Believe," Citylab/Atlantic Monthly (27 Dec. 2018).

"Trade Wars Can Spark Geopolitical Conflict," CNBC (14 Dec. 2018).

"'You are Blind Like Us': WWI's Dead Have a Message for Us about Trade Wars," Business Standard (India) (11 Nov. 2018).

"Is Trump Really Ripping Up the Rule Book on Global Trade?" BBC History Magazine (Sept. 2018): 84-85.

"US vs China: Who Prevails in a Trade War?" World Finance (27 June 2018).

“Trade Wars,” Rear Vision, ABC (22 April 2018).

“Trump Says Trade Wars are Easy to Win. Here’s What History Tells Us About a Possible U.S.-China Conflict,” NBC News (16 April 2018).

"Tariffs and Trade Wars," Dan Snow's History Hit (10 April 2018).

“Can You Win a Trade War?” The Briefing Room, BBC Radio 4 (5 April 2018).

“Guerras comerciais: os vencedores ficam for a do ringue,” Exame (print, Portugal) (April 2018): 82-87.

“Protecionismo atual tem semelhanças com disputas que levaram a guerra mundial, diz historiador,” BBC Brasil (13 March 2018).

“What History Has to Say About the ‘Winners’ in Trade Wars,” New York Times (8 March 2018).

“Blue Steel: Tariffs, Trade and Trump,” Real Vision (8 March 2018).

“‘Trade Wars are Good’? 3 Past Conflicts tell a Very Different Story,” Conversation (5 March 2018), featured at, et al., the Washington Post, Salon, Raw Story.

"Protectionism and Empire: An Interview Marc-William Palen," Toynbee Prize Foundation (8 Jan. 2018).

"Decisions More Than A Century Ago Explain Why the US Has Failed Puerto Rico in its Time of Need," Washington Post (3 Oct. 2017).

“Protectionism 100 Years Ago Helped Ignite a World War. Could It Happen Again?” Washington Post (30 June 2017).

“The Civil War’s Arguments Rekindled,” Post and Courier (29 June 2017).

“Britain’s Imperial Ghosts Have Taken Control of Brexit,” Conversation (26 June 2017). Featured at Yahoo News.

"The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade," New Books Network Interview (30 Aug. 2016).

"How Mark Twain Became a Free Trader," Globalist Magazine (17 Aug. 2016).

"When Protectionism Dominated American Politics," Globalist Magazine (16 Aug. 2016).

"Trump and the Return of Economic Nationalism," Globalist Magazine (30 July 2016).

"Protectionism in the USA," BBC Radio 4 Analysis (30 May 2016).

"The Return of 19th-century Protectionism," Time Magazine and History Today (27 April 2016, print and online).

“History Repeating Itself? Free Trade is Once Again Tearing Apart the Republican Party,” Conversation, Newsweek, and Raw Story (14 April 2016).

"Trump's Protectionism," BBC World, Business Matters (23 March 2016, at 27:00).

"Trump's Anti-Trade Tirades Recall GOP's Protectionist Past," Conversation (16 Feb. 2016).

“US-Cuba Embargo Goes Beyond the Cold War,” History Today (21 Dec. 2014).

“Could Imperial History Help US Foreign Policy Makers?” History & Policy (24 Sept. 2014).

“Is Global History Suitable for Undergraduates?” Imperial & Global Forum (12 May 2014).

“Sleuthing the Origins of ‘Global History,’” New Global History Forum (3 Feb. 2014).

“In Defense of Global History,” Imperial & Global Forum (20 Nov. 2013).

“The Great Civil War Lie,” New York Times (5 June 2013).

“The Protectionist Side of Outsourcing,” History & Policy (May 2013).

“Obama’s Atlantic Pivot,” The Globalist (20 Feb. 2013).

“America’s 51st State,” The Australian (28 Dec. 2012).

“Will Puerto Rico Become the 51st State?” History News Network (10 Dec. 2012).

“Return of the Paranoid Style,” History News Network (15 Oct. 2012).

“Containing China,” The Australian (18 May 2012).

Teaching

Modules taught

Biography

I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previous to arriving at the University of Exeter, I studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where I completed a BA in the Classics (2003), an MA in History (2009), and a PhD in History (2012) under the supervision of H. W. Brands and A. G. Hopkins. I have previously taught history at Tufts University and have been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where I was then a Research Associate in U.S. Foreign Policy (2012-15). I have also been a long-term fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society (2022), and a research fellow at the Harry Ransom Center (2017), Smith College (2015), the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (2015), Stanford's Hoover Institution Library and Archives (2015), a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford's Rothermere American Institute (2015) and at Yale's International Security Studies, and have been awarded the 2013-14 W. A. Williams Junior Faculty Research Award by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Samuels Young Scholars Award by the History of Economics Society. I have previously been a Departmental Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (2011); Marc Friedlander Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society (2010-11); Research Fellow, New York Public Library (2010-11); Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (2010); Canadian Embassy Doctoral Fellow (2010-11); and a Churchill Scholar of British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009-11). My commentary has featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, the BBC, the Australian, the Globalist Magazine, and Foreign Policy in Focus, among others. I am also the editor of the Imperial & Global Forum, the blog of the Centre for Imperial & Global History @ExeterCIGH, and co-director of the Global Economics and History Forum (History & Policy, London @HandPGlobal). You can follow me on Twitter @MWPalen

My academia.edu profile containing links to my publications is available at: http://exeter.academia.edu/MarcWilliamPalen

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