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PIPE Collaborative

Antebellum Political Economy Conference

Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California
February 21, 2023

All paper presentations will be in 308 Lewis Hall (RGL).

9:15 am to 10:00 am: Light Breakfast

10:00 am – 11:15 am: Paper 1

What Happens When the States Regulate First? Analyzing Governance of the Telegraph Industry in the Antebellum United States,” Srinivas “Chinnu” Parinandi (University of Colorado)
Discussant: Paul Rohde (University of Michigan)

11:15 am – 12:30 am: Paper 2

Congress and the Political Economy of the Indian Removal Act, Jeffery A. Jenkins (University of Southern California) and Thomas R. Gray (University of Texas at Dallas)
Discussant: Noel Maurer (George Washington University) 

12:30 am – 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm: Paper 3

Repression of Enslaved Americans’ Protest: A Model of Escape in the Antebellum South,” Trellace Marie Lawrimore (New York University)
Discussant: Chad Kendall (USC Marshall)

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm: Paper 4

Voting with their Feet: Differential Migration of the Free in the Antebellum United States,” C. Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan) and Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)
Discussant: Leticia Arroyo Abad (CUNY-Queens College)

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Paper 5

Growth, Demographics, Slavery, and Voting in U.S. Gubernatorial Elections, 1840-1860,” Alex Jensen (University of Colorado), Madeline Mader (University of Colorado), Srinivas “Chinnu” Parinandi (University of Colorado), Anand Sokhey (University of Colorado), and Michael Byrd (University of Colorado)
Discussant: D. Roderick Kiewiet (Caltech) 

6:15 pm: Dinner (TBD)