The Political Economy of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Conference
Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California
June 6, 2023
All paper presentations will be in 103 Lewis Hall (RGL).
9:00 am – 10:00 am: Light Breakfast
10:00 am – 11:00 am: Paper 1
“Media, Secret Ballot, and Democratization in the US,” Juan Felipe Riaño (Stanford University)
Discussant: Melissa Rogers (Claremont Graduate University)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Paper 2
“Linking Party and Congressional Agendas: New Datasets on Policymaking During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” E.J. Fagan (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Brooke Shannon (University of Pittsburgh)
Discussant: Kathy Bawn (UCLA)
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: Paper 3
“Damming the West: Sectionalism and the Passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902,” Michael Greenberger(University of Denver)
Discussant: Pamela McCann (USC)
2:15 – 3:15 pm: Paper 4
“Reform Reconsidered: The Effects of Form of Government,” Alexander Sahn (University of North Carolina)
Discussant: Daniel Thompson (UCLA)
3:15 – 3:30: Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Paper 5
“Gilded Age Doughfaces,” David Alexander Bateman (Cornell University)
Discussant: Nicholas Napolio (UC-Riverside)
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Paper 6
“Symbols of Oppression: The Role of Confederate Monuments in the Great Migration,” Francesco Ferlenga (Brown University)
Discussant: Samuel Bazzi (UC-San Diego)