Pr. Adia Harvey Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is also Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity.

As of September 1, 2022, the CSO is pleased to welcome two guest researchers: 

Mallory Hope is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. Her research seeks to understand economic development and financial capitalism from the perspective of early-modern overseas trade. Mallory’s dissertation is a history of preindustrial insurance markets in France. She is building a large, original database of marine insurance rates that were charged during the eighteenth century to cover merchandise, ships, and African captives sent to sea.