Conversation on New History of Capitalism

• Department of History

A Conversation with Doctor Madeleine Dungy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Doctor Madeleine Dungy work focuses on international trade policy in the first 20th century. She is currently completing a comparative monograph, Order and Rivalry: Rewriting the Rules of International Trade after the First World War, which explores competing visions of international economic order by focusing on four European figures in the framework of the League of Nations between 1900 and 1930.

The book aims at documenting the shift of the 1920s towards new multilateral methods of commercial regulation when facing new challenges such as the marginalization of Europe in global markets and the collapse of continental empires in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Doctor Madeleine Dungy holds a PhD in History from Harvard University and is currently a visiting lecturer in the College of Humanities at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She teaches this year a seminar on Governing global migration at the EPFL and started a project which traces the emergence of international migration policies in the middle decades of the twentieth century.