Mary O'Sullivan

MARY A. O’SULLIVAN is Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Her research focuses on the history of capitalism and the history of economic thought with a particular interest in profit, work, wages and technology, and capital. O’Sullivan was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for 2016-2017, and a member of its Beirat (scientific board) from 2017 to 2023. She served as the president of the Business History Conference in 2017-2018 and her book, Dividends of Development: Securities Markets in the History of U.S. Capitalism, 1866-1922, published by Oxford University Press, was awarded the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award in Business History in 2019. O’Sullivan was invited to give the Eli F. Heckscher Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2019, the Tawney Lecture to the Economic History Society in 2021, as well as the Penrose Lectures at SOAS University of London in 2021. Her current research focuses on the history of profit and she was recently awarded an SNSF Advanced Grant for a 5-year research project, The Fabric of Profit: European Textiles in Global Perspective, 1750-1850, which will run from June 1st, 2023 – May 31st, 2028