Louis Galambos

Professor
Economic, Business, and Political History of the
United States with emphasis on institutional change
in the period since 1880

The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
2850 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone: 410-516-7598
E-mail: galambos@jhu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 12:01-1:41pm at the MSE Library, Study B70

Curriculum Vitae

I am professor of History and Editor, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, at The Johns Hopkins University. I have taught at Rice University, Rutgers University, and Yale University, and have served as President of the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. A former editor of The Journal of Economic History, I have written extensively on U.S. business history, on business-government relations, on the economic aspects of modern institutional development in America, and on the rise of the bureaucratic state. The Eisenhower Project has now published seventeen volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower and will complete this major project in 2001.

My central interest for some years has been the process of innovation in public and private organizations. My recent publications include Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 (coauthor), and pharmaceutical Firms and the Transition to Biotechnology: A Study in Strategic Innovation, Business History Review, 72 (Summer 1998), 250-78 (co-author). Other books and articles include Theodore N. Vail and the Role of Innovation in the Modern Bell System; Competition and Cooperation; The Public Image of Big Business in America; America at Middle Age; The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth (co-author); and The U.S. Corporate Economy in the Twentieth Century, in volume 3 of The Cambridge Economic History of the United States.

In addition to editing The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, I have edited the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Economic History and Policy: The United States in the Twentieth Century. At Johns Hopkins University Press, I have edited The Johns Hopkins/AT&T Series in Telephone History and has published extensively on the historical development of America's telecommunications system.

I have an A.B. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Yale University and am a former Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. I have been a Business History Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and a Fellow at the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Center and Princeton University's Davis Center.

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