Recent Presentations

  • "Floor Rules: The Unwritten Code of the Exchange"

    Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference | Chicago, IL | July 2014

  • "When Insider Trading was Legal"

    Library of Congress | Washington, DC | April 2012

  • "Social Networks on the Exchange Floor"

    Social Science History Association Annual Conference | Boston, MA | November 2011

  • Lecture and Book Signing

    Library of Congress | Washington, DC | November 2011

  • "Follow the Money"

    Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association | Baltimore, MD | October 2011

Earlier Speaking Engagements

Additional presentations (2004-2010) addressed topics including:

  • Chicago Board of Trade and futures markets origins
  • Missouri's Civil War financial and military dynamics
  • Historical GIS methodologies and boundary changes
  • Mid-19th century entrepreneurship in St. Louis banking
  • Administrative state development during the Civil War era

Notable venues included the Economic History Association, American Historical Association, University of Chicago's Computation Institute, and the University of Sydney in Australia.