Jeremy Goodwin

Senior Lecturer in History

Jeremy Goodwin is a historian of the modern United States, with particular interests in the history of capitalism, economic policymaking, and the history of ideas. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where his dissertation won the History Department’s 2026 Messenger-Chalmers prize.

His current book project traces the efforts of American social scientists and policymakers to use entrepreneurship to combat poverty and promote economic growth across the second half of the twentieth century. An article drawn from this research is forthcoming in the journal Modern American History.

His teaching interests include U.S. business history, the politics of economic inequality, and the history of political economic thought.