Mark J Zwynenburg Lecture Series ft. Sarah Quincy

Mark J Zwynenburg Lecture Series

Sarah Quincy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from UC Davis in 2019 and her B.A. in Mathematical Economics and History from Scripps College. Her research focuses on American macroeconomic and financial history, with particular emphasis on the distributional implications of financial crises. She is an economic historian examining how banking instability and financial disruptions affected different segments of society throughout the 20th-century United States. Dr. Quincy's dissertation research was recognized with the 2020 Allan Nevins Prize, awarded annually for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history. Her work combines rigorous quantitative analysis with historical investigation to illuminate how financial crises shape patterns of credit access, employment, housing, and wealth distribution across communities and time periods.

Established in 2013 to honor Mark J. Zwynenburg '81, the Mark J. Zwynenburg Professorship supports the Department of Economics in recruiting and retaining exceptionalyy qualified faculty engaged in teaching and research investigating financial history issues.

This inaugural lecture series advances the professorship's mission by bringing leading financial history scholars to our campus, enriching our acadmeic community and demonstrating the excellence in scholarship and intellectual engagement that define the professorship.