Department of History

Isabel’s research focuses on the history of economic development in the United States, with a particular interest in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She aims to contribute to a historically grounded understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship, and modern economic theory. Isabel holds a B.A in History of Science with a Secondary in Economics from Harvard College, where she studied the economic history and management structure of nineteenth-century plantation slavery. Before coming to Brown, she was Coordinator of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, where she co-wrote a bibliographic guide to the history of U.S. industrial slavery with Walter Friedman for the Business History Review.

Relevant links: A Guide to the History of Industrial Slavery in the United States