Barbara Hahn, Ph.D.
Email: Barbara.Hahn@ttu.edu
Dr. Hahn studies and teaches southern history and global history, agriculture, the
history of capitalism and the history of technology.
Her research has been supported by the Harvard Business School, the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association, the National Humanities Center, and a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to the European Union, among others.
In addition, Dr. Hahn is a member of Moving Crops and the Scales of History, a scholarly project funded by and located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. This project uses historical agricultural cases to re-write global history, undermining teleological assumptions about the movement from local to global, from small farms to large, from the pre-modern to modern. Learn more at: "Moving Crops and the Scales of History"
Research Interests
Her first book, Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) examined the relationship between the tobacco industry and tobacco agriculture over three centuries. The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans (with Bruce E. Baker, Newcastle University) was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. This book investigates cotton futures trading and the regulation of new financial derivatives in the Progressive Era. She is currently at work on an undergraduate-level history-of-technology treatment of Technology in the Industrial Revolution for Cambridge University Press.Excellence in Cotton & Natural Fibers Research Network
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