As a writer and researcher, I utilize my deep historical and economic knowledge to both produce rigorous scholarship and solve problems in the present.• As a research assistant at the University of Chicago, I have worked on six academic books on topics including the political history of Austria, Eastern European immigration to the United States, globalization and deglobalization between the World Wars, and the history of Austria-Hungary during the First World War. • At C2 Education, I teach nine college level classes, including AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP U.S. Government and Politics, and AP US, European, and World History. I previously was a lecturer in the History of European Civilization at the University of Chicago. Committed to the idea that both the liberal arts and STEM fields are essential to understanding the modern world, I encourage students to develop both their qualitative and quantitative skills.• In my dissertation, "Nation, Economy, and State in the Habsburg Monarchy and Its Successor States, 1848-1923," I explore the tension between the economic development and integration of East Central Europe with the emergence of German and Czech economic nationalism, arguing that the persistence of a pragmatically liberal commercial and financial class played key roles in promoting trade and investment during the nineteenth century, attempting to build an economically-united Central European empire during the First World War, and undermining the efforts of both nationalists and socialists to remake the European economy in the aftermath of the Treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain, and Trianon.Specialties: Economic and political policy analysis, data analysis and statistics, U.S. and European economic history, money and banking, economic theory, economics and foreign policyContact me: eric.phillips4@gmail.com
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