Jeffrey Sklansky specializes in the intellectual and social history of capitalism in colonial America and the United States. Originally from southern California, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and taught at Oregon State University from 1997 to 2011, when he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago. At UIC, he teaches undergraduate and graduate history courses on capitalism, radicalism, care labor, property, intellectual history, and environmental history.
Sklansky has also written a series of wide-ranging essays on the rise of the history of capitalism as a major field of American historical scholarship in the years since the financial crisis of 2008. He is currently researching and writing on the pension system, institutional investment, and new conceptions of trust and care since the 1970s.
For potential graduate students, Sklansky is currently accepting new students in early American history, intellectual history, labor history, and the history of capitalism.
