Nic Johnson

University of Chicago, History (department page)

npj@uchicago.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Chicago
  • ABD, thesis title: American Keynesianism
• M.A. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University (2015)
  • ABD PhD candidate until 2017
• B.A.s in Math, Statistics, and Economics, University of Minnesota, Morris (2013)

Research:

• “Times of Interest,” New Left Review 143, Sept-Oct 2023
• “Imperial Fed,” Phenomenal World, Jain Family Institute (2023)
• “Reconstructing Finance,” Phenomenal World, Jain Family Institute (2021)
• “Expecting Robert Lucas,” MA Thesis, under review at Modern Intellectual History
• “Time-of-Day Pricing: The Secret to Incentivizing Photovoltaic Distributed Generation?” Fall-Spring (2011-12), supervised by A. Kildegaard, Center for Small Towns
• “A Path Dependent Phillips Curve: Hysteresis in Unemployment,” NCUR (2013)

Teaching Experience:

• Graduate Student Lectureship, Power, Identity, Resistance (Fall 2020)
• TA, Power, Identity, Resistance (Winter & Spring, 2020)
• TA, Early Modern World Economic History (Winter 2019)
• Deans Teaching Fellowship, History of Economics (Spring 2017)
• Lecturer, The Marginal Revolution (January-term course)
• TA, Elements of Microeconomics, two years
• TA, Economics of Discrimination (Spring 2016)
• TA, Macroeconomic Theory I (graduate), two years
• Lecturer, AP Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Community Courses

Awards and Scholarships:

• Visiting Scholar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, 2022-3
• Shapiro Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 2017 – 2022
• T. Rowe Price Fellowship at Johns Hopkins 2013 – 2017
• Chris Berg Outstanding Senior in Economics 2013, University of Minnesota
• Scholar of the College 2013, University of Minnesota
• Sun M. Kahng Scholarship for Economics 2013, University of Minnesota

Book Reviews:

• “After Free Trade,” Boston Review, of Eric Helleiner, The Neomercantilists
• “In the Common Interest,” Boston Review, of Ariel Ron, Grassroots Leviathan
• Organized Roundtable on Destin Jenkins’ Bonds of Inequality, Jain Family Institute

Popular:

• “The Biden infrastructure bills and America’s traditional approach to economic growth,” Washington Post
• “The American Anti-Austerity Tradition,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• RGK, An occasional Public History Podcast on Political Economy

Service:

• Workshop Coordinator, History and Theory of Capitalism Workshop, 2021-2
• Council Member, History Graduate Student Association, 2020-1
• Economics for Historians Summer Workshop, 2018
• Class representative for Economics, Graduate Student Association, Johns Hopkins 2013-6

Research Interests:

• Historical Capitalism
• Intellectual History
• America in the World
• International Political Economy
• Monetary theory

Research Languages: English, Spanish, German, R, Stata, Java, Python, MATLAB

Hobbies: Jujitsu, Chess

Press: Interview-profile with Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy