To Safya Morshed, LSE Fellow within the Department, who has been award the Luzzatto Prize at the recent European Historical Economics Society conference. Named after Italian economic historian Gino Luzzatto (1878-1964), the prize is awarded for the best PhD dissertation on European Economic History.
To Jason Lennard, Assistant Professor within the Department, who has been awarded the Figuerola Prize at the recent European Historical Economics Society conference. The biannual prize, named in honour of Laureana Figuerola, the most outstanding liberal economist in 19th century Spain, is awarded to the best article published in the European Review of Economic History. You can read the article Sticky wages and the Great Depression: evidence from the United Kingdom here.
To Leigh Gardner, Professor within the Department, who has been awarded the Lindert-Williamson Prize at the recent Economic History Association conference. The prize is awarded biennially for the most outstanding book in global, African, Asian, Australian and/or South American History. You can read more about the book: Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the age of empires, 1822-1980 here.
To Nick Fitzhenry, PhD student within the Department, who was the 2023 winner of the LSE Class Teacher awards.
To Andres Guiot-Isaac and Sabine Schneider, LSE Fellows within the Department, who were highly commended in the same category.