Christopher L. Colvin
Queen’s University Management School, Queen’s University Belfast
Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 5EE, UK
Phone: +44 (0)28 9097 4735; Email: [email protected]; URL: http://go.qub.ac.uk/chriscolvin
Academic and professional appointments
Lecturer in Economics, Queen’s University Management School, Queen’s University Belfast (since 2012)
Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (2011–2012)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Management, London School of Economics (2010)
Economic Analyst (part-time), Office of Fair Trading, London (2006–2007)
Research and visiting positions
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis (Fall Quarter 2014)
Visiting Scholar, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Nov. 2012 & Nov. 2013)
Research Associate, Queen’s University Centre for Economic History, QUB (since 2012)
Education
PhD Economic History, London School of Economics (2006–2011)
Thesis title: Religion, competition and liability: Dutch cooperative banking in crisis, 1919–1927
Advisors: Gerben Bakker, Joost P.B. Jonker and Max-Stephan Schulze
Examiners: Herman J. de Jong and John D. Turner
Visiting Student, Universiteit Utrecht (Autumn 2009)
Visiting Student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spring 2008)
MSc Economic History (Research), with distinction, London School of Economics (2005–2006)
BSc Economics, University of Bristol (2002–2005)
Professional honours
Winner of the Economics Network Best New Lecturer Award ‘in recognition of exemplary teaching
practice that encourages understanding of and inspires interest in economics’ (2013)
Winner of the European Business History Association Dissertation Prize ‘for the best business history
PhD dissertation submitted to a European university in the previous two years’ (2012)
Winner of the Hunt Prize, awarded by the LSE Department of Economic History ‘for the most
outstanding MSc Economic History (Research) Dissertation’ (2006)
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Scholarship
Refereed articles
‘Predicting the past: understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s’ (with
Abe de Jong & Philip Fliers), Explorations in Economic History (in press).
‘Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the
Netherlands?’ (with Eoin McLaughlin), Economic History Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (2014), pp. 492516.
‘Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, Müller & Co.
and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s’, Business History, vol. 56, no. 2 (2014), pp. 314-334.
Book reviews
Book review of: Financial crises: causes, consequences, and policy responses (edited by S. Claessens,
M. Ayhan Kose, L. Laeven & F. Valencia, International Monetary Fund, 2014), Reviewed in: Economic
History Review (forthcoming, 2015).
Book review of: Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850-1930
(edited by D.R. Green, A. Owens, J. Maltby & J. Rutterford, Oxford University Press, 2011), Reviewed
in: Business History, vol. 54, no. 4 (2012), pp. 642-643.
Other articles
‘De bankencrisis van de jaren twintig’ (with Abe de Jong & Philip Fliers), Economisch Statistische
Berichten, vol. 99, no. 4689/4690 (2014), pp. 434-437.
‘In antitrust we (do not) trust’, Accounting Historians Journal, vol. 39, no. 2 (2012), pp. 118-120.
‘What determines interbank competition? And why should we care?’, Oxonomics, vol. 4, no. 2 (2009),
pp. 10-20.
Papers in preparation
‘Gender and numeracy: quantifying human capital accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland’ (with
Matthias Blum, Laura McAtackney & Eoin McLaughlin), invitation to revise and resubmit, Economic
History Review.
‘Religion and risk: Dutch cooperative banking in the turbulent twenties’, invitation to revise and
resubmit, Journal of Economic History.
‘Bank stability and shareholder liability: the great middenstandsbank experiment’.
Fellowships and grants
Initiatives and Conference Fund (£2,000), Economic History Society (2014)
Promising Academic International Programme (£5,000), QUB (2014)
University of Edinburgh Challenge Investment Fund (£8,500), with Eoin McLaughlin and Matthias
Blum (2013)
Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid of Research (US$5,000), Economic History Association (2012)
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Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, EUI (2011–2012)
Marie Curie Research Training Network Predoctoral Fellowship, Economic History Initiative, Centre
for Economic Policy Research (2008)
Doctoral Studentship, Economic and Social Research Council (2007–2010)
Professional service
University service
Library Representative, Economics Group, Queen’s University Management School, QUB (since 2014)
Website Officer, Queen’s University Management School, QUB (since 2013)
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Economic History, LSE (2006–2008)
Academic service
Committee Member, Economic and Social History Society of Ireland (since 2013)
Editorial service
Editor, QUCEH Working Paper Series, QUB (since 2014)
Co-editor, eabh Papers, European Association for Banking and Financial History (since 2014)
Editorial Board Member, RePEc NEP Economic History Blog, http://www.nephis.org/ (2012–2014)
Refereeing service
Academic journals: Business History, Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History,
Explorations in Economic History, Financial History Review, Journal of Co-operative Organization and
Management, Journal of British Studies
Funding bodies: Economic and Social Research Council
Seminar, workshop and conference organisation
Organiser, Long-Run Perspectives on Crime and Conflict, two-day workshop sponsored by the Economic
History Society, held at Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast (2014)
Local Organiser, Financial History New Scholars Workshop, one-day workshop sponsored by the
European Association for Banking and Financial History, held at QUB (2014)
Organiser, Innovation and Incentives in Business and Economic History, one-day workshop, Queen’s
University Centre for Economic History, QUB (2013)
Co-organiser, The Embeddedness of Markets Today: Returning to Karl Polanyi to think Development,
Markets, and Financial Crises, Classics Revisited Conference, Max Weber Programme, EUI (2012)
Co-organiser, Protecting Intellectual Property Rights or Creativity?, Multidisciplinary Research Workshop, Max Weber Programme, EUI (2011)
Co-organiser, Meet the Archivists, annual research skills workshop, UK Business Archives Council,
hosted by Rothschild (2009) & HSBC (2010)
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Convenor, Cliometrics Group, bi-weekly research seminar in quantitative economic history for internal
and external speakers, LSE (2008–2010)
Conference chairing and discussing
Chair and Discussant, Financial Policy and Pay-Out, parallel session, Annual Conference of the
European Business History Association, Utrecht (2014)
Chair and Discussant, Financial History New Scholars Workshop, one-day workshop, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (2013)
Chair, Managing Risk, parallel session of the Economic History Society Annual Conference, St.
Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (2012)
Chair, The Changing Role of Banks in Corporate Governance, parallel session, Annual Conference of
the European Business History Association, Glasgow (2010)
Professional membership
Economic History Association (US), Economic History Society (UK), Economic and Social History
Society of Ireland, European Business History Association, European Historical Economics Society
Invited presentations
Seminars and workshops
2015: Economics Seminar, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; Economic and Social History Seminar,
University of Oxford
2014: Economics Seminar, University of Bath; Economics Seminar, Cardiff Business School; Agricultural Economics Seminar, Technische Universität München; Economic History Brown-Bag Seminar,
University of California, Davis
2013: Political Economy, Economic History and Religion Workshop, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
fuer Sozialforschung; Institute for Economics, Econometrics and Finance Seminar, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen; Economics Seminar, Queen’s University Management School
2012: Agricultural Economics Seminar, Technische Universität München; Queen’s University Centre
for Economic History Workshop, QUB; Economic History Seminar, Universität zu Köln; Economics
and Finance Seminar, Queen’s University Management School; Centre for the History of Medicine in
Ireland Workshop, University College Dublin
2011: Cliometrics Group Seminar, LSE; Monetary History Group Seminar, London; Economic History
Society Women’s Committee Workshop, Oxford
2010: Business History Seminar, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; Business History Unit Seminar, LSE;
Business Economics Seminar, Universiteit Antwerpen; Financial History Seminar, Newnham College,
Cambridge
2009: Economic History Workshop, Yale University; Economic History Workshop, Nuffield College,
Oxford; Financial History Group Seminar, Universiteit Utrecht
Conferences
2015: Economic History Society, Wolverhampton
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2014: Scottish Economic Society, Perth; Economic and Business History Society, Manchester
2013: European Historical Economics Society, London; Economic and Social History Society of Ireland,
Galway
2012: Economic History Society, Oxford; FRESH Meeting, Pisa; Dissertation Session, European
Business History Association, Paris
2011: Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture, Washington DC; Association of
Business Historians, Reading; European Historical Economics Society, Dublin; Social Science History
Association, Boston
2010: New Researchers’ Papers, Economic History Society, Durham; FRESH Meeting, Belfast;
European Business History Association, Glasgow; European Rural History Organisation, Sussex;
Economic History Association, Evanston
2009: World Economic History Congress, Utrecht
Teaching and supervision
Undergraduate teaching
Module Coordinator and Instructor, Economic History, elective level-3 module for BSc Economics, BSc
Business Economics and BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics, QUB (Spring 2014; Spring 2015)
Module Coordinator and Instructor, Industrial Organisation, core level-2 module for BSc Economics,
QUB (Spring 2013; Spring 2014; Spring 2015)
Module Coordinator, Undergraduate Economics Dissertation, elective level-3 module for BSc Economics,
QUB (Spring, 2014)
Instructor (with Graham Brownlow), Economics of Organisations, core level-1 module for BSc Business
Economics and BSc Business Management, QUB (Spring 2013)
Instructor, Industrial Policy and the Crisis, seminar for business and economics students learning
English as a Foreign Language, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (May 2012)
Graduate teaching
Instructor, EABH Financial and Monetary History Summer School, summer school for PhD students
in financial history, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (July 2014)
Instructor (with Youssef Cassis), Current Trends in Economic History, seminar series for PhD students
in history, EUI (Spring 2012)
Teaching Assistant (to Leslie Hannah), Business in the Global Environment, core module for CEMS
Master’s in International Management, LSE (Autumn 2010)
PhD supervision
Stuart Henderson (supervised jointly with John Turner), QUB (since 2013)
Nikita Lychakov (supervised jointly with John Turner), QUB (since 2014)
Pedagogical training and accreditation
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2014)
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Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education Teaching, QUB (2014)
Workshop on Supervising Research Students, QUB (2013)
Residential Workshop for New Economics Lecturers, The Economics Network (2012)
Max Weber Programme Teacher Training Certificate, EUI (2012)
Media experience
Media coverage
Research on the Dutch banking crisis of the 1920s profiled on NPO Radio 5 (21 October 2014)
Contribution to the RePEc NEP Economic History Blog featured in FT Alphaville (12 March 2012)
Research on the history of universal banking in the Netherlands profiled in Time (12 August 2008)
Op-ed articles
‘A conflict of interest in CCEA’s dual role in education?’ (with Niall Boyd), Slugger O’Toole, 31 October
2013.
‘Response to past crises shames post-Lehman dithering’ (with John Turner), The Conversation, 13
September 2013.
‘Lessen van Nederlands vorige grote bankencrisis’ (with Abe de Jong & Philip Fliers), Me Judice, 15
February 2013.
‘Don’t send Royal Mail to highest bidder’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 4 November 2009.
‘Splitting banks up is not the answer’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 20 June 2009.
‘The Goodwin farce makes the law an ass’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 7 April 2009.
‘Peston’s run’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 28 February 2009.
‘Savers: stop moaning’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 9 February 2009.
‘Just watch the GDP’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 24 January 2009.
‘Gold in them thar banks?’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 29 December 2008.
‘Will the VAT cut work?’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 11 December 2008.
‘Our chance for a working regulatory regime’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 15 November 2008.
‘The rocket scientists’ crash landing’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 21 October 2008.
‘The price of stability’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 18 October 2008.
‘The Great Depression looms again’, Comment is Free, The Guardian, 13 October 2008.
Last updated: December 2014