Dr Sean Vanatta
Sean Vanatta is a Lecturer in U.S. Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Glasgow, he taught at New York University and at Princeton, where he got his PhD.
Sean's research examines the political economy of finance in the modern U.S., with an emphasis on the ways that regulation and financial strategies evolve together over time. He is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (Yale, 2024) and co-author, with Peter Conti-Brown, of Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in the United States (Princeton, forthcoming). He is currently developing two new projects. The first examines the transformation of public pension fund investment strategies across the twentieth century. The second explores the relationships between the interwar internationalization of U.S. banking, sovereign debt markets, and the banking crises of the 1930s.
