Dorothy Ross Professor of History, Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Louis Hyman is the Dorothy Ross Professor of History. He received his B.A. in History and Mathematics from Columbia University and his PhD in History from Harvard University. He is the author of 3 books and 2 edited collections on American economic history. Before joining the Hopkins faculty, he was the Neufeld Founders Professor of History and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Since 2013, he overseen the “History of Capitalism Summer Camp” which teaches econometrics and economic theory to history graduate students and faculty around the world, and most recently has been supported by the Hewlett Foundation. He teaches an undergraduate and graduate course on “AI and Data Methods in History” that incorporates recent advances in LLMs to further historical research.