Teaching Fellows

Nicholas Foster is a historian of capitalism and U.S. political economy. Specializing in the post-1980 financialized U.S. economy, he is interested in how social values structure economic policy. His first project investigates how, even as financialization wrought a new type of capitalism, older cultural narratives framed understandings of how to formulate and implement public policy through the 1980s. Specifically, the virtuous producer ideal, rooted in America’s agricultural past, continued to shape political imaginations for problem-solving in this new economic era. Nicholas earned his MA in US History (2016) from Tulane University and PhD in History (2023) from the University of Chicago.