I’m an Associate Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in History at Wadham College, Oxford. I am a co-editor of Modern British History (OUP).
My first book, The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire, came out in May 2024 from Princeton University Press.
I am now working on three questions. The first is about currency: how the old bond between money and sovereignty was remade in the twentieth century, and why that bond looks less certain today. The second is about debt: how working-class and ethnic minority communities lived with credit, debt and the financialization of everyday life. The third is about natural resources: how the struggle to own and extract water, minerals and oil became a central part of international politics in the twentieth century. I also keep up long-standing interests in labor and deindustrialization, gender and economics, and the history of feminism.
I have written on the history of consumerism, corporate social responsibility, humanitarianism, and famine relief in the American Historical Review, Past & Present, and the Journal of British Studies among other places. A full list of my academic work is here.
I completed my PhD in History at University of California, Berkeley in December 2015. I held a Past & Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research, London and a research associateship at the Center for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, I was also the Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer at Balliol College, University of Oxford. In 2023, I was selected as a British Academy Visiting Fellow hosted at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the University of Oxford, I was an Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in the Department of History at Emory University.
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My email is tehila [dot] sasson [at] history [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk