The Joint Centre for History and Economics is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established in 1991 to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, whether through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic and social thought, or through economic history.

The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in each of the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance. These include economic security, globalization in historical perspective, poverty and inequality, and the relationship between politics and religion. In cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas, Sites of Asian Interaction: Networks, Ideas, Archives, The Interaction between Political, Economic and Religious Ideas, and India in the Modern World.

• The Centre for History and Economics is delighted to congratulate Amartya Sen on the award of the National Humanities Medal for 2011.
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• We are delighted to announce that Pernille Røge, a College Lecturer in History and Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, and a Mellon Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2006-2007 and Director of Studies at the Centre since 2010, has been appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh from autumn 2012. We congratulate her warmly.

• We are delighted to announce that Daniel Matlin, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at Queen Mary since 2010, and a Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2003-2004 and later Director of Studies in 2009-2010, has been appointed Lecturer in the History of the United States since 1865 at King's College London from autumn 2012. We congratulate him warmly.

• We are delighted to announce that Gabriel Paquette, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2001-2002, has been selected for the 4th Balzan-Skinner Fellowship and will spend Lent 2013 in Cambridge. We congratulate him warmly.

• We are delighted to congratulate Emile Chabal, Prize Research Student at the Centre in 2006-07, and Robert Watson, affiliated Centre student in 2007-09 in connection with the Digitization of History project, on being elected to Junior Research Fellowships at St John's College, Cambridge.

• We are delighted to announce that Tracy Dennison, Research Fellow at the Centre and Robinson College in 2004-06 and Professor of History at Caltech since 2006, was awarded the first mognograph prize at the recent Economic History Society Conference for the book deriving from her Cambridge PhD thesis, The institutional framework of Russian serfdom (CUP, 2011). We congratulate her warmly.

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