Edward J. Balleisen

Edward J. Balleisen is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University.  His most recent book is: Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017).  Other volumes include Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America (2001); Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (2009, co-edited with David Moss); and a three volume research collection, Business Regulation (2015).  He has won three teaching prizes at Duke, and is a leader in the national conversation on reconfiguring doctoral education in the humanities.