ABSTRACT
Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of History at the University of Rochester, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was born in New York, New York in 1936 and was educated at New York University (B.S., 1956; M.B.A., 1958) and at The Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1963). Following a year at Yale, he joined the economics faculty at the University of Rochester in 1963. He has served since 1982 as Associate Editor of Explorations in Economic History. Engerman was President of the Economic History Association in 1985 and of the Social Science History Association in 1992. He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1985 and in 2005 was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. With co-author Robert W. Fogel, Engerman was awarded the 1975 Bancroft Prize in American history for Time on the Cross. He was honored in 2004 with Slavery in the Development of the Americas, a Festschrift edited by David Eltis, Frank Lewis and Kenneth Sokoloff. The interview was conducted in March, 2000 (via email, fax and telephone) by A P (T) O’B of Lehigh University.
