Education
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2015
Christopher England
Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Expertise
19th and 20th century United States political economy, intellectual history, social movements and news media
Biography
In 2023, Christopher England published his first book Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism, the history of a social movement that sought to alleviate inequality by redistributing urban rents. His research has been featured in American Experience, De Correspondent, The New Books Network, The New Liberal Podcast, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, KZSU Stanford, Civic Story and The New York Times.
He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Stanford University and Georgetown University. He has also worked in public history as a curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He joined Towson University鈥檚 history department in 2023. He is currently researching a second book on Social Darwinism and U.S. education.
Selected Publications
Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
鈥淗erbert Spencer.鈥� In The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers, edited by Brett A. Geier, 611-624. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2024.
鈥溾�楲and Monopoly鈥� and 20th Century American Utility Policy.鈥� History of Intellectual Culture 11, no. 1 (2018): 1-19.
鈥淛ohn Dewey and Henry George: The Socialization of Land as a Prerequisite for a Democratic Public.鈥� The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 77, no. 1 (2018): 169-200.
Reviews
Review of The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights by Jo Guldi. Urban History 51, no. 3 (2024): 660-662.
Review of The Mismeasure of Progress by Stephen J. Macekura. History: Reviews of New Books 21, no. 3 (2021): 78-80.
鈥淭he New Robber Barons." Review of Freaks of Fortune, by Jonathan Levy, and A Nation of Counterfeiters by Stephen Mihm. Essays in History 47, no.1 (Winter 2013): 1-14.