Stefania Galli

Associate Senior Lecturer

Economic History

Mail

stefania.galli@gu.se

Visiting address

Viktoriagatan 13

41125 Göteborg

Room number

627

Postal address

Box 625

40530 Göteborg

About Stefania Galli

Stefania Galli is an Assistant Professor at the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg.

Prior to this appointment, she has been serving as a LSE fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg for her work on social stratification in 19th century West Africa.

Her research interests fall at the crossroad between Economic History and Development Economics. On the one hand, her reearch focuses on the impact of institutions (e.g., slavery and colonialism) on inequality and development in the Global South. On the other hand, she is interested in examining the effects of trade policy at different societal levels, macro- and micro-.

Her research relies on a multi-disciplinary, quantitative approach applied to archival sources. Her work has been published, amongst others, in Explorations in Economic HIstory, The Economic History Review, European Economic History Review, Cliometrica, Social Science History.

She welcomes enquiries concerning collaborations and supervision.

On other web sites

Research areas

Institutions, Colonialism and Slavery
Social and Economic Inequality
Gender and Occupational patterns
Trade and Development

Research in progress

WETPOL - Welfare Effects of Trade Policy Instruments: evidence from the nineteenth century British sugar market

Completed research

Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean plantation economy, 1750s to 1917, 2019-01 - 2022-12

Teaching areas

Trade and Development
Global Economic History
Research Methods and Quantitative Methods

Selected publications

Galli, S., D. Theodoridis, and K. Rönnbäck (2024). Elite persistence and Inequality in the West Indies, 1760-1914. Explorations in Economic History, 94(2)

Galli, S., K. Rönnbäck, and D. Theodoridis (2024). ‘Reconstructing a Slave Society: Building the DWI Panel, 1760-1914’. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History , 57(3), 163–184

Galli, S. (2022). “Socio-economic status and group belonging: Evidence from Early Nineteenth-century Colonial West Africa”. Social Science History, 46(2), 349-372

Galli, S. and K. Rönnbäck (2021). ‘Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831’. The Economic History Review 74(1), 115-137

Galli, S. and K. Rönnbäck (2020). ‘Colonialism and Rural Inequality in Sierra Leone: An Egalitarian Experiment’. European Review of Economic History 24(3), 468-501