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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 91̽.

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 91̽. She holds a PhD from the University 91̽ 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 91̽ 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.

Galli, S., K. Rönnbäck, and D. Theodoridis (2024). ‘Reconstructing a Slave Society: Building the DWI Panel, 1760-1914’.

Galli, S. (2022). “Socio-economic status and group belonging: Evidence from Early Nineteenth-century Colonial West Africa”.

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

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