Friday, October 15, 12:00 pm

Canedo is an historian and Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow and Member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton.

This event was cosponsored by the History Department and by the Rethinking Regulation project.

Eduardo Canedo earned his Ph.D. in History at Columbia University with a dissertation on “The Rise of the Deregulation Movement in Modern America, 1957-1980.” His study, which he is revising for publication, examines the postwar origins of an anti-regulatory critique, the emergence of a broad-based coalition seeking structural reform, and the 1970s political ferment that produced successful deregulatory initiatives. His narrative and case studies offer new perspectives on the decline of New Deal liberalism, the emergence of economic conservatism, and the activism of the 1960s and 1970s. Over the past year he has supplemented this project with new research on the role of think tanks (such as Brookings, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for the Study of American Business) in fostering deregulation and the experience of administrative reform during the early 1980s. At Princeton, Canedo is teaching an eclectic set of undergraduate seminars, including “The Wars Within: Patriotism, Protest and Propaganda in Modern America,” “American Economic Crises, 1873-2009,” and “America in the 1970s.” He is also the resident faculty fellow at Princeton’s Whitman College.