Office:   Atrium 217
Phone:   (973)720-3025
Email:   koistinend@wpunj.edu
Office Hours:   M 1:30-2:30; T 2:00-3:00; R 2:00-3:00; By Appointment

Department: History
Position: Associate Professor
Area Specialization: Modern U.S. economic and political history

Education

PhD, American History--Yale University, 1999

M.Sc, Economic History--London School of Economics, 1991

BA, History and Economics--University of California at Berkeley, 1987

Selected Publications:

“Development Credit Corporations:  Not-for-Profit Development Finance Institutions in the Postwar United States,” Business History, forthcoming. 

“Reform Politics in Hard Times:  Battles Over Labor Legislation During the Decline of Traditional Manufacturing in Massachusetts, 1922-1928,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 35 (Winter 2007), 21-51. 

 “Public Policies for Countering Deindustrialization in Postwar Massachusetts,” Journal of Policy History 18:3 (Summer 2006), 326-61.

 “The Causes of Deindustrialization:  The Migration of the Cotton Textile Industry from New England to the South,” Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History 3:3 (September 2002), 482-520.

Presently completing a book project on the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England.   

Fellowships, Awards, & Grants

Assigned Release Time for Research (ART), Fall 2007 (3 credits), Fall 2008 - Spring 2010 (12 credits), Fall 2010-Spring 2011 (6 credits)

Summer Stipend, Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, Research Grant, Summer 2004 and Summer 2005

Hewlett Junior Faculty Research Grant, American University of Beirut, Spring 2003

University Research Board New Faculty Research Grant, American University of Beirut, 2002

Finalist, Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in North American History, 1999

Alfred Chandler Traveling Fellowship, Harvard Business School, 1996

Enders Dissertation Research Grant, Yale University, 1996

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University, 1995

Smith-Richardson Research Grant, Yale University, 1995

University Fellowship, Yale University, 1992