Curriculum Vitae
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Mark W. Geiger
CURRENT POSITIONS
Independent Scholar.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011-12. Kluge Fellow, John W. Kluge Center.
University of Sydney, 2010-13. Honorary Research Fellow, United States Studies Centre.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2010–11. Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics.
University of Sydney, 2009-10. Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Studies Centre.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2008–9. Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA Center for Economic History.
University of Minnesota, 2006–8. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Minnesota Population Center.
University of Missouri, 2001–4. Teaching Assistant, Department of History.
William Woods University, 1993–2002. Assistant Professor, College of Graduate and Adult Studies.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of Missouri, 2006
M.A., History, University of Missouri, 2000
M.B.A., The Wharton School, 1975
B.A., Carleton College, 1971
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865, Yale Series in Economic and Financial History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Journal articles
“Follow the Money,” The Journal of the Civil War Era 2, no. 2 (June 2012): 298-303.
“Indebtedness and the Origins of Guerrilla Violence in Civil War Missouri,” Journal of Southern History 75, no. 1 (February 2009): 49–82.
“Missouri’s Hidden Civil War: Financial Conspiracy and the End of the Planter Elite, 1861–65,” Journal of Economic History 68, no. 2 (June 2008): 579–84.
“Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri’s Banks, 1861–70,” Business and Economic History On-Line 3 (December 2005).
Reviews:
“Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community 1861-1865,” by Barton A. Myers. American Nineteenth Century History 12, no. 2 (June 2011).
“Jayhawkers: The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane,” by Bryce Benedict. The Journal of the Civil War Era 1, no. 1 (March 2011): 110-12.
“Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant’s District of Cairo,” by T. K. Kionka. Journal of Southern History 73, no. 4 (November 2007): 916-17.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book, Floor Rules: Insider Culture in Financial Markets. To be published by Yale University Press.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Tom Watson Brown Book Prize, Society of Civil War Historians, 2011.
Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association, 2011.
John W. Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011-12.
Lincoln Prize Finalist and Honorable Mention, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College, 2011.
Honorary Research Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2010-13.
Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2010.
United States Studies Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2009–10.
Center for Economic History Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008–9.
Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins, Economic History Association, 2007.
Distinguished Dissertation Award co-winner, University of Missouri, 2007.
Minnesota Population Center Proposal Development Grant, University of Minnesota, 2006.
Nels Andrew Cleven Prize, Phi Alpha Theta, 2006.
Alfred D. Chandler Travel Grant, Business History Conference, 2005.
Frank F. and Louise I. Stephens History Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2004.
Allen Cook White, Jr. Fellowship Fund, University of Missouri, 2003.
Richard S. Brownlee Fund Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 1997 and 2001.
Faculty Development Grant, William Woods University, 1996.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Floor Rules: The Unwritten Code of the Exchange,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, July 11, 2014.
“When Insider Trading was Legal,” John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, April 19, 2012.
“Social Networks on the Exchange Floor,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, November 19, 2011.
Lecture and book signing, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, November 2011.
“Follow the Money,” Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association. Baltimore, MD, October 28, 2011.
Civil War Authors Roundtable, Battle of Lexington (Missouri) Sesquicentennial Commemoration, September, 2011.
“Where does Financial Innovation Start? Influence Networks in the Early Chicago Board of Trade,” Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, July, 2011.
Author Interview, Civil War Talk Radio, March 2011
“The Chicago Board of Trade and the Origins of Futures Markets,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2010.
Book Launch and Lecture, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2010.
Author Interview. United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2010.
“Community Military Mobilization and Guerrilla Violence in the Civil War,” Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2009.
“War and the Administrative State: Military Mobilization and the American Civil War, 1861–62,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Miami, FL, October 2008.
Discussant, “Price and Currency Movements in the Long Run,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Miami, FL, October 2008.
“A Retrospective Panel of Mid Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurs: St. Louis Bank Promoters, 1857–61,” Economic History Association Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, September 2008.
“The ‘Shifting Sands’ Problem: Changing Political Boundaries and Historical GIS,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
Columbia University Prize in American Economic History in Honor of Allan Nevins — Finalist Presentation, Economic History Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, September 2007.
“Bushwhacking and the Self-Destruction of Missouri’s Planter Elite, 1862–65,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
“Rebel War Financing in Civil War Missouri, 1861–62,” Southern History Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
“Sectional Loyalties and Institutional Transformation in Missouri’s Banks, 1861–70,” Business History Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2005.
“Financing Rebellion: Missouri’s Slaveholding Elite and the Push for Secession,” Missouri Conference on History, Jefferson City, MO, April 2004.
“Democracy in Extremis: Missouri’s State Election of 1862,” Missouri Graduate Student History Conference, Columbia, MO, March 2004.
PANELS ORGANIZED
“Urban Transformations,” Economic History Association Annual Conference, New Haven, CT, September 2008.
“Guerilla Violence in the American Civil War: Contemporary Perspectives,” American Historical Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006.
“Contested Loyalty, Contested Rights: Property, Disfranchisement, and the Courts in the Civil War Border States,” Southern History Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Economic History Association, 2011–13, 2014-present. Member, Board of Trustees.
Economic History Association, 2011-13, 2014-present. Chair, Budget and Audit Committee.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2011-present. Member, Lincoln Prize Advisory Committee.
International Economic History Association, 2009–present. Member, Audit Committee.
Social Science History Association, 2010–14. Economics Network Representative.
Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2007–8. Member, Advisory Board, Newspaper Digitization Project.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2009. Visiting Lecturer, Department of History.
- • Financial Crises Past and Present
Undergraduate courses taught:
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2001–4. Teaching Assistant, Department of History.
- • Survey of American History to 1865
- • Survey of American History from 1865
- • African-American History
- • America’s Environmental Experience
Undergraduate courses taught:
William Woods University, Fulton Missouri, 1993–2002. Assistant Professor, College of Graduate and Adult Studies.
Designed four MBA courses (one-third of the degree requirements) and developed all teaching materials. These courses were then taught throughout the program.
MBA courses designed and taught:
- • Financial Decisions
- • Research Methods in Business
- • Accounting for Managers
- • Management Systems
Undergraduate courses taught:
- • Corporate Finance
- • International Trade
- • Accounting
- • Marketing Research
- • Auditing
- • Consumer Behavior
- • Money and Banking
- • Introduction to Business
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories, Inc., Columbia, Missouri, 1990–93. Vice President—Chief Administrative Officer. Responsible for computing, facilities, purchasing, office services. Member of the Executive Committee.
Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1986–90. Vice President—Special Projects. Worked on special projects assigned by the Executive Committee and the Chief Financial Officer to restructure the company’s operational and financial controls, and its approach to risk management.
Paramount Communications, Inc., New York, New York, 1981–85. Audit Manager—MIS. Managed audit department responsible for all data center and computer application review activities in the corporation (65 data centers). Jointly responsible for operational review of all 212 business units in the corporation.
Arizona State Government, Phoenix, Arizona, 1978–81. Project Manager—Income Tax Systems. Directed the applications programming team responsible for developing and maintaining systems for individual and corporate income tax processing, withholding, billing, and IRS coordination.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic history and economic sociology, financial markets, banking, law and economics, and social networks.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Public Accountant, New York State, 1985-present. License number 051623.
FINRA Series 7, Full General Securities Representative, 1988-1990.
LANGUAGES
French—reading proficiency
German—reading proficiency
AFFILIATIONS
American Economic Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Business History Conference, Economic History Association, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Social Science History Association, Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association