Olga Koulisis

Education

• Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• M.Ed., Worcester State University
• B.A., Boston University 

Publications

• “Organizing Minds and Managing People: J.P. Morgan Bankers on Transatlantic Consolidation of Communication and Capital, 1917-1920,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 23, Issue 3, 2024.
• “Democracy for Some: Greek-American Institutions and the Greek Junta, 1967-1974,” The Commonwealth Review of Political Science Vol. 6, No. 1 (2023).
• "Meet Me in the Classroom: History Surveys for Democratic Politics," The Journal of American History Vol. 108, Issue 4 (2022).
• Review of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age by Noam Maggor in Essays in History Vol. 52, (2018).

Conference Presentations

• “Banker Public Efforts to Normalize Transatlantic Cooperation, 1918-1924,” The Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, Kent University, July 2022.
• “Banking on Collaboration: Morgan Public Efforts to Promote a Cooperative Ethos, 1914-1920,” Business History Conference Annual Meeting, March 2020.
• “History, States, and Cooperation: Morgan Public Efforts to Promote the League of Nations, 1918-1920,” Business History Conference Sponsored Panel on “U.S. Business and the Ideal of Internationalism” at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, June 2019.
• “European Visions, American Geography: U.S. Financial Consolidation and the Morgan Defense at the Pujo Hearings, 1912-1913,” New England Historical Association, October 2018.
• “Acts of Historical Imagination: Morgan Assessment of Bond Risk, 1915,” New Approaches to Economic History session, Young Scholars Initiative at the World Economic History Congress, July 2018.

Courses Taught

• The Transformation of America, 1877-1929
• Making Modern America, 1919-1960
• American Foreign Relations Since 1898
• History of American Capitalism
• Graduate Readings in U.S. History
• United States History Since 1865
• World Civilizations II
• Introduction to Teaching Humanities
• Teaching History

Research Interest 

• Non-state actors and U.S. foreign relations;
• Business, state, and society in the United States from the Progressive Era to the present