Assistant Professor
Department of History
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
213-821-3128
bsheehan@usc.edu
Professor Sheehan's research lies at the intersection of politics, society, and economics. It addresses a series of questions: How did people come to trust financial institutions? What was the relationship between capitalism and authoritarianism? How did economic institutions shape Chinese elite structures and state-society relations?
Education:
Ph.D. (Modern Chinese History), University of California, Berkeley, 1997
Selected Publications:
Sheehan, B.G. (2006). The modernity of savings. In J. Goldstein & M. Yue Dong (Eds.), Everyday modernity in China (pp, 121-155). University of Washington Press.
Sheehan, B.G. (2005). Myth and reality in Chinese financial cliques. Enterprise and Society, 452-491.
Sheehan, B.G. (2003). Trust in troubled times: Money, banks and state-society relations in republican Tianjin. Harvard University Press.
Sheehan, B.G. (2000). Urban identity and urban networks in cosmopolitan cities: Banks and bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937. In J. Esherick (Ed.), Remaking the Chinese city: Modernity and national identity, 1900-1950 (pp. 47-64). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii.