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Stefania Galli is an Assistant Professor at the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg.

Prior to this appointment, she has been serving as a LSE fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg for her work on social stratification in 19th century West Africa.

Her research interests fall at the crossroad between Economic History and Development Economics, with a focus on the impact of institutions (e.g., slavery and colonialism) on inequality and development in the Global South, and on the effect of trade liberalization on different groups in society during the first wave of globalization.

Recent Publications

Original articles (peer reviewed)

1. Galli, S., K. Rönnbäck and D. Theodoridis (forthcoming). ‘Reconstructing a Slave Society: Building the DWI Panel, 1760-1914’, accepted for publication in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.

2. Galli, S., D. Theodoridis and K. Rönnbäck (2023). ‘Historical economic inequality in Latin America and Africa: Can a comparison of historical trajectories help to understand underdevelopment?’ Economic History of the Developing Regions, 38(1), pp. 41-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.2024073

3. Galli, Stefania. (2022). “Socio-economic status and group belonging: Evidence from Early Nineteenth-century Colonial West Africa”. Social Science History, 46(2), pp. 349-372. https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2021.47

4. Rönnbäck, K, O. Broberg and S. Galli (2022). “A Colonial Cash Cow: The Return on Investments in British Malaya, 1889-1969”. Cliometrica, 16, pp. 149-173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-021-00223-8

5. Galli, S. and K. Rönnbäck (2021). ‘Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831’. The Economic History Review 74(1), pp. 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13020

6. Galli, S. and K. Rönnbäck (2020). ‘Colonialism and Rural Inequality in Sierra Leone: An Egalitarian Experiment’. European Review of Economic History 24(3), pp. 468-501. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez011

7. Galli, Stefania. (2019) ‘Marriage Patterns in an Alleged Egalitarian Society: Evidence from Early Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone’. The History of the Family 24(4), pp. 744-768. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1637361

8. Rönnbäck, K, S. Öberg and S. Galli (2019). ‘Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’: Epidemiological Risk and Compensating Wage Differentials on the 18th century Gold Coast’. Journal of Migration History, 5(3), pp. 438-465. https://brill.com/view/journals/jmh/5/3/article-p438_438.xml

Dissertation

Galli, S. (2019). A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-century Colonial Sierra Leone. Gothenburg Studies in Economic History, 22. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/58172

Pre-prints

1. Theodoridis, D., K. Rönnbäck and S. Galli (2024). The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 33.

2. Rönnbäck, K, S. Galli, D. Theodoridis and K. F. Larsen (2024). The persistence of wealth: economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 35.

3. Galli, Stefania. (2024). Occupational structure in a black settler colony: Sierra Leone in 1831. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 36.

4. Galli, S., D. Theodoridis and K. Rönnbäck (2024). Thriving in a declining economy: Elite persistence in the Danish West Indies in the face of major economic and institutional shocks, 1760-1914. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 37.

5. Rönnbäck, K, S. Galli, and D. Theodoridis (2024). Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s1880s. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 36.

6. Rönnbäck, K, D. Theodoridis and S. Galli (2024). Slavery, resistance and repression: a quantitative empirical investigation. Göteborg Papers in Economic History no. 38.

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Expertise by Geography

Africa, Caribbean, Central America, Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Economic History, Emancipation, Family, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Race, Slavery, Women