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First Name
D'Maris
Last Name
Coffman
Affiliation
University College London
Website URL
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DCOFF28
Keywords
Financial history, economic history, fiscal history, history of economic thought, infrastructure economics and finance, climate change economics and finance
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About Me

I joined UCL in September 2014 as a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the USA) in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at CPM here at UCL Bartlett.  In February 2017, I was appointed Interim Director (Head of Department) of BSCPM. In late January 2018, I was appointed to a professorial chair in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment with effect from March 2018.

Before coming to UCL, I spent six years as a fellow of Newnham College where I variously held a junior research fellowship (Mary Bateson Research Fellowship), a post as a college lecturer and teaching fellow, and a Leverhulme ECF. In July 2009, I started the Centre for Financial History, which I directed through December 2014. It is still going strong, but has moved from Newnham College to Darwin College in line with the affiliation of its new director.

I did my undergraduate training at the Wharton School in managerial and financial economics and my PhD in History from the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, my doctoral research in the UK was funded in part by the Mellon Foundation under the guise of an IHR pre-doctoral fellowship and an SSRC international dissertation fellowship. I have lived in the UK more or less continuously since 2005. I am a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Recent Publications

Please see my attached webpage.

Media Coverage
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2017/12/how-bitcoin-resembles-south-sea-bubble
Country Focus
UK and Western Europe
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, British Isles, England, France, United Kingdom, United States, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Expertise by Topic
Capitalism, Economic History, Government, Higher Ed, Politics, Science