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Stefania Galli

Universitetslektor, biträdande

Avdelningen för ekonomisk historia
E-post
stefania.galli@gu.se
Besöksadress
Viktoriagatan 13
41125 Göteborg
Rumsnummer
627
Postadress
Box 625
40530 Göteborg

Om Stefania Galli

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

Prior to this appointment, she served as an 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 nineteenth century West Africa.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of Economic History and Development Economics. She studies how inequality emerges, persists, and changes over time, with a particular focus on how institutions such as slavery, colonialism, and discriminatory social structures continue to shape opportunities and living conditions in the Global South today. Her work also examines the effects of trade policy at different societal levels and explores the mechanisms that reproduce unequal access to resources, power, and socio economic mobility across generations. More broadly, she is interested in understanding how marginalized groups can break persistent patterns of exclusion and gain access to positions of influence, and how institutional change can foster more inclusive societies.

Her research relies on a multidisciplinary, quantitative approach applied to archival sources. Her work spans Sub Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, and South East and South Asia.

Her work has been published, amongst others, in Explorations in Economic History, The Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Cliometrica, Social Science History, and History of the Family.

She welcomes enquiries concerning collaborations and supervision.

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Forskningsområden

  • Institutions, Colonialism and Slavery

  • Social and Economic Inequality

  • Gender and Occupational patterns

  • Trade and Development

Pågående forskning

Avslutade forskning

  • Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean plantation economy, 1750s to 1917 (2019 - 2024)

Undervisningsområden

  • Trade and Development

  • Global Economic History

  • Research Methods and Quantitative Methods

Utvalda publikationer

Galli, S., D. Theodoridis, and K. Rönnbäck (2024). Elite persistence and Inequality in the West Indies, 1760-1914. Explorations in Economic History, 94(2)

Galli, S., K. Rönnbäck, and D. Theodoridis (2024). ‘Reconstructing a Slave Society: Building the DWI Panel, 1760-1914’. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History , 57(3), 163–184

Galli, S. (2022). “Socio-economic status and group belonging: Evidence from Early Nineteenth-century Colonial West Africa”. Social Science History, 46(2), 349-372

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), 115-137

Galli, S. and K. Rönnbäck (2020). ‘Colonialism and Rural Inequality in Sierra Leone: An Egalitarian Experiment’. European Review of Economic History 24(3), 468-501