Vitae of Dr. Dalit Baranoff
Home Office
11703
Goodloe Road
,
Silver Spring
,
MD
20906
Phone:
(301) 949-2590, Cell: (240) 888-2207
E-mail:
dalit.baranoff@gmail.com
EDUCATION
The
Johns
Hopkins
University
,
Baltimore
,
MD
Ph.D.,
Department of History, May 2004; M.A., May 1997
U.S.
History Fields: Business and Economic, Social and Cultural, Women’s, and
History of Technology
Dissertation:
Shaped By Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790-1920.
·
Charts the development of one
of the earliest risk management industries in the
United States
.
·
Proposes that risk management
has been an overlooked factor in shaping firms, industries, and society.
Brown
University
,
Providence
,
RI
B.A.,
magna cum laude, May 1995 (concentration in History)
Honors
Thesis: The Rise and Fall of the
New England
Auto Industry, 1895-1908
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow:
Dot Com History Project
Robert
H.
Smith
School
of Business,
University
of
Maryland
,
College Park
,
MD
·
Primary purpose: to archive the
Dot Com Era (1994-2002), with a focus on failed companies.
·
My contributions: research,
writing, and collecting on-line “oral histories” of former dot com workers.
Project web site: http://www.dotcomarchive.org.
(Fall 2003-Spring 2005)
Research Assistant: National
Bureau of Economic Research/National Science Foundation
Project
on Patenting and Technology Transfer, Directed By Naomi Lamoreaux and Ken
Sokoloff (UCLA)
(Fall 1992- Summer 2000)
Teaching
Adjunct Professor:
University
of
Maryland
,
College Park
“History of the
United States
since 1865” (Fall 2005)
“The Emergence of Modern
America
, 1900-1945” (Fall 2005)
Adjunct Professor:
George Washington University
,
Washington
, DC
“Introduction to American
History II: 1876 to Present” (Fall 2003)
Instructor:
Loyola
College
,
Baltimore
,
MD
“The United States Since the
Civil War” (Summer 2000)
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship: The
Johns Hopkins University
Designed and taught undergraduate
course: “Women at Work in
America
, 1780-1980” (Spring 2000)
Teaching Assistant: The
Johns
Hopkins
University
“Undergraduate Seminar in
History” (Fall 1996-Spring 1997)
“The Transformation of American
Institutions, 1890 to the Present” (Spring 1998)
Other
Editor, American Institute For
CPCU/Insurance Institute Of
America
Content editor for insurance and
risk management textbooks (Fall 2004)
Reviewer, A.P. Central
Reviewed source material for
Advanced Placement history teachers (January 2002-July 2003)
PUBLICATIONS
“The Great Chicago Fire,” Encyclopedia of American Urban History, (forthcoming).
“Shaped By Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790-1920”
(Dissertation summary), Enterprise and
Society, 2005 6(4):561-570.
"Fire Insurance in the
United States
," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples.
October 1, 2004
.
URL: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=Baranoff.Fire.final
“A Policy of Cooperation: The Cartelization of American Fire Insurance,
1873-1906,” Financial History Review,
10, 2 (October 2003).
“Insurance,” in: Cynthia
Northrup (editor), The History of
U.S.
Economic Policy, 1600s-2000 (
Santa Barbara
,
CA
: ABC-Clio, 2003).
(with Etti Baranoff) “Trends in Insurance Regulation,” Review
of Business,
St. Johns
University
(Fall 2003).
(with Etti Baranoff and Thomas Sager) “Nonuniform Regulatory Treatment
of Broker Distribution Systems,” Journal
of Insurance Regulation, 19 (Fall 2000): 94-129.
“Principals, Agents, and Control in the American Fire Insurance
Industry, 1799-1872,” Business and
Economic History, 27 (Fall 1998): 91-101.
Book Reviews
Maines
, Rachel, “Asbestos & Fire: Technological Trade-offs and the Body at
Risk,” Business
History Review (forthcoming).
Stuart, Guy, “Discriminating Risk: The
U.S.
Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century,”
Enterprise
and Society, 5 (September 2004):
550-51.
Tebeau, Mark, Eating Smoke: Fire in
Urban
America
, 1800-1950, Economic History Services,
Jun 17, 2004
,
URL http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0797.shtml
Trebilcock, Clive. “
Phoenix
Assurance and the Development of British Insurance: Volume II, The Era of the
Insurance Giants, 1870-1984,” The
Journal of Economic History, 60 (December 2000): 1142-44.
Ward, James A. “The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company,” The
Journal of Economic History, 56 (September 1996): 751-52.
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Shaped by Risk: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1790-1920,” Dissertation
Plenary (Krooss Prize Session), Presented at the Business History
Conference,
Minneapolis
,
MN
, May 2005.
"My Boss Rocks": Exceptionalism in the Dot-Com Workplace,”
(with David Kirsch). Paper presented at the Business History Conference,
Minneapolis
,
MN
, May 2005.
“The Future of the Past: The Archival Donut, Open Source History and the
Challenges of Exploring the Business History of the Dot Com Era,” (with David
Kirsch). Paper presented at the Business History Conference,
Le Creusot
,
France
, June 2004.
“The Evolution of Fire Insurance Rating, 1790-1920.” Paper presented
at the History of Technology Colloquium,
University
of
Maryland
,
College Park
,
MD
, March 2004.
“Insurance Boards and the Control of Risk in the American Fire Insurance
Industry, 1873-1906.” Paper presented at the Business History Conference,
Miami
,
FL
, April 2001.
“Great Fires, Bankruptcies,
and the Failure of Market Pricing in the American Fire Insurance Industry,
1835-1872.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Economic History
Association,
Baltimore
,
MD
, October 1999.
“Principals, Agents, and Control in the American Fire Insurance
Industry, 1799-1872.” Paper presented at the Business History Conference,
College Park
,
MD
, March 1998.
“A Policy of Cooperation: Risk Reduction and the Fire Insurance Industry
in
Baltimore
, 1882-1904.” Paper presented at the Economic and Business Historical Society,
Richmond
,
VA
, April 1996.
AWARDS
Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Prize,
Business History Conference (2005)
Dissertation Fellowship in Business and American Culture, The Newcomen
Society of the
United States
(1999/2000)
John
E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History,
University
of
Illinois
Foundation (1999/2000)
George
Owen Fellowship,
School
of
Arts
and Sciences,
Johns
Hopkins
University
(1995/1996, 1996/1997, 1997/1998)
Alfred
D. Chandler, Jr. Traveling Fellowship,
Harvard
University
,
Graduate
School
of Business Administration (1998)
Research
Fellowship, Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and
Enterprise
Studies (1997)
Mellon
Research Fellowship,
Virginia
Historical Society (1997)
Clarkson
A. Collins, Jr. Prize in American History,
Brown
University
(1995)
Pell
Medal Award, Department of History,
Brown
University
(1995)
Home
Page