Department of History

21 Williams Hall
dougfor@bgsu.edu
419 • 372 • 8284

Dr. Douglas Forsyth, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1987).  Dr. Forsyth is author of The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1913-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is co-editor (with Daniel Verdier) of The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered (Routledge, 2003); and (with Ton Notermans) of Regime Changes: Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulation in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s (Berghahn, 1997). Prior to joining the Bowling Green faculty,  Dr. Forsyth taught at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, he co-chaired the Italian Studies group. He is currently at work on a book-length project with the working title: “Transparency: The Institutionalization of Information Flows in the Economies of Britain, Germany, and the United States since 1870.”