International Studies

Phone:

(812) 856-7721

Email:

smacekur@indiana.edu

Website:

https://stephenmacekura.com/

Department:

International Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Research Summary

I am a scholar of U.S. and global history, with a particular focus on U.S. foreign relations, international political economy, development, and global environmental history. I am the author of Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of  Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and co-editor, with Erez Manela, of The Development Century: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2018). I have also published numerous articles, book chapters, and review essays.

My latest book explores criticisms about how the concept of “economic growth” has been defined, assessed, and measured across the world. Titled The Mismeasure of Progress, the book was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2020.

Educational Background

• Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, 2013
• M.A., History, University of Virginia, 2008
• B.A., Dartmouth College, 2006

Regions of Interest

• The United States
• The Global South

Research Topics

• History of political economy and international development
• History of U.S. foreign relations and international politics
• Environmental history

Representative Publications

• Co-editor, with Erez Manela, The Development Century: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• “Crisis and Opportunity: Environmental NGOs, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Rise of ‘People-Centered’ Conservation,” Environment and History, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 2016), 49-74.
• Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)