Josef Nothmann

Josef Nothmann is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, visiting doctoral student in the Global History of Capitalism Project, and the 2019-20 Queen Elizabeth Scholar, St. Peter's College, Oxford. His dissertation examines the rise and fall of commodity futures markets in Germany from liberalization (1860s) and unification (1870s) to Depression and dictatorship in the 1930s, and thus provides new perspectives on the German path of capitalist development. Previously Josef was a fellow of the Berlin Program at the Freie Universität Berlin, a DAAD fellow at the Humboldt Universität, and a Leo Baeck Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation.