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Mark Hendrickson

Associate Professor

BIO

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Mark Hendrickson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. His recent publications explored how American mining engineers and economic geologists working abroad since the 1880s helped shape the development of 20th-century American capitalism, science, and foreign policy.  He is currently working on a book that uses the element antimony to explore some of these same issues. Mark recently held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship, which provided him with the opportunity to study aspects of the mining industry with scholars at Colorado School of Mines and Michigan Technological University.

 

Publications

  • Antimony: A Critical Unknown Element in US Mineral History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Forthcoming Spring 2027) 

  • “Engineering Knowledge and the Emergence of China as a Global Leader in
    Antimony Production” in Ted Beatty and Israel G. Solares, An Engineered World: The
    Role of Engineers in Global Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2025), 123-152.

  • “Coal Mining, Resource Anxieties, and Regimes of Governance: A Roundtable on Victor Seow’s Carbon Technocracy,” Toynbee Prize Foundation Roundtable, October 2024.
  • “In time of stress, a civilization pauses to take stock of itself:” Adolf A. Berle and the Modern Corporation from the New Era to 1933” Seattle University Law Review (January 2019),  361-383.
  • “Advance Agent of Expanding Empires: George F. Becker, the United States Geological Survey, and Mineral Exploration in South Africa and the Philippines” History and Technology (September 2019), 237-265.
  • “The sesame that opens the door of trade:” John Hays Hammond and foreign direct investment in mining, 1880-1920,”Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16 (July 2017), 325-346 
  • American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) [publisher information pdf] 
  • “Steering the State: Government, Nongovernmental Organizations, and the Making ofLabor Knowledge in the 1920s,” in Doug Guthrie and Elisabeth Clemens, Politics and Partnerships: Associations  and Nonprofit Organizations in American Governance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2010)
  • “Gender Research as Labor Activism:  The Women’s Bureau in the New Era,” The Journal of Policy History 20 (Fall 2008); 482-515
  • “Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking 20th Century American Social Thought” International Labor and Working Class History Journal 65 (Spring 2004); 157-160
  • “Wagner Act,”  “Department of Labor,” and “Works Progress Administration” entries in Alice O’Connor and Gwendolyn Mink, Poverty and Social Welfare in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and Policy (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004)

Courses

  • DOC 2: Justice
  • HILD 2C: The United States in the 20th Century
  • HITO 87: Panic!
  • HITO 87: Major Issues in U.S. Economic History
  • HIUS 140/ECON 158: U. S. Economic History I
  • HIUS 141/ECON 159: U.S. Economic History II
  • HIUS 145: New Era, New Deal
  • HIUS 181: In the Public Interest