Cathy Matson

• Professor
• Graduate Studies Chair
  
  
• E-mail: cmatson@udel.edu
• Phone: (302) 831-2371
• Office: 121 John Munroe Hall
  
  
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Cathy Matson teaches courses in the early modern Atlantic World, colonial America, evolutionary America, and U.S. Historiography, and is currently engaged in researching the comparative regional economies of New York City and Philadelphia from roughly 1720 to 1820. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1985. Publications include A Union of Interests (1990; repr. Ppb. 1997); Merchants and Empire (1998; repr. Ppb. 2002); The American Experiment (2001; 2nd ed., 2005), and numerous articles on colonial and early national American economic culture and political economy.