UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 17, Page 15
January 21, 1993
Economic history program recognized in national journal

     The Department of Economics' economic history program has received
recognition in the Journal of Economic History for the first time.
     In an article by Robert Whaples, an economist at Wake Forest
University, entitled "A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economic
History and Cliometric Revolution," Delaware was ranked 21st for the period
from 1980-1990, in terms of articles in refereed journals.
     According to Farley Grubb, associate professor of economics who is
Delaware's economic histoian, Delaware has not been mentioned in similar
rankings in prior decades. In the recent publication, Delaware ranks ahead
of such schools as Stanford University and the University of Michigan. The
rankings apply only to economics history programs in economics departments,
as opposed to those in history departments, Grubb pointed out.
     Grubb's area of research is the trans-Atlantic migration of labor
contract servants from the Colonial period to 1830. He has written 14
articles in the period covered by the survey and made several
presentations. Most recently, he has written "Fatherless and Friendless:
Factors Influencing the Flow of English Emigrant Servants" and an article
on the education of German immigrant children from 1771-1817 before free
public schooling was available, both appearing in The Journal of Economic
History.
                                        -Sue Swyers Moncure