Mary Bridges

Mary Bridges is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy. She is a historian of the twentieth-century United States, focusing on linkages between U.S. foreign relations and business history. Her book, Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower (Princeton University Press, September 2024), argues that U.S. multinational banks provided a crucial infrastructure of both global capitalism and U.S. empire in the early twentieth century.

Her new research project focuses on infrastructure building as a means of projecting U.S. power internationally. Prior to Harvard, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS and at Yale University's International Security Studies program. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt, an M.A. from Yale in International Relations, and a B.A. from Harvard. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a business reporter and editor.

For more information, visit her personal website.