Background
Atack, Jeremy was born on January 16, 1949 in Tadcaster, West Yorkshire, England. Son of Frank H. Atack and Doreen Dodsworth.
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Atack, Jeremy was born on January 16, 1949 in Tadcaster, West Yorkshire, England. Son of Frank H. Atack and Doreen Dodsworth.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1976.
He is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at Vanderbilt University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Cliometric Society, and was the Kinkhead Research Scholar at the University of Illinois (1992-1993). He is a noted academic economic historian whose primary research focus is on 19th century United States industrialization. He has been president of the Economic History Association (2011-2012), the Agricultural History Society (2002-2003) and the Business History Conference (1999).
Married Rebecca W. Wright. Children: Elizabeth J., Mary M., Thomas C., Laura F.