History,
Finance,
Infrastructure
Mary Bridges studies the origins of
US global power in the 20th Century.
Her work investigates questions such as:
How did US companies get global?
What role did the state play in supporting US businesses overseas?
What biases and blindspots were baked into the financial infrastructure of US financial power?
Bridges has worked as a professional writer, editor, and researcher for over 15 years. She has a PhD in history and degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Vanderbilt Universities.
Her writing explores the origins of US global power and seeks to understand how US multinational corporations became major drivers of change—and creators of inequality—in the twentieth century.
Her work has appeared in Condé Nast Portfolio, the Los Angeles Times, Ms. magazine, and other mainstream and scholarly publications.
