Dr. Joshua Rosenbloom

Dr. Joshua L Rosenbloom

Position
  • Professor
  • Department Chair
I assumed the position of Professor and Department Chair on August 1, 2015. Between 1988 and 2015 I was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas. In addition to my academic appointment at the University of Kansas, I served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Studies (2006-2012), interim Dean of Graduate Studies (August 2011-January 2012), and Director of the Center for Business and Economic Analysis in the Institute for Policy & Social Research (2001-2006). In the period August 2012 - August 2014, I served as director of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Science of Science and Innovation (SciSIP) program. 

I am a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Cliometric Society, and the Economic History Association. I joined the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences at the National Science Foundation, in November 2024.

My research interests include: U.S. economic history, the economics of science, technology and innovation, and labor economics.

Contact

Email
jlrosenb@iastate.edu
Phone
515-294-1257

Contact Info

266B Heady Hall, 518 Farm House Lane,
Ames,
,
IA
50011-1054
Social Media and Websites

Area of Expertise

  • Economic History
  • Labor-Public Economics

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1988
  • B.A., History, Oberlin College, 1981

Affiliations

Recent Working Papers

Sharing Research Data: Faculty Behavior and Attitudes and associated dataset "Researcher Data Sharing: Behavior and Attitudes, 2018-2021"

What Explains Science’s Expanded Reliance On Postdoctoral Researchers?

Recent Publications

“Wealth Mobility in the United States: 1860-1870,” with Brandon S. Dupont, Social Science History 46 (2022): pp. 801-29.   Open Access, available here https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.19

"The Economic History of North America, 1700-1870," Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World, vol. I, Steven Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

"Colonial America," Handbook of Cliometrics, 2nd ed. Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert, eds. (Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2019), pp. 785-810. Online publication, August 2018 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_60-1 [WP https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/4ece5872-a4f5-4311-b435-77d4680dadf7 ]

“Antebellum Labor Markets,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Oxford University Press, April 2018. [WP version: https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/6c285e53-011a-44e6-b777-073b6c9c38bf ]

“The Economic Origins of the Postwar Southern Elite,” with Brandon Dupont, Explorations in Economic History 68, no. 1 (April 2018): 119-31 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2017.09.002  

“Show me the Money: Federal R&D Support for Academic Chemistry, 1990-2009”, with Donna K. Ginther, Research Policy 46, no. 8 (October 2017): 1454-64  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.06.008

 “The Effectiveness of Social Science Research in Addressing Societal Problems: Broadening Participation in Computing,” with Donna K. Ginther, Science and Public Policy (2017) 44, no.2: 259-273  https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/44/2/259/2584493