Dr Elizabeth Ingleson

About me

Elizabeth Ingleson specialises in the histories of US foreign relations, US-China relations, capitalism, and labor. She is the author of (Harvard University Press). Ingleson has published several articles and chapters on US-China relations and US capitalism. She is currently writing a book under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, China and the United States since 1949: An International History. 

Ingleson is the co-organiser of the . She serves on the Management Committee of the LSE’s Phelan US Centre, the Conference Committee of (SHAFR) and as Membership Secretary for (HOTCUS).

Prior to her appointment, Ingleson held fellowships at Yale University, Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History, and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She earnt her PhD in history from the University of Sydney.

Other titles: MA in Modern History Programme Director

Expertise Details

United States History; Chinese History; Trade; Labour; Diplomacy; Multinational Corporations

2025

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson interviewed on Bloomberg UK

Dr Ingleson was interviewed about the recent changes in tariffs between the USA and China, speaking specifically about US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva.

Watch the interview

2021

New specialist on US History

The Department is delighted to announce that from September 2021 its new specialist on US history will be Dr Elizabeth Ingleson. Dr Ingleson, who joins us from Yale where she has been a Henry Chauncey Jr ’57 Postdoctoral Associate, is a specialist on US-China relations. We’re greatly looking forward to all that she will bring to the department.

Dr Elizabeth Ingleson teaches the following courses in the Department:

At undergraduate level:

HY245 The United States and the World since 1776

At postgraduate level:

HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949

HY458 LSE-Columbia University Double Degree Dissertation

HY510 Contemporary International History Research Seminar

"", Harvard University Press, 2024
“U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War: Bridging Two Eras,” Tyson Reeder (ed.), , (Routledge: 2021): 341-356.
“,” Pacific Historical Review 90, no. 3, (Summer 2021): 345–376.
“,” Australasian Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (July 2016): 103-124.

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