The Harrison Metal Award and Fellowships were created to recognize the importance of economic history in understanding the development of the economy and wishes to advance this field of study. This fund aims to attract graduate students with high potential to study economic history, of promoting research and scholarship in the field to set the students up for professional success, and raising the profile of economic history at the University of Michigan.
2026 Recipient
Hannah Landel
Hannah Landel is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Michigan with interests in economic history, development economics, and political economy. Before coming to Michigan, Hannah worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her research interests focus on how the institutional structures of a society interact with political forces to shape economic outcomes, with a specific focus on countries’ development paths. She is interested in how historical legacies — such as the long-run effects of colonial institutions —shape disparities, why those inequalities persist, and what solutions might exist. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2022 with a B.A. in both Government and Economics, receiving High Honors in both.
