Amy C. Offner

Amy C. Offner is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on twentieth-century US history in global perspective, particularly Latin America, with expertise in capitalism, political economy, empire, and transnational history. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Her book Sorting Out the Mixed Economy (2019) won multiple prestigious awards, exploring how midcentury welfare and developmental states were dismantled through policies rooted in earlier statebuilding. Current projects include Debt in Indian Country (history of Native American debt) and The Disappearing Worker (transnational history of labor transformation).

• Affiliations: Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Graduate Group in History and Sociology of Science
• Courses: Capitalism in the Americas, US History, Farmworker Movement, Vietnam War, Political Economy of Latin America

Offner has held fellowships from ACLS, SSRC, NEH, and others. She advises doctoral students in US and Latin American history and emphasizes primary-source analysis in applications.