Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Gabriel Geisler Mesevage is a Lecturer in British Economic History post-1750 at King’s College London’s Department of History, part of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He joined King’s in 2019 after roles as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and a Marie-Curie Early Stage Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in History from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, 2016).

Research Interests: Focus on 19th-century financial history, including the financial press, credit rating agencies, bubbles, and crises. Key themes include the British railway mania, historical development of credit ratings, and social networks in economic systems. He collaborates with scholars like Rui Esteves and Marc Flandreau.

Publications: Highlights include work in Explorations in Economic History (2019) on social networks, a chapter in An Economist’s Guide to Economic History (2018), and articles in Enterprise & Society and Scandinavian Economic History Review (2014). Themes span methodological innovations, legal frameworks for credit reporting, and transnational financial history.

Institutional Role: Contributes to the King’s Contemporary British History initiative, rooted in the former Institute of Contemporary British History (founded 1985, relocated to King’s in 2010). Teaching focuses on modern British financial and economic history at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.