Featured Researcher: Robert A. Margo
Robert A. Margo is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on the Development of the American Economy and Labor Studies and a Professor of Economics and History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard University.
A specialist in the economic history of the United States, Margo is the author or co-author of three books, and approximately 100 articles, book chapters, and book reviews. Currently, he is the editor of Explorations in Economic History. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Colgate University. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard and at Bard College.
Margo is married to Lee Breckenridge, a Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston. Margo's son, Daniel, is a freshman at Cornell University.
Margo is also an accomplished performer on classical guitar and classical mandolin. He has given solo and duo performances on classical guitar in Boston and in Nashville, and has performed in master classes for noted classical guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad and Manuel Barrueco. When in Boston, he performs regularly on mandolin with the Providence Mandolin Orchestra.
