AHA Session 235
Saturday, January 10, 2026: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Williford A (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)
Chair:
Colin Jones, University of Chicago
Panel:
Thomas M. Adams, independent scholar
Cynthia A. Bouton, Texas A&M University
Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University
Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul University
Cynthia A. Bouton, Texas A&M University
Peter C. Caldwell, Rice University
Valentina K. Tikoff, DePaul University
Session Abstract
The panel will engage the challenge of synthesizing scholarship on welfare provision since the sixteenth century, examining commonalities across European boundaries and the role of communication and comparison among traditions bound together by commitments to beneficence, law and work. Additional themes will include the treatment of children, the endemic inequality of access to subsistence, and definitions of modernity, the state, and poverty.
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