Mary Bridges

Mary Bridges is a historian of the twentieth-century United States. Her research investigates the linkages between US foreign relations and business history. Her book Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower argues that US multinational banks provided a crucial infrastructure of both global capitalism and US empire in the early twentieth century. The project explores the changing credit practices of overseas bankers, as US banks navigated new ways to profit from trade finance and their relationship to the US government. She is currently a fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Previously, she served as a postdoctoral fellow with Johns Hopkins University and Yale University's International Security Studies program.