Professor
Harvard Society of Fellows
Jo Guldi is a professor specializing in the history of infrastructure at U Chicago and Harvard. Her forthcoming book, The Road to Rule (Harvard University Press, 2011), explains how states first paved their roads and strangers stopped speaking on the public street. It tells the story of how a libertarian revolution then destroyed public funding for infrastructure and ruined the economies of Ireland and Scotland. Her next project is a political history of land use and the environment since 1350.