Trevor Jackson works on early modern European economic history, with an emphasis on inequality and financial crisis. His current research examines how impunity has gradually shifted since the seventeenth century from the sole possession of a legally-immune sovereign to a functional characteristic of technically-skilled professional managers of capital, to an imagined quality of markets themselves, such that a constituent element of the modern economic sphere is that within it, great harm can and will happen to great many people, and nobody will be at fault. Dr. Jackson has taught courses on international economic history ranging from the early modern period to the twentieth century, as well as courses on capitalism and inequality, the history of economic crisis, and the French Revolution. He occasionally writes for the popular press, in venues like Dissent and Foreign Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Washington University, he lectured at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received his PhD in 2017.