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Dr. Mary Bridges
Mary Bridges was an Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy Post-doctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS John Hopkins. She is now an Ernest May Research Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Centre, Harvard University.
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 (Princeton University Press, September 2024), 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.
Prior to joining SAIS, she was a post-doctoral fellow with Yale University’s International Security Studies program. She holds a PhD in History from Vanderbilt University, an MA from Yale in International Relations, and a BA from Harvard. She worked as a journalist prior to graduate school.