Editorial Board

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  Kristin Aguilera, Deputy Director
  kaguilera@moaf.org
  

  Kristin Aguilera is the Museum's Deputy Director. She also runs the communications department and has been the editor of Financial History magazine since 1997. She is a frequent contributor to the Bloomberg Echoes blog and holds a BA in Journalism from Marist College and an MS in Publishing from New York University.

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  Howard A. Baker
  

  Howard A. Baker has been in the securities industry for more than 40 years. Following a lengthy career at the American Stock Exchange where he held several senior management positions in the options and derivative securities areas, Mr. Baker now heads his own firm, Howard Baker Associates, which provides legal and consulting services to select U.S. and international financial organizations.  Mr. Baker holds a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School and a BA from Boston University where he has served as Chair of its National Alumni Council.  He is a past Associate Dean of the Suffolk Academy of Law, the education affiliate of the Suffolk County (NY) Bar Association; a former board member of The Options Clearing Corporation; an Adjunct Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business; and presently serves as a Public Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.  Mr. Baker has served on the Financial History editorial board since 1999.

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  Lawrence A. Cunningham
  

  Lawrence A. Cunningham is a prolific author and professor with expertise in the areas of corporate finance, governance and value investing. He is the director of the University of Delaware’s John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and is a professor emeritus at George Washington University. Larry also serves on numerous public and private boards, including as a director of Markel Group (New York Stock Exchange), Constellation Software (Toronto Stock Exchange) and Kelly Partners Group Holdings (Australian Stock Exchange). 
   
  In 2018, Larry received the B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). In 2023, Larry delivered Delaware Law School’s 37th Annual Pileggi Distinguished Lecture in Corporate Law to the Delaware bench and bar and in 2024 delivered the University of Delaware's Annual Weinberg Center Distinguished Lecture in Corporate Governance. In both 2023 and 2024, he testified before Congress on various aspects of corporate governance. 
   
  Larry is a prolific author and speaker on corporate finance, governance and culture, whose work has appeared in leading university journals, as well as such periodicals as The Financial Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author or editor of 20 books, including The Essays of Warren Buffett, Berkshire Beyond Buffett, Quality Investing, Quality Shareholders and Margin of Trust. He has also written many articles for the Museum's quarterly magazine, Financial History, and has served on its editorial board since 2016. He joined the Museum's Board of Trustees in 2019.

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  Peter C. Earle
  

  Peter C. Earle is a senior economist at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). He joined AIER in 2018, prior to which he spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst at several securities firms and hedge funds in the New York metropolitan area including Schwab Capital Markets, Fahnestock & Co., Roy G. Niederhoffer Capital Management and others, as well as starting and running a cryptocurrency consultancy (Intangible Economics, LLC).

  His research focuses on financial markets, financial market history, monetary policy, cryptocurrencies, the economics of games and problems in economic measurement. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, NPR and in numerous other media outlets and publications. He has written hundreds of articles on finance and economics, written and edited seven books and contributed chapters to numerous others. Since 2021 he has been the managing editor of the quarterly Harwood Economic Review.

  Dr. Earle holds a Ph.D in Economics from l’Universite’ d’Angers, an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance) and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has been a member of the Financial History editorial board since 2022.

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  Brian Grinder
  

  Dr. Brian Grinder is a professor in the Department of Management at Eastern Washington University. He has served on the Financial History editorial board since 2001, and is the co-author of its “Educators’ Perspective” column.

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  Mark Higgins
  

  Mark Higgins is the author of Investing in U.S. Financial History and is a senior vice president within Index Fund Advisors (IFA) Institutional. Mark’s written works appear regularly in Financial History magazine and the CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor. Mark is also a frequent speaker both domestically and internationally on topics related to US financial history and institutional investment management. Mark joined IFA in August 2023 to expand the firm’s footprint in the institutional investment plan market. Prior to joining IFA Institutional, Mark served as an institutional investment consultant for more than 12 years. In this role, he served clients such as endowments, pension plans and foundations, that had aggregate assets of more than $60 billion.

  Mark graduated from Georgetown University Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in English and Psychology. He received an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Mark is a CFA charter holder and CFP® practitioner. He resides in Portland, OR with his wonderful wife and two children, Jack and Lila.

  He has been a member of the Financial History editorial board since 2024.

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  Gregory DL Morris
  

  Gregory DL Morris, principal of Enterprise & Industry Historic Research, is a veteran journalist and historian. In more than two decades of writing and editing trade and consumer publications he has reported from 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and 13 countries on five continents. He was founding Gulf Coast Bureau Chief and Global Markets Editor for ChemicalWeek, Executive Editor of Bank Investment Marketing, Editor-in-Chief of The Green Magazine, and Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher of Today's Refinery. Morris has had features in books and national magazines including The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge (first and second editions), American Heritage, Continental (in-flight), Financial Planning, Risk & Insurance, Institutional Investor News, Trains, and American Oil & Gas Reporter.

  He has served as a guest curator for two of the Museum’s exhibits, and is an editorial board member and frequent contributor to Financial History magazine.

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  Susie Pak
  

  Dr. Susie J. Pak is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at St. John’s University (New York). A graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell University, she is the author of Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J.P. Morgan (Harvard University Press). Dr. Pak also serves as Trustee of the Business History Conference and co-chair of the Columbia University Economic History Seminar. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Business History Review and has served on the Financial History editorial board since 2017.

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  Arthur W. Samansky
  

  Art Samansky is a founding principal of The Samansky Group, a Long Island, NY-based corporate communications firm. He developed his expertise in public affairs, strategic and crisis communications planning, media and presentation/speech training, message development, and related communications disciplines over a more than 40-year career in New York City journalism, and public affairs posts in the public and private sectors with domestic and global organizations. He has served on the Financial History editorial board since 1990.

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  Myles C. Thompson
  

  Myles C. Thompson has been the publisher of Columbia Business School Publishing (CBSP) since it was founded in 2007 in collaboration with Columbia Business School. The imprint’s program extends Columbia Business School's commitment to bridging academic research and business practice, and reaching the global academic and business communities. By leveraging knowledge gained through innovative research and professional experiences, CBSP seeks to publish books that incorporate the entrepreneurial mindset promoted by the business school. Myles has served on the Financial History editorial board since 2014.

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  Janice Traflet
  

  Janice Traflet is the Howard I. Scott Research Professor of Management in Bucknell's Freeman College of Management. In her research, Traflet explores many facets of Wall Street history, focusing especially on how ordinary citizens have interacted with the securities markets over time.  She also delves into the history of women investing in equities and pioneering women shareholder activists. Her first book, published in 2013 by Johns Hopkins University Press, was A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street After World War II.  Traflet is a member of the editorial board of Essays in Economic and Business History. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics, Business History, Journal of Cultural Economy and Essays in Economic and Business History. She currently is working on her second book, this one on legendary corporate gadfly Wilma Soss, which she is co-authoring with Robert E. Wright. She has served on the Financial History editorial board since 2019.

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  Robert E. Wright
  

  Dr. Robert E. Wright teaches macroeconomics and international economics at Central Michigan University. Prior to his three-year stint in economic policy at the American Institute for Economic Research, he was the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University. He is the editor or co-editor of more than 20 volumes and the author or co-author of 25 books, including a forthcoming book about the monetary causes of the American Revolution. Dr. Wright is one of the Museum's guest curators and has served on the Financial History editorial board since 2008.

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  Jason Zweig
  

  Jason Zweig is The Wall Street Journal’s personal finance columnist.  Prior to his work at the Journal, he was a senior writer and columnist at Money magazine.  He is the author of Your Money and Your Brain (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and the editor of the updated edition of Benjamin Graham’s classic, The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003).  He has served on the Financial History editorial board since 1990, and is also a past member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees.