Robert “Bob” Wright is the (co)author of 25 books, most about the history of finance and innovation in the U.S. since 1750. After receiving his Ph.D. in History from the University of Buffalo in 1997, he taught economics at Temple University, the University of Virginia, NYU’s Stern School of Business, Augustana University, and Central Michigan University. Before joining UATX as a visiting Professor of History in 2026, he was also a Julian Simon fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, a Paul Coverdell Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Georgia College and State University, a research fellow for the Andersen Institute for Finance and Economics, and a research fellow for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER). Since 2008, he has served on the editorial board of Financial History, the quarterly publication of the Museum of American Finance, which will open a free museum in Boston in July 2026. Bob was also a board member or treasurer of Historians Against Slavery, an organization dedicated to using insights from the history of slavery and abolitionism to combat modern forms of slavery like sex trafficking, from 2012 until 2025.