Geoff Clarke

Geoff Clarke arrived at Brandeis in the Fall of 2019 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he studied economic history in one of the top-5 programs in the country. He teaches A Survey of Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and U.S. Economic History.

Clarke researches banks owned and operated by African-Americans from 1890 to the present day. He has constructed two new data sets. The first contains all African-American banks before 1940, used to measure the effects of African-American banks on the African-American community. The second contains in-depth information on the African-American banks of Virginia from 1915 to 1928 to quantify the three areas of discrimination these banks faced in the wider market.