Jonathan Barth

Jonathan Barth is Associate Professor of History, specializing in the history of money and politics in early America. His first book, The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America, was published with Cornell University Press in 2021. The book reinterprets many of the most explosive political episodes of the seventeenth century through a currency lens, shedding new light on a number of hallmark events from the era.

Prior to joining the faculty at Arizona State University, Barth received his B.A. in secondary education, history at Appalachian State University (2005); his M.A. in history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2009); and a doctorate in history at George Mason University (2014).

Barth is also Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University, and Associate Lead of the Political History and Leadership Program in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.