Caroline Fohlin

Caroline Fohlin is an economics professor at Emory University who specializes in corporate finance, venture capital, economic history, and financial market structures.^[1][2]

Caroline Fohlin
Education	Tufts University University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Professor
Years active	1994 – present

Education

Fohlin graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and quantitative economics in 1988. She earned a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.^[1]

Career

Fohlin served on the California Institute of Technology faculty from 1994 to 2004. In 2005, she took a position at Johns Hopkins University.^[3] She joined the Emory University faculty in 2012.^[4] She currently serves as an editor of Financial History Review.^[5]

2024 protest arrest

In April 2024, Fohlin was arrested at an Emory University protest against the treatment of Palestinians during the Gaza war. Fohlin approached a student being forced to the ground as they were arrested, leaning down to the student and yelling at the police to "get away" from them. A police officer then flipped Fohlin onto the ground arresting her as well.^[6] Fohlin was charged with battery and disorderly conduct.^[7][8] An opinion piece by Lydia Polgreen for The New York Times cited Fohlin's arrest as an example of the "horrifying" use of force against pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses.^[9] On the April 29 edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Jim Acosta said he could not "get over" the footage of Fohlin's arrest and criticized police for their "heavy-handed tactics."^[10]

Personal life

Fohlin is married to John Latting, the dean of admissions at Emory University. The couple have three children.^[4]

Published works

Books

• Finance Capitalism and Germany's Rise to Industrial Power (2007), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521810205^[11]
• Mobilizing Money: How the World's Richest Nations Financed Industrial Growth (2012), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521810213^[12]

Book chapters

• "The History of Corporate Ownership and Control in Germany" (2007), in A History of Corporate Governance Around the World, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226536831
• "A Brief History of Investment Banking from Medieval Times to the Present" (2016), in The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0191633216