Noam Maggor is a historian of the United States at Queen Mary University of London. His work explores the political and institutional foundations of the American economy in global and comparative perspective, with a particular focus on state-building and developmental policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He is the author of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age and is currently working on a new book that explores the rise of industrial capitalism in the U.S. as a state-led project. His scholarship has been published in American Historical Review, Past & Present, and Critical Historical Studies.

Noam co-convenes the United States Political Economy Lab and serves on the editorial board of Past & Present. He has held fellowships at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Paris. He is the recipient of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2025-2026).