Dr. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is a historian of US capitalism. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University.Tandy Shermer's research seeks to understand the persistence and expansion of economic inequality, political paralysis, and social upheaval as the US emerged as an early twentieth-century manufacturing power, became a superpower, and then struggled to adapt to a multipolar world.Tandy Shermer's most recent book, "Indentured Students," was published in 2021.