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David McNally is the NEH-Cullen Chair in History & Business and Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, affiliated with the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He specializes in the history and political economy of capitalism, with his research focusing on the intersections of race, migration, gender, and social reproduction in the development of global capitalism. Prior to his appointment at the University of Houston, he was a professor of political economy at York University in Toronto. Currently, he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism at UH, promoting scholarly examination of capitalism's racial dimensions.

An accomplished author, McNally has published eight books and over 60 scholarly articles and book chapters. His seminal works include Political Economy and the Rise of Capitalism: A Reinterpretation (1988), Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (1993), Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001), Another World is Possible: Globalization & Anti-Capitalism (2006), Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (2011)—winner of the Paul Sweezy Award—Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (2011)—recipient of the Deutscher Memorial Award—Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (2020), and Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (2025), which earned the International Labor History Association Book of the Year Award for 2025. McNally teaches courses in global history, political economy of race and capitalism, and Atlantic history. His scholarship has profoundly influenced debates in political economy, Marxist theory, and the history of capitalism, underscored by his major awards and high citation impact on platforms like Google Scholar.