Julia is the author of When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2011) which received the Vincent DeSantis Prize from the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in 2013. Ott serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. She co-edits Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism for Columbia University Press. Ott specializes in political history and the history of capitalism. In her teaching and in her research, she investigates how financial institutions, practices, and theories influence American political culture and how, in turn, policies and political beliefs shape economic behavior and outcomes.