Prior to joining Stern, Sylla taught at
North Carolina State University and the
University of Pennsylvania. His primary areas of research include historical studies of money, banking, and finance, and he is the past editor of
Journal of Economic History and serves on the editorial board of many journals, including
Financial History Review,
Enterprise and Society, and
Economic and Financial History Abstracts. He once served as president of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference. Sylla received several awards and grants, including
National Science Foundation grants, an
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, and the Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Stern School. Sylla's brother, James, who was president of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., died in the crash of
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 in 1987. ==Books==