BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING.

2022 Business History Conference Prize Recipients.

The Philip Scranton Best Article Prize was awarded to Jason Petrulis (University of Hong Kong) for his article entitled, “A Country of Hair: A Global Story of South Korean Wigs, Korean American Entrepreneurs, African American Hairstyles, and Cold War Industrialization,” which was published in Enterprise & Society in June 2021.

The Hagley Prize in Business History was co-awarded to Caley Horan (MIT), for her book Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America (The University of Chicago Press, 2021), and Timothy Yang (University of Georgia), for his book, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021).

The Mira Wilkins Prize was awarded to Damian Clavel (Universität Zürich) for his article entitled, “What's in Fraud? The Many Worlds of Gregor MacGregor, 1817–1824,” which was published in Enterprise & Society in December 2021.

The Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History was awarded to Bench Ansfield (Harvard University), for their dissertation entitled “Born in Flames: Arson, Racial Capitalism, and the Reinsuring of the Bronx in the Late Twentieth Century.”

The K. Austin Kerr Prize was awarded to Ellen Nye (Yale University), for her talked entitled, “A Commerce in Coins: The Early Modern Ottoman Empire as an Arena for Competing Theories of Money's Value” delivered at BHC 2022.

The Ralph Gomory Prize was awarded to Andrew Liu (Villanova University), for his book entitled, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Yale University Press, 2020).

The Martha Moore Trescott Prize was awarded to Charles Petersen (Vanderbilt University), for his paper entitled, “Flexible Accumulation, Flexible Organization, Flexible Masculinity: Silicon Valley and the Birth of a New Subjectivity, 1957–1998,” given at BHC 2022.

2023 Business History Conference. The 2023 BHC Conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan, from March 9-11, 2023. Please visit the BHC website for more information: https://thebhc.org/2023-bhc-meeting.

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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS.

The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History. This postdoctoral fellowship, open to early career scholars, is to be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School. The fellowship has two purposes. The first is to enable scholars who have already demonstrated an engagement with business history broadly defined to deepen their knowledge of teaching pedagogy and research methods in the discipline. The fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to course development in MBA and doctoral courses in business history. They will also take part in a weekly research seminar in the fall of each year in which leading scholars from around the world present their work. The second purpose is to enable an early career scholar to develop their work in the discipline. The fellow is encouraged to submit an article to Business History Review during his or her fellowship year. They might also organize a research conference on a subject related to their research. A research budget will be provided for the fellow. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022. For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx.

The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History. The fellowship enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School. The main activities of the Thomas K. McCraw Fellow will be to conduct research in the archives of Baker Library or in other Boston-area libraries, present their work at a seminar, and interact with HBS faculty. Fellows receive a stipend of $7,000 to cover travel and living expenses. They are expected to be in residence for a minimum of two months. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022.

The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program invites established scholars in business history based outside the United States to spend a period of time in residence at Harvard Business School. Recipient receives a $7,000 stipend and is required to stay a minimum of two months (and not more than six months) at Harvard Business School. Fellows are expected to interact with faculty and researchers, present work at research seminars, and conduct business history research. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022.

The Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Fellowships. The Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Fellowships facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Grants range from $1,000 to $3,000. Applicants must be 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the U.S. and abroad, whose research requires travel to Baker Library or other local archives; or 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from Cambridge. Application and related materials are due by November 15, 2022.

For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx.

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HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY GRANTS.

Hagley Exploratory Research Grants. These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than fifty miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31. For more information, please visit Hagley Library's Exploratory Research Grants page: https://www.hagley.org/exploratory-research-grants.

Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants. These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are prorated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than fifty miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within fifty miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.

Applications for all grants should be submitted online. For the submission link and requirements, please visit http://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.