WORLD CONGRESS OF BUSINESS HISTORY. The 2nd World Congress of Business History, organized jointly by the European Business History Association and the Business History Society of Japan, originally scheduled for September 2020, has been rescheduled for September 9–11, 2021 and will take place online. Please visit the EBHA website for more information, https://ebha.org.
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BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING.
2021 Business History Conference Prize Recipients.
The Philip Scranton Best Article Prize was awarded to Karin Lurvink (VU University Amsterdam) for her article entitled “The Insurance of Mass Murder: The Development of Slave Life Insurance Policies of Dutch Private Slave Ships, 1720–1780,” which was published in Enterprise & Society in January 2020.
The Hagley Prize in Business History was co-awarded to Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) for her book Franchise: The Gold Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020), and Ben Marsh (University of Kent) for his book Unravelled Dreams: Silk and the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
The Mira Wilkins Prize was awarded to Paolo Di Martino (University of Turin), Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena), and Mark Latham (University of Birmingham), for their article entitled “Bankruptcy Laws around Europe (1850–2015): Institutional Change and Institutional Failures,” which was published in Enterprise & Society in December 2020.
The Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History was awarded to Dylan Gottlieb (Princeton University) for his dissertation entitled “Yuppies: Young Urban Professionals and the Making of Postindustrial New York.”
The K. Austin Kerr Prize was awarded to Jiemin Tina Wei (Harvard University) for her talk entitled “Amazon Mechanical Turk: Methodological Innovation in an Evolving Labor Market,” delivered at BHC 2021.
The Ralph Gomory Prize was awarded to Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University) for her book entitled Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020).
The Martha Moore Trescott Prize was awarded to Fabian Prieto Ñañez (Virginia Tech) for his paper entitled “Disrupting National Infrastructures: Satellite Television, Informal Trade, and Suitcase Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean in the 1980s,” given at BHC 2021.
2022 Business History Conference. The 2022 Business History Conference (BHC) will hold its annual meeting in Mexico City, Mexico from April 7–9, 2022. The theme is “Business History in Times of Disruption: Embracing Complexity and Diversity.” Please visit the BHC website for more information, https://thebhc.org/2022-bhc-meeting.
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WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS. The next gathering of the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) will convene July 25–July 29, 2022 in Paris to address “Resources.” For more information, please visit the conference website at https://wehc2021.sciencesconf.org.
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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 teaching and 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 strongly encouraged to submit an article to Business History Review during his or her fellowship year. She or he 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 October 30, 2021. For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx.
