Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2024 BHC Meeting Simone A. Wegge, City University of New York "Savings Behaviors in a Time of Financial Panics: Evidence from the Depositors of the Emigrant Bank in 1850s New York"
2024 BHC Meeting Christopher Weis, Independent Scholar "“To Kill the Bill”: Pittsburgh’s Business Community During the Pittsburgh-Allegheny Annexation Fight, 1894-1907"
2024 BHC Meeting Heather Welland, SUNY Binghamton "Organized Labour and Industrial Life Insurance Agents in Britain, 1919-1939"
2024 BHC Meeting Wyatt Wells, Auburn University Montgomery "Mr. Morgan's Grand Design"
2024 BHC Meeting Emily Whitted, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Mending Movement: Sailcloth Repair in the New England Maritime World, 1780-1850"
2024 BHC Meeting Daniel Levinson Wilk, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology "The Customer Isn’t Always Right at the Statler Hotel"
2024 BHC Meeting Johnathan Williams, University of Northern Iowa Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Mitch Larson, Independent Scholar, John Wilson, Northumbria University, Anna Tilba, Durham University, Ian G. Jones, University of York "‘A passing of the guard’? Governance and strategy in the ‘Big Four’ British clearing banks, 1973-2005"
2024 BHC Meeting Matt Wisnioski, Virginia Tech, Michael J. Meindl, Radford University "Broader Impacts: The Magic School Bus and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships for Science Education"
2024 BHC Meeting Nicholas Wong, Northumbria University , Emily Buchnea, Northumbria University "Examining network-enabled responses to deglobalisation "
2024 BHC Meeting Tsz Ho Wong, University of Edinburgh "The Mobilisation of Civilian Capital in the Wartime Japanese Empire"
2024 BHC Meeting Claire Patricia Wrigley, University of California, Berkeley "An English Village in the Congo: Towards a History of European Imperial Capitalism in the Twentieth Century"
2024 BHC Meeting Timothy Yang, University of Georgia "Hunger, Relief, and the Making of the U.S. Regime of Wheat in Post-World War II Japan"
2024 BHC Meeting Joseph Yauch, Brandeis University "Felling Native Forests, Defending Native Sovereignty: Industrial Lumbering Companies and Penobscot People in 19th-Century Northern Maine"
2024 BHC Meeting Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles "Business Disinterest in Feminism: Who Pays the Price? "
2024 BHC Meeting Robert Yee, University of Oxford "Economic Diplomacy and Banking Policy in Allied-Occupied Germany, 1945–1955"
2024 BHC Meeting Hideki Yoshikawa, Kyoto University "Business and Ethics: Why did Burroughs Wellcome sell an anti-AIDS drug at the highest-ever price?"
2024 BHC Meeting Shannon Younger, University of Arkansas "Concoctions of the Past: New Venture Use of History"
2024 BHC Meeting Yu Liuzhen, Shaanxi Normal University "“Capitalism Turn” in American Business History since the mid-1990s"
2024 BHC Meeting Yu Liuzhen, Shaanxi Normal University " “Capitalism Turn” in American Business History since the mid-1990s"
2024 BHC Meeting Zhu Zhang, Fairfield University "Winning Over the Capitalists: The Rivalry Between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party in the Early 20th Century"
2024 BHC Meeting Boyao Zhang, University of Toronto "Counting to Ten on the Abacus: The International System of Units and the Algorist Revolution of Commercial Arithmetic in 20th-Century China"
2024 BHC Meeting Hagar Zheng Gal, Harvard University "Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: Opium Competition and the Limits of English Empire, 1790-1840"