Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2025 BHC meeting Emily Twarog, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Peter Vale, Harvard University "Revaluing Congo: Monetary Reform, Liberalization, and Development in 1967"
2025 BHC meeting Sean H. Vanatta, University of Glasgow "“The Ascent of the Prudent Man: Trusteeship and the Legal Origins of Financialization”"
2025 BHC meeting Shota Vashakmadze, University of California, Los Angeles "The 'Implicit Enumeration' Algorithm: Decision Science and the Architectural Research Economy"
2025 BHC meeting Natalya Vinokurova, Lehigh University "The Report of Corporate Research Labs’ Death Was an Exaggeration"
2025 BHC meeting Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Michael Wahlen, Boston Consulting Group Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Jiemin Tina Wei, Harvard University "Producing Quality Work: Scientific Management’s Struggle to Create a Working Life of Efficiency and Satisfaction"
2025 BHC meeting Emily Whitted, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "“A Sewing Bee on Deck”: Sailors’ Needlework Labor in the Maritime Atlantic World "
2025 BHC meeting Danielle Wiggins, California Institute of Technology "“Big Government, Big Minority, and Big Oil:” The NAACP and the Energy Crisis in 1970s Black America "
2025 BHC meeting Daniel Levinson Wilk, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology, Ethan Gonzales, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology, Peshi Kendall, SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology "Queer Work: Oral History at SUNY-Fashion Institute of technology"
2025 BHC meeting Alisa Perren, University of Texas, Austin, Hannah Wold, Moody College of Communication "The Labor of Lobbying for Hollywood’s Place in Texas"
2025 BHC meeting Jake Wolff, Temple University "Freeways for Free Enterprise and the Failure to Make Small Business Work in the Cold War West, 1940-1965"
2025 BHC meeting Wendy Woloson, Rutgers University, Camden Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Marc Wortman, Independent Scholar "How the Modernized “Grand Bargain” at IBM Helped Launch the Digital Age"
2025 BHC meeting Claire Patricia Wrigley, University of Virginia "The Law of the Land: European Empires and the Rise of the Modern Multinational"
2025 BHC meeting Bohao Wu, Peking University "Provincializing Global Oil Shocks: Japanese Initiatives in the Internationalization of China’s Energy Industries, 1972-1985"
2025 BHC meeting Shaun Yajima, University of Tokyo / Freiberg University of Mining and Technology "Exposing the Energy Behemoth: The Coal Syndicate and the Politics of Cartel Disclosure in Germany, 1890-1914"
2025 BHC meeting Moeko Yamazaki, University of Oregon "Welfare Capitalism in the Age of Neoliberalism: The History of the Council for a Union-Free Environment, 1977-1994"
2025 BHC meeting Mary Yeager, University of California, Los Angeles Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Guillaume Yon, Aachen University "Marketplace Engineering: The Material Political Economy of Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry"
2025 BHC meeting Yong Yen Nie, Kyoto University "The Singapore Girl: Idealizations of Work and National Identity in Postcolonial Singapore, 1970s–2000s"
2025 BHC meeting Hideki Yoshikawa, Kyoto University "Private Health Insurance during the AIDS Crisis: Underwriting Practices and Government Intervention"
2025 BHC meeting Jeffrey Yost, University of Minnesota Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Valeria Zanier, University of Bologna "Debating Iron and Steel Provisions to China under the Embargo"