Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2025 BHC meeting Zachary Dorner, University of Maryland "Thinking about Women’s Knowledge with Night Nurses and Fish Guts"
2025 BHC meeting Kevin R. Douglas, Michigan State University "Finding Empirical Measures of Market Confidence Using Goodwin v. Agassiz"
2025 BHC meeting Nora A. Draper, University of New Hampshire "The Polaroid Promise: A Broken Social Contract and the Decline of an American Industrial Icon"
2025 BHC meeting Dan Du, University of North Carolina, Charlotte "From an ‘Indian’ cloth to ‘Colored People’s Cotton’: Chinese Nankeens in America"
2025 BHC meeting Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley, Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York "Multinationals and Whitewashing: An Historical Perspective"
2025 BHC meeting Paul Duguid, University of California, Berkeley Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Ethan Dunn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick "Banking on the Future: The Making of the American Bankers’ Association, 1873-1913"
2025 BHC meeting Tiah Edmunson-Morton, Oregon State University "You’ve Probably Heard of Her Husband: Gender, Beer, and Archiving"
2025 BHC meeting Marcela Efmertová, Czech Technical University "How a Career Change Brings Ingenuity to a New Field: The Example of Joachim Barrande, a Railway Builder Who Became a World-Renowned Paleontologist"
2025 BHC meeting Pierre Eichenberger, University of Lausanne "Confronting Labor on the International Stage: the International Organization of Industrial Employers and the International Chamber of Commerce, 1920-1946"
2025 BHC meeting Megan Elias, Boston University "'Radiating Harmony and Happiness': Emotional Labor and the Hotel Social Director"
2025 BHC meeting Bartow J. Elmore, Ohio State University Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki, Pasi Nevalainen, University of Helsinki "Public-private partnerships: Interdisciplinary challenges for business history"
2025 BHC meeting Salem Elzway, University of Southern California "Automation: The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of a Concept"
2025 BHC meeting Nahomi Linda Esquivel, University of Chicago "“Green Card Guestworkers:” A New Reading of 1960s Immigration and Agricultural History "
2025 BHC meeting Marcie Farwell, Cornell University Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Valentina Fava, Ca' Foscari University "What Did It Take to Be a Responsible Business for a European Automotive Corporation in the 1970s and 1980s? Fiat Group’s Responses to the Emergence of the 'Environmental Issue"
2025 BHC meeting Robert Ferguson, University of Georgia, Nathanael L. Mickelson, University of Georgia "The Cotton Divide: Haute Finance and the Farm Bloc, 1920-1929"
2025 BHC meeting Pierre-Christian Fink, University of Virginia "Corporate Advisor, Academic Economist, Public Intellectual: Hyman Minsky as Triple Insider-Outsider, 1949-1990"
2025 BHC meeting Sophie FitzMaurice, University of Cambridge "Infrastructure, Pole Yards, and Hidden Labor within the Telegraph System, 1880s–1930s"
2025 BHC meeting David Foord, University of New Brunswick "Infrastructure and Culture in the Transition from Telegraphs to Telephones in Canada, 1846-1970"
2025 BHC meeting David Foord, University of New Brunswick "Making Hands: A History of Knowledge and Production in Powered Arms"
2025 BHC meeting Kate Fortmueller, Georgia State University "Hollywood Unions and the Dual Strikes"
2025 BHC meeting Aaron Freedman, Columbia University "Jews with Money: An Ethnic History of Financialization, 1979-1992"
2025 BHC meeting Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales "French trade unions and the impact of multinationalisation in a state-owned company: Renault, 1944-1975"