Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2024 BHC Meeting Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School "Not in the Public Interest: Understanding State-embedded Criminal Actors"
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 Ian G. Jones, University of York "“Having been a slave owner and much dissatisfied in being so”: A microhistory of David Barclay and the sale of the Unity Valley Penn"
2024 BHC Meeting Marrisa Joseph, Henley Business School "From Public Patronage to Private Enterprise: Copyright and the Professionalisation of Authorship in Victorian Britain"
2024 BHC Meeting Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University "The Design Necessity: NEA’s Federal Design Improvement Program and the Crisis in Design"
2024 BHC Meeting Bryan Kauma, Southwestern University "Fruit trees do not bring in money Belonging, Indigeneity and the politics of informal indigenous plant nurseries in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa"
2024 BHC Meeting Lindsay M. Keiter, Penn State Altoona "“God grant he may succeed, & make good use of his property:” The Circulation of Capital and the Limits of Affection in Elite Antebellum Families"
2024 BHC Meeting Bill Kelson, University of Georgia "“A Proto-Developmental State? Late-Qing China’s Self-Strengthening Movement and Energy-Intensive Industrialization”"
2024 BHC Meeting Connor Kenaston, Randolph College "The Greatest Story: Commercial Radio and Religion in the American Century"
2024 BHC Meeting William Black, University of North Georgia, Richard Vangermeersch, Emeritus, University of Rhode Island, Richard Baker, Adelphi University, Kelly Kilcrease, University of New Hampshire, Yvette Lazdowski, University of New Hampshire Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Kelly Kilcrease, University of New Hampshire Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Kelly Kilcrease, University of New Hampshire "J.F. McElwain Shoe Company and the Melville Corporation: The Secrets of Success for an Early Business Alliance in the Shoe Industry"
2024 BHC Meeting Kenneth Kimura, Harvard University "Where did the Humanities Go? Humanizing Adult Education for Management at the University of Chicago’s Startup of the Aspen Institute and for the Public in Harvard University’s Origins with the Ikeda Center"
2024 BHC Meeting Ben Kodres-O'Brien, Columbia University "Nuclear Follies? Commercial Nuclear Power in the American South"
2024 BHC Meeting Olga Koulisis, Murray State University "Vanguard of the Bourgeoisie: Morgan Bankers, Communities of Interest, and Managing Democratic Publics "
2024 BHC Meeting Kimberly Kracman, Princeton University "Imperial-Military Origins of the Large Corporation: How the Department of War Helped Build the First U.S. Railroads"
2024 BHC Meeting William Krause, Vanderbilt University "Wisdom in the Workplace: The National Training Laboratories, Sensitivity Training, and a Mass Public in the Early Cold War"
2024 BHC Meeting Volodymyr Kulikov, University of Texas, Austin "Extractive Company Towns"
2024 BHC Meeting Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University "Moore's Law as a 'Belief System': Long-term Dynamics of Global Semiconductor Industry (1950s-2020s) "
2024 BHC Meeting Antonis Kyparissis, University of Northampton "The mass “exodus” of British capital from the USA. The historical case of the British Investment Trusts in the aftermath of WWI"
2024 BHC Meeting Danielle La Scala, De Montfort University and the Arts and Humanities Research Council "Double Niners to McEnnedy Burgers: The Transfer of American Supermarket Practice and Innovation into Britain"
2024 BHC Meeting Pamela Laird, University of Colorado, Denver "Corruption and the Array of Publics"
2024 BHC Meeting Brent Lane, UNC Global Research Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill "The Limits of Adventure: Speculative Finance and Elizabethan Era Exploration"
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 William Black, University of North Georgia, Richard Vangermeersch, Emeritus, University of Rhode Island, Richard Baker, Adelphi University, Kelly Kilcrease, University of New Hampshire, Yvette Lazdowski, University of New Hampshire Roundtable presentation