Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2024 BHC Meeting Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "“New York is a Ghost Town”: Broadcast Reception, the Urban Crisis, and the Rise of Cable TV"
2024 BHC Meeting Anna-Luna Post, University of Cambridge "Public Interest and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drainage Projects"
2024 BHC Meeting Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo, Kristin Ranestad, University of Oslo "Traveling for knowledge: the missions abroad of employees of the mining industries of Belgian Congo and Chile (1905-1960s)"
2024 BHC Meeting Fabian Prieto Ñañez, Virginia Tech "The Business of Repairing Smuggled Electronics Goods in 1980s Bogota"
2024 BHC Meeting Andrew Primmer, University of Reading "“Railway Imperialism” in South Central Africa: The Beira Railway Company and Colonial Expansion in Southern Africa"
2024 BHC Meeting Pablo Federico Pryluka, Princeton University "Images of the Middle Class: Advertising National Automobiles in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the 1960s"
2024 BHC Meeting Daniel Raff, The Wharton School "Is There Still Life in the Internalist View? Agency, Routines, and the History of Business Organizations"
2024 BHC Meeting Daniel Raff, The Wharton School "What Do (Business) Historians Do?"
2024 BHC Meeting Michael Ralph, Howard University "Violence and the Task of Valuation"
2024 BHC Meeting Aparajith Ramnath, Ahmedabad University "Cars and Planes for Empire and Nation: World War II and Walchand Hirachand’s Industrial Ventures in India"
2024 BHC Meeting Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo, Kristin Ranestad, University of Oslo "Traveling for knowledge: the missions abroad of employees of the mining industries of Belgian Congo and Chile (1905-1960s)"
2024 BHC Meeting Shaun Richman, SUNY Empire State University "We Always Had a Union: New York’s Hotel Workers Unions, 1912-1953"
2024 BHC Meeting Linda L. Ridley, City University of New York "Symptomatic Instruction - Examining the Connection of Chattel Slavery to the Teaching of Business and Management"
2024 BHC Meeting Brennan Rivas, Independent Scholar Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Eppa Rixey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "ALLY WANTED: How Underdogs Develop Strategic Alliances in Corporate Political Activity"
2024 BHC Meeting Eppa Rixey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "All Politics is Local: Civic Action to Evolve State-level Regulatory Constraints"
2024 BHC Meeting Charlotte Robertson, Harvard Business School "Free Incorporation and its Discontents: State, Society, and the Corporation in France, 1852-1886"
2024 BHC Meeting Seth Rockman, Brown University "Rhode Island “Ready-Made,” Women’s Outwork Sewing, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy of Plantation Provisioning"
2024 BHC Meeting Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Martin Rotemberg, New York University "Technological Stickiness: Switching and Entry in the Long Transition from Water to Steam Power"
2024 BHC Meeting Stefano Rumi, University of Pennsylvania, Daniel Wadhwani, University of Southern California "Reinventing Social Impact: The Evolution of Socially Oriented Finance in Modern America"
2024 BHC Meeting Christian Ruth, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute "What We Eat and Why: Buying and Selling Old Foods of the Future"
2024 BHC Meeting Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Sam Schirvar, University of Pennsylvania "“Indians and Industry for Profits and Progress”: The Decline of Settler Investment in Reservations and Rising Calls for Tribal Ownership, 1967-1972"
2024 BHC Meeting Sam Schirvar, University of Pennsylvania "Cherokee Nation Industries and the Turn to Tribal Enterprise During the 1970s"