Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2025 BHC meeting Julia Marino, The Ohio State University "Quality as a Panacea: The UAW, the Big Three, and the Model of Japanese Products in the 1980s"
2025 BHC meeting Reinhold Martin, Columbia University "Oil Horizons: Monopoly Capital in the Texas “Petroleum Complex,” 1900-1940"
2025 BHC meeting Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles "Monetary Sovereignty in One Country? The Guinean Franc and the Challenges of Global Finance"
2025 BHC meeting Jean-Philip Mathieu, McGill University / University of Ottawa "Stelco at War: Scientific Management and Canadian Munitions Production in the Great War"
2025 BHC meeting Rebekah McCallum, Penn State University "Employee and Labor Contracts on British company Tea Plantations in early Twentieth-century India"
2025 BHC meeting Andrew Meade McGee, Smithsonian Institution "High Technology Aerospace Entrepreneur Versus the Expert Labor of the Federal Workforce: Roy Ash and Nixon-era Conglomerate Approaches to Federal Government Reorganization"
2025 BHC meeting Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford "“Whistle While You Work” The Rise of Labor Protections for Exposing Corporate Misconduct"
2025 BHC meeting Ajay Mehrotra, Northwestern University / American Bar Foundation "American Business Leaders and the Making of Tax Policy: Elites, Crises, and the Ambivalent Approach to Fiscal Citizenship"
2025 BHC meeting Tracy Mensah, Western Carolina University "Rawlings’ Chain: Famine and the long 1983 in Ghana"
2025 BHC meeting Keri Leigh Merritt, Independent Scholar Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Adam Mestyan, Duke University "Automatization and the Value of Skill - Wages in A Sugar Factory in 19th-Century Egypt"
2025 BHC meeting Cynthia Meyers, University of Mount St. Vincent " “Razzmatazz Is Okay, But Hocus-Pocus Is OUT!”: The Advertising Industry and Deceptive Television Commercials, 1959-62"
2025 BHC meeting Alain P. Michel, Paris Saclay Evry University "Revisiting the Heroic Narrative of the Machine Tools Innovations through the History of Ingenious Practices, the Teachings of Biography and the Concepts of Casuistry"
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 Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Matthew Mitchell, Sewanee: The University of the South "James Phipps of the Royal African Company: A Renter, not a Victim, of the Slave Trade"
2025 BHC meeting Dr. Kathaleena Edward Monds, Albany State Unversity "Black Youth Entrepreneurship (BYE) at Albany State University"
2025 BHC meeting Deonnie Moodie, University of Oklahoma "Producing Hindu Economicus: A Transimperial History of Higher Commercial Education"
2025 BHC meeting Deirdre Moore, European University Institute "The future of carmine"
2025 BHC meeting Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth University Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Joshua Morrison, University of Massachusetts, Lowell "The Cost of Doing Business? Americans Reckon with East Africa Slavery"
2025 BHC meeting Maia Müller, Université de Lausanne "Key Partners: International Business Associations and the Regulation of Multinational Corporations"
2025 BHC meeting Bianca Murillo, California State University, Dominguez Hills "Nkrumah & the Investors: Selling the State, Decolonizing Ghana"
2025 BHC meeting Amanda R. Mushal, The Citadel "“Allow Me to Suggest that your Inquiry Is a Funk”: Merchants Shaping Early R.G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports from the Bottom Up"
2025 BHC meeting Mattias Näsman, Umeå University, Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Uppsala University "The Problem with Speed and Scale in Green Industrial Transitions. A Historical Perspective"