Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2025 BHC meeting Scott Nelson, University of Georgia 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 Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University, Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University "An Un-American Story: Mattel’s entrepreneurial intimidation in the global toy industry (1950s-1960s)"
2025 BHC meeting Shigehiro Nishimura, Kobe University "Corporate Patents and Technology Transactions in Japan Before WWII: How did organizations facilitate the technology market?"
2025 BHC meeting Christoph Nitschke, University of Stuttgart "Dual-use Discount: What we can learn from yet another Nazi Germany company history?"
2025 BHC meeting Dael Norwood, University of Delaware "Corporations are Voters, My Friends: The Origins & Practice of Enfranchising Businesses in Delaware"
2025 BHC meeting Ellen Nye, Purdue University "Fraud on the Nile: Resisting an Imperial Currency Union in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Egypt"
2025 BHC meeting Amanda Ortiz Molina, Binghamton University "Indigenous Capital in Colonial Credit Markets: A Study of Indigenous Community Treasuries in Eighteenth-Century New Granada"
2025 BHC meeting Maria Padovan, University of Rome Tor Vergata & Université Paris Cité "Rethinking Nuclear Integration. Euratom, Italy and France and the Nuclear Business (1957-1973)"
2025 BHC meeting Elizabeth Parker, Cornell University Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Olivia Paschal, Corcoran Department of History Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Patrick Patterson, University of California, San Diego "The Shift toward a Culture of Choice and the Erasure of Employment in Communist Eastern Europe: How Enterprise Leaders and Managers Ended Up Downplaying Labor as They Promoted Consumption "
2025 BHC meeting Cody Patton, Montana State University, Billings "Selling Single Use: The Begrudging Acceptance and Environmental Consequences of Canned Beer in American Consumer Culture"
2025 BHC meeting Chad Pearson, University of North Texas "’White supremacy doesn’t want Negroes exterminated, but Negro labor intimidated’: Employer Interests and the Second Klan"
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 Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute "Competitive Charity: Savings Banks and Civil Society in Post-Civil War Baltimore, 1865–1900"
2025 BHC meeting Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia "Power Move: How Law and Public Policy Reshaped the Late-Twentieth-Century U. S. Firms"
2025 BHC meeting Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse "Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s"
2025 BHC meeting Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Viewer Beware: TV Repair Fraud, Technological Complexity, and Consumer Vulnerability"
2025 BHC meeting Richard Popp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Roundtable presentation
2025 BHC meeting Jennifer Porst, Emory University "The Impact of Antitrust Enforcement on Labor in Hollywood in the Mid-Twentieth Century"
2025 BHC meeting Miri Powell, Stanford University "Of Silicon, Quartz, and Hurricanes: An Environmental History of Semiconductors, 1957-2024"
2025 BHC meeting Rohit Prabu, European University Institute "Information and Economic Organization: The English East India Company and Cloth Procurement in Coromandel in the Eighteenth Century"
2025 BHC meeting Pablo Federico Pryluka, Harvard University "The Conquest of New Markets: Development, Income, and Domestic Refrigerators in Postwar South America"