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Eric John Abrahamson

Principal Historian, Vantage Point Historical Services, Inc. (Bio)
philanthropic foundations, Philanthropy, Market Regulation, Public policy and regulation, Innovation, History of Capitalism

Stephen B. Adams

Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University (Bio)
Education

Araceli Alvarado Almaraz

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Bio)
Entrepreneurial families, Business History, History of Science and Technology, Entrepreneurial History

@@Araceli6151344

Adoracion Alvaro-Moya

Associate Professor of Economic History, CUNEF University (Spain) (Bio)
International Business, Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Corporations, Spain, entrepreneurship

Bamidele Aly

Independent scholar (Bio)
History of Money, Economic and Business History, Economic Development, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship

Rolv Petter Amdam

Professor. BI Norwegian Business School (Bio)
Executive education, Business education, Industrial clusters, Maritime industry, Mulitinationals

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo

Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade (Bio)
retail payments (cashless; credit cards), automation, history of computers, Latin America (Mexico), history of management thought

Manuel Alejandro Bautista González

Doctoral Candidate in United States History at Columbia University in the City of New York (Bio)
Money, Finance, Capitalism, Slavery, United States, Mexico

Laurent Béduneau-Wang

Postdoc, HEC Montreal (Bio)
Business-Government Relations

@LaurentBeduneau

Hartmut Berghoff

Director, Institute of Economic and Social History (Bio)
History of Consumption, History of Economic Crime

Jennifer Black

Associate Professor of History and Government, Misericordia University (2020-current) (Bio)
history of advertising and consumer culture, material and visual culture, cultural history, 19th c. US, Consumer Culture, Business fraud

Mansel G. Blackford

Emeritus Professor of History, The Ohio State University (Bio)
Firms, Fishing

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society (Bio)
Consumer Culture, Design, Fashion, Textiles, Retailing, Innovation, Creative Industries, Chemical Industry, International Business, Transatlantic History

Jessica Borge

Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities (Bio)
British industry (1960s), contraception, pharmaceuticals

Alejandro E. Caceres

Lecturer of Economics and Enterprise (Venezuelan Business History) / Latin American Economic Development (Economic History) / Strategy and Structure (Bio)
Latin America, Oil Multinationals, Energy, Strategy, Organizations, Management Practices

Sean D. Carr

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Bio)
History of Entrepreneurship, Technological Change, Innovation

Muwei Chen

Beijing Foreign Studies University (Bio)
Chinese economy and business, Consumer Cultures, Creative Industries, Culture Industries and Markets, East Asian modern business history, Industrial clusters, SMEs

Peter A. Coclanis

University of North Carolina (Bio)
Agribusiness, Global Histroy, Southern U.S.

Peter Conti-Brown

Assistant Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Bio)
Financial history, central banking, financial regulation, Banking

Mandy L. Cooper

Lecturer of Women's and Gender History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Bio)
Business History, Legal History, 19th c. US, American women's history, Slavery, emotions, political history, cultural history, Business-Government Relations, family business

Jonathan Coopersmith

Professor (Bio)
failure, History of technology, information

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández

Digital editor and Assoc. Director, Inquire Capitalism Program, University of Florida (Bio)
gender and enterprise, Multinational Corporations, Spain, Latin America (Mexico)

Lynne Pierson Doti

Emeritus Professor of Economics (Bio)
Financial, Economic, Business, Entrepreneurial History

Colleen Dunlavy

Professor emerita of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bio)
Political Economy, Corporate Governance, Corporate organization, Commodities, Business and Economic History, History of Capitalism, History of technology

Megan Elias

Boston University (Bio)
Food, gender

Jonah Estess

PhD Candidate, American University (Bio)
Political Economy, History of Capitalism, History of Money, Money and finance, State Formation, Early Republic United States, United States History

Evan Fernández

University of California, Berkeley (Bio)
Commodity Chains, Political Economy, Latin America, Immigration, geopolitics, 20th century, Agribusiness

Adam K. Frost

PhD Candidate, Harvard University (Bio)
History of Capitalism, Modern China, Entreprenuership, Informal Economics

Shuang Frost

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California (Bio)
Innovation

Keiji Fujimura

Doctoral Student, Osaka University, Japan (Bio)
US-Japan Business History, Auto Industry

Alexi Garrett

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia (Bio)
Early America, American women's history, history of gender, Slavery, Southern U.S., History of Industrial Research

Valeria Giacomin

Newcomen Fellow, Harvard Business School (Bio)

Ewan Gibbs

Lecturer in Global Inequalities, University of Glasgow (Bio)
Deindustrialization, labour history, industrial-labor relations, Energy, Foreign Direct Investment, multinationals, offshore oil

Eric Godelier

Professor of Management, Corporate History and Business Anthropology, Ecole Polytechnique (Bio)
Corporate culture, Managerial Elites, General Business History

@EricGodelier ‏

Brendan Goff

Assistant Professor (Bio)
U.S. international history, Business History, cultural/intellectual history, service clubs and civic culture, gender, urban history, history of advertising and consumer culture

Dylan Gottlieb

Lecturer, Department of History, Princeton University (Bio)
United States, Twentieth Century, Consumer Culture, Labor History, Financial history

Margaret B.W. Graham

Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University (Bio)
History of Industrial Research, History of U.S. Entrepreneurship

Rachel Greenfield

Independent Scholar (Bio)
American women's history, Advertising and Marketing Industries, business and consumption, 1850s-1940s

Ryan Issa Haddad

University of Maryland (Bio)
International Trade, Security, Public policy and regulation

Barbara Hahn

Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University (Bio)
History of technology

Shane Hamilton

University of York Management School (Bio)
Transportation, Agriculture, Risk, Insurance, Capitalism, Technology, Supermarkets, Labor, Agribusiness

Liane Hewitt

PhD Candidate, Princeton University (Bio)
antimonopoly, European Common Market, Corporate Governance, Economic and Business History, Planning, Public policy and regulation

@@anticartelhist

Eric S. Hintz

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution (Bio)
invention, Innovation, R&D, History of Science and Technology, Business History

Daniel Horowitz

Smith College (Bio)
American Consumer Culture

Roger Horowitz

Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at Hagley Museum and Library (Bio)
Consumer Culture, Food, Labor, regulation, Religion, Technology

Vicki Howard

University of Essex (Bio)
Retailing, Consumer Culture, gender, food studies, policy

@Retailhistorian

Richard R. John

Columbia University (Bio)
Political Economy, history of communication, 19th c. US

Tanya Jurado

Lecturer Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Bio)
entrepreneurship, SMEs, Small Business, Trade

Ida Lunde Jørgensen

Assistant Professor, PhD, Copenhagen Business School (Bio)
Philanthropy, Foundations, Welfare State, Visual Art, material and visual culture

Robert Konkel

PhD Candidate, Princeton University (Bio)
Political Economy, geopolitics, Business and Economic History, institutions, Economic Development, Multinational Corporations