Expertise Database

Our members are here to help journalists and other non-specialists deliver authoritative, nuanced understandings of the ways in which businesses have operated in their wider social, political, economic, and cultural worlds.

BHC Members: learn how to update your research profile and research interest keywords for the Expertise Database.

Non-BHC Members: join now to have your profile appear in the database.


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
Twitter@blackjen1
Mark R Gibb
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Bio)
19th c. US, History of Capitalism, History of Beer and Brewing, Small Business, the history of the corporation, Industrialization, Urban Development, Immigration
Twitter@MarkGibb3
Richard John
Columbia University (Bio)
Political Economy, history of communication, 19th c. US

Sharon Murphy
Providence College (Bio)
19th c. US, Financial history, Slavery, Banking, Insurance
Twitter@SharonAnnMurph1