Doctoral Colloquium Alphabetical Listing of Participants

“Bend-down Boutique”: Secondhand Economy in Twentieth-Century Ghana

'Behind the Executive Mask': T-groups and the Rise of Corporate Sensitivity Training, 1947-73

Avoiding 'Negligency and Confusion'? Re-evaluating the Role of the Partnership in Nineteenth-Century British Trading Firms in India

Institutionalizing Black Capitalism: An Examination of the African-American Depositors at the Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1850-1900

European Banks and the Rise of International Finance after Bretton Woods, 1973-1982

Waging War on the Landscape: Demolition and Clearance in Postwar America

Closer to the Edge: New York City and the Triumph of Risk

The Women of Western Electric: Reconsidering Gender Discrimination, Civil Rights, and the Meaning of Equity in Post-1960s America

'Aren't They Keen?' Early Children's Food Advertising and the Emergence of the Brand-Loyal Child Consumer

American Frankenstein: Creating the Corporate Constitutional Person

Entertaining America: The Political Economy of Popular Culture, 1870-1920

“A Company of Kin: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Business of Tribal Nationalism, 1820s-2020s”

Agents of Integration: Multinational Firms and the European Union 1970-2000

What Are They Going to Do to Us Now: Fear and Uncertainty at the End of Bretton Woods

A Genealogy of the Corporation: Articulating Sovereign Power and Capitalism

English Law and the Emergence of the Joint Stock Banking Company, 1826-1844

European Shipping Companies and the World Migration Industry, 1870-1960

A Regency of Women: Female Plantation Management in the Old South

The Long-Term Development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Swedish Big Business

The Grain Trade during World War I: Wartime Regulation and the Concentration of Agricultural Capital

A Sea of Debt: Law, Empire, and Commercial Society in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940

The Evolution of the German Bankruptcy Regime 1830-1877

Physicians-Entrepreneurs: Medical Professionals, Biomedical Engineers, and the Making of Modern U.S. Medical Device Regulation, 1946-2000

The Acoustic Guitar in American Culture, 1880-1980

Free Trade: NAFTA and the Politics of Post-Cold War America

Constructing Creditworthiness:  The Latin-American Expansion of US Branch Banking the Early Twentieth Century

’An Invisible Empire’: The Making of the Consumer Credit Score and Global Corporate Power, 1890-1989

Labor and the Public: How Organized Labor Represented Itself in Postwar America

Meatless Days and Sleepless Nights: Food, Agriculture, and Environment in World War I America

Reinterpreting Dominant Tropes:  Colombians' Search for Material Progress in Neighboring Latin America, 1870-1930

Making Markets Durable: Transaction Processing in Finance and Commerce

Freedom From: The Rise of the Blue Collar-Business Republican Coalition and the Conservative Deregulatory State, 1968-1994

Workers in Beautiful Homes: Productivism,Growth, Social Policies and Entrepreneurs in the European Southeast,1890s-1950s

Capitalizing Cities: The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Elites in African Commercial Capitals and the Growth of Black Business in the Global Economy

Ensuring America's Health: Publicly Constructing the Private Health Insurance Industry, 1945-1970

Dynamics in Japanese shipping in 1970-2000: Restructuring and the new wave of Imabari Shipowners

Manufacturing Knowledge in Transit: Technical Practices, Organizational Change and the Rise of the Semi-conductor Industry in the U.S. and Japan

The History of Telemarketing in The United States

Banking on Change: The Politics of US Bank Consolidation

What was a merchant house in Tokugawa Japan? The case of the Nakai Genzaemon

The Limestone and Cement Industry in Sweden: A Study about Concentration, Rationalization and Cooperation in Two Industries, 1890-1975

Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828-1846

Legal Pluralism and Mercantile Authority in the Integration in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic

A Commercial Republic: The National Board of Trade and the Making of a National Political Economy in the Late Nineteenth-Century U.S.

Singer in Spain and Mexico: The Culture and Business of Sewing in Historical Perspective, 1870-1950

'The Dizzy Race to Nowhere':The Business of Professional Cycling in North America, 1891-1940

A Coin for China? Making Money and Modernity in the Late Qing Dynasty, 1870-1912

The Shareholder Value Revolution

Safety Regulation in the US Poultry Industry: For Whom?

Was the First Transcontinental Railroad Expected To Be Profitable? Evidence from Entrepreneur Declarations, an Empirical Entry Decision Model and Ex-Post Information

Kroll Associates Inc. and The Business of Knowledge Production 1970 – 2017

Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company

Redesigning the State: Federal Courts and the Emergence of a Deregulatory Bureaucracy

Democratizing Beauty: Avon Cosmetics and the Transnational Marketing of Femininity, 1954-2008

Chile’s ‘Key to the Orient’: Commerce, Labor, and the Political Economy of the Pacific World, 1987-1943

Industrialization as Globalization: Iron and Steel between Germany, Brazil, and the United States

Economists' Domain: The Emergence of the Professional Economist, 1880-1939

'No Likeness—No Pay': The Market for Art and Artists in Early North Carolina: Art and Economy in the American South, 1789-1860

Financial Regulation, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Transformation of Retirement in America

Daughters of Ruth: Enterprising Black Women in Insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s

The Evolution of the Palm Oil Industry in Malaysia and Indonesia in the 20th Century

African American Credit Use in the Early National Period

Domesticating the Air/Domesticating the World: Feminism, Modernity, and the Rise of Commercial Aviation, 1920-1970

The Price of Doing Business: Capital, National Development and Soft Power in the Venezuelan Oil Industry (1939-1975)

To Control the Waves: Marconi Wireless, the State, and the Struggle between Public and Private Interest

America's Commercial Cold War: Trade and Security in the Western Alliance

"The Ahmedabad experiment": Technological change and the emergence of 'scientific' wages as part of human resources management

The Establishment of Maclean's Magazine and Notions of Masculine Canadian Nationalism

Incorporating for Social Good: Philanthropic Foundations and the Origins of Social Enterprise (1860-1920)

When Trust Fails: Merchants, Law, and Empire in the Eighteenth Century

The Resumption of Trade Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976

Forging a Scandinavian Consumer Society: The Consumer Cooperatives and Consumerism in Sweden, 1919-1939

The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

Steel Metropolis: Industrial Enterprise, Urban Space, and Social Identity in Northeast China, 1909-1997

A History of Food Color in the United States, 1880s-1970s

'The Compensation Law Put Us Out of Work': Workplace Injury Law, Disability, and Capitalism in the Progressive Era United States

Pax Pecuniaria? Offshore Finance in the Twilight of the British Empire, 1922-1984

'What are you worth?' Race and the Multiple Meanings of Risk in the Jim Crow Era, 1887-1945

Acceptable Risk: Law, Regulation, and the Politics of American Financial Markets, 1878-1930

Friendly Interest: The Corporate Culture and Development of Welfare Work at Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company, 1885-1965

Actuarial Age: Insurance and the Emergence of Neoliberalism in the Postwar United States

A Propensity to Truck, Barter, and Exchange: Florida Indian Traders

Perilous Connections: Railroads in the Post-Reconstruction South

The Cut and the Color Line:  An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South's Forests, 1876-1965

“Kerosene Anti-monopoly: An Environmental and Global History of the Antitrust Movement Against Standard Oil, 1846-1911,”

The Rise and Fall of Berlin as a Fashion Capital: 1924-1939

Energy Landscapes: Coal Canals, Oil Pipelines, Electricity Transmission Wires in the Mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930

Shanghai Panic: China's Big Debt Crisis

The Yazoo Land Sales: Slavery, Speculation, and Capitalism in the Early American Republic

When Food Became Natural:  Industrial Food Culture and the Marketing of Reform

Medicating the Corporate Soul: Employee Relations, Public Relations, and Philanthropy in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1930-1980

Building Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age of Disequilibrium

’The Devil's Music’: Selling Anglo-American Pop Music in Cold War Communist Germany

Philanthropy in Post/Colonial India: Tatas' Giving for/to the Modern (Neoliberal) Nation

’When a Handshake Meant Something’: The Emergence of Entertainment Law and the Constitution of Hollywood Art, 1944-1967

Why Such a Permissive Attitude towards Monopolistic Associations? Social Democracy up to the First Swedish Law on Cartels in 1925

From Black Power to Black Empowerment: Transnational Capital and Racial Integration in the United States and South Africa, 1969-2010

The Anatomy of a Global Market in Transformation. Rubber, 1900-1960

Origins of Ethical Capitalism: The Case of the Monte di Pietàs

Bridging the Atlantic Gap: German Business in the United States after the Second World War

Motivating the Self:  Psychological Testing in Corporate America, 1950-1990

Fashioning Flax: Industry, Region, and Work in North American Fibre and Linseed Oil, 1850-1930

Politics of Property: Urban Democracy in the Age of Capital, Boston, 1965-1900

Ladies Agencies Reconsidered: Female Sales Agents and the Development of the American Consumer Economy

The Rise of America's Mutual Fund Industry, 1945-1990

A Social History of Montreal Rolling Mills, 1868 to 1903

Racial Segmentation and Market Segregation: The Late-Twentieth Century History of the American City Supermarket, 1960-1990

Harnessing Nature's Timekeeper: A History of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Technological Community, 1880-1959

Mainframing America: Computers, Systems, and the Transformation of U.S. Policy and Society, 1940-1985

"Shopping for all pocket": History of Sindhi Retail and Industrial Busines in the Gold Coast, 1929-1989

The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Food Safety, 1957 – 1996,

Sun Citizens: The Political Culture of Retirement in America, 1952-1994

A Merchant's Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760-1807

The Power to Resist? An Evolution of Corporate Responses to Anti-Apartheid Activism, 1948-1994

Joint-Stock Capitalism and the Atlantic Commercial Network: The Royal African Company, 1672-1752

James M. Eder and the Economic Development of Valle del Cauca in Early Colombia

A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Finance in the United States and Japan from 1880 to 1930

Nineteenth-century American Commerce in the Indian Ocean

Development Begins at Home: Women and the Domestic Economy in Brazil, 1945-1975

Empire State Building: The Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783-1850

A Return to Normal in International Trade? Political Economy of Trade Finance and the Case of the Swiss Machine Industry, 1919-1939

When Small and Medium Sized Companies Encounter Globalization

Jewish Commerce: Trade, Credit, and Ethnic Difference Across the Russian Empire, 1870-1917

Crisis Capital: The Making and Un-Making of Industrial Massachusetts, 1873-Present

Ancient Systems of Trade: Organizing Commerce in the Colonial North

The Foundations of European Venture Capital, 1960-1985: Organizing Innovation through Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Le rendez-vous manqué: The Role of EURATOM, France and Italy in the European Nuclear Industry, between European Integration and Transnational History (1957-1998)

To Draw a Warrant for the Same: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Fiscal-Monetary State in the Long Nineteenth Century

The American Fair Trade Controversy: Law and Economics in Transition, 1890-1940

Multinationals-Territory-Work in Switzerland (1970-2010): The History of a Turning Point?

The Pursuit of Profit: The Accounting Information Systems of the English and the Dutch East India Companies, c.1700- c.1800

Expectations and Inequality: A History of Consumption in South America (1930s-1970s)

Imperialism in a Bottle: How the Pilsner Lager Became the Imperial Beer

The Making of a Mercantile Elite: Network, Entrepreneurship and Empire in Early Modern China

Sinking Leviathan: Global Shipping and the Growth of the American State, 1870-1920

White Gold: Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the American Ski Industry, 1900-present

The People's Capital:  The Politics of Popular Finance in the Gilded Age

Financing varieties of capitalism. Firms in developing economies: from stand-alone to business groups. The case of Colombia after 1950

Belgian Stock Markets: Liberalisation, Growth and Power (1867-1914)

From Slavery to Scientific Management: Accounting for Control in Antebellum America

Hockey Capital: Commerce, Culture and the National Hockey League, 1917-1967

Stalin’s Financial Revolution: Corporate Finance and the History of the Soviet Fiscal State 1921-1953

No Standard Definition: The Medical Device Industry and Its Social and Cultural History

Industrial Legislatures: Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions

Safe Harbor: Chicago's Waterfront and the Political Economy of the Built Environment, 1847-1918

Trash and Treasure: Secondhand Trade and Consumption in the Twentieth-Century United States

Manufacturing Self-Determination: Native American Industrial Development in the Postwar United States

International History of Computing: Trans-Atlantic Transfer of Technology and Culture in the Cold War Era

Fallible Guardian: The Social Construction of Railroad Telegraphy in 19th-Century America

Public Communication of Health Science: Food Advertising in the Post-World War II Period

International Labor Federations and the Politics of Global Economic Transformation, 1944-1995

From Bazaar to Corporations: The Long-Run Evolution of Community in Listed Indian Firms (1920-1970)

Ginning up Egyptian Cotton: Commodification, Regulation and Power in Global Markets, 1905-1952

Hair Affair: Media, Culture, and the Black Hair Care Industry

Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business, 1860-1940

Crafting a 'Technological Education': Academic-Industrial Laboratories and the 'Innovation Society'

Developing an Empire: Plantation Rubber and Peasant Agriculture in the Bay of Bengal

The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company: Eastern Capital and Mortgage Credit in Ohio, 1834-1845

Age of Opium: American Capital and the Making of the Modern Pacific, 1828-1882

From Steel to Slots: Locating Postindustrial Community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

The Yellow Non-Pareil: Industrialization and the Making of Modern Japan

When Good Government Meant Big Government: Elite Reformers and American State in the New Era, 1920-1933

Driving Change: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) of Minority Suppliers in the Detroit-Windsor Automotive Industry

Owned, Monitored, but Not Always Controlled: Understanding the Success and Failure of Scottish Free-Standing Companies, 1862-1910

Smuggling, State-Building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1927-1949

The House that Cane Built: Sugar, Race, and the Gendered Foundations of the Texas Prison System 1843-1920

Capitalism, Crops, and Cultural Change Through the Lens of the W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company, 1876-1915

Bonds of War:  The Evolution of World Financial Markets in the Civil War Era

Pharmaceutical Networks: The Political Economy of Drug Development in the United States, 1945-1980

Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607-1774

Growing Entrepreneurial Firms in Developing Countries: The Interplay of the State, the Market, and the Social Sector

Unrealised Potential: Japan's Post-War Pharmaceutical Industry, 1945-2005

Western European Retail and the Making of Post-Communist (Super)Markets in Eastern Europe, 1989-2004

Contentious Capital: The Politics of Pension Investment in the United States and Germany, 1974-2003

Constituting Credit Capitalism: The Political Economy of Bank Credit Cards in Postwar America

The Rise of a Socialist Business Class: The Role of Economic Managerial Elite in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1963-1991

The 2008 Mortgage Crisis as a Failure of Analogical Reasoning

Federal Regulatory Management of the Automobile Industry in the United States, 1966-1988

The Architects of their Fortunes: The Rise of Financial Capitalism in Baltimore, 1760s-1840s

A Lobby for Capital: Organized Business and the Pursuit of Pro-Market Politics, 1967-1986

Ameliorating Fatigue at Work: Workplace-Management, Mind-Body Medicine, and Self-Help for Industrial Fatigue in the U.S., 1890-1945

Charles Schwab and the Steel Navy: The Political Economy of Big Steel and the U. S. Navy 1885-1915

At the Crossroads with Fascism: The Decision of Ford, General Motors, and IBM to Do Business with Nazi Germany

A Taxing Victory: Considering the Fiscality of Race and Class During the American Civil War

Opium in the Age of Liberal Reform: Classical Political Economy and the Remaking of the British Empire, 1783-1839

Milk for the Nation: A History of the Japanese Dairy Industry, 1840-1952

Making the Motor City: Ford, Detroit, and the Politics of Mass Production, 1908-1929

“Making the small big”: How Medium-sized Family Firms Became the “Hidden Champions” of Malaysia’s Post-colonial Industrialization

Nourishing Shanxi: State, Industrial Entrepreneurship, and the Making of Chinese State Capitalism, 1898-2004