Emerging Scholars
Emerging Scholars
The Emerging Scholars Committee of the Business History Conference focuses on introducing young scholars to the possibilities for researching and teaching in the field of business history. The committee identifies advanced students attending the annual meeting and works to integrate them into the larger community of business historians and academics. During in person meetings, the committee prepares a number of emails prior to each annual meeting in order to invite young scholars to the various events held that provide a space for learning about business history and meeting BHC attendees and members. These events include an introductory breakfast held on the second day of the conference and a reception held the same evening, both of which are opportunities for new scholars to network with BHC-affiliated members with a wide range of experiences within the field. Following the conference the committee also follows up with attendees to gauge their experience in order to improve future events and to continue to expand the network of historians of business.
The ESC committee organized both an in-person networking reception at the Mexico City conference and a virtual mentoring program in 2022, pairing emerging scholars with established community members based on shared research interests and professional goals. Learn more about it here.
Dr. Ashton Merck's interviews with emerging scholars is available on H-Business. Check out the first season here:
Interview with Peter Labuza || Interviews with Daniel Rowe || Interview with Elizabeth O'Brien Ingleson || Interview with Ann Daly || Interview with Ghassan Moazzin || Interview with Mircea Raianu || Interview with Zhaojin Zeng || Interview with Dylan Gottlieb || Interview with Grace Ballor || Interview with Dan Du || Interview with Mandy Cooper || Interview with Sabine Pitteloud || Interview with Mary Bridges || Interview with Sven Kube || Interview with Ashton Merck
publishing, Sport & Business, International Development
Ph.D. received 2022

Economic and Business History, Industrialization, Financial history

Legal History, American Economic History, the history of the corporation
Ph.D. received 2021

Money, Finance, Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022

Public policy and regulation, History of Science-Medicine-Technology

Business, Banking, International Expansion
Ph.D. received 2020

Business History, Black Business, Business and Economic History

Latin America, Oil Multinationals, Energy

infrastructure, invention, 19th c. US

History of U.S. Entrepreneurship, African-American History, Entrepreneurism

Modern China, East Asian modern business history, History of Capitalism

politics of consumption, Transnational Consumer Culture, gender and enterprise

20th century, Creative Industries, Diplomacy
Ph.D. received 2019

Political Economy, History of Capitalism, History of Money
Ph.D. received 2023

History of Capitalism, Modern China, Entreprenuership
Ph.D. received 2021

Early America, Early Republic United States, American women's history
Ph.D. received 2020

Transatlantic History, 20th century, Black Business
Ph.D. received 2021

Capitalism, Race, 19th century
Ph.D. received 2021

United States, Twentieth Century, Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2020

Ph.D. received 2023



Environment, Technology, Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022

History of Capitalism, Financial history, World War II
Ph.D. received 2022

Business and Economic History, Chinese economy and business, Auto Industry

Political Economy, geopolitics, Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2021

Higher Education, historical methodology
Ph.D. received 2021

Early America, Trade, International Trade
Ph.D. received 2019

Business and Culture, Latin American business history, Economic History
Ph.D. received 2021

Business fraud, failure, entrepreneurship

Labor History, British business, Colonial India
Ph.D. received 2021

20th century, Agriculture, Business fraud
Ph.D. received 2020

Auto Industry, Sustainability, Business-Government Relations
Ph.D. received 2021

U.S. international history, Financial history, Stock Trading and Investment
Ph.D. received 2020

U.S. international history, Financial history, Stock Trading and Investment
Ph.D. received 2020

History of Science-Medicine-Technology, History of Capitalism, Public policy and regulation

family business, SMEs, Management
Ph.D. received 2019

19th century finance, History of Money, History of Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022

Multinationals Offshoring Business-Governement Relations

entrepreneurship, History of technology, Globalizing Latin America
Ph.D. received 2019

Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, Management theory and history; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;, organization studies
Ph.D. received 2022

20th c. US., Labor History, Business and Culture

Urban Development, History of Capitalism, Consumer Culture

Business History, Business Groups, Evolution of the Firm
Ph.D. received 2021

19th c. US, Racial Capitalism, history of advertising and consumer culture
Ph.D. received 2020

Labor History, multinationals, International Trade
Ph.D. received 2022

Labor-Management Relations, gender and enterprise, Corporate Politics

Ph.D. received 2021

Entreprenuership, Entrepreneurial History, Business education

Economic History, Economic and Business History, American Economic History
Ph.D. received 2020

Business Political Activism, Business-Government Relations, Lobbying

Financial history, central banking, Modern Britain
Ph.D. received 2023

family business, institutions, Entrepreneurial History
Ph.D. received 2022