David Sicilia

University of Maryland, Emeritus

Capitalism, Financial history, Public policy and regulation, Marketing

Fields: business, economic, and technology history with special emphasis on finance and global capitalism. Books: The Entrepreneurs (with Robert Sobel); Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company (with Davis Dyer); The Engine That Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company (with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank); and The Greenspan Effect: Words that Move the World's Markets (with Jeffrey Cruikshank) plus three co-edited volumes including Constructing Corporate America (with Kenneth Lipartito) and Strands of Modernization: The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850-1920 (with David Wittner).

Service to the BHC

Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program 2022 - 2028 [Chair 2022 - 2028]

Program Committee 2017 - 2018 [Chair 2017 - 2018]

Investments Committee 2014 - 2017 [Chair 2016 - 2017]

Board of Trustees 2014 - 2017

Hagley Book Prize Committee 2012 - 2013

Halloran Prize Committee 2009 - 2011

Book Review Editor, Enterprise & Society 2004 - 2006

Associate Editor of Enterprise & Society 2000 - 2003

Program Committee 2001 - 2002 [Chair 2001 - 2002]

Board of Trustees 1996 - 1999

Prizes and Grants from the BHC

Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History, 1991

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Securitizing Litigation: The Rise – and Perils – of Third-Party Funding" Chair, The Penrosian Legacy and Business History
2025 BHC meeting: Chair, Capitalism in China and America Discussant, Capitalism in China and America
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "When Theory Collided With Financial Markets: The Saga of Paul Samuelson and Commodities Corporation " Chair, Conceptualizing the Corporation Discussant, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Philanthropy, and Community Finance
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation Chair, Reinterpreting US-China Trade Relations Discussant, Reinterpreting US-China Trade Relations
2022 BHC Meeting : Discussant, Banking Matters
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Discussant, From Glass-Steagall to the Volcker Rule: Examining the Regulatory Regimes in the Changing US Banking Industry
2020 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Human Collaboration: Insights from Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology for Business History" Chair, From Heroine to Team: Entrepreneurial Groups and Female Entrepreneurship Discussant, From Heroine to Team: Entrepreneurial Groups and Female Entrepreneurship