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Vicki Howard

University of Essex, Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Journal Co-editor, "History of Retailing and Consumption" (Routledge)
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Retailing, Consumer Culture, gender, policy
Women in Business History

Vicki Howard is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex in the UK.   Formerly, she was an Associate Professor of History at Hartwick College in the US, where she taught courses in twentieth-century American business history, women’s history, and consumer culture.  She is the author of Brides, Inc. American Weddings and the Business of Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) and From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), co-winner of the 2016 Hagley Prize in Business History.   Along with Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan, UK, she edits the Routledge journal, History of Retailing and Consumption.  She is a  former trustee of the Business History Conference and a past chair of the organization's Liaison Committee.  She has also been a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has held two Smithsonian fellowships.  Dr. Howard comments on retailing and retail history in the UK and USA on BlueSky at @retailhistorian.bsky.social.

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings
Service to the BHC
Executive Committee 2025 - 2029
Secretary 2025 - 2029
Executive Committee 2021 - 2025
Secretary 2021 - 2025
Hagley Book Prize Committee 2019 - 2020
Board of Trustees 2016 - 2019
Scholarly Society Liaison Committee 2015 - 2018 [Chair 2017 - 2018]
Emerging Scholars Committee 2012 - 2015 [Chair 2014 - 2015]

Prizes and Grants from the BHC
Hagley Prize in Business History, 2016

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