Justene Hill Edwards | The Business History Conference

Justene Hill Edwards

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Slavery, History of Capitalism
Women in Business History

Service to the BHC

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee 2023 - 2025 [Chair 2023 - 2025]

Board of Trustees 2021 - 2024

Kerr Prize Committee 2021 - 2024 [Chair 2022 - 2023]

2021 - 2022

Prizes and Grants from the BHC

Harold F. Williamson Prize, 2025

Harold F. Williamson Prize, 2025

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Chair, Co-Creating Failure and Forgetting in Business and Entrepreneurial Histories Discussant, Co-Creating Failure and Forgetting in Business and Entrepreneurial Histories
2025 BHC meeting: Discussant, Multinational Enterprises and the Politics of Labor in the Twentieth Century: Panel 1
2024 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Mistrust, Gilded Age Corruption, and the Failure of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company" Chair, Race and Corporate Allyship in the US and Among Americans Abroad
2022 BHC Meeting : Discussant, The Business of Slavery
2021 BHC Virtual Meeting: Presenter, "Paternalism, Control, and Capitalism in Antebellum South Carolina"
2020 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Paternalism, Control, and Capitalism in Antebellum South Carolina" Chair, Slavery on the Economic and Legal Fringes in 19th-Century America Discussant, Slavery on the Economic and Legal Fringes in 19th-Century America