Women in Business History

Women in Business History (WiBH) consists of an informal group who have joined together at Business History Conference meetings for several years. Over lunch, they network, share career information, and trade insights on professional development. Some of the women work in areas related to gender in business and economic history, but the group's scholarly interests span the field.

Kristen Alff

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
19th century, Capitalism, gender

Araceli Alvarado Almaraz

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Entrepreneurial families, Business History, History of Science and Technology
Ph.D. received 2007

Pablo Alonso Villa

Assistant Professor, University of Valladolid
Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2019

Sara Alpern

Department of History, Texas A & M University

Bamidele Aly

Independent scholar
History of Money, Economic and Business History, Economic Development

Jennifer J. Armiger

Assessment Director, Arts & Languages, at Educational Testing Service (ETS)

María Celeste Aroca

Profesora de Historia inscripta en el Doctorado en Historia, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Historia económica, Historia empresarial, Political Economy

Débora Ascencio

Ph.D Fellow, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Argentina), Ph.D. Candidate, University of Buenos Aires
Economic History, State-Owned Enterprise
Ph.D. received 2021

Jennifer Aston

Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University

Ph.D. received 2012

Dalit Baranoff

Independent Scholar, Fellow: Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Catherine Bertho-Lavenir

Department of Cultural Mediation, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Catherine Bishop

Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
Businesswomen in Australia, Colonial Businesswomen in Australia and New Zealand
Ph.D. received 2012

Catherine Bishop

Junior Research Fellow University of Sydney
Colonial Businesswomen in Australia and New Zealand, Businesswomen in Australia

Jennifer Black

Associate Professor of History and Government, Misericordia University (2020-current), Assistant Professor of History and Government, Misericordia University (2014-2020)
history of advertising and consumer culture, material and visual culture, cultural history
Ph.D. received 2013

Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society, Professor of Business History
Consumer Culture, Design, Fashion

Jessica Borge

Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study
British industry (1960s), contraception, pharmaceuticals
Ph.D. received 2017

Kendra D. Boyd

Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University-Camden
United States History, Business History, African-American History

Elizabeth K Brake

Vice President of Community Partnerships, Venture For America
Agribusiness, Agriculture, Business-Government Relations

Mary Bridges

Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Business, Banking, International Expansion
Ph.D. received 2020

Kristine Bruland

Department of History, University of Oslo

Bárbara Burton

Phd Candidate IDAES - UNSAM, Junior Researcher - CITECDE - UNRN
Entrepreneurial History, Innovation, History of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. received 2022

Ann Carlos

Department of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder

Christina Carrick

Assistant Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

Christy Ford Chapin

Department of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Muwei Chen

Beijing Foreign Studies University, Lecturer, School of Japanese and International Studies
Chinese economy and business, Consumer Cultures, Creative Industries
Ph.D. received 2019

Marie Chessel

Director of Research, CNRS-EHESS

Jiakai Jeremy Chua

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

Hilary Claggett

Senior Acquisitions Editor, Georgetown University Press

Jessica P. Clark

Associate Professor, Department of History, Brock University
Modern Britain, consumption, beauty

Sally Clarke

University of Texas at Austin (retired)
Corporate Governance, Political Economy, consumption
Ph.D. received 1987

Lisa D. Cook

Department of Economics, Michigan State University

Mandy L. Cooper

Lecturer of Women's and Gender History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Business History, Legal History, 19th c. US
Ph.D. received 2018

Beatrice Craig

Professor emerita, University of Ottawa
Women
Ph.D. received 1983

Teresa da Silva Lopes

University of York

Mila Davids

Eindhoven University of Technology

Anastasia Day

Hagley Scholar, University of Delaware
Environment, Agriculture, Industrialization

Holly Dayton

PhD Candidate, Northwestern University

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández

Cultural Heritage Manager, University of Florida
gender and enterprise, Multinational Corporations, Spain
Ph.D. received 2013

Nicole de Silva

Doctoral Candidate, University of California at Santa Barbara
politics of consumption, Transnational Consumer Culture, gender and enterprise

Pat Denault

Retired, BHC; Harvard University
Historical editing, digital scholarship

Tracey Deutsch

Department of History, University of Minnesota

Alicia Dewey

Department of History, Biola University

ADA DI NUCCI

research, University Chieti-Pescara
Business History
Ph.D. received 2014

Lynne Pierson Doti

Emeritus Professor of Economics, Argyros School of Business and Economics
Financial, Economic, Business

Dan Du

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Colleen Dunlavy

Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Stephanie Dyer

Sonoma State University

Gunhild J. Ecklund

Norwegian School of Management

Allison Louise Elias

Senior Fellow and Lecturer, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Elvins

Department of History, University of Manitoba

Elysa Engelman

Mystic Seaport Museum

Bernardita Escobar Andrae

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University ofTalca
Female Entrepreneurship

Mónica Farkas

Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires
Post Office, material and visual culture, history of communication

Francesca Fauri

Associate Professor University of Bologna
20th century, Economic History, Entrepreneurial History

Maria Fernandez-Moya

Associate Professor, Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Madrid (Spain)
family business, Business and Culture, Business education
Ph.D. received 2015

Paloma Fernandez-Perez

Department of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona

javier fernandez-roca

Professor in Economic and Business History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain)
Business History
Ph.D. received 1996

Melissa S. Fisher

Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Joan Flores-Villalobos

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Shuang Frost

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California
Innovation
Ph.D. received 2020

Wendy Gamber

Department of History, Indiana University

Cheryl Ganz

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

Cinta Concepción García Vázquez

Associate Professor of Economy, University of Sevilla
Business, Business and Economic History

Alexi Garrett

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia
Early America, American women's history, history of gender

Shennette Garrett-Scott

University of Mississippi

Mihajla Gavin

Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Valeria Giacomin

Newcomen Fellow, Harvard Business School

Tiffany Gill

Department of History, University of Delaware

Michela Giorcelli

Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Business Management, Management, History of technology

Paige Glotzer

Harvard University
urban, Transnational, Racial Capitalism

Eun Sun Godwin

Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Wolverhampton, UK
Auto Industry, British industry (1960s), Business and Culture
Ph.D. received 2016

Margaret B.W. Graham

Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Founding Director, Winthrop Group, LLP
History of Industrial Research, History of U.S. Entrepreneurship

Rachel Greenfield

Independent Scholar
American women's history, Advertising and Marketing Industries, business and consumption

Janet Greenlees

Department of History, Glasgow Caledonian University

Bishnu Gupta

Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Kolleen Guy

Honors College, University of Texas, San Antonio

Janin Hadlaw

Design Studies, York University, Canada

Business History Initiative

Manager, Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School

Barbara Hahn

Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
History of technology

Elizabeth Harmon

Lockwood Strategy Lab
Philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, the history of the corporation

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Department of History, University of California, Davis
American women's history

Carol E Heim

Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Justene Hill Edwards

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Ph.D. received 2015

Diana Hinton

Department of History, University of Texas Permian Basin

Riitta Hjerppe

Department of Economic and Social History, University of Helsinki

Stephanie Holyfield

Wesley College

Caley Horan

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
post-1945 US, Capitalism, Risk

Vicki Howard

University of Essex, Visiting Fellow, Department of History
Retailing, Consumer Culture, gender

Anna Johns Hrom

Duke University

Diane Hutchinson

School of Economics, University of Sydney

Lisa Jacobson

Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara

Sonia Jaimes-Penaloza

Adjunct Professor, Universidad Icesi, Ph. D. Candidate at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar

Ph.D. received 1972

Tanya Jurado

Lecturer Small Business and Entrepreneurship, School of Management
entrepreneurship, SMEs, Small Business

Ida Lunde Jørgensen

Assistant Professor, PhD, Copenhagen Business School
Philanthropy, Foundations, Welfare State

Trish Kahle

Postdoctoral Social Sciences Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
20th c. US., Capitalism, consumption
Ph.D. received 2019

Aparna Kapadia

Williams College, Associate Professor
Business History, urban history

Susan Keats

Corporate Archives Services, Fidelity Investments

Jennifer Klein

Department of History, Yale University

Rebecca Kobrin

Associate Professor, Columbia University
Religion, family business
Ph.D. received 2002

Santhilata Kuppili Venkata

Digital Archiving Researcher, The National Archives, United Kingdom
Digital Humanities, Business History
Ph.D. received 2017

Angel Kwolek-Folland

Department of History, University of Florida

Pamela Laird

Department of History, University of Colorado Denver

Margot Lamme

Department of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Alabama

Naomi Lamoreaux

Department of Economics, Yale University

Margaret Levenstein

Michigan Census Research Data Center and Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Aiala Levy

PhD candidate, University of Chicago
Latin America, Brazil, urban

Jessica Ann Levy

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia
Black Business, Corporate Politics, Corporate Social Responsibility
Ph.D. received 2018

Susan I. Lewis

Department of History, State University of New York at New Paltz

Andrea Lluch

CONICET

Terri Lonier

Adjunct Professor, DePaul University, CEO, Make International

Ph.D. received 2009

Sarvnaz Lotfi

PhD Summer 2020, Virginia Tech

Ph.D. received 2020

Casey Lurtz

Johns Hopkins University
Latin America, Mexico, Commodities

Kira Lussier

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto, Mississauga
History of management, History of Science and Technology, Consumer Culture

Alicia Maggard

Postdoctoral Fellow, Williams College

Karen Ward Mahar

Professor of History, Siena College

Joseph Anthony Maiolo

Professor of International History, Department of War Studies, King's College London
Capitalism
Ph.D. received 1996

Nikki Mandell

Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Katina Manko

Department of History, MAT Program, Bard College

Alina Marktanner

Postdoc, RWTH Aachen University
consulting, Public Finance, Business-Government Relations
Ph.D. received 2020

Graciela Marquez

Centro de Estudios Históricos, Colegio de México

Ana Cardoso de Matos

Department of History, Universidade de Évora

Evangelia Matthopoulou

Post-doctoral fellow, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship, Business and Culture, Business History
Ph.D. received 2016

Jacqueline McGlade

Assistant Professor, Valley City State University

Maria McGrath

Department of Social and Behavioral Science, Bucks County Community College

Ashton W. Merck

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

Debra Michals

Assistant Professor, Merrimack College, Director, Women's and Gender Studies
American women's history

Rachel Miller

Assistant Professor, College of Idaho
19th c. US, Culture Industries and Markets

Arwen Mohun

University of Delaware

Katie A. Moore

Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ph.D. received 2017

Bethany Moreton

Department of History, University of Georgia

Marina Moskowitz

Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture, and Design, Professor Design Studies Department, University of Wisconsin
material and visual culture, landscape and the built environment, business and consumption

Margrit Mueller

Retired, Department of Economics, University of Zürich

Sharon Ann Murphy

Providence College, Professor of History
19th c. US, Financial history
Ph.D. received 2005

Kanda Naknoi

Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade

Lucy Newton

Henley Business School, University of Reading

Ellen Nye

PhD Candidate, Yale University
Economic History

Mary O'Sullivan

University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History

Rebecca Orr

Ph.D. candidate, European University Institute
19th century, 20th century, Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2024

Julia Ott

Department of History, New School

Susie J. Pak

Department of History, St. John's University

victor pegoraro

Dr. en Historia, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CONICET
family business
Ph.D. received 2020

Juanjuan Peng

Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
China, Chinese economy and business

Ioanna Sapfo Pepelasis

Economic History, Athens University of Business and Economics

Shannon Perry

De Montfort University, Photographic Historical Research Centre (PHRC)
business and consumption, 19th century, Commodities

Gabriella M. Petrick

Nutrition, Food Studies, and History, George Mason University

Kim Phillips-Fein

Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Gabriele Pieri

Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte

Daniela Pirani

Lecturer, University of Liverpool
food history, business and consumption, gender
Ph.D. received 2018

Francesca Polese

Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Università Bocconi

Devon Powers

Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Temple University
American Consumer Culture

Núria Puig

Department of History and Economic Institutions, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Jane Robbins

McGuire Center for Leadership, University of Arizona

Mary Rose

Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Lancaster University Management School

Christine Rosen

Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Karen Russell

Public Relations and Media History, University of Georgia

Tara Saunders

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Manchester University

Jennifer Scanlon

Professor, Bowdoin College

Ph.D. received 1989

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Assistant Professor, Miami University
Early Republic United States, Political Economy, Diplomacy

Jaclyn N. Schultz

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

Marlis Schweitzer

Department of Theatre, School of Fine Arts, York University, Canada

Rahima Schwenkbeck

Policy Studies Organization
Utopian Societies, Consumer Culture, Economic Development

Helen Shapiro

University of California Washington Center

Melanie Sheehan

PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Labor History, Political Economy, Business Political Activism

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

Rui Shi

Lecturer, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Retailing, History of Consumption, Consumer Cultures
Ph.D. received 2019

Olubunmi Modupe Shorunke

PhD student, University of Ibadan
19th century, African business history

Keetie Sluyterman

Department of History, Utrecht University

Amy Sopcak-Joseph

Assistant Professor, Wilkes University

Ph.D. received 2019

Anna Spadavecchia

University of Strathclyde

Edie Sparks

Department of History, University of the Pacific

Susan V. Spellman

Associate Professor of History, Miami University
History of Capitalism, Small Business, retail history

Abby Spinak

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
20th century, American Economic History, Capitalism

Maria Stanfors

Department of Economic History, Lunds Universitet

Susan Strasser

Department of History, University of Delaware

Sydney Sweat

Graduate Student, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Banking, Early America, Early Republic United States

Emilie Takayama

Postdoctoral Researcher in Business History, Harvard Business School
beauty, gender and enterprise, gender
Ph.D. received 2018

Christiane Diehl Taylor

Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University

Ellen Terrell

Reference Specialist. Science, Technology & Business Division, Library of Congress

Tamara Thornton

Department of History, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Janice Traflet

School of Management, Bucknell University

Gail Triner

Department of History, Rutgers University

Astrid Tvetenstrand

PhD Candidate, Boston University
political economy; communications; nineteenth-century, Art World, Visual Art

Maki Umemura

Cardiff Business School

Astrid Van den Bossche

Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Advertising, 20th century, American Consumer Culture
Ph.D. received 2019

María Vázquez-Fariñas

Lecturer, Economic History Area, Department of Economics, University of Jaén
Business and Economic History, Economic and Business History, Spain
Ph.D. received 2017

Kevin-James Vella

Consumer Behaviour Analysis Group, Cardiff University

Grietjie Verhoef

Professor, School of Accounting, College of Business and Economics
African business history
Ph.D. received 1987

Janet Walker

President and CEO, Canada's National History Society

Juliet E. K. Walker

University of Texas, Austin

Maggie Walsh

University of Nottingham, emerita

JIemin Tina Wei

Graduate Student, Harvard University
History of Science and Technology, History of Science-Medicine-Technology, Management theory and history; Leadership; Science and technology studies; History of science; Marketing history; Consumer culture; Organizational Behavior;

Nicole Welk-Joerger, PhD

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, North Carolina State University

Ph.D. received 2020

Leslie Whitworth

Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton

Jocelyn Wills

Department of History, Brooklyn College

Wendy Woloson

Department of History, Rutgers University, Camden

Claire Wright

Research Fellow, Macquarie University
20th century, Business and Culture, Business and Economic History
Ph.D. received 2017

Qingmei Xue

Associate Professor, Nanjing University
oral history
Ph.D. received 2004

Shakila Yacob

Department of History, University of Malaya

JoAnne Yates

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita
standardization

Alexia Yates

University of Manchester

Mary Yeager

Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
American Economic History
Ph.D. received 1974

Yong Yen Nie

Ph.D. candidate, Kyoto University
family business, institutions, Racial Capitalism
Ph.D. received 2022

Madeleine Zelin

Department of History, Columbia University

Zhu Zhang

Pre-doctoral fellow, Stanford University, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University
Chinese economy and business

Meng Zhang

Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Business and Economic History, China, Digital Humanities
Ph.D. received 2017

Bibliography: Women in Business History

By no means complete, this bibliography focuses primarily on more recent work (c. 2000-present). There is a also a brief bibliography of older well-known books. This resource is meant only as a starting point. Links from author names in the e-text sections go directly to the articles; in the books sections, they go to the publisher's page if the work remains available. Only freely accessible reviews are linked. Links from the author's name in article citations go to the abstract when available.

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