HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS.

The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History. The fellowship enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School. The main activities of the Thomas K. McCraw Fellow will be to conduct research in the archives of Baker Library or in other Boston-area libraries, present their work at a seminar, and interact with HBS faculty. Fellows receive a stipend of $7,000 to cover travel and living expenses. They are expected to be in residence for a minimum of two months. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2025.

The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program invites established scholars in business history based outside the United States to spend a period of time in residence at Harvard Business School. Recipient receives a $7,000 stipend and is required to stay a minimum of two months (and not more than six months) at Harvard Business School. Fellows are expected to interact with faculty and researchers, present work at research seminars, and conduct business history research. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2025.

The Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Fellowships. The Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Travel Fellowships facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Grants range from $1,000 to $5,000. Applicants must be 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the U.S. and abroad, whose research requires travel to Baker Library or other local archives; or 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from Cambridge. Application and related materials are due by November 15, 2025.

For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships.

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HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY GRANTS.

Hagley Exploratory Research Grants. These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than fifty miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31. For more information, please visit Hagley Library’s Exploratory Research Grants page: https://www.hagley.org/exploratory-research-grants.

Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants. These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are prorated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than fifty miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within fifty miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.

Applications for all grants should be submitted online. For the submission link and requirements, please visit http://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.

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2025 BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING.

The 2025 BHC Annual Meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 13-15, 2025. This year’s theme is “The Business of Labor.” Please visit the BHC website for more information: https://thebhc.org/2025-bhc-meeting.

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ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN BUSINESS HISTORY ASSOCIATION.

The 2025 EBHA Conference will be held in Brussels, Belgium from June 26-28, 2025. This year’s theme is “Business History: An Approach to Understanding Sustainability Challenges.” Please visit the EBHA website for more information: https://ebha.org/CongressAnnual.

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The editors of Business History Review would like to thank the following scholars for assisting the journal by serving as manuscript readers in 2024:

Robin Adams, Queen’s University Belfast

Seven Agir, Middle East Technical University

Michael Aldous, Queen’s University Belfast

Eric Alston, University of Colorado Boulder

Rolv Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School

Veronica Aoki Santarosa, University of California, Berkeley

Bruce Baker, Newcastle University

Gerben Bakker, London School of Economics

Frank Barry, Trinity College Dublin

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Northumbria University

Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Uppsala University

Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University

David Boughey, University of Exeter

Chay Brooks, University of Bristol

Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Gareth Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast

Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos, Universidad EAFIT

Ann Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder

Rohit Chandra, Harvard University

Christy Chapin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

James Cortada, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Christopher Coyle, Queen’s University Belfast

Neil Cummins, London School of Economics

Thomas David, University of Lausanne

Abe de Jong, University of Groningen and Monash University

Robrecht Declercq, Universiteit Gent

Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University

Greg Downey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gijs Dreijer, Universiteit Leiden

Xavier Duran, University of the Andes

Pierre Eichenberger, University of Lausanne

Sarah Elvins, University of Manitoba

Philip Fliers, Queen’s University Belfast

Robert Fredona, Harvard Business School

Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University

Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University

Eric Godelier, École Polytechnique

Timothy Guinnane, Yale University

Per Hansen, Copenhagen Business School

Eric Harwit, University of Hawaii

Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bayreuth

David Higgins, Newcastle University

Vicki Howard, University of Essex

Gregg Huff, University of Oxford

Janet Hunter, London School of Economics

Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder

Susanne Kalss, Wirtschafts Universitat Wien

Reiko Kanazawa, Nagoya University

Kevin Keller, Yale University

Evgenia Kermeli, Hacettepe University

Judd Kinzley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Samuel Klebaner, University Sorbonne Paris Nord

Sebastian Kohl, Berlin’s Free University

Juha-Antti Lamberg, University of Jyväskylä

Stephen LeMay, University of West Florida

Jason Lennard, London School of Economics

Manuel Llorca, Copenhagen Business School

Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London

Tim Mahoney, Harvard Business School

Lara Marks, King’s College London

Joe Martin, University of Toronto

Svein Mathiesen, Saami University of Applied Science

Victor McFarland, University of Missouri

Francisco Medina-Albaladejo, University of Valencia

Javier Mejia Cubillos, Stanford University

Lev Menand, Columbia University

Janice Mimura, Stony Brook University

Duncan Money, University of Oxford

Sharon Murphy, Providence College

Mattias Näsman, Umeå University

James Nealy, NYU

Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University

Adam Nix, University of Birmingham

Ellen Nye, Perdue University

Denis O’Hearn, The University of Texas at El Paso

Martha Olney, UC Berkeley

Emily Pawley, Dickinson College

Kenneth Peterson, Harvard Business School

Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto

Vicente Pinilla, University of Zaragoza

Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo

Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez, Max Planck Institute

Ruggero Ranieri, University of Padua

Nicolas Rasmussen, UNSW Sydney

Pedro Regalado, Stanford University

Andreas Resch, Wirtschafts Universitat Wien

Jake Richards, London School of Economics

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics

Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University

Ozlem Sandikci Turkdogan, University of Glasgow

Catherine Schenk, University of Oxford

Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont

David Singerman, University of Virginia

Michael Smitka, Washington and Lee University

Dimitris Sotiropoulos, University of Athens

Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow

Thomas Storrs, University of Virginia

Jonathan Tiemann, Independent Scholar

Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford

John Turner, Queen’s University Belfast

Steve Usselman, Georgia Tech

Marlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business School

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow

Tijl Vanneste, Universidade Nova Lisbon

Alain Verbeke, University of Reading

Ángela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles

Steve Viscelli, University of Pennsylvania

Lewis Wade, Leiden University

Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Matthew Worley, University of Reading

Claire Wright, University of Technology Sydney

Robert Yee, University of Oxford

Julia Yongue, Hosei University

Martín Zanatti, Universidad del Pacífico

Jonathan Ziker, Boise State University