HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS.

The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History. To be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School. The fellowship is open to scholars who, within the last ten years, have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline. The fellowship has two purposes: The first is to enable scholars to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of Harvard Business School and the larger Boston scholarly community. A travel fund and a book fund will be provided. The second is to provide an opportunity for the fellow to participate in the activities of Harvard Business School. Application and related materials are due by October 15, 2020.

The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History. The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History seeks applicants who are established scholars from around the world interested in the business and economics history of the United States. Recipient receives a $7,000 stipend for travel and living expenses and is expected to be in residence at Harvard Business School a minimum of two months. Main activities include researching in Baker Library archives or other Boston-area libraries, presenting research at a seminar, and interacting with HBS faculty. Application and related materials are due by October 15, 2020.

The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program seeks applicants who are established scholars in business history based outside the United States. Recipient receives a $7000 stipend and is required to stay a minimum of two months (and not more than six months) at Harvard Business School. Main activities include interacting with faculty and researchers, presenting work at research seminars, and researching in Baker Library archives. Application and related materials are due by October 15, 2020.

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 $3,000. Applicants must be 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other Universities—U.S. and abroad—research requires travel to Baker Library and other local archives; or 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, research requires travel away from Cambridge. Application and related materials are due by November 5, 2020.

Applications can be submitted starting August 1, 2020. For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx

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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.

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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BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTION. Baker Library's exhibit Photography and Corporate Public Relations: The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930–1960 focuses on the ways U.S Steel “employed photographs in a variety of public relations campaigns to instill public favor at a time when the steel industry, like today's technology behemoths, reigned central in the world economy.” Visit the exhibition online at https://www.library.hbs.edu/us-steel.

The exhibition was organized by Baker Library Special Collections. For more information about Baker Library Special Collections visit https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Collections-Archives/Special-Collections.

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BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING. The 2021 Business History Conference (BHC) will hold its annual meeting in Detroit, Michigan, from March 11–14, 2021. The theme is “The Ubiquity of Business.” Please visit the BHC website for more information, https://thebhc.org/index.php/2021-bhc-meeting.

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WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS. The next gathering of the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) will convene July 25–July 30, 2021 in Paris to address “Resources.” For more information, please visit the conference website at https://wehc2021.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action.

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INQUIRE CAPITALISM: A Database of Company Archives. Created and curated by University of Florida's History Department program in the History of Capitalism, Inquire Capitalism is a searchable database of corporate archives. It “seeks to both unify information about corporate archives and also to connect scholars, archivists, and businesses by making information about company archives more discoverable.” For more information, please visit https://inquirecapitalism.omeka.net/.

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COMMODITY HISTORIES. The Commodity Histories website aims to “raise public awareness of the rich histories and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America via their crucial role in the growing of crops and the production of commodities that have become an indispensable aspect of people's daily lives throughout the world” and to that end provides “a public forum for research postings, news and information about the history of commodities.” The site also includes a searchable directory of researchers. Produced by the Open University and made possible through funding support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the project team members are Sandip Hazareesingh and Mat Paskins. For more information, please visit http://www.commodityhistories.org/.