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
