The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded from December 2020 to May 2021.
Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship research grants is June 30th; we offer longer-term residential fellowships as well. For information on our full grant program, deadlines, and application requirements, go to https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.
Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships
This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project, and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley pertinent to the dissertation. This is a residential fellowship with a term of four months. The fellowship provides $6,500, free housing on Hagley’s grounds, mail and internet access, and an office. Application deadline: November 15
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 Fellowship 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 50 miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships
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 pro-rated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than 50 miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within 50 miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31.
The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society
2021-2022 Fellow
Dylan Gottlieb
Dylan Gottlieb is a historian of the United States specializing in cities and capitalism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and a lecturer at Princeton University. His book project, titled Yuppies: Wall Street & the Remaking of New York, under contract with Harvard University Press, examines how “young, urban professionals” wielded the cutting edge of financialization in American life. You can learn more about Dylan by visiting https://www.dylangottlieb.org/ Information and application for the NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture and Society are on Hagley Museum and Library’s website at https://www.hagley.org/neh-hagley-postdoctoral-fellowship-business-culture-and-society .
Louis Galambos National Fellowship in Business and Politics
2021-2022 Fellow
Salem Elzway
Salem Elzway is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Michigan, where his research focuses on STS (science, technology, & society) and political economy in the twentieth-century United States. His dissertation project is titled “Arms of the State: A History of the Industrial Robot in Postwar America.” You can learn more about Salem and his research on this episode of the Hagley History Hangout: https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-salem-elzway. Information and application for the Louis Galambos National Fellowship in Business and Politics are on Hagley Museum and Library’s website at https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships/louis-galambos
Grants/Fellowships Award/December 2020
H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowship
Amanda Thompson
Ph. D. Candidate
Bard Graduate Center
Seminole and Micccosukee Patchwork: Craft, Sovereignty, and Settler Colonial Relations
Exploratory Grants
Jason Barr
Professor
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
John J. Raskob and the Economics of the Empire State Buidling
Tracy Barnett
Ph.D. Candidate
Univerity of Georgia
“Men and Their Guns”: The Culture of Self-Deputized Manhood in the South, 1850-1877
Clark Barwick
Senior Lecturer
Indiana University
American Coffee: Peter Schlumbohm and Chemex Coffee Maker
Briceno Bowrey
Ph.D. Candidate
Univerity of Maryland, College Park
Biomedical Research at RCA, 1960-1990
Hanul Choe
Master’s Candidate
The University of Georgia
Distant Management: American Political Development at the Panama Canal, 1904-14
Casey Eilbert
Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
Bureaucracy: A Keyword in American Political History
Bryant Etheridge
Visiting Lecturer
Bridgewater State University
The Tragedy of Taft-Hartley: Interunion Rivalry, New Deal Labor, and the Emergence of Post-War Conservatism
Gerard Fitzgerald
Visiting Scholar
George Mason University
The Nature of War: An Evironmental History of Industrialization in the United States During World War I
Kelsey McNiff
Associate Professor
Endicott College
“Eight people of some talent, with so much virtue”: A Portrait of the du Pont Family at their Arrival in the United States
Florencia Pierri
Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
Toys that Teach: Computer Games in 1960s America
Aaron Van Ness
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
“The Restoration of What?”: From The Persistence of Inexhaustibility in Fisheries Science
Emmet von Stackelberg
Ph.D. Candidate
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Seeing through Silver: A Material and Chemical History of Moving Images before WWII
Michael Wheeler
Research Engineer
SRC, Inc.
The Repeal of the Corn Laws and US Transportation Investment
H. B. du Pont Fellowship
Cody Patton
Ph.D. Candidate
The Ohio State University
Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of American Brewing
2 weeks
Brian Sarginger
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Maryland, College Park
The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Activism and Activists in the 20th Century
4 weeks
Derek Vouri-Richard
Ph.D. Candidate
The College of William and Mary
Corporate Semiotics: Creating US Mass Culture Pedegory, 1890-1970
2 weeks
Che Yeun
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Science and Self in the Modern Age of Smell
4 weeks
Grants/Fellowships Award/May 2021
Exploratory Grants
Jason Black
Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Representations of U.S. and Canadian Masculinity in 20th Century Seagram Advertisements
Barrie Blatchford
Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
Fashion Victims: An Environmental History of the American Fur Industry, 1870-2006
Bre Anne Brisley
Ph.D. Candidate
Indiana University
Examining Ernest Dichter’s International Correspondence
Ann Charles
Masters Candidate
Goucher College
The Five-Star: Eventing and Event Planning During a Pandemic
Beth DeFrancis Sun
Research and Reference Librarian
Georgetown University
The “X” Trade Patents: Rediscovering America’s Lost Inventions
Youn Ki
Research Professor
Seoul National University
Employers’ Political Mobilization of Workers in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s
Suzy Kopf
Independent Scholar
Unpeeling the Orange Empire: The Lasting Impact of Sunkist’s Advertising in the Twentieth Century
Benjamin Leavitt
Ph.D. Candidate
Baylor University
Partners in Design: The Architectural History of Grove City College
Grace Ong Yan
Assistant Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Inside the Architecture of Business, Networks & Media
Marshall Scheetz
Master Copper
Jamestown Cooperage LLC
Coopers, Cooperage, and Cask Production at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Mark Tseng-Putterman
Ph.D. Candidate
Brown University
Transpacific Networks: Media, Infrastructure, and Ideology in America’s Asia
H. B. du Pont Fellowship
Robrecht Declerq
Postdoc
Ghent University
Saving Private Property: American Business, Economic Sovereignty and Protecting Business Assets Abroad (1950-1995)
3 weeks
Maureen Thompson
Ph.D. Candidate
Florida International University
Capitalism, Crops, and Cultural Change Through the Lens of the W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company, 1876-1915
2 weeks
Organizational History Network 