research grant – Organizational History Network

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 30^th; 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 20^th 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

Online application form now available

The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) and the British Academy of Management (BAM) are pleased to announce that the online application form for the SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building Grant Scheme is now availble by registering at: https://bam.grantplatform.com

The scheme partnership strengthens the commitment of both organisations to support management research and promote capacity building.

The SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building Grant Scheme

SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building grants are aimed at researchers who want to develop an empirical research project that:

Enables capacity building by bringing together a group of researchers from at least two HE institutions, including early career as well as experienced researchers
Produces novel conceptual outcomes based on rigorous, innovative use of methods and by developing original ways of thinking to address complex management problems
Demonstrates the social value of management research conducted in the public interest

It is envisaged that projects will normally involve researchers at two or more HE institutions in order to foster a culture of intellectual collaboration and enable capacity building. The intention of the scheme is to widen access of opportunity and increase the diversity and inclusivity of management research. Applications may address this in various ways, including by proposing an interdisciplinary research project if appropriate. Priority will be given to proposals with clear and effective publication, dissemination and impact plans.

The maximum value of each award is £150,000. The duration of projects will be between 24 months (minimum) and 36 months (maximum).

Principal Investigators must be based in a UK HE institution and will normally be located in a School of Management or Business. Co-Investigators may be based in HE institutions outside the UK. HE institutions will be limited to submitting one application (as host institution/Principal Investigator) in response to each annual Scheme call.

The Principal Investigator and all Co-Investigators who are based in Schools of Management or Business must be BAM Members and have active BAM membership for the duration of the project. It is a condition of award that that research findings are presented at a BAM annual conference during the funding period.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interview by the SAMS/BAM Grant Award Committee in November 2019.

Applicants are advised to read the SAMS/BAM Research and Capacity Building Grant Application Guidance, available below, before making an application to the Scheme.

Current members of BAM and SAMS Councils are not eligible to apply as Prinicipal Investigators or be named as Co-Investigators

KEY DATES

Grant scheme launch July 2019
Submission system opens 8th August 2019
Application deadline 30th September 2019 (17:00 BST)
Notification of results December 2019
Earliest award start date 31st January 2020

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications must be submitted electronically via the application portal.

It is recommended that you draft your application in a separate Word document before inputting your answers in to the Award Force application form to prevent the possibility of losing your work.

Please refer to the Terms and Conditions, Financial Guidance and Frequently Asked Questions available at https://www.bam.ac.uk/british-academy-management-grant-schemes before completing this application form.

The application deadline is 30th September 2019, 17:00 (BST)

SUPPORT

If you have any questions on the entry process, please contact the British Academy of Management Grants Administrator, Stuart Hull, by email at grants@bam.ac.uk.

You may edit your application after submitting up to the application deadline.
Please make sure all your personal details are entered accurately, including contact details, as this will be used in he awards presentation if selected for funding
You can use the ‘copy’ feature to create a copy of your entry and change the category if required.