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[NOTE: There are several studies of interest to historians of economics in
this list. -- RBE]
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley
Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware has awarded grants-in-aid to
support research in the Library's collections to the following recipients.
The next deadline is June 30, 1998.
Eric Boyles
University of Minnesota
"Organizing to Innovate: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
in the American Computer Industry"
Anna McCarthy
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Television Advertising and the Language of Persuasion, Influence,
and Effect"
Kevin Reilly
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Corporate Stories: Fortune Magazine and the Making a Modern
Managerial Culture"
David Robertson
University of Missouri, St. Louis
"The U. S. Chamber of Commerce: Business Representation in
American Policy Making"
Henrietta Nickels Shirk
University of North Texas
"Rhetoric of Cancer Research Funding: Social Responsibility and
the DuPont Corporation, 1925-1975"
Jonathan Soffer
Polytechnic University
"American Business and the Moral Economy of Military
Keynesianism"
Liana Vardi
SUNY at Buffalo
"The Culture of Physiocracy"
Shinichi Korogi
Kurume University
"A Study on the Development of Managerial Accounting in the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company"
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society offers
fellowships and grant support for scholars from the humanities and related
social sciences. The Hagley Museum and Library is one of the nation's
foremost independent research libraries. Its collections are especially
strong in the areas of American business and economic history, the history
of science and technology, and the history of industrialization in its
social contexts. Scholars working in labor history, social history, arts
and industries, as well as business and technology are encouraged to apply.
The library is also strong in French history of the Revolutionary period.
For further information on these or other fellowship programs and an
application packet, please write to Dr. Philip Scranton, Director, Center
for the History of Business Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and
Library, PO Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807, phone: 302-658-2400, fax:
302-655-3188, or email: [log in to unmask] Website:
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us
Carol Lockman
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