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>Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:42:42 -0400 (EDT) 
>From: Carol Lockman <[log in to unmask]> 
 
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley 
Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware has awarded grants to support 
research in the Library's collections to the following recipients for the 
summer and fall of 1997: 
 
Jennifer Bannister 
Carnegie Mellon University 
"Behind the Box:  Science, Technology and the Television Industry" 
 
Elspeth Brown 
Yale University 
"Taylorized Bodies:  Work, Photography, and Consumer Culture in America, 
1890-1930" 
 
Virginia Dawson 
President, History Enterprises 
"The People's Capitalism:  Profit Sharing in a Post-World War II Context" 
 
Stephanie Dyer 
University of Pennsylvania 
"From Downtown to Branch Stores:  Strawbridge & Clothier's Path to Retail 
Decentralization, 1922-62" 
 
Ferdinando Fasce 
University of Genoa 
"Remaking the Public in Corporate America:  The Development of Corporate 
Public  Relations, 1900-1940" 
 
Wendy Gamber 
Indiana University 
"Houses But Not Homes:  Boardinghouses in Antebellum America" 
 
Susannah Handley 
Royal College of Art 
"Cloth, Clothes & Chemistry" 
 
Julie Kimmel 
Johns Hopkins University 
"The Invention of Personnel Science:  Reconstructing Corporate Authority, 
1910-1950" 
 
Carlos Martin 
Stanford University 
"Historical Forms and Contemporary Functions:  Reconceptualizing the 
Process of Technological Change in the US Building Industry Through 
Historical Analysis" 
 
David Stradling 
Oberlin College 
"Civilized Air:  Coal, Smoke, and Environmentalists in America, 1880-1920" 
 
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. 
 
Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship:  Supports advanced research at Hagley. 
Sponsored by the H. B. du Pont Memorial Fund, these fellowships offer a 
maximum stipend of $1500 per month.  Applicants must be from 
out-of-state; degree candidates and persons seeking support for degree 
ork are not eligible to apply.  Fellowship tenure must be continuous and 
last from two to six months.  Application deadlines for the year are 
March 31, June 30, and October 31. 
 
Grants-in-Aid:  Short term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for 
research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact 
collections.  They are designed to assist researchers with travel and 
living expenses while using the collections.  Stipends are for a minimum 
of two weeks and a maximum of eight weeks at no more than $1200 per 
month.  Application deadlines:  March 31, June 30, and October 31. 
 
For further information 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] 
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