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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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