================= HES POSTING ===================== >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] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]