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 thus far in 2020 (both long and short-term). Please note that the next deadline for applications for our exploratory grant and the H.B. du Pont Fellowship is October 31st and the H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowship deadline is November 15th, 2020. More information and to apply online on these and the NEH-Hagley and Galambos Fellowships at https://www.hagley.org/
Carol Ressler Lockman
Manager, Hagley Center
PO Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807
302-658-2400, ext. 243
Long-Term Fellows
Regina Lee Blaszczyk (NEH-Hagley Fellow, Business History, 4 months)
Professor, History of Business and Society, University of Leeds
“Synthetics and the Senses: How DuPont and Other Fiber Marketers Revolutionized American Style and
Transformed the Global Fashion System”
Blaszczyk’s project examines the artificial fibers and their impact on everyday life in the twentieth century, starting with the British and French inventors of the first man-made fibers in the late Victorian period and ending in our own global era with concerns about the impact of plastics on the environment. It explores the history of textile fibers through the experiences of the chemical companies that produced rayon, nylon, and polyester; the textile mills that generated fabrics from these miracle materials; and the designers, decorators, and architects who specified them for automobiles ,airplanes, clothing, furnishings, and interior design. The geographic emphasis is the United States with comparisons to the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Sven Kube (NEH-Hagley Fellow, Atlantic History, 4 months)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Florida International University
“Evolution of Deutsche Schallplatten (German Records) from a Small Private Firm into the Flagship
Enterprise on the German Democratic Republic Cultural Circuit”
Kube’s project Compares the work and thought of two captains of industry on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. Scrutinizing the David Sarnoff papers and select parts of the RCA collection to enable drawing comparisons between the entrepreneurial principles and managerial strategies of America’s media mogul and Harri Költzsch, the most influential company director on the German Democratic Republic’s entertainment circuit. Contributes to efforts of expanding the focus of business history beyond Western economic environments by scrutinizing similarities and differences in the responsibilities and approaches of capitalist and communist manager.
Nicole Welk-Joerger (NEH-Hagley Fellow, Business, Science, and Environmental History, 4 months) Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
“Rumen Nation: An Environmental History of Feeding Cattle in the United States”
Welk-Joerger’s project engages with historical documents and ethnographic narratives on dairy and beef farms to tell the story of the U.S. animal feed industry. Focused specifically on ruminants, the project
highlights the scientific work that went into using feed as a technology to manipulate bovine guts. This manipulation affected humans, non-humans, soil, waterways, and the atmosphere, shaping the idea of “sustainability” in the U.S. which continues to anchor debates today.
Kelly Goodman (Galambos/ Hagley Library Fellow, History, 9 months)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
“Taxing Limits: The Political Economy of American School Finance”
Goodman’s project asks how organized people tried to change the way we fund K-12 publication
education over the course of the twentieth century. “Taxing Limits” tells the political, intellectual, and fiscal history of organizations and organizers from labor and business history who shaped twentieth century American school finance.
Short Term Fellows
Yassin Abou El Fadil
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics
University of Goettingen
Inheritance Practices in Family Businesses–Germany and the United States in the Twentieth-Century
Kevin Bunch
Independent Scholar, History
International Joint Commission, Washington DC
A History of Joe Weisbecker, FRED and the 1802 in Video Games
Patricia Curtin
Professor, Communication
University of Oregon
Working Relationships: A Labor-Centric History of the US Public Relations Profession
Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
Adjunct Professor, Art History
University of Maryland, Global
RCA, Television and the Origins of Media Literacy
Michael Golec
Associate Professor, Art Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Icons of Expertise: A History of Technical Images and Thoughtful Consumption
Jack Grobe
Ph.D. Candidate, American History
SUNY Albany
The American Campaign to Acquire German Military Technology, 1917-1929
Karen Henson
Associate Professor, Musicology
Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Singing Machine: Opera and Early Sound Recording
Alexandra Hyard
Associate Professor, Economics
Universite Lille
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, Writings on the United States of America
Brian Johnston
Independent Scholar, Architecture
Italian Pavilion at Expo 67: Terre des Hommes/Man and His World
Trish Kahle
Postdoctoral Fellow, History
University of Chicago
The Graveyard Shift: Energy Citizenship in the American Century
Scott Kushner
Assistant Professor, Communications
University of Rhode Island
Crowd Control: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era
Joseph Larnerd
Assistant Professor, Art History
Drexel University
Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Gilded Age
Mark Markov
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Durham University
Wars Not Fought:Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War
Clive Muir
Independent Scholar, Communication
Exploring the Technology of Watermelon Postcards
Hannah Pivo
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History
Columbia University
Seeing the “Social”: Data Visualization and Information Graphics in US Business, Industry, and Social Sciences
Stefan Rabitsch
Assistant Professor, American Studies
University of Graz
A Cultural History of Western Hats
Ranjodh Singh
Ph.D. Candidate, English Language/Literature
University of California, Davis
Rendering: A Political Diagrammatology of Computation Project
Brian Sarginger
Ph.D. Candidate, Business History
University of Maryland
The Shareholder Movement: Shareholder Activists in the Twentieth-Century
Benjamin Schneider
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics
University of Oxford
Technological Change and Work Economics
Maia Silber
Ph.D. Candidate, History
Princeton University
Work of Any Kind: Casual and Informal Labor during the Second Industrial Revolution
Lloyd Tomlinson
Ph.D. Candidate, History
West Virginia University
Stonega Coke & Coal Company Towns Since the New Deal
Emily Wells
Ph.D. Candidate, History
College of William and Mary
“Keep Within Compass”: The Geographical Perspectives of American Girls, 1742-1836