Business History Conference (BHC) Prizes – 2011
At the Business History Conference annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, March 31-April 2, 2011, officers announced the following recipients of BHC prizes and grants.
Lifetime Achievement Award
The award is bestowed every two years to a scholar who has contributed significantly to the work of the Business History Conference and to scholarship in business history.
2011 recipient: Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business, New York University
Hagley Prize
The prize is awarded jointly by the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference to the best book in business history (broadly defined) written in English and published during the two years prior to the award.
2011 recipient: Susan Ingalls Lewis (State University of New York at New Paltz), Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830–1885 (Ohio State University Press, 2009)
Ralph Gomory Book Prize
This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.
2011 recipient: Richard John (Columbia University), Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunication (Harvard University Press, 2010).
2011 honorable mention: James R. Fichter (Lingnan University), So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).
Oxford Journals Article Prize
This prize recognizes the author of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting.
2011 recipient: Oskar Broberg (Gothenberg University), “Labeling the Good: Alternative Visions and Organic Branding in Sweden in the Late Twentieth Century,” Enterprise and Society (2010) 11(4): 811-838.
Mira Wilkins Prize
This prize, established in recognition of the path-breaking scholarship of Mira Wilkins, is awarded to the author of the best article published annually in Enterprise & Society pertaining to international and comparative business history.
2011 recipient: Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile 1913-2005,” Enterprise & Society (2010) 11(2): 350-399.
Herman E. Krooss Prize
The prize recognizes the best dissertation in business history<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/krooswin.html> written in English and completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the annual meeting.
2011 recipient: Dan Bouk (Colgate University), “The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830-1930,” (Princeton University, 2009).
K. Austin Kerr Prize
The prize recognizes the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar (doctoral student or those within three years of receiving their Ph.D). It honors K. Austin Kerr, longtime professor of history at the Ohio State University and former president of the Business History Conference.
2011 recipient: Di Yin Lu (Harvard University), “Shanghai’s Art Dealers and the International Market for Chinese Art, 1922-1949.”
2011 honorable mention: Kelly Arehart (College of William and Mary), “‘To Put a Mass of Putrefying Animal Matter into a Fine Plush Casket’: The Development of Professional Knowledge among Morticians, 1880-1920.”
The CEBC Halloran Prize in the History of Corporate Responsibility<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/halloran.html>
The prize recognizes a paper presented at the BHC annual meeting that makes a significant contribution to the history of corporate responsibility. It is funded by the Center for Ethical Business Cultures (CEBC) at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business in honor of Harry R. Halloran, Jr.
2011 recipient: Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Umeå University) and Kristina Söderholm (Luleå University of Technology), “The Making of a Green Innovation System The Swedish Institute for Water and Air Protection and the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry in the mid-1960s to the 1980s.”
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