Announcements

The Editorial Advisory Board of the Business History Review and the Newcomen Society of the United States announce the winners of the 2004 NEWCOMEN-HARVARD AWARDS in BUSINESS HISTORY.

Article Award

Marcelo Bucheli, "Enforcing Business Contracts in South America: The United Fruit Company and the Colombian Banana Planters in the Twentieth Century"

Special Award

Brian P. Luskey, "'What Is My Prospects?': The Contours of Mercantile Apprenticeship, Ambition, and Advancement in the Early American Economy"

The Editorial Advisory Board of the Business History Review annually awards two prizes to the authors of articles appearing in its pages. The first, consisting of a scroll and cash prize of $1,000, is presented to the author of the best article published in the volume. The second, called the "special award," consists of a cash prize of $500 and a scroll, and is presented to the author of the best article written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. who has not yet published a book in the field of business history. The awards are made possible through the generosity of the Newcomen Society of the United States.

The ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND will hold an international conference in Brisbane, Australia, in February 2006. The School of International Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is pleased to be hosting this conference.

Call for papers: Papers and proposals for sessions are invited from management scientists, historians of business and society, archivists, economists, and others on the conference topic, which is "Learning, Discovery, and Institutional Development," as well as other topics in economic and business history. The conference organizers are particularly interested in attracting papers that examine developments within the Asia-Pacific region broadly defined and/or papers that provide an international comparative perspective. The main theme for the 2006 conference is the relationship between learning, the discovery of new technologies and products, and institutional development. Innovation in products, technology, routines, systems, and business processes that shape corporate strategies are important sources of competitive advantages for firms. The proliferation of these improvements, as well as incremental gains from learning, affects patterns of international specialization.

Paper proposals: Papers of up to 7,000 words (not synopses) may be submitted at any time up to December i, 2005. All submissions will be independently refereed, and accepted papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings.

Session proposals may be submitted any time up to November 1 in the form of a 500-word statement outlining the main objectives of the session. For further information, go to the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Web site, http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/ schools/international/EHSANZCover.jsp, or contact:

Professor Simon Ville

School of Economics & Information Systems

Faculty of Commerce

University of Wollongong

NSW 2522, Australia

Telephone:+ 61 02 4221 3098

E-mail: sville@uow.edu.au

or

Dr. John Singleton

School of Economics & Finance

Faculty of Commerce & Administration

Victoria University of Wellington

P.O. Box 600

Wellington, New Zealand

E-mail: John.Singleton@vuw.ac.nz

The ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORICAL SOCIETY welcomes proposals for presentations on all aspects of business and economic history at its thirty-first annual conference in Pittsburgh, from April 27 to April 29. In keeping with its traditions, the Society seeks proposals for both individual papers and panel sessions. Graduate students are invited to apply, and may qualify for reduced registration fees.

Papers presented at the conference may be submitted for publication in the Society's peer-reviewed journal, Essays in Economic and Business History, edited by David Whitten of the University of Auburn University.

Composed of some three hundred North American and international members, the Economic & Business Historical Society offers participants an opportunity for continuing intellectual interchange within a modest-sized collegial, interdisciplinary group. The Society holds its annual convention in locations of historical significance. Both the annual membership ($30) and conference registration fees are modest. Final arrangements with the hotel are being concluded and the details will be posted on our Web site in the very near future.

Proposals for individual papers should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, a brief CV, postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. Panel proposals should also suggest a title and a panel chair. Graduate students and nonacademic affiliates are welcome. Submissions imply that at least one author will register for the conference and be present at the time designated in the conference program. Proposals must be submitted by January 15, 2006.

Proposals maybe submitted in one of three ways:

* on line submission using the form on our Web site: http:// www.ebhsoc.org/papers.html

* by e-mail to: hsmvn@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu

* by conventional mail to:

Dr. Michael Namorato

Department of History

The University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677

HARVARD-NEWCOMEN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP. Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United States support a postdoctoral fellowship in business history for twelve months of residence and research at Harvard Business School. Fellowships normally run for the academic year, July 1 to June 30; the stipend is currently $46,000.

The purpose of the award is to enable scholars who have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline within the past ten years to improve their professional acquaintance with business and economic history, to increase their skills as they relate to this field, and to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of Harvard Business School and the Boston-area scholarly community. The successful applicant will participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities.

The annual application deadline is October 1 of the year preceding the fellowship. For additional information, write to:

Walter A. Friedman

Rock Center 104

Harvard Business School

Boston, MA 02163

E-mail: wfriedman@hbs.edu

For further information and an application, visit our Web site at: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships.html

The ALFRED D. CHANDLER JR. TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS. The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and archival research in business or institutional economic history, broadly defined. The program will encourage research concerned to relate historical reality to underlying economic theories of business. Individual grants range from $1,000 to $3,000; the total fund is $15,000.

Three categories of applicants will be eligible for grants:

* Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, business administration, or a related discipline, such as sociology, government, or law, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories

* Graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the United States and abroad, whose research requires travel to the Boston-Cambridge area (to study, for example, in the collections of the Baker, Widener, McKay, Langdell, Kress, or Houghton libraries)

* Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from Cambridge

The deadline for receipt of applications is November 1 of the calendar year preceding that in which the fellowship is to be used. For additional information, write to:

Walter A. Friedman

Rock Center 104

Harvard Business School

Boston, MA 02163

E-mail wfriedman@hbs.edu

For further information and an application, visit our Web site at: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships.html

BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE. The 2006 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place June 8-10 in Toronto, Canada, at the Munk Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto.

The theme for the conference is Political Economy of Enterprise. Business, the political system, and government have influenced one another from time immemorial. This year's program theme invites us to reflect on those interactions. (In keeping with longstanding BHC policy, the committee will also entertain submissions not directly related to the conference theme.)

Potential presenters may submit proposals either for individual papers or for entire panels. Proposals also are invited for the Herman E. Krooss Prize for the best dissertation in business history. The Krooss Prize Committee welcomes submissions from recent Ph.D.s (2003-6) in history, economics, business administration, history of science and technology, law, and related fields. The BHC also awards the K. Austin Kerr Prize for the best first paper by a Ph.D. candidate or recent Ph.D. (2003-6). If you wish to participate in this competition, please indicate this in your proposal. Proposals accepted for the Krooss Prize panel are not eligible for the Kerr Prize.

The deadline for receipt of all proposals is October 15, 2005. For more information, please contact:

Dr. Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer

Business History Conference

P.O. Box 3630

Wilmington, DE 19807, USA

Phone: 302-658-2400

Fax: 302-655-3188

E-mail: rh@udel.edu

NEWCOMEN SOCIETYTRAVEL GRANT. The Newcomen Society contributes $1,500 to defray costs to attend the Business History Conference annual meeting by graduate students who are delivering papers. These grants are administered by the secretary-Treasurer, in consultation with the Grants and Prizes Committee, to all graduate students who are giving papers, roughly in accordance with need and whether the student has additional funding to cover expenses. Preference will be given to first-time paper givers. For more information, contact the Business History Conference at the address given above.

CHANDLER TRAVEL GRANT. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grants honor the dean of American business history and are used to defray costs to attend the Business History annual meeting by graduate students who are delivering papers. These grants are administered by the Secretary-Treasurer, in consultation with the Grants and Prizes Committee, to all graduate students who are giving papers, roughly in accordance with need and whether the student has additional funding to cover expenses. Preference will be given to first-time paper givers. For more information, contact the Business History Conference at the address given above.

The JAMES J. HILL LIBRARY will award a number of grants of up to $2,000 to support research in the James J. Hill, Louis W. Hill, and Reed/Hyde papers. The James J. Hill Papers (1856-1916) are an extensive and rich source for studies of transportation, politics, finance, Native American relations, art collecting, philanthropy, urbanization, immigration, and economic development in the Upper Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and Western Canada. The Louis W. Hill Papers (1886-1948) document similar subjects, as well as Hill's involvement in the development of Minnesota's iron-mining industry and the development of Glacier National Park and the related tourist industry. Additionally, they detail social and cultural activities from the Gilded Age through World War II. The Reed/Hyde Papers (1985-1960) document the business activities, family, and social lives of four generations, beginning with Samuel Reed, a civil engineer who was best known for his work during construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860s.

The deadline for applications is November i, 2005. For more information, contact:

Thomas White, Curator

James J. Hill Library

80 West Fourth Street

St. Paul, MN 55102

Tel: 651-265-5441

E-mail: twhite@jjhill.org

Web site: www.jjhill.org/History/manuscript_program.html

The CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY will sponsor a conference entitled "Producing Fashion" on October 28 and 29 (Friday and Saturday) at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The conference will feature fourteen papers that consider how fashion is produced on the level of ideas, style, and materials. The panel, "National Identity and the Problem of Paris," opens the conference with papers assessing the reaction against French fashion that led to the development of distinctive national styles in the United States, Austria, and Belgium. Papers prepared for the panel on "Early Transnational Fashion" will look at the impact of new textiles and an invigorated fashion press on clothing styles before 1900. The influence of nostalgia on modern fashions in clothing, home furnishings, and personal toiletries is the subject of "Old-Fashioned Fashion," the panel that concludes Friday's proceedings. Saturday begins with three provocative papers on the influence of gender, ranging from the manly advertising campaign that remade Marlboro cigarettes, the development of men's leisurewear, and the influence of feminism on the marketing of beauty products to women. The conference closes, appropriately, with a panel entitled "Remaking Contemporary Fashion," featuring papers on style in Communist Hungary and postwar France, and the dramatic impact of Lycra on clothing worldwide.

Regular registration is $30, $20 for Hagley Associates. The conference is free for graduate students. Lunches are $15 and Friday dinner, $35. To register or obtain more information (including the full program), contact Carol Lockman at 302-658-2400, ext. 243, or clockman@ Hagley.org.

HAGLEY-WINTERTHUR FELLOWSHIPS in ARTS and INDUSTRIES. This is a cooperative program of short- to medium-term research fellowships for scholars interested in the historical and cultural relationships between economic life and the arts, including design architecture, crafts, and the fine arts. Fellows receive a stipend, make use of the rich research collections of both Winterthur Museum, Gardens and Library (www.winterthur.org) and the Hagley Museum and Library. These fellowships are intended to support serious scholarly work. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars, as well as applicants without advanced degrees. Applications are welcome from scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than the humanities. As much as possible, recipients should be prepared to devote their full time to the fellowship for the duration of their appointment. As centers for advanced study in the humanities, Hagley and Winterthur are focal points for a community of scholars. Fellows are expected to participate in seminars, which meet at both institutions, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their research stay. Low-cost accommodations may be available at both institutions. Stipends are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of six months at no more than $1,400 per month. The deadline for applications is December i, 2005.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Philip Scranton

Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

P.O. Box 3630

Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

Web site: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html

The HENRY BELIN DU PONT DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP. This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation. We invite applications from Ph.D. candidates whose research on important historical questions would benefit from use of the Hagley Museum and Library's research collections. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project, and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley pertinent to the dissertation. This is a residential fellowship with a term of four months. The fellowship provides $6,000, free housing on Hagley's grounds, use of a computer, mail and internet access, and an office. Recipients are expected to have no other obligations during the term of the fellowship, to maintain continuous residence at Hagley for its duration, and to participate in events organized by Hagley's Center of the History of Business, Technology, and Society. At the end of residency the recipient will make a presentation at Hagley based on research conducted during the fellowship. Hagley will also receive a copy of the dissertation, as well as any publications aided by the fellowship.

Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with Hagley staff prior to submitting their dossier. The deadline for submission is November 15, 2005. For more information, contact:

Dr. Roger Horowitz

Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

P.O. Box 3630

Wilmington, DE 19807-0630

E-mail: rhorowitz@hagley.org

Web site: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/grants.html

The GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE of AMERICAN HISTORY. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications for short-term fellowships in two categories: research fellowships for postdoctoral scholars at every faculty rank, and dissertation fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one of five archives: the Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society; the Library of the New-York Historical Society; the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL).

Fellowships range in duration from a week to two months. Fellowships are not available for scholars who live within commuting distance of New York City. Stipends range from $1,500 to $4,000. The deadline for submission is December 2, 2005. Application materials should be sent to:

Gilder Lehrman Fellowship Program

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

19 West 44th Street, Suite 500

New York, NY10036

Tel: 646-366-9666

Fax: 646-366-9669

Web site: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/fellowshipi.html

The CLEMENTS CENTER-DEGOLYER LIBRARY Center for Southwest Studies offers research travel grants of $500 a week for up to four weeks to applicants living outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to encourage a broader and more intensive use of the special collections at the DeGolyer Library. The library contains over 90,000 volumes of rare and scholarly works, 350,000 photographs, and approximately 40,000 linear feet of archival materials pertaining to the trans-Mississippi West, the Spanish Borderlands, the history of transportation, especially railroads worldwide, and matters of business and labor. Special collections include those of Stanley Marcus and Horton Foote; collections of Texas banknotes and maps; the Women's Archives of the Southwest; petroleum in the West; photography of the West; and the J. C. Penny & Co. collection. Grant applications are accepted throughout the year.

Web site: www.smu.edu/swcenter

E-mail: swcenter@smu.edu

The INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION (IEHA) will hold its fourteenth International Congress in Helsinki, Finland, August 21-25, 2006. The local organizing institutions are the Department of Social Science History and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki.

The scientific program of the Congress will comprise approximately 100 sessions. The IEHA welcomes proposals for sessions on all topics in economic history, the history of economics, demographic history, social history, urban history, cultural history, gender studies, methodological aspects of historical research, and related fields. Proposals for sessions on the period before 1800, and for sessions that cover countries other than those of Western Europe and North America, are particularly welcome. The session organizers will be given wide discretion in the choice of format. The Congress will last five days. Each day will be divided into four time blocks of ninety minutes (two before and two after lunch). Following the first call for session proposals, the Executive Committee of the IEHA has to date approved forty-eight sessions for the academic program of the Helsinki 2006 Congress, which can be viewed on the Congress Web site.

The Executive Committee will fill all but five of the remaining session slots from submissions received before January 31, 2005. The five remaining slots will be filled at the discretion of the Executive Committee. Proposals should include a tentative list of participants, but the committee encourages session organizers to issue an open call for papers once their session has been selected for the program. A final list of participants and paper titles for all sessions must be submitted by January 1, 2006.

There will be no distinction between sessions submitted in reply to the first or second call for papers. Each session organizer will get two time blocks. The Executive Committee may give extra time blocks if the number of papers or the dimension of the topic requires it. Time blocks will be sequential on the same day, unless organizers ask for an alternative timing. Congress papers or abstracts are slated for publication on the Congress Web site by May 31, 2006. For more information please contact:

Secretary-General Prof. dr. J. L. van Zanden

c/o IISG

Cruquiusweg 31

1019 AT Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Fax: + 31 20 665 4181

E-mail: ieha@iisg.nl

Web site: www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006

The AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY sponsors several annual awards for various agricultural history publications, manuscripts, and projects. Each year the society announces its award winners at the Agricultural History Society luncheon during the Organization of American Historians conference.

The Gilbert C. Fife Award, which includes a $300 honorarium, is given to the author of the best dissertation on any aspect of agricultural history, broadly interpreted, completed during the current calendar year in honor of Fite's distinguished corpus of work and lifelong devotion to student excellence.

The Everett E. Edwards Award, with a $200 honorarium, is given to the graduate student who submits the best manuscript on any aspect of agricultural and rural studies during the calendar year.

The society offers the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award to the author of the best article on agricultural history published by a journal other than Agricultural History during the calendar year. The award includes an honorarium of $200 and certificates for the author and publisher.

The Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award, with an honorarium of $200, is presented to the author of the best article published in Agricultural History during the calendar year.

Inquiries should be addressed to:

Claire Strom, Editor

Agricultural History

Minard Hall 203, P.O. Box 5075

North Dakota State University

Fargo, ND 58105

Phone: 701-231-6405

E-mail: Claire.Strom@ndsu.nodak.edu

Web site: ndsu.agricultural.history@ndsu.nodak.edu

The PROGRAM IN EARLY AMERICAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY at the Library Company of Philadelphia will award long-term dissertation-level and postdoctoral fellowships for September 1, 2006 to May 31, 2007. The dissertation-level fellowship carries a stipend of $18,000 for the full academic year, or two half-year fellowships of $9,000 each. The postdoctoral fellowship carries a stipend of $40,000 for the full year, or two half-year fellowships of $20,0000 each. Applicants for both the dissertation-level and postdoctoral fellowships may apply for the entire term or for the half-year periods from September 1, 2006 to January 15, 2007, or January 15 to May 31, 2007. The program will also award four one-month research fellowships carrying stipends of $1,800, tenable from June i, 2006 to May 31, 2007.

These fellowships are designed to promote scholarship on the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. They provide scholars the opportunity to use the extensive printed and manuscript collections related to the history of commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, internal improvements, economic policymaking, and other topics that are held by the Library Company and numerous other institutions in its vicinity.

The deadline for receipt of postdoctoral fellowship applications is November 1, 2005. A decision will be made by December 15. The deadline for receipt of one-month and dissertation fellowship applications is March 1, 2006. A decision will be made by March 31. To apply for a long-term fellowship, send (by mail, no faxes please) five copies each of a c.v., a detailed description of the nature of the research to be undertaken during the fellowship period, a relevant writing sample of no more than twenty-five pages, and two letters of reference. For one-month fellowships, send a c.v., a two- to four-page project description, and one letter of reference. Applicants for a long-term fellowship should state clearly which of the tenable periods they seek, and whether they also wish to be considered for a short-term fellowship. Send all materials by mail to:

PEAES

The Library Company of Philadelphia

1314 Locust Street

Philadelphia, PA19107

For more information about the program and its fellowships, see the Web site at www.librarycompany.org, or contact Cathy Matson, Program Director, at cmatson@udel.edu.