The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium

The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium in Business History annually offers a small group of graduate students an opportunity to work intensively on their dissertations with distinguished Business History Conference-affiliated scholars, including at least two BHC officers. The Director of the Doctoral Colloquium is Pamela W. Laird of the University of Colorado Denver.

The 2012 Doctoral Colloquium will be held in conjunction with the Business History Conference annual meeting in Philadelphia. Participants will discuss dissertation proposals, relevant literatures and research strategies, and employment opportunities in business history. Members of the 2012 faculty are:

Richard R. John, BHC Past-President, Columbia University
Kenneth Lipartito, BHC President-Elect, Florida International University
Anna Spadavecchia, BHC Senior Member, Reading University
Margaret Graham, BHC Senior Member, McGill University

Student Liaison:

Nate Holdren, University of Minnesota
" 'The Compensation Law Put Us Out of Work': Workplace Injury Law, Commodification, and Discrimination in the Early Twentieth-Century United States"

Participants are chosen through a competitive application process, announced with each year's meeting call for papers. This year's Colloquium members and their topics are:

Marcus Allen, Morgan State University
"Institutionalizing Black Capitalism: An Examination of the African-American Depositors at the Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1850-1900"

Carlo Edoardo Altamura, University of Geneva
"European Banks and the Rise of International Finance after Bretton Woods, 1973-1982"

Joseph Arena, Ohio State University
"Closer to the Edge: New York City and the Triumph of Risk"

Brent Cebul, University of Virginia
"Freedom From: The Rise of the Blue Collar-Business Republican Coalition and the Conservative Deregulatory State, 1968-1994"

Bart Elmore, University of Virginia
"Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company"

Jonathan Franklin, Univerity of Maryland, College Park
"Economists' Domain: The Emergence of the Professional Economist, 1880-1939"

Natalie Marine-Street, Stanford University
"Ladies Agencies Reconsidered: Female Sales Agents and the Development of the American Consumer Economy"

George Zhijian Qiao, Stanford University
"The Making of a Mercantile Elite: Network, Entrepreneurship and Empire in Early Modern China"

Tara Saunders, Indiana University
"Trash and Treasure: Secondhand Trade and Consumption in the Twentieth-Century United States"

Chloe Taft, Yale University
"From Steel to Slots: Locating Postindustrial Community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania"

We are most grateful for the generous support of Oxford Journals, which makes the Doctoral Colloquium possible. We also very much appreciate additional help from the Chemical Heritage Foundation, which is hosting the 2012 Colloquium.

Questions concerning the Colloquium should be directed to Pamela Laird.

Walking Directions from the Hyatt to the Chemical Heritage Foundation:
The Chemical Heritage Foundation, the site of the Doctoral Colloquium and the Presidential Reception on Friday evening, is about a 10-minute walk from the Hyatt.

Exit at the main Hyatt entrance on South Columbus Blvd. Immediately turn right (west) to the traffic light at the corner of S. Columbus and Dock Street.
Cross Columbus Blvd. at the light going west and continue on Dock Street; when you reach the intersection of Dock and South Mattis, bear right to stay on Dock Street, which runs diagonally in front of the Sheraton Society Hill (the hotel will be on your right).
Turn right (north) on South 2nd Street, and continue straight across Walnut Street to the second traffic light, which is Chestnut.
Turn left on Chestnut; the Chemical Heritage Foundation is 1 1/2 blocks down Chestnut on the right at 315 Chestnut.

Also please see the Walking Map.