Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

Grants and Fellowships

As the nation’s leading business history archive and library, Hagley offers research grants for scholars interested using our collections. Exploratory research grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research materials. Henry Belin du Pont Research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research in Hagley’s collections for periods of up to 8 weeks. Applications for Exploratory and Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants are considered tri-annually and are due March 31, June 30, and October 31, with a decision within 45 days of the deadline. Proposals are accepted annually by Nov. 15 for Hagley’s Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships intended for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree. All grants require use of Hagley’s collections for advanced research.

Hagley Exploratory Research grants

Henry Belin du Pont and Charles Lindbergh, circa 1928These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections...Read full description and application instructions

Henry Belin du Pont Research grants

These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the library, archival, pictorial, and artifact collections of the Hagley Museum and Library...Read full description and application instructions

Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowships

This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation....Read full description and application instructions


Henry Belin du Pont (1873-1902)

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library recently awarded research grant fellowships to:


Exploratory Grants:

Travis Johnston
University of California, Berkeley
A Crowded Agenda: Labor Reform and Coalition Politics in the Postwar Era

Elva Kathleen Lyon
Independent School
Early American Saw Mills, Technology, Transfer, and Timber Production

Karen Ward Mahar
Siena College
Corner Office: Gender and Business Executives in the US and Britain, 1920-1970

Xiao Situ
Yale University
Window Culture: Emily Dickinson and the Nineteenth-Century Eye, 1830-1886



H. B. du Pont Fellowships

Andrew Fagal
Binghamton University
Military Contracting and Economic Development in the Early Republic

Kathryn Goetz
University of Minnesota
A Consuming Femininity: Gender, Culture and the Material Worlds of Young Womanhood, 1770-1850

Michael Robinson
Louisiana State University
Fulcrum of the Union: The Border South and the Secession Crisis, 1859-1861

Fallon Samuels
Harvard University
Smart Growth: Shrinking Cities and Sprawling Expertise in America's Rust Belt, 1962-1968

Amy Walhermfechtel
Saint Louis University
Cecil B. deMille and the Right to Work






Images:
Henry du Pont and Charles Lindbergh pose in front of the Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1928 (Portrait file, 692_PD398_HBII5). Full image
Henry Belin du Pont, Sr. (1873-1902) (Portrait File, portraitfile_hb_dupont_01). Full image