Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Grants and Fellowships
Hagley Exploratory Research grants
These 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
Recently awarded grant projects
Marcus Allen
Morgan State University
Capitalism and the Black Depositors of the Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1850-1915
James Allison
University of Virginia
Technologies of Change: Energy Development, Indigenous Reactions, and Expanded Sovereignty among the Crow and Northern Cheyenne
Kelly Brennan Arehart
College of William and Mary
"Give up your dead": How Business, Technology and Culture Separated Americans from Their Dearly Departed
Christopher Bordelon
Brandeis University
Trading Down: The Domestic Politics of America's Foreign Trade since the Great Depression
Rachel Burstein
CUNY Graduate Center
Labor and the Public: How Organized Labor Represented Itself in Postwar America
Benjamin Cohen
University of Virginia
The Moral Landscape of Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Industrialized Food
Darren Dochuk
Purdue University
Anointed with Oil: The Politics of God and Black Gold in America's History
Kathryn Goetz
University of Minnesota
A Consuming Femininity: Gender, Culture and the Material Worlds of Young Womanhood, 1770-1850
Louisa Iarocci
University of Washington
Spaces of Selling: The Commercial City, the Mercantile House and the Department Store
Lisa Jacobson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: Alcohol's Quest for Legitimacy after Prohibition
Sarah Johnson
Carnegie Mellon University
Legitimizing Commodities: A Case Study in American Retail Marketing of Manufacturing
James L. Kimble
Seton Hall University
The Refreshing War: Domestic Propaganda and the Advertising Council in World War II
Vanda Krefft
Lone Master of the Movies: The Brilliant Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, founder of 20th Century Fox
Marc MacDonald
University of Saskatchewan
Crossroads of Enlightenment, 1685-1850: Exploring Scientific and Industrial Traffic Across the English Channel and Beyond
Joseph P. Malherek
George Washington University
Satisfying the "Inner Jones": Market Segmentation as Social Constituion from Demographics to Psychographics
Elizabeth McGoey
Indiana University
Staging Modern Domesticity: Art and Constructed Interior Displays in America, 1925-1940
Shawn Moura
University of Maryland, College Park
Target Market Brazil: Postwar Advertising and Consumer Culture in the Country of the Future
Amy C. Offner
Columbia University
Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
Colleen Rafferty
University of Delaware
To Establish an Intercourse Between Our Respective Houses: Economic Networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1736-1815
Funke Sangodeyi
Harvard University
The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs in American Bodies, 1940s-1990s
Philip Whalen
Coastal Carolina University
A Provincial Perspective: Burgundian Workers at the 1900 Paris Exposition
David Witwer
Penn State University, Harrisburg
The Acid Attack on Victor Riesel and the Racketeer Menace in Cold War America
If you have questions, please contact the center at 302-658-2400 ext 243 / 244 or clockman@hagley.org
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