Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society

Grants and Fellowships

Henry Belin du Pont Fellowships

Henry Belin du Pont and Charles Lindbergh, circa 1928The Henry Belin du Pont Memorial Fund supports access to, and use of, Hagley's research collections. These fellowships are intended to support serious scholarly work...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

Grants-in-aid

Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections...Read full description and application instructions

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Henry Belin du Pont (1873-1902)Aronova, Alla A.
Russian State University for the Humanities
Architectural Setting of Royal Ceremonies in Russia, Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Barry, Eric
Rutgers University
Sonic Boom: the Business and Culture of High Fidelity Sound, 1930-1980

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo
University of Leicester
Automation of American and British Mutual Banks, 1950-1985

Cerveaux, Augustin
Université Louis Pasteur
Early Technologies of the Nanoscale: The Ultracentrifuge, the Electron Microscope, and the Emergence of the Ultrafine Particle Concept 1923-1965

Chelekis, Jessica
Indiana University
Avon in the Amazon

Christiansen, Erik
University of Maryland, College Park
Making and Selling a Usable Past for Post War America

Fullilove, Courtney
Columbia University
A Case in the Patent Office: Properties of Knowledge in Early America

Hevly, Bruce
University of Washington
A History of Target Shooting

Hintz, Eric
University of Pennsylvania
The Post-Heroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950

Holyfield, Stephanie
University of Delaware
"Friendly Interest" Corporate Culture and Welfare Capitalism at Joseph Bancroft & Sons, 1885-1961

Janiewski, Dolores
Victoria University of Wellington
Fortifying Free Enterprise: The Pews and Their Networks, 1880-1940

Jones, Christopher
University of Pennsylvania
Energy Highways: Canals, Pipes, and Wires Transform the Mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930

Koyama, Kumiko
Nagasaki University
US-Japan Comparative Trade History: Protective Policy of 1860s-1930s

Krause, Andrew
Temple University
Lehigh Valley Revitalized: Recreation, Tourism, and Suburban Living in Eastern Pennsylvania, 1940-2006

Lemus, Cheryl
Northern Illinois University
The Maternal Glow: Medicine, Consumerism, and the Construction of the "Normal" Pregnancy

Lipartito, Kenneth
Florida International University
Technologies of Surveillance: Information and Self in the Modern Economy

McCoyer, Michael
Smithsonian Institution, NMAH
Forgotten Business: Recovering the History of Contracted Mexican Railroad Workers in World War II Era Chicago and Beyond

Oliveiro, Vernie
Harvard University
Curtailing Corruption: The United States and Bribery in International Business Transactions

Yost, Jeffrey R.
Charles Babbage Institute
Manufacturing Mainframes: An Examination of Evolving Semiconductor Strategies of Sperry Univac and IBM, 1961-1975

Zachmann, Karin
Technical University, Munich
Cold Chain, Food Systems and Mass Consumption (1933-1989)


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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