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Occasional Features
Fellows Abroad: The Department of History, and the Hagley Program, were well represented at the 2009 Joint Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference and the European Business History Association. This special conference was held at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy from June 11-13, 2009. With a theme befitting the host location, the meeting, entitled "Fashions: Business Practices in Historical Perspective", offered the students a unique opportunity to interact with, present, and receive feedback from an international group of scholars. The meeting was by far one of the largest BHC gatherings ever held with over 500 conference attendees. The organizers put together an impressive program that highlighted the many interpretations of “fashions” in the field of business history. Two Hagley fellows were fortunate to be a part of this year’s program. Doctoral candidate Andy Bozanic showcased a portion of his work on acoustic guitars with a paper entitled “Fashioning the Sounds of Hawaii: Roy Smeck and the Business of Hawaiian-Style Guitars”, while 2009 Hagley graduate Dr. Benjamin Schwantes offered “Regulating the Telegraph: Train Dispatching, Telephony, and the 1907 Hours of Service Act.” In addition, doctoral candidates Stephanie Holyfield, Emily Martz, and Janneken Smucker also presented at the conference as well as two UD faculty members, Dr. Jonathan Russ and Dr. William Scott. To help offset the high travel costs of the conference, the students were generously supported by the UD Department of History, the UD Office of Graduate and Professional Education, the UD Alumni Association and the Business History Conference Alfred D. Chandler Fund.
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| From left to right (Jonathan Russ, Emily Martz, Janneken Smucker, Will Scott, Stephanie Holyfield, Andy Bozanic), Not pictured: Ben Schwantes |
Hagley Fellow, Andy Bozanic, wins Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010, to the National Museum of American History.
Alan Meyer has accepted a tenure track position at Auburn University. Alan Meyer joined the Hagley Program in 1998, completed his dissertation: "Why Fly? A Social and Cultural History of Private Aviation in Post-WWII America," in May 2009. Alan has received a Guggenheim Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (2004-2005), a Smithsonian Pre-doctoral Fellowship at the National Museum of American History (2005), and a University of Delaware Competitive Graduate Fellowship (2005-2006) to support his project. He is also the recipient of the 2005 Kranzberg Dissertation Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Alan has presented numerous papers related to his topic, including two at annual SHOT meetings: "A New Air Age of Women? AOPA's 'Pinch-Hitter Course,' Masculinity, and Private Aviation in post-WWII America" (San Jose, 2002); and "Hangar Flying and Hundred Dollar Hamburgers: Flying for Pleasure after World War II" (Amsterdam, 2004). He has also presented papers and organized panels outside the SHOT community, including "Libérations et Limites: Aviation and Gender in France and the United States from the Interwar Era through the Cold War" for American Historical Association (Philadelphia, 2006); and "Not Just Another Airplane Talk: Popular Culture, Gender Norms, and the Creation of a 'Community of Pilots' in interwar and post-WWII America" for the Organization of American Historians (Washington, D.C., 2006). Most recently, he co-organized a historiographical panel for SHOT’s 50th anniversary meeting (Washington, D.C., 2007) entitled "'Aviation History in the Wider View' Revisited: An Assessment of the Field." Publications include updating the bibliography and co-editing the revised edition of Deborah Douglas's book American Women and Flight Since 1940 (University Press of Kentucky, 2003). Alan lives in the Washington, D.C. area where, in addition to finishing his dissertation, he works as a historian for the federal government. Alan has accepted a tenure-track position at Auburn University.
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