Awards
2021
The 2021 Fred Bateman Award for best paper at the annual EBHS Conference was awarded to Chryssa Papathanassiou, European Central Bank, for Evidence of finance leasing in the ancient mines of Laureion. An SSRN version is available here.
The 2021 Lynne Doti Award for best paper by a graduate student at the annual EBHS Conference was awarded jointly to Jay Dhar, University of Arizona, and Adam K. Frost, Harvard University. Dhar’s paper was The Impact of Last-Mile Road Access on the Diffusion of Automobiles and Motortrucks on American Farms. Frost’s awarded paper was “Speculation and Profiteering” Entrepreneurship in Socialist China.
2018
The $1,000 James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays in Economic & Business History in 2018 goes to Louis Galambos (Johns Hopkins University) for “The Entrepreneurial Culture and the Mysteries of Economic Development.”
The 2018 Fred Bateman Award for best paper at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College) for the paper “The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia.”
The 2018 Lynne Doti Award for best paper by a graduate student at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Stephanie Seketa (University of California, Santa Barbara) for the paper “Defining and Defending Valid Citizenship during War: Jewish Immigrant Businesses in World War I England.”
2017
The $1,000 James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays in Economic & Business History in 2017 goes to Scott Clayman, Scott Deacle, and Andrew Economopoulos for “Caught in the Headlights: Revising the Road Kill Hypothesis of Antebellum Illinois Bank Failures.”
The 2017 Fred Bateman Award for best paper at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Rob Gillezeau (University of Victoria), Donna Feir (University of Victoria), and Maggie Jones (Queens University) for the paper “The Destruction of the Bison, Treaty Making, and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains.”
The 2017 Lynne Doti Award for best paper by a graduate student at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Davor Mondom (Syracuse University) for the paper “Capitalism with a Human Face: Amway and the Rise of Postwar Conservatism.”
2016
The $1,000 James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays in Economic & Business History in 2016 goes to Brad Sturgill and Daniel Giedeman for “Factor Shares, Economic Growth, and the Industrial Revolution.”
The 2016 Fred Bateman Award for best paper at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Soudeh Mirghasemi for the paper “Philosopher’s Concrete: Dam Construction, Farmland Values and Agricultural Production in the Western U.S.,1890 – 1920.”
The 2016 Lynne Doti Award for best paper by a graduate student at the annual EBHS Conference is awarded to Fan Fei for the paper “Interwar Highways and the Demise of the General Store.”
2015
The 2015 Fred Bateman Award for best paper presented at the annual EBHS Conference was awarded to John A. Dove for his paper “Do Fiscal Constraints Prevent Default? Historical Evidence from U.S. Municipalities”
The 2015 Lynne Doti Award for best paper presented at the annual EBHS Conference by a graduate student was awarded to Vincent Geloso for his paper “Living Standards in New France on the Eve of Conquest”
2014
The $1,000 James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays in Economic & Business History in 2014 was shared by two outstanding papers:
John A. Dove (Troy University), Gary M. Pecquet (Central Michigan University), and Clifford F. Thies (Shenandoah University) for THE MICHIGAN FREE BANK EXPERIENCE: WILD CAT BANKING OR INTERFERENCE WITH CONTRACT?
and
Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo (Bangor University), Tobias Karlsson (Lund University), and Björn Thodenius (Stockholm School of Economics) for THE ORIGINS OF THE CASHLESS SOCIETY: CASH DISPENSERS, DIRECT-TO-ACCOUNT PAYMENTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE REAL-TIME NETWORKS, C.1965-1985.