To Preserve, Present, and Engage/Préserver, présenter et engager
The Calendar of Events for Conferences, Meetings and Symposiums for 2020 is now available for Members of the CBHA/ACHA. The calendar lists over 75 national and international events from the following organizations: Asia Pacific Economic & Business History SocietyBusiness History
The following jobs have recently been posted for positions in Economics and Business History: UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES Professor, Economic History of Contemporary CanadaBeginning Date: June 1, 2020 or date to be agreed with the UniversityPlease send your application
Dr. Stefano Tijerina, CBHA/ACHA member and the inaugural recipient of the CBHA/ACHA’s Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Political Science and Lecturer at the Maine Business School at the University of Maine. He sent in the following statement about
Professor Janis Thiessen, Chair of the Board of the Canadian Business History Association/l’association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaires (CBHA/ACHA), is pleased to announce that Professor Dimitry Anastakis has rejoined the Board. Professor Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Business History
The CBHA/ACHA is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2019-21 Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship in Canadian business history is Dr Matthew Hollow, for his project: Managing banking crises: Historical lessons from the handling of the Home Bank of Canada and the Canadian Commercial Bank
The Canadian Business History Association/l’Association canadienne pour l’histoire des affaire (CBHA/ACHA) is an affiliated committee of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) and will be sponsoring panels for the upcoming CHA Annual Meeting, which will take place June 1-3, 2020 at Western University. We encourage scholars to submit either:
Professor Joe Martin, President of the CBHA/ACHA, was interviewed this past weekend in the Globe & Mail on the importance of business history. You can read this inciteful interview HERE.
Michael Zakim, Accounting for Capitalism. The World the Clerk Made. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix + 247pp., illustrations, notes, index. Cloth; ISBN 9780226977973, US $50.00. Read the book review HERE.
Phil Lind with Robert Brehl, Right Hand Man: How Phil Lind Guided the Genius of Ted Rogers, Canada’s Foremost Entrepreneur. Toronto: Barlow Books, 2018. xii + 357pp., photographs, index. Cloth; ISBN 978-1-988-02533-9, Cdn $29.99. Read the book review HERE.
The Faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto have announced that Professor Dimitry Anastakis has been appointed as the L.R. Wilson/R.J. Currie Chair in Business History. A Member of the College