Kerr Prize Information

Paper presenters are invited to nominate themselves for the 2009 K. Austin Kerr Prize. Please review the eligibility criteria below and follow the procedures outlined to have your paper considered by the Kerr Prize Committee. The K. Austin Kerr Prize is awarded for the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar (doctoral student or those within three years of receiving their Ph.D.). It honors K. Austin Kerr, professor of history at the Ohio State University since 1965 and president of the Business History Conference during 1992-1993. Author of many books and articles in business history, and a founder of H-Business, Professor Kerr has always encouraged excellence in scholarship and in professional and classroom presentations. Criteria for awarding the prize include scholarly excellence; innovation in subject, method, or findings; and effectiveness of presentation. The Kerr Prize Committee will evaluate the papers in advance and the presentations during the annual meeting, with the Committee meeting prior to the awards ceremony to make a decision that will be announced by the Committee chair at the ceremony. Presentations at the "dissertation in progress" and Krooss Dissertation Prize sessions are not eligible for the Kerr Prize. Persons presenting in 2009 who have also presented in those session categories at previous BHC annual meetings are eligible for the Kerr Prize as long as they are graduate students or within three years of receiving their Ph.D.

Those who wish to be considered for the Kerr Prize must send a CV and an electronic copy of the paper (in either Word or PDF format) via email attachment to the committee chair, Jocelyn Wills, at jwills@brooklyn.cuny.edu, no later than May 31, 2009. Please address any questions to the Committee chair as well.

Members of the Kerr Prize Committee for 2009:

Jocelyn Wills (chair)
Department of History
Brooklyn College, CUNY
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Tel: 718-951-5331
Email: jwills@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Anna Spadevecchia
Department of Management
University of Reading Business School
PO Box 218
Reading RG6 6AA
United Kingdom
a.spadavecchia@henley.reading.ac.uk

Gerben Bakker
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
g.bakker@lse.ac.uk