Project News & Events | Immigrant Entrepreneurship

"The Sweet Taste of Success" Panel at the 2013 BHC

The Sweet Taste of Success: German-American Entrepreneurs and the Transition from Artisan to Industrial Confectionery, 1860–1950 The 59th meeting of…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project presented and discussed at George Mason University

At an event hosted by George Mason’s Institute for Immigration Research, Uwe Spiekermann presented the GHI’s online encyclopedia: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present. As one of the general editors, he began his talk with a brief overview of the research agenda for the project in addition to providing a synopsis of results from the last two years.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Panel at the 2013 Business History Conference, Columbus, Ohio

The Sweet Taste of Success: German-American Entrepreneurs and the Transition from Artisan to Industrial Confectionery, 1860-1950

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Panel at AHA: "Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans"

Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, January 3 (3:30-5:30 pm at…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project at the Western History Conference in Denver

“Frontiers of Profit: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Economic Development of Northern California” was the title of a panel sponsored by the GHI and the Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project at the 52nd annual Western History Conference in Denver on October 7, 2012.

Conference Report: Immigration & Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference

The United States has long been an immigrant society as well as an entrepreneurial society. This is no coincidence: immigrants launch new enterprises and invent new technologies at rates much higher than native-born Americans. The conference, an interdisciplinary endeavor, looked at how newcomers have shaped and in turn been shaped by American economic life. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines—history, sociology, anthropology, economics, engineering, Asian American studies, gastronomic sciences, geography, management studies, and others—engaged in lively discussions of topics such as patterns and geographies of ethnic entrepreneurship, barriers to immigrant entrepreneurial success, and policy implications of historical and contemporary research on immigrant entrepreneurship.

"From Peddlers to Millionaires" Panel at the German Studies Association Conference

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project will be present at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, October 4-7, 2012,…

Upcoming conference at the GHI and University of Maryland: Immigration & Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Immigration & Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference September 13-14, 2012 Conference at the GHI and the University of Maryland, College Park…

Lecture: Transnationalism, Entrepreneurship, and Development

Lecture at the GHI by Alejandro Portes Thursday, September 13, 2012 Lecture at the GHI - Directions Speaker: Alejandro Portes (Princeton…

Immigrant Entrepreneurship on Facebook

Immigrant Entrepreneurship has now joined Facebook. Please feel free to "like" the project there and comment on the latest content. We'll…

Volume Editor Jeffrey Fear interviewed in "Das Marburger"

Jeffrey Fear, who is currently a DAAD visiting Professor at the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany and the volume four editor…

The Struggle with Beer: Morals, Markets and Marketing, 1880-1940

The Immigrant Entrepreneurship team is pleased to present a panel at the upcoming annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Milwaukee, WI.

Social Goals - Entrepreneurial Means

Panel on “Social Goals - Entrepreneurial Means. Corporate Governance and Business Principles in Social Ventures” at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference in Philadelphia.

Immigrant Entrepreneurship featured in Stuttgarter Zeitung

Project featured in two articles from Stuttgarter Zeitung by Akiko Lachenmann (in German).

"Henry Timken" article published in November/December issue of German American Trade Magazine

The German American Trade Magazine November/December edition features a new article on Henry Timken excerpted from the Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project

"Franz (Rudolph) Wurlitzer" article published in September/October issue of German American Trade Magazine

The German American Trade Magazine September/October edition features a new article on Franz (Rudolph) Wurlitzer excerpted from the Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project

"John Jacob Bausch" published in July/August issue of German American Trade Magazine

The German American Trade Magazine July/August edition features a new article on John Jacob Bausch excerpted from the Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project.

CfP: Immigration and Entrepreneurship

We are now seeking submissions for "Immigration and Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference" jointly organized with tthe Center for the History of the New America (University of Maryland, College Park) and the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (University of Maryland, College Park)

"Jacob Beringer" published in May/June issue of German American Trade Magazine

The German American Trade Magazine May/June edition features a new article on Jacob Beringer excerpted from the Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project

Carl Laemmle featured in March/April issue of German American Trade Magazine

"'A Pioneer among Pioneers': Carl Laemmle and the Founding of Universal Pictures" featured in March/April issue of German American Trade Magazine