JESSICA K. BURCH. TOUGALOO COLLEGE Mellon Partners in Humanities Education Postdoctoral Fellow.

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1 JESSICA K. BURCH EMPLOYMENT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Assistant Professor (Lecturer), David Eccles School of Business. TOUGALOO COLLEGE Mellon Partners in Humanities Education Postdoctoral Fellow. HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Ph.D. in History, EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO A.M. in Social Sciences, PITZER COLLEGE OF THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES B.A. in Organizational Studies, PUBLICATIONS Door-to-Door Capitalism: Direct Selling in America from the New Deal to the Internet Age (Columbia University Press, Forthcoming). Women and Homebased Business, in Benjamin Waterhouse ed., A Cultural History of Business in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Press, Forthcoming). Good Times: Direct Sales and an Unfamiliar Story of Success in the 1970s, in Sebastian Voigt and Stefan Hördler eds., The Emergence of a New Era? Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Service Sector since the 1970s (University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming). Soap and Hope : Direct Sales and the Culture of Work and Capitalism in Postwar America, Enterprise and Society 17:4 (December 2016): Review of Capital Gains: Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America. Richard R. John and Kim Phillips-Fein, eds. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48:4 (Spring 2018): 36 38

2 RESEARCH INTERESTS U.S. History since 1865 Political Economy Labor History Cultural History History of Capitalism Consumer Culture Intellectual History Business History Women, Gender & Sexuality AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Nominee & Finalist, 2016 Founders Medal. Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Finalist, 2016 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. Business History Conference. Robert Penn Warren Graduate Student Fellowship in American Studies, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University. Predoctoral Fellowship, (declined). National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Henry Belin DuPont Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. Smithsonian Institution Libraries Baird Society Residential Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. John W. Hartman Center Research Grant, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing, and Advertising History at Duke University. American Studies Futures Fellowship, The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College. Bordin Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Binkley Graduate Education Award, Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Fellowship in History,

3 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Papers Presented Selling is Just Being Yourself: Home Demonstration Parties and the Commercialization of Private Life in Postwar America, Business History Conference. Baltimore, MD. April The Amway Opportunity: Gender and Direct Sales in Postwar America, Berkshires Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities. Long Island, NY. June Mommy, Here Comes Amway! : Marriage, Family, and the Commercialization of Private Space in Postwar America, American Studies Association Annual Conference. Denver, CO. November No-Collar Work: Direct Sales and the Origins of the Casual Labor Economy, Histories of Capitalism 2.0, Cornell University. September Good Times: Direct Selling and an Unfamiliar Story of Success in the 1970s, Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Service Sector? Organized by Institute of Contemporary History / German Historical Institute. Munich, Germany. September Soap and Hope: Direct Sales and the Culture of Work and Capitalism in Postwar America, Krooss Dissertation Prize Plenary Session, Business History Conference. Portland, OR. April Women of Enterprise: Avon Products, Inc. and Images of Female Entrepreneurship in 1980s America, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. March Don t Let the Good Times Pass You By : Direct Sales and the Unfamiliar Story of Success in the Seventies, Graduate Student Fellows Lecture Series, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. March The Salesman s Case: Anti-Peddling Ordinances and the Emergence of Direct Sales as a Commercial Category, , Henry Belin DuPont Dissertation Fellow Lecture, Hagley Museum and Library. August The Consumer Fraud of the 1970s : Pyramid Schemes, Pyramid Sales, and the FTC s Creation of a New Legal Category of Fraud, Atlanta Graduate Student History Conference, Emory University. November Mommy, Here Comes Amway! : Marriage, Family, and the Gender Politics of Direct Sales Work in the Amway Corporation, , The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College. June

4 Soap and Hope : The Rhetoric of Amway Recruiting and the Nature of Work in Post-WWII America, Social Science History Association Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC. November Panel Chair/Discussant Women in Finance, Discussant. Business History Conference. Baltimore, MD. April Peddling Print in Nineteenth-Century America: Subscription Publishing as a Business Model, Chair and Discussant. American Historical Association. Washington, D.C. January Business and Religion, Chair and Discussant. Business History Conference. Denver, CO. April TEACHING EXPERIENCE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT, DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Foundations of Business Thought, Spring Foundations of Business Thought (Honors), Fall DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, TOUGALOO COLLEGE Making Modern America, Spring U.S. History to 1865, Fall MELLON PARTNERS IN HUMANITIES EDUCATION Certificate in Humanities Education, May HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, Fall HBS BUSINESS CASE & TEACHING PLAN PUBLICATIONS Jones, Geoffrey and Jessica Burch. Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan Harvard Business School, October Jones, Geoffrey and Jessica Burch. Yataro Iwasaki: Founding Mitsubishi. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan Harvard Business School, October Jones, Geoffrey and Jessica Burch. Hans Wilsdorf and Rolex. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan Harvard Business School, October

5 Jones, Geoffrey and Jessica Burch. Ivar Krueger and the Swedish Match Empire. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan Harvard Business School, October Jones, Geoffrey and Jessica Burch. Marc Rich and Global Commodity Trading. Harvard Business School Teaching Plan Harvard Business School, December DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY The Federalist Papers, Spring U.S. History since 1945, Spring 2011, Spring The Old South, Fall U.S. History , Fall OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant to Dr. Jonathan Metzl, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. Conference Program Committee, Business History Conference. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, Department of History and Political Science, Tougaloo College. Member, Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School. Graduate Representative, Search Committee, James Stahlman Chair in U.S. History, Graduate Student Coordinator, Americanist Work-in-Progress Seminar, Founder and Coordinator, Graduate Student Gender Reading Group,

6 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Market Research Account Manager, January 2008 August Retail Business Unit, NPD Group. Chicago, IL. Senior Associate, January 2006 September Business Advisory Services, Grant Thornton LLC. Los Angeles, CA. Senior Consultant, January 2000 September Strategy and Operations, Deloitte Consulting. Los Angeles, CA. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Historical Association American Studies Association Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Business History Conference Organization of American Historians Society for U.S. Intellectual History 6