"One of the world's leading interpreters of American mass culture."--That's how colleagues described Blaszczyk when awarding her Harold F. Williamson Prize for mid-career achievement in 2008. The Williamson Prize is awarded by the Business History Conference, the major international professional association for business historians.

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REGINA LEE BLASZCZYK is an award-winning historian and author who writes on business, culture, and the economy. She has published extensively on corporations, marketing, innovation, design, and fashion. Her work is designed to reach both the general public and scholarly audiences, with particular emphasis on adult audiences and life-long learners.

Blaszczyk's broad experience informs her writing. She launched her career as a cultural history curator at the Smithsonian Institution, spent time as an American studies professor at Boston University, and worked in senior management at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Since 2005, she has been a full-time historian and author, affiliated with the Department of the History & Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.