Dr. Glenn Porter

Glenn Porter is the Director Emeritus of the Hagley Museum and Library, an internationally renowned research library in business history and one of the leading American industrial museums. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and reviews, and the books he has written, co-authored, or edited include: Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structures of Nineteeth-Century Marketing (1971); Enterprise and Economic Development: Essays in Canadian Business and Economic...See more

Glenn Porter is the Director Emeritus of the Hagley Museum and Library, an internationally renowned research library in business history and one of the leading American industrial museums. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and reviews, and the books he has written, co-authored, or edited include: Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structures of Nineteeth-Century Marketing (1971); Enterprise and Economic Development: Essays in Canadian Business and Economic History (1973); Regional Economic History: The Mid-Atlantic Area since 1700 (1976); The Encyclopedia of American Economic History (3 vols., 1980); The Workers' World at Hagley (1981); The Papers of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1991); and Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture (2002). While on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, he served as editor of the Business History Review , and he was also the general editor for two book series, at JAI press and at the John Hopkins University Press. Dr. Porter served on the editorial board of the Journal American History , as President and Trustee of the Business History Conference, as Trustee of the Andalusia Foundation and of the WORLDESIGN Foundation, on the Department of the Interior's advisory committee on National Historic Landmarks, on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's History Advisory Committee, and as President of the Independent Research Libraries Association. At Hagley, he headed the Regional Economic History Research Center before becoming Director of the Hagley Museum and Library in 1984. He retired from that post in 2002 and now enjoys life in New Mexico. See less