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The Rockefeller Archive Center received fifty-two applications for research grants for its 2008 program. In March, forty-two scholars were awarded stipends to conduct research in the Center's collections. The 2008 grant recipients, their institutions, and research topics follow.
Patricio Abinales
Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
"Epidemics, Diseases and State Formation in Post-War Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines"
Svetlana Arkina
Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University.
"The Evolution of the Privileged Tax Treatment for American Nonprofit Organizations"
Leandro Benmergui
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
"Housing Development: Housing Policy, Slums, and Squatter Settlements in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, 1948-1973"
Luis Eduardo Bosemberg
Associate Professor, History Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. The Relations between Nazi Germany and Colombia, 1933-1945
Jeffrey Brison
Assistant Professor, Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council's Arctic Survey" and "The Memory of Mackenzie King: 'A Canadian Biography and Canadian History'"
Kyle Bruce
Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Economics and Strategy Group, Aston Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
"Democracy or Seduction? The Demonization of Scientific Management and the Deification of Human Relations"
James Burns
Associate Professor, Department of History, Clemson University.
"Colonial Cinema in the African Diaspora"
Ernesto Capello
Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Vermont.
"Writing the Gringo Patron: Popular Responses to Nelson A. Rockefeller's 1969 Presidential Mission to Latin America"
Gaia Caramellino
Doctorate in History of Architecture and Town Planning, Department of Architectural and Industrial Design, First Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
"European Architects in the New Deal: 1930-1939. New Models for Social Housing in New York"
Katherine Carroll
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Boston University.
"Modernizing the American Medical school, 1893-1940: Architecture, Pedagogy, Professionalization, and Philanthropy"
Elisabeth Clemens
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
"What You Can Do: Voluntarism in American Political Development"
Deborah Del Gais
Curator of Asian Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
"The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection of Japanese Bird-and-Flower Prints (kacho-e) in the RISD Museum of Art"
Xiaoping Fang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, National University of Singapore.
"Granny Midwives in Chinese Villages: Images, Reeducation, and Fading Out, 1950-2000"
Judith Godden
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Sydney.
"The Rockefeller Foundation and Gwen Burbidge: Dreams, Ideals and Struggles over Australian Nurses' Role in Public Health."
Kenneth Goings and Eugene O'Connor
Professor and Chair, African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University (Goings)
Managing Editor, The Ohio State University Press (O'Connor)
"African Americans and the Classics at HBCUs"
Frances Gouda
Professor of History and Gender Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
"Knowledge as Instrument of Power: Medicine and Social Science in the Colonial Laboratory of the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1942"
Sarah Griffith
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Conflicting Dialogues: The Institute of Social and Religious Research and the Survey of Race Relations on the Pacific Coast, 1921-1925"
Jason Guthrie
Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
"A Laboratory of Liberalism: The International Labor Organization and the Social Politics of Development"
Laurel Hitchcock
Research Consultant, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
"The Creation of Federal Services for Crippled Children, 1925-1945"
Yu-Ling Huang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton.
"Family Planning, Reproductive Sciences, and the U.S. Foreign Aid; The Politics of Reproduction in Post-War East Asia, 1950s-1970s"
Sarah Johnson
Ph.D. Candidate, College of Nursing/College of Graduate Studies, Medical University of South Carolina.
"Healing in Silence: Black Nurses in Charleston, South Carolina, 1896-1948"
Craig Kridel
Curator, Museum of Education, University of South Carolina and Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina.
"The GEB's Human Relations Series and Secrets of Success Educational Film Projects"
John Laprise
Ph.D. Candidate, Media, Technology, and Society Program, School of Communication, Northwestern University.
"Laggards and Evangelists: The Computerization of the White House and How it Shaped U.S. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Policy, 1970-1980"
Cheryl Lemus
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Northern Illinois University.
"The Maternal Glow: Medicine, Consumerism, and the Construction of the 'Normal' Pregnancy in 20th-Century America"
Shiyung Liu
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.
"From Japanese Colonial Medicine to American Standard Medicine in Taiwan: Transitions in the Medical Profession in Post-war Taiwan"
Daniela Manica
Ph.D. Candidate, Social Anthropology Program, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"Contraception, Reproductive Sciences and Population: The Work of Dr. Elsimar Coutinho"
Sarah Miglio
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Notre Dame.
"Civilizing the World: The Progressive Religion and Politics of Chicago, 1890-1925"
Kathleen Nehls
Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Georgia.
"Red Tape, Race, and Reform: State-building and the Politics of Health in the American West, 1920-1935"
Sarah Payne
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of New Mexico.
"Cleaning Up after Sex An Environmental History of Contraceptives, 1880-2006"
Gracia Ramirez
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Creative Industries, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
"The American Film Institute's Support for Experimental Filmmakers and Film Education, 1967-1977"
Eleanor Sacks
Independent Researcher.
"History of U.S. Community Foundations"
Brian Schmidt
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
"The Professional Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations, Vol. II"
Alicia Schortgen
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Dallas.
"Revisiting the Filer Commission: 30 Years of Private Philanthropy and Public Needs"
Cherry Schrecker
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Nancy, France.
"Sociology at The New School for Social Research: An Intellectual and Pedagogical History"
Aaron Shkuda
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, The University of Chicago.
"The Making of Contemporary New York: Art, Urban Development, and Industry in SoHo and Lower Manhattan, 1945-1980"
David Soll
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University.
"From the Catskill Waters to the Manhattan Streets: New York City's Water Supply and the Transformation of Space"
StacieTaranto
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Brown University.
"Debating Family Values: Women, Politics, and the Rise of Conservatism in New York State, 1970-1992"
Sinclair Wynchank
Senior Lecturer (part time), Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
"The History of Radiobiology to 1970 and the Contributions of L.H. Gray"
Richard M. Yon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Florida.
"Emerging from the Shadows: The Vice Presidency in the Modern Era"
Neici Zeller
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University and Lecturer, University of Illinois, Chicago.
"The Creation of a Public Health System in a Dictatorial Context: The Rockefeller Foundation, President Trujillo, and the People of the Dominican Republic, 1934-1954."
Dewen Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
"Mobilizing Chinese Women for the War of Resistance, 1937-1945"
2007 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant Awards
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