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The Rockefeller Archive Center received ninety-one applications for research grants for its 2011 program. At the end of February, forty-seven scholars from twelve countries were awarded Grants-in-Aid to conduct research in the Center's collections. The 2011 grant recipients, their institutions and research topics follow
Paul Adler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgetown University
"'Planetary Citizens:' U.S. NGOs and the Struggle over Globalization, 1963-1994"
Rebecca Bachman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University
"From Public Media to Media Arts Discourse: The Origins and Early History of the National Endowment of Arts Film, Television, and Radio Arts Program, 1965-1977"
Marsha Barrett
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
"Rockefeller's New York, Rockefeller's Republicans: A Study of the Republican Party from Albany, NY to Washington, D.C., 1958-1976"
Stefanie Bator
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department Northwestern University
"From 'Civilization' to Citizenship: American Reformers, Filipinos, and Colonialism in the Philippines, 1898-1946"
Jill Briggs
Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Colonialism, Public Health and the Making of the Jamaican National Body"
Yehonathan Brodski
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
"Philip Hitti and the Arab Awakening"
Francesco Cassata
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Turin, Italy
"An American Utopia: Adriano Buzzati-Traverso (1913-1983) and the International Laboratory of Genetics and Biophysics"
Mathieu Caulier
Associate Doctor, L'Unité
Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 201 Paris/l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
"Maternal Health as a Concept and Practice: Researching the National Committee on Maternal Health (1958-1966): The Role of Christopher Tietze in the Development of a Comprehensive Approach to Women's Reproductive Health Issues"
Winifred Connerton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
"Americans Abroad – How Represented the Country, the Women and the National Mission"
Patricia D'Antonio
Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
"A History of Health Demonstration Projects in the United States, 1920-1940"
Claiton Marcioda Silva
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Federal University of South Frontier (UFFS), Campus Laranjeiras do Sul, State of Paraná
, Brazil
"Science, Agriculture and Nation Building: The IRI Research Institute (IRI) and the Conquest of the Campos Cerrados in Brazil,1946-1980"
Carlos Roberto de Souza
Assistant Professor of Art History, Art Department, University of Texas Pan American (UTPA)
"The Use of Pictorial Magazines by Nazi and Allied Propaganda. The Case of En Guardia"
Elizabeth F. Engle
Cultural Resource Intern, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming
"The Legacy of Colter Bay: The Rockefeller's and Public/Private Partnership in the Early Years of Mission 66"
Susannah Engstrom
Ph.D. Candidate, US History, University of Chicago
"The Potentials of Performance: Professionalism and Cultural Democracy in the Twin Cities, 1930-1969"
Joshua Farrington
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Kentucky
"Forgotten Republicans: African Americans and the Party of Lincoln, 1948-1972"
Karen Flynn
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Black Nurses and Transnationalism: Relationships and Linkages across Borders"
Shaloma Gauthier
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
(1) "From Relief to Rehabilitation: The History of Transnational and International Humanitarian Actions and Cooperation on Behalf of Civilian Populations in the Aftermath of the First World War (1918-1930)" and
(2) "How International Organizations Have Supervised and Administered the Process of State Building"
Brian Goldstein
Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Harvard University
"The City in the Age of Activism: Urban Development in Harlem, 1964-2001"
David Hamilton
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bute Medical School, St. Andrews University, Scotland
"The Life and Works of Alexis Carrel"
Emily Hauptmann
Professor of Political Science, Western Michigan University
"The Development of Philanthropic Interest in the Scientific Study of Political Behavior in the Postwar US"
Julia Horne
Senior Research Fellow, History Department, University of Sydney, Australia
"The Rockefeller Foundation and the Modern Australian University, 1926-1942"
Theresa Keeley
Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
"Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: Catholicism and U.S.-Central American Relations"
Yuko Kikuchi
Reader in Art and Design History, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, Chelsea-Camberwell-Wimbledon College, University of the Arts London, UK
"Russel Wright's Asian Project during the Cold War and its Relation to JDR III's Cultural Diplomacy"
Jennifer Koslow
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida State University
"Displaying the Road to Wellness: Public Health Exhibits in the Early 20th Century"
Susanne Kreutzer
Research Fellow, Department of Humanities/Nursing Science, University of Osnabruck, Germany
"Professionalization of Nursing in West Germany and the United States, 1945-1975"
Anna Krome-Lukens
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Caring for Defective Humanity: Women, Eugenics, and the Welfare State in North Carolina, 1903-1944"
Morgane Labbé
Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
"American Philanthropy and Social Sciences in Europe, 1919-1940: The Case of Poland"
Jaime Lapeyre
Ph.D. Candidate, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Canada
"The Right Road to Internationalize Nursing: The Development of an International Network of Nurse Leaders, 1920-1955"
James Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, University of California, Berkeley
"Modernization, Broccoli rabe, and the Taiwanese Miracle: American Involvement in Agricultural Development in Taiwan, 1950-1970"
Chris Manias
Research Assistant on the project: Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective: Tianjin under Nine Flags, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
"International Science in a Comparative Perspective: Paleontological Expeditions in China, 1900-1940"
Tamara Mann
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Columbia University
"Honor Thy Father and Mother: Old Age in a New America, 1945-65"
Tore C. Olsson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Georgia
"Growing Together: The American South, Mexico, and the Making of the Green Revolution"
G. Kurt Piehler
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"A Religious History of the American Servicemen/Servicewomen (GI) in World War II"
Tammy Proctor
H.O. Hirt Professor of History, Wittenberg University
"U.S. Food Aid and the Expectation of Gratitude, 1914-1950"
Darlene Rivas
Professor of History, Humanities Division, Pepperdine University
"Nelson A. Rockefeller: A Story of Twentieth Century America"
Davide Rodogno
SNF Research Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
"From Relief to Rehabilitation: The History of Transnational and International Humanitarian Actions and Cooperation on Behalf of Civilian Populations in the Aftermath of the First World War, 1918-1930"
Gabriel Rosenberg
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Brown University and Adjunct Professor, FYS Program and Department of History, Butler University
"Breeding the Future: The American 4-H Movement and the Roots of the Modern Rural World"
Arabinda Samanta
Professor, Department of History, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, and Programme Coordinator, Special Assistance Programme-Departmental Research Support, University Grant Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, India
"Help Fight Malaria in Bengal: Revisiting the Intervention by Rockefeller Foundation"
Funke Sangodeyi
Ph.D. Candidate, ABD, History of Science Department, Harvard University
"The Body as Ecosystem: Good Germs and American Bodies, 1940s-1980s"
Brittany Shields
Ph.D. Candidate, History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
"Mathematical Places: Funding Mathematics in Gö
ttingen and New York, 1923-1972"
Wayne Soon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
"Diaspora, Discipline, and Disease: Scientific Education, Military Medicine, and Public Health in China and Southeast Asia, 1880-1950"
Sarah Van Beurden
Assistant Professor of History, Department of African-American and African Studies, The Ohio State University
"Authentically Africa: African Arts and the Postcolonial Politics of Culture"
Rachel S. Vandagriff
Ph.D. Candidate, Music Department, University of California at Berkeley
"Sustaining the Arts: Private Foundation Funding of Contemporary American Music between the 1950s and 1980"
Angela Vergara
Associate Professor, History Department, California State University, Los Angeles, and Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program, California State University, Los Angeles
"The Modernization of Chilean Agriculture, 1930-1973"
Ben White
Professor of Rural Sociology, International Institute of Social Studies (a University Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, Netherlands)
"'Getting Agriculture Moving:' The Agricultural Development Council and the Agrarian Social Sciences in Asia, 1950-1980"
Rebecca Williams
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
"'The Khanna Study:' Population, Development and Family Planning in India, 1953-1969"
Cheng Zhen
Professor of Medical History, Department of Medical Humanity, Center for the History of Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China
"Anna D. Wolf: The First Director of the Nursing School at Peking Union Medical College"
2010 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant Awards
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