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The Rockefeller Archive Center received sixty-two applications for research grants for its 2010 program. Thirty-nine applicants were awarded Grants-in-Aid and two applicants were awarded Ehrlich Grants. These grants will reimburse travel-related expenses to conduct research in the Center's collections. The 2010 grant recipients, their institutions, and research topics follow.

GENERAL GRANTS-IN-AID

Jessica Allison
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Florida International University.
"Transnational Medicine: The International Health Commission and the Formation of Public Health Programs in Cuba, 1920-1940"

Marsha Barrett
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University.
"Rockefeller's New York, Rockefeller's Republicans: A Study of the Republican Party, 1958-1976"

Jill Briggs
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara.
"'Jamaica's Greatest Hope': Imperialism, Modernism, and the Making of the Jamaican National Body"

Julia Brock
Ph.D. Candidate, Public History Program, University of California, Santa Barbara.
"'Bully Times' in the Red Hills: Tourism, Race, and Labor in Southwest Georgia and North Florida, 1890-1960"

Diane Burnette
Associate Director, Online Services and Assessment, Georgia Board of Regents, University System of Georgia.
"Striving for Excellence: The Role of Summer Schools in the Continuing Education of African American Teachers in Clarendon County South Carolina, 1950-1960"

Renato Camurri
Associate Professor, Dipartimento Discipline Storiche, Artistiche, Geografiche e Archeologiche, University of Verona, Italy.
"The Exile of Italian Intellectuals to United States during the Interwar period, 1930-1945"

Clarissa Ceglio
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Civilization, Brown University.
"Uncle Sam's Strangest Recruit: The Wartime Work of U.S. Museums"

Nathan Crowe
Ph.D. Candidate, Program for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
"A 'Fantastical Experiment': A History of Cloning in Science and the Public Imagination from 1950-1980"

Nicola Foote
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, Florida Gulf Coast University.
"Racializing Modernity: Blackness, Indignity and Public Policy in Early Twentieth Century Ecuador"

Shawn Foster
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota.
"W.W. Peter, John B. Grant, Selskar Gunn, and Mass Public Health Education in China, 1911-1937"

Geoffrey Guy
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
"Public Planning through the Private Sphere: Rationalizing Land and Credit Institutions and Administration"

Elise Hagesfeld
Ph.D. Candidate, History and Social Policy; Project Manager, Foundations and Regions; Teaching Assistant, Case Western Reserve University.
"The Case of the Disappearing Orphanage: The Transformation of Child Welfare Institutions 1945-1974"

Floris Heukelom
Assistant Professor, History and Methodology of Economics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
"Eric Wanner and the Economics of Behavioral Economics"

Todd Holmes
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Yale University.
"The Swing of the Political Pendulum: American Politics and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965-1970"

Yu-ling Huang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton.
"The United States and Family Planning in Postwar East Asia: An International Network of Demographic Knowledge, Contraceptive Technologies, and Population Policy"

Miriam Intrator
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, City University of New York.
"Wartime Planning, Postwar Response: Rockefeller Foundation Contributions to Cultural and Intellectual Reconstruction in Europe, 1940-1950"

Kenneth Kasperski
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville.
"Noble Colonials: Americans and Filipinos, 1901-1940"

Shira Klein
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of History, New York University.
"Disrupted Lives: Italian, Jewish Migration and Relocation, 1939-1950"

Matt Kohlstedt
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, The George Washington University.
"Becoming American Orientalists: Social Scientists Define Middle Easterners, 1920-1953"

Ana Korndorfer
Ph.D. Candidate, Programa de Pós-Graduao em História, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS, Brazil.
"'Prophylaxia e assistencia ruraes:' Relations between the Rockefeller Foundation and Rio Grande do Sul State, 1919-1929"

Torsten Loschke
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Leipzig, International Ph.D. Study Program.
"Transnationalization and Regionalization from the 18th Century to the Present: The History of Latin American Studies in the United States, 1960-2000"

Lena McQuade
Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Sonoma State University.
"Infant Mortality and Reproductive Public Health in New Mexico, 1919-1940"

Cecelia Moore
Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"The Federal Theatre Project and the Carolina Playmakers: Staging a Multi-Ethnic America in the New Deal"

Maribel Morey
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), History Department, Princeton University.
"The Making of an American Dilemma: The Carnegie Corporation and the Negro, 1911-1942"

Leandro Ariel Morgenfeld
Professor of History, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Argentina and United States at the Inter-American System, 1945-1970"

Amy Offner
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University.
"Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980"

Adele Oltman
Independent Researcher.
"Separate and Unequal: The Human Costs of Privatizing New York City’s Public Hospitals"

Josie Rodberg
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.
"Human Rights, Women’s Rights, States’ Rights: The Struggle over Federal Family Planning Programs in the United States, 1965-1988"

Sabine Schleiermacher
Head, Department of Contemporary History of Medicine, Institute for the History of Medicine, Center for Humanities and Health Sciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
"The Rockefeller Foundation’s Efforts to Realign Public Health and Medical Training in Post-World War II Germany"

Alicia Schortgen Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Administration, College of Public Affairs and Community Service, The University of North Texas.
"Revisiting the Filer Commission: John D. Rockefeller 3rd’s Legacy"

Mark Schultz
Professor, History Department, Lewis University.
"The Politics of Education in Rural Jim Crow Georgia"

Judith Syga
Ph.D. Candidate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (EHESS), Paris, France and University of Bielefeld, Germany.
"Philanthropic American Foundations and German Social Sciences in the Inter-war Period"

Rosemary Wall
Research Associate, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, United Kingdom.
"The International Health Division’s Views on Nursing Practice, Policy and Education in British Malaya"

Evan Ward
Associate Professor, Department of History, Brigham Young University.
"Travel, Trade, and Treasures of Art: The Asian Evolution of John D. Rockefeller 3rd"

Kay Whitehead
Professor, School of Education, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
"The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, Women Educators and Transnational Knowledge Transfer in Early Childhood Education"

Bradley Wiles
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.
"Individuals, Institutions, and Communities: Historians, the Historical Discipline, and the Social Science Research Council"

Rebecca Williams
Ph.D., Candidate, Department of History, Warwick University, United Kingdom.
"Family Planning in India, c.1947-1994"

Sinclair Wynchank, MD
Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
"The Rockefeller Foundation and its Support of Radiobiology Up to the 1970s"

Izumi Yasue
Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Cultural Resource Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
"Supporting Area Studies and Beyond: Naomi Fukuda's Role in the Development of Libraries in Japan and the United States, 1940s-1970s"

SPECIAL GRANTS FOR RESEARCH IN THE PAUL EHRLICH COLLECTION

Amin T. Turki
MD/Ph.D. Candidate, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
"Paul Ehrlich's Social Networks and the Origins of Public-Private Partnerships in the Pharmaceutical Sector"

Florian Georg Mildenberger
Docent for History of Medicine, Institute for Cultural Research, Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
"Sexuality and Naturopathy: The Decisive Years of Salvarsan Discourses"


2009 Rockefeller Archive Center Grant Awards