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Revisions In Red, Laura Browder
Revisions In Red, Laura Browder
English Faculty Publications
In this article the author reflects on her experience of researching the history of her grandfather Earl Browder, a former leader in the U.S. Communist Party, and exploring his significance both in historical and personal terms. She comments on her research regarding his status as a spy of the Soviet Union, share her views on her father's reluctance to discuss his past, and notes Browder's campaigns for President of the U.S. in the 1930s.
Foundation In The Field: The Ford Foundation New Delhi Office And The Construction Of Development Knowledge, 1951-1970, Nicole Sackley
Foundation In The Field: The Ford Foundation New Delhi Office And The Construction Of Development Knowledge, 1951-1970, Nicole Sackley
History Faculty Publications
In recent years, historians have uncovered a good deal about the domestic production and circulation of development knowledge between US philanthropies and US universities. They have begun to trace as well the role of US foundations in the formation of transnational epistemic communities of experts that cohered around, and defined, developments such as population control, food production and economic planning initiatives.3 The voice of the foundation in these histories nevertheless remains largely that of the foundation presidents and senior officers in New York. This article, however, intends to shift our perspectives on the foundations and the construction of development …