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Charles Warren Center names grant recipients

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Lizabeth Cohen, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, recently announced the names of undergraduate and graduate students awarded grants for the current academic year. Established in 1965, the Warren Center aims to further the study of American history at Harvard and to share the University’s rich historical resources with scholars from the United States and around the world. Grants for Harvard students have been an important part of the center’s program since 1971.

The Warren Center’s grants program includes support for the thesis research of rising seniors in the College, and three different opportunities for graduate students (grants to support summer research, term-time research, and dissertation completion). The grants are open to students from all departments and programs offering instruction in American history. The only stipulations are that the supported projects’ methodology be primarily historical and that graduate recipients be enrolled in a Ph.D. program.

Undergraduate thesis research grants have been awarded to the following Harvard College seniors:

Janine Mandel (history): “‘Remember the Wonder’: Wonder Bread and American Society, 1920-2006”

Steven Strott (history and literature): “On a Hill in the City: Park Street Church’s Calvinist Orthodoxy in the Heart of Boston”

Benjamin Zimmer (history): “Oil, Power, and the National Interest: Nixon’s Grand Strategy for the Middle East”

Graduate research grants (summer) have been awarded to the following students:

Lauren Brandt (American civilization): “‘Learning to Live Together’: Power, Politics and Visions of Community in Boston’s South End, 1890-1930”

David Brighouse (African and African-American studies): “‘No Scholar Without the Heroic Mind’: Civil Rights and Scholar-Activism in Post-World War II America, 1935-1975”

Michael Cohen (history): “Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War”

Scott Gelber (American civilization): “Plain Talks on Plain Subjects: Academic Populism and Public Higher Education, 1870-1900”

Katja Gunther (history of science): “The Transformation of the Body Schema Concept in Early 20th-century German and American Psychology”

Philip Loring (history of science): “‘These New Prism, Pendulum, and Chronograph Philosophers’: A Material Culture History of the William James Laboratory”

Noam Maggor (American civilization): “The Unmaking of Boston’s ‘Old’ Middle Class: De-industrialization and the Politics of Disengagement, 1865-1918”

Philip Mead (history): “Joseph Plumb Martin and the Creation of the Continental Soldier in History and Memory”

Mara Mills (history of science): “The Dead Room: Deafness and Modern Communication Technologies”

Elizabeth More (history): “Working Choices: Feminists, Working Women, and the Debate over Work and Family”

Nora Morrison (American civilization): “‘I Put a Spell on You’: A Cultural History of the Rise of Rhythm and Blues Music, 1945 to 1960”

Aziz Rana (government): “Empire and Utopia in American Political Identity”

Katherine Rieder (American civilization): “‘The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind’: American Loyalists and the Meaning of Things, 1765-1800”

Daniel Sargent (history): “From Internationalism to Globalism: The United States and the Transformation of International Politics, 1965-1980”

Yael Schacher (American civilization): “Refugees and the Changing Meaning of Refuge in America in the 20th Century”

Josef Sorett (African and African-American studies): “Spirit Soundings: Religion, Race and the Arts in 20th-Century America”

Zoe Trodd (American civilization): “Never the New World: American Protest Movements and the Politics of Historical Memory”

Benjamin Waterhouse (history): “Corporate Leaders and the Pro-Business Agenda in Modern Politics”

Christine Wenc (history of science): “Dying, Death and Technology in the Postwar United States: Consumption and Paradox”

Ann Marie Wilson (history): “The Politics of Family in Law in Massachusetts, 1865-1910”

Graduate research grants (term-time, one semester in duration) have been given to the following students:

Scott Gelber (American civilization): “Plain Talks on Plain Subjects: Academic Populism and Public Higher Education, 1870-1900”

Ben Waterhouse (history): “Corporate Leaders and the Pro-Business Agenda in Modern Politics”

Graduate dissertation completion grants have been awarded to the following students:

Louis Hyman (history): “Debt Practices and the Making of Postwar America”

Deborah Levine (history of science): “Managing American Bodies: Diet, Nutrition, and Obesity in the United States, 1840-1920”

Margot Minardi (history): “Making Slavery History: Memory and Aspiration in Early National Massachusetts”