Past Recipients of Clarke Chambers Travel Fellowships
The following persons received financial support to conduct research for their dissertations in the Social Welfare History Archives and/or the Kautz Family YMCA Archives at the University of Minnesota. Abstracts for completed dissertations are provided with permission of Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI).
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1992
- Knapp, Gretchen. SUNY – Buffalo
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"Home front maneuvers: Civilian mobilization and social problem-solving in western New York during world war II" (abstract)
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1993
- Lupkin, Paula. University of Pennsylvania
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"YMCA architecture: Building character in the American city, 1869-1930" (abstract)
- Wall, Wendy. Stanford University
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"The idea of America: Democracy and the dilemmas of difference, 1935-1965" (abstract)
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1994
- Fure-Slocum, Eric. University of Iowa
- "The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-1952" (abstract)
- McBee, Randy. University of Missouri
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"Struggling, petting, muzzling, mushing, loving, fondling, feeling or whatever you wish to call it': A social history of working-class heterosexuality in the United States, 1890s-1930s" (abstract)
- Siebel, Julia. University of Southern California
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"Silent partners/active leaders: The Association of Junior Leagues, the Office of Civilian Defense, and community welfare in World War II" (abstract)
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1995
- Derrow, Cindy. New York University
- [The relationship between female social workers and their female clients after World War II]
- Meyerson, Jessica. Princeton University
- Angry young men: juvenile delinquency, Gang warfare, and social reform in New York City, 1950-1961
- Raynor, Gregory. New York University
- "Engineering and social reform: The rise of the Ford Foundation and Cold War Liberalism, 1908-1959" (abstract)
1996
- Coventry, Michael. Georgetown University
- [YMCA and definitions of manliness during World War I]
- Mieras, Emily. College of William & Mary
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"’A more perfect sympathy': College students and social service, 1889-1914" (abstract)
- Shoemaker, Linda. SUNY Binghampton
- “Charity and justice. Gender and the mission of social work: Social work education in Boston, New York and Chicago, 1898—1930” (abstract)
1997
- Balcom, Karen. Rutgers University
- "‘The Traffic In Babies’: Cross-Border Adoption, Baby-Selling, and the Development of Child Welfare Systems in the United States and Canada, 1920-1960" (abstract)
- Kline, Wendy. University of California Santa Cruz
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"'Building a better race': Eugenics and the making of modern morality in America, 1900-1960" (abstract)
- Mittelstadt, Jennifer. University of Michigan
- “The dilemmas of the liberal welfare state, 1945--1964: Gender, race, and Aid to Dependent Children” (abstract)
1998
- Castles, Katherine. Duke University
- "From Eugenic Menace to Poster Children: [Families with Handicapped Children in the 1940s and 1950s]"
- Raney, David. University of Illinois
- “In the Lord's army: The United States Christian Commission in the Civil War” (abstract)
- Ruden, Janis. City University of New York
- "Creating Families: The Idea of Adoption in Postwar America"
- Sullivan, Michael Ann. University of New Mexico
- "Healing Bodies and Saving the Race: Women, Public Health, Eugenics, and Sexuality, 1920-1945"
1999
- Morris, Andrew. University of Virginia
- “Charity, therapy and poverty: Private social service in the era of public welfare” (abstract)
- Smith, Michael. University of Indiana
- "Young Minds and Nature: Children and Outdoor Education in Twentieth Century America"
- Winter, Thomas. University of Cincinnati
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"‘A Wise Investment in Growing Manhood’: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1872-1920" (abstract)
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2001
- Caldwell, Nicola. University of Lancaster
- "The American Uncerclass in History, Politics, and Social Science"
- Chappell, Marissa. Northwestern University
- "Welfare Rights to Welfare Reform: The Politics of AFDC, 1964-1982"
- Gold, Jennifer. University of California-Berkeley
- "Color and conscience: Student internationalism in the United States and the challenges of race and nationality, 1886-1965" (abstract)
- Zubalik, Janis. Corcordia University (Quebec)
- "Architectural and Social History of Montreal YMCA"
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2002
- Browder, Dorothea. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "Working Women and Race in the YWCA"
- Celello, Kristin. University of Virginia
- "Professionalization of Marriage Counseling, 1929-1980"
- Ferentinos, Susan. Indina University
- "Sex, Consumption, and the Emergence of the American Teenager, 1910-1950"
- Furong, Zuo. Chinese University of Hong Kong
- "The Peking YMCA and the Urban Social Reform, 1909-1949"
- Kluchin, Rebecca. Carnegie Mellon University
- "Sterilization and the Reproductive Rights, 1964-1984"
- Wirka, Susan. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "Gender and the Politics of Housing Reform"
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2003
- Bruce, Amanda. State University of New York, Stony Brook
- "The Debate on Children's Radio and Television Programming, 1930-1955"
- Botein, Hillary. Columbia University
- "Unions and Housing in Postwar New York City"