Rockefeller Archive Research Articles

A modernização da educação médica no Brasil: o financiamento da Fundação Rockefeller e a Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto em um contexto de desenvolvimento (1951-1964)

Objective/Context: This article discusses the modernization of medical education in Brazil between 1951 and 1964, following the creation of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP, for its initials in Portuguese) at the University of São Paulo (USP). The analysis emphasizes the tensions in the rapprochement between Zeferino Faz, the founding director of fmrp, considered a communist, and the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), an international philanthropic agency, for the development of basic sciences such as biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology. Methodology: The documents used in the study were collected at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York and the Historical Museum at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School and analyzed using the evidential paradigm proposed by Carlo Ginzburg. The evidential paradigm pays close attention to small details in the document, considered “signs” of processes that are not very explicit. Originality: The original contribution of this text consists of a better understanding of the strategies used by the rf to finance the fmrp, which differed in many moments from its institutional norms and the anti-communist orientation of the North American government. This finding contrasts with an entire contemporary bibliography that reiterates the persecution of these individuals. Conclusions: The study reveals the contradictions in the trajectory of Zeferino Vaz and the actions of the rf in search of the desired modernization of medical education in Latin America.

The vestibular system: Contributions of Lorente de Nó.

Rafael Lorente de Nó was a neuroscientist that worked alongside two of the giants of Medicine, the Nobel Prize winners Cajal and Bárány. To describe the contributions of Lorente de Nó to vestibular neuroscience. Detailed review of the publications of Lorente de Nó and analysis of the archives from Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas at Residencia de Estudiantes (Madrid, Spain), Casa de Salud Valdecilla at Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander, Spain), Becker Medical Library at Washington University (St. Louis, MO, USA), Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, New York, NY, USA), Archivo Fernando de Castro (Madrid, Spain), Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid, Spain) and Legado Cajal at Instituto Cajal (Madrid, Spain). Most of this material is unpublished and includes over a hundred letters to or from Lorente. Lorente de Nó made a substantial contribution to our understanding of the vestibular system. Amongst these, he meticulously detailed the course of the vestibular nerve and its central projections. He described the vestibulo-ocular reflex as the consequence of an integration of the various nuclei and connections across the vestibular system, rather than a simple three-neuron arc. He also highlighted the role of the reticular formation in the generation of the fast phase of the nystagmus. Lorente de Nó was a pioneer of modern neuro-otology, having made outstanding contributions to vestibular neuroscience, forging novel discoveries that still burn true today.

A geopolitics of mud construction: Self-help and the CINVA-Ram machine in Ghana and South Vietnam during the Cold War

In 1951, the Organization of American States established the Centro Interamericano de Vivienda y Planeamiento (CINVA) to provide specialized training to tackle the housing problem. Based on archival documentation examined at the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Central and Historical Archive of the National University of Colombia, this article explores two significant episodes in which the story of one of the Center's most successful outputs connects to the history of the Cold War. It thus contributes to the literature investigating the architecture and related technologies of development aid in the historical context of the Cold War with a precise focus on the role of non-governmental actors. After detailing the history of the CINVA-Ram machine, the pressing machine to produce rammed-earth blocks developed at the Center and later exported to America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the article explores its deployment in two different fronts of the Cold War: Ghana and South Vietnam. As highlighted in the conclusions, the significance of CINVA-Ram use in these contexts is manyfold. Firstly, its diffusion, although appearing as a successful case of south-to-south cooperation, was in fact possible because of the Rockefeller family-controlled IBEC's involvement. Secondly, it shows the global outreach of the intertwined action of governmental agencies, private companies, and NGOs, when fighting poverty and housing shortage via aided self-help initiatives were complementary strategies to the armed containment of Communism. Finally, it discusses the role played by US governmental and non-governmental actors in advancing US interests through technoscience, highlighting how the battle against poverty in the so-called “Third World” was in this case fought with one of the oldest and simplest construction techniques in the ideological framework of self-help.

Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek

Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek Keith Hatschek. The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 298 pages. Pierangelo Castagneto Pierangelo Castagneto American University in Bulgaria Pierangelo Castagneto taught American History at the American University in Bulgaria. He has been an F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, a Fulbright Scholar, and has worked at the Rockefeller Archive Center and at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Among his publications: L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (2007); Old and New Republics: The Diplomatic Relations Between the Republic of Genoa and the US (2010); Hostilities against Malaria. The Rockefeller Foundation in Bulgaria (2013); Ambassador Dizzy: Jazz Diplomacy in the Cold War Era (2014). He is the editor of Frederick Douglass, L’età delle immagini (2020). Email: pcastagneto60@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: pcastagneto60@gmail.com Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Pierangelo Castagneto; Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In an oft-quoted Life magazine editorial published in February 1941, founder Henry R. Luce famously predicted the coming of the American Century while pressuring the United States to enter World War II in order to forsake the virus of isolationism and defend freedom and democracy from tyranny. He invited his country to envision a postwar future by embracing the logic of internationalism and being “the Good Samaritan of the entire world.” In order to transform the 20th century into the American Century, the United States could have surely relied upon its economic and military power. But according to Luce, the U.S. was already a world power without knowing it: “American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products, are in fact the only things that every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognizes in common.”1 A few years later, at the height of the... You do not currently have access to this content.

Contributors’ Notes

Other| June 01 2023 Contributors’ Notes Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 130–131. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Contributors’ Notes. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 130–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.130 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Pierangelo Castagneto taught American History at the American University in Bulgaria. He has been an F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, a Fulbright Scholar, and has worked at the Rockefeller Archive Center and at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Among his publications: L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (2007); Old and New Republics: The Diplomatic Relations Between the Republic of Genoa and the US (2010); Hostilities against Malaria. The Rockefeller Foundation in Bulgaria (2013); Ambassador Dizzy: Jazz Diplomacy in the Cold War Era (2014). He is the editor of Frederick Douglass, L’età delle immagini (2020). Joshua Chambers-Letson is a professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book... You do not currently have access to this content.

Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk

Reviewed by: Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 by John A. Kirk Kenneth J. Bindas Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956. By John A. Kirk. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 267. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-68226-221-4; cloth, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-68226-195-8.) John A. Kirk’s detailed biography of Winthrop Rockefeller, the fifth child and fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller, sets out to document this future Arkansas governor’s attempts to define himself within one of the richest families in the United States. Unfortunately for Winthrop, he constantly “proved unsuccessful at meeting his father’s expectations” (p. 23). The story reminded me of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, with the power of the patriarch, the competition between the sons—John III, Nelson, Laurance, and Winthrop—and even the detachment of the oldest Rockefeller daughter, Abigail (Babs). Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956 recounts the relationship between family control, power, identity, and of course, money. Winthrop proved a disappointment in a variety of ways during his formative years and early adulthood. As an adolescent, he was teased by his older brothers for being overweight and for his lack of scholastic achievement. He struggled in school—probably due to undiagnosed dyslexia—and had to work through summers with special tutors to graduate high school and meet the entrance requirements for Yale University. At Yale low scores and an active social life plagued his academic career, and he was the only Rockefeller son to not graduate with a college degree. Unsure of what to do next, his father arranged for him to learn the oil business from the ground up, and here young Winthrop began to thrive. For the next several years he worked in the oil fields of Texas and Louisiana, rising from general laborer, to roughneck, to salesman, and finally ending up in the family boardroom. He excelled in positions where he worked with his hands. Yet, when Winthrop entered the family business in the late 1930s, “he struggled to find focus, direction, and purpose” (p. 83). What was perhaps Winthrop’s greatest success also began as a disappointment. As the country veered toward war, his brothers, heeding their father’s advice, took on administrative roles within the government to do their part. But Winthrop volunteered as a private in early 1941 and saw battle throughout the Pacific theater, barely surviving a kamikaze attack, winning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, and eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Yet his parents continued to interfere. In 1943 his father terminated his association with the family business, and later, when Winthrop made plans to become a “Petroleum Attaché in London,” his parents “concluded that the position was too much responsibility” and severed the deal (p. 140). Even when Winthrop discovered that he had earned enough points of service to qualify for a return to the United States in the summer of 1945, his father advised that he should stay in the army. Winthrop eventually returned to the United States while recovering from hepatitis. After a short stint lobbying for better veterans’ benefits, he began a long-term relationship with the National Urban League, and worked with the Rockefeller family’s Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc., and the International Basic Economy Corporation. He even married, something that both his parents had long lobbied for. However, his marriage to the actress Barbara Paul [End Page 378] Sears proved disappointing. Soon after the 1948 birth of his only child, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, the couple separated, spending the next four years in a public divorce battle. By the time that marriage ended, Winthrop had moved to Arkansas, remarried, and started to establish his own identity as the “Hillbilly Rockefeller,” a title given him by the Saturday Evening Post in 1956 (p. 191). In 1966 he became the first Republican governor elected in Arkansas during the twentieth century, and he won reelection in 1968. Kirk has written a very detailed account using the Rockefeller Archive Center, which he mined during his time as scholar-in-residence there in 2009...

아시아 냉전학술의 자장과 1970∼80년대 한일 지식인 교류

In the late 1970s, The Asiatic Research Center (ARC) and The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) launched the Korea-Japan Intellectual Exchange (KJIE). The KJIE aimed to promote genuine reconciliation between Japan and Korea, and emphasized cooperation between the two countries by highlighting security and economic agendas. To fully understand the significance of the KJIE, it is important to note three things: First, the ARC and the JCIE were established under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation, respectively, and the KJIE also received significant financial support from these private foundations. Second, the participants of the KJIE were mostly U.S. PhDs and communicated in English papers that applied U.S. social science theories and methodologies. Third, the KJIE was modeled after the U.S.-Japan Intellectual Exchange (“Shimoda conference”). The Shimoda conference was based on the idea that the United States and Japan, who had met as enemies in World War II, would put aside their enmity for the sake of security and economic interests to create a relationship of friendship and goodwill. KJIE applied the idea of the Shimoda conference to the relationship between Korea and Japan. KJIE discussed ways to avoid industrial competition between Korea and Japan and to strengthen Japan’s role against the threat of North Korea. The KJIE was influenced by U.S. interests in strengthening Japan's role in the declining U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. However, for this initiative to succeed, Japanese self-controls and changes were essential. Some of the Korean intellectuals who participated in the KJIE were distrustful and did not recognize Japan as a model-state to emulate. Intellectual exchange between Japan and Korea was fraught with discord. This article uses materials from the Rockefeller Archive Center to reveal these facts.

Limits of the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship funding: Maria Palmira Macedo Tito de Morais and international nursing, 1936-1966.

The article analyses Maria Palmira Macedo Tito de Morais' international nursing education as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, during the Portuguese Estado Novo. It studies the local contexts influence on the international philanthropic agency's actions, culminating in disputes with World Health Organization over the Portuguese nurse as staff. The sources are two dossiers on Maria Tito de Morais and her two fellowship cards collected at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a report of the Directorate-General of Health of Portugal and the journal A Tribuna, consulted at the Brazilian Digital Library. In conclusion, the Rockefeller Foundation's strategies, when funding Maria Tito de Morais' education aiming to hire her did not guarantee control over her professional trajectory.

Os limites do financiamento de bolsistas da Fundação Rockefeller: Maria Palmira Macedo Tito de Morais e a enfermagem internacional, 1936-1966

Abstract The article analyses Maria Palmira Macedo Tito de Morais’ international nursing education as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow, during the Portuguese Estado Novo. It studies the local contexts influence on the international philanthropic agency’s actions, culminating in disputes with World Health Organization over the Portuguese nurse as staff. The sources are two dossiers on Maria Tito de Morais and her two fellowship cards collected at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a report of the Directorate-General of Health of Portugal and the journal A Tribuna, consulted at the Brazilian Digital Library. In conclusion, the Rockefeller Foundation’s strategies, when funding Maria Tito de Morais’ education aiming to hire her did not guarantee control over her professional trajectory.

Rockefeller Foundation and medical research in Korea and Taiwan under Japanese rule

Much historical information is yet to be uncovered, such as how knowledge was formed in certain parts of the world, including in Japan and Korea. Professor Toshihiko Matsuda, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan, is investigating, in a global context, the body of knowledge formed in Japan, and it's outer influence, including on Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria in the modern era and on public health study and education. This needs to be clarified as, in Japan, there is a tendency to believe that Korea's knowledge and high-level education system came about from its colonial era, but South Korean researchers don't believe this to be the case. One line of investigation for Matsuda concerns a famous bacteriologist in prewar Japan called Kiyoshi Shiga who spent his last decade as a researcher in colonial Korea. Through this research, Matsuda is seeking to understand the position occupied by colonial Korea in the course of global medical history. He is using historical records to establish an understanding of how the history of public health as an academic discipline was introduced into colonial Korea, including using the documents of the Rockefeller Archives Center to decipher Shiga's role in introducing public health into Korea. In the process, Matsuda is filling gaps regarding how knowledge was imparted, pooled and shared between Japan and South Korea and emphasising that the information shaped in colonial Korea is closely connected to Western knowledge.

O CURSO DA EPIDEMIA: a Fundação Rockefeller e os surtos de febre amarela na Bahia em 1926

Este texto tem como objetivo analisar ações de controle da febre amarela na Bahia, especialmente durante o surto de 1926, que contribuiu para questionar a eficácia da teoria dos “focos-chave”, defendida pela Fundação Rockefeller. Membros da agência filantrópica internacional e médicos baianos atuaram para tentar encontrar o centro difusor da epidemia. Utilizam-se como fontes relatórios, correspondências e fotografias coletados no Rockefeller Archive Center, um relatório do Serviço de Profilaxia Rural da Febre Amarela, artigos escritos por médicos em periódicos especializados e notícias publicadas em jornais da época. Inquéritos epidemiológicos e clínicos foram instaurados, enquanto a doença se proliferava ao longo da linha do trem, que atravessava o estado. Palavras-chave: Febre Amarela. Teoria Dos Focos-Chave. Saúde Internacional.

What Do You Mean It's Not There? Doing Null History

What happens when a researcher arrives at an archives, only to find that the materials requested are not in the repository? This article argues that when applying Eliot Eisner's concept of the null curriculum (what is missing is just as important as what is present), the absence of materials is just as significant to a researcher as the contents of present materials. To accomplish this, it uses a case from a larger study of General Education Board (GEB) funding in the US West comparing the holdings of the Rockefeller Archive with those in the state of Texas. Ultimately, archivists and researchers should do null history to recognize that rather than setting limitations on the project, a lack of evidence instead can be used to expand the project by applying the principles of the null curriculum. This article is not intended to be an interrogation of the archives themselves, but another lens through which the researcher can view (and an archivist can prompt) both the holdings and lack of holdings. The article is not meant to argue the semantics around the absence of the phrase “null curriculum” from the fields of history or archives; instead, it is meant to open the door to conversations about silences and the power of the archive.

The Origins of Systemic Reform in American Higher Education, 1895–1920

Background/ContextThe traditional literature on the history of higher education in the United States focuses on linear explanations of the inexorable growth of the size, mission, and importance of colleges and universities. That approach ignores or minimizes a recurrent strain of discontent with the higher education sector, especially from policy elites.Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of StudyThis article examines the century-old origins of a continuing reform impulse in higher education. It identifies the reforms in question as “systemic,” both because they extended beyond the workings of individual colleges and universities and because they had at their heart the dream of systemization, linking and coordinating policy at groupings of institutions at the state, regional, or national level. The narrative focuses on the establishment, operations, and ideology of two early philanthropic foundations designed to spur systemic reform in the higher education sector: the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the General Education Board.Research DesignThis article relies on historical analysis informed by organizational theory.Data Collection and AnalysisThe data for this article come from new archival research, mostly conducted at the Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY), Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Washington, DC), and Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library (New York, NY).Conclusions/RecommendationsThis article identifies an ideologically consistent, interlocked cohort of reformers whom the author calls “the academic engineers.” These individuals, associated with elite universities and philanthropic foundations, articulated a vision of higher education reform based on increasing the efficiency and utility of institutions and linking them together in a hierarchical system. The author identifies four key features of this vision and describes the academic engineers’ efforts to enact them. The reformers had some successes but failed to realize their overarching goals; in the article's conclusion, the author examines the historical context and organizational theory as partial explanations for this shortfall.

Voila!: The Rockefeller Archive Center's Exhibit Creation Process

The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) in Sleepy Hollow, New York, hosts groups ranging from foundation staff to college-level classes. Over the course of a year, the RAC hosts approximately 30 visiting groups that include from as few as 10 people to as many as 45. The aim is to engage visiting groups with the RAC's vast collections by creating hands-on, tailored exhibits. The RAC has created policies and procedures, exhibit guides, and workflow templates that allow for documentation of each exhibit and encourage inclusiveness and transparency among staff. Employing a new, standardized approach by using these tools has made all phases of the exhibit process more efficient and allows the RAC to provide a rich, immersive archival experience for visitors. This article offers a case study in standardized exhibit creation that may benefit professionals in other institutions who are seeking to develop work processes and policies without diminishing the visitor experience.

Marginalizing Maclaurin: The Attempt to Develop an Economics of Technological Progress at Mit, 1940–50

This article traces the attempts of W. Rupert Maclaurin to improve the research profile of economics at MIT through establishing a research project on the economics of innovation, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The project is important because it marks a significant stage in the transition of economics at MIT from being a department focused exclusively on providing courses for engineers and scientists to one that was to become a major location for research in economics. Through examination of papers held in the Rockefeller archives it documents the difficulties Maclaurin encountered and the failure of the project to draw on the resources of MIT's scientists and engineers in the way he and Rockefeller officials had hoped and reflects on his marginalization in a department increasingly dominated by Paul Samuelson. Maclaurin's interdisciplinary approach to research fell out of favor, and the research profile of the MIT economics department became increasingly monodisciplinary.

Creating a More Diverse Midwifery Workforce in the United States: A Historical Reflection.

As nurse-midwifery practice expanded beyond areas surrounding early nurse-midwifery education programs, leaders in the profession wanted to establish a strong diverse, inclusive professional organization, a necessary step in creating a diverse workforce (defined here as open to nurse-midwives of all colors, ethnicities, and national origins) that would maintain standards, provide continuing education, and facilitate communication among nurse-midwives. This research presents historical context and organizational factors supporting and limiting development of a workforce reflective of communities served by nurse-midwives. Searches in the National Library of Medicine Historical Collection, American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Collections, and the Rockefeller Archives Center, as well as recorded interview data, provided primary sources for analysis. Secondary sources include research and opinions in scholarly publications including journals and books released from 1930 to the present. Nurse-midwifery leaders developed relationships with well-respected philanthropists, as well as maternal and child health administrators in state departments of health and the US Children's Bureau, to implement initiatives to recruit and retain midwives of color. Continued interest in the goal of inclusion, work of midwives of color, and commitment to creating a diverse workforce led to the creation of the standing ACNM Midwives of Color Committee in 1990 and the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, which released its report, "Shifting the Frame: A Report on Diversity and Inclusion in the American College of Nurse-Midwives,"1 in June 2015. Over the past 60 years, ACNM leadership and midwives of color have continued to explore new and effective means to create a workforce that reflects the communities in which nurse-midwives practice.

Walther Riese (1890–1976)

Walther Riese (1890–1976)

CHRISTIAN FLECK. A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research.

Behind this somewhat mystifying title lies a thoroughly researched study of the ways in which American foundations (notably the Rockefeller Foundation) promoted and supported the development of “empirical” social sciences in twentieth-century Europe. Christian Fleck has not only used contemporary statistical methods but has done exhaustive research in historical archives and records (including the “paradise” of the Rockefeller archive) to lay out what comes close to a collective biography of some 800 German-speaking “sociologists” (a category broad enough to include some persons also known in other social science disciplines) who benefited from financial and professional backing by American philanthropy from the 1920s through the 1950s. Some were sustained while working in Europe, but many joined the forced exodus to America and other lands (e.g., from Germany after 1933 and from Austria in 1938). In the process, Fleck argues, the Europeans' focus, methods, and frames of scholarly reference became markedly influenced by American approaches to the social sciences, including adequate external funding, empirical methods, scholarly teamwork, a limited time-frame for projects, and the expansion of the relevant professional disciplines themselves.

Steven Palmer, Lauching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, Conversations in Medicine and Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), pp. xi + 301, $70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-07089-3.

Steven Palmer, Lauching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation, Conversations in Medicine and Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), pp. xi + 301, $70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-472-07089-3. - Volume 55 Issue 3

Controlling the Environment: The Australian Phytotron, the Colombo Plan, and Postcolonial Science

David P.D. Munns earned his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2003 working on a soon to be book entitled The Radio Astronomers: the history of an international scientific community. Currently an Assistant Professor at John Jay College in New York, he remains focused on issues of trans-national and interdisciplinary knowledge systems and technologies in recent history. Department of History, John Jay College, CUNY. 445 W.59th St. New York, NY. 10019. E-mail: dmunns@ jjay.cuny.edu. This work was partly supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Archives Center, North Tarrytown, NY. He would like to express his gratitude to Andrew Warwick, Abigail Woods, Nicolas Rasmussen, and Sharon Kingsland for their ideas about this project, as well as to various anonymous referees. Particular thanks to Angela Creager and Gregory Barton for their insightful readings and comments. The following abbreviations are used CIT: California Institute of Technology; CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; NAA: National Archives of Australia; NLA: National Library of Australia; RAC: Rockefeller Archives Center.