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Lee Hiltzik

Senior Research Associate, Rockefeller Archive Center

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New Research: Prison Plastic Surgery, Indian Fellowships, Thai Nursing Program, and Nam June Paik

The latest RAC New Research series highlights reports from archival research by stipend recipients, covering diverse subjects from prison plastic surgery policies in the Civil Rights era to Indian art fellowship impacts and the roots of Thai nursing education. It includes discussions on the effects of patronage on video art and Thai-Filipino-American healthcare interactions, revealing the historical role of Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in enabling progressive social and cultural studies.

New Research: Nixon’s Latin American Policy, Failed Yellow Fever Eradication, Mexican Fellows, and Nigerian Public Health

Our New Research series offers readers a venue to take a peek at recent archival research at RAC. It presents newly published reports submitted by RAC travel stipends recipients who have pursued their studies using our collections. In this edition of our series, the researchers’ reports showcase how our collections document events and people’s lives…

New Research: Eurasian Institute, Disney Film on Family Planning, Social Psychology, and Sardinian Development

Our New Research series on RE:source offers readers a venue to take a peek at recent archival research at the Rockefeller Archive Center. It presents newly published reports submitted by RAC travel stipends recipients who have pursued their studies using our collections. In this edition, the researchers’ reports showcase a wide range of collections that…

New Research: Modern Medicine in Seoul, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller and Asian Art, Burma Magazine Supplement, Agricultural Missionary Work

This edition features reports exploring the records of the China Medical Board, the Asian Cultural Council, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and several individuals.

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New Research: Admissions Testing, Experimental Cinema, “Creative Capitalism,” and UN Civil Religion

Reports in this round-up draw on materials from Rockefeller family archives, the American International Association for Economic and Social Development, and the Ford Foundation.

New Research: Taiwan Medical Fellowships, Support for a Chilean University, Peru Earthquake Response, and Pharmacology in China

Four new RAC Research Reports cite from the personal papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller, as well as from records of the China Medical Board, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

New Research: Neuroscience Funding, Colorado Coal Strike, Population Control Debate, and the Politics of Crime

The reports featured in this installment draw on several personal papers as well as the archival collections of the Commonwealth Fund, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others.

New Research: Bat Echolocation, Women’s Reproductive Rights, Tropical Medicine, and Blanchette Rockefeller

In our New Research series, we highlight recently published reports written by researchers who have received RAC travel stipends to pursue their studies in our archival collections.  In this edition of the series, the authors have studied materials in a number of collections of personal papers.  They include the papers of Donald R. Griffin, Joan…

New Research: International Friendship, Museum Director Grace Morley, Cold War West Berlin, and School Finance Reform

In this edition of the series, the authors have used the papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller 3rd, the records of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation, and the Taconic Foundation, as well as archival materials from the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller. 

New Research: Life Magazine, US-China Relations, Music Patronage, and Hungarian Refugees

In this edition of the series, the authors have used the papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the records of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as archival materials from the Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller.