Person: Sydnor Walker
Legitimizing the Social Sciences: The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in the 1920s
What began as a philanthropic fund to honor its namesake became an early force in the social sciences.
- 1910s
- 1920s
- Beardsley Ruml
- Capacity Building
- Child Health
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- Demonstration Campaigns
- Economics
- Education & Knowledge
- Fellowships
- Field-Building
- Financial Sustainability
- Funding Individuals
- Government & Public Policy
- Grant-Making
- Institution Building
- Intellectual Networks
- Interwar
- Knowledge Transfer
- Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
- Lawrence Frank
- Mass Communications and Media
- Mental Health
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Philanthropic Strategies
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Health Campaigns
- Raymond Fosdick
- Research Institutions
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Social Science Research Council
- Social Sciences
- Spelman Fund of New York
- Sydnor Walker
- Women's Health