2010 Hartman Center Travel Grants Awarded

The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Hartman Center Travel Grants. These grants allow scholars to travel to Durham to conduct research using the Hartman Center’s collections.

JWT Fellows:

• Ferdinando Fasce: Department of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Genoa
  “JWT Italy between Reconstruction and the First Oil Shock, from the late 1940s through the 1970s”

• Eva von Wyl: Social and Economic History, University of Zurich
  “Rationalization, Self-Service and American Way of Life: American Eating Habits in Postwar Switzerland (1950-1970)”

Faculty Recipients:

• Shannan Clark: Department of History, Montclair State University
  “The Creative Class: White-Collar Workers and the Making of America’s Culture of Consumer Capitalism”

• Liza Featherstone: Journalism School, New York University; School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  “Behind The Mirror: Focus Groups and What They Reveal, 1930s to present”

• Michelle Ferranti: Division of Fine and Performing Arts, Marymont Manhattan College
  “History of Women’s Motivations for Douching following the Medicalization of Birth Control in the U.S.”

• Ann McDonald: Department of Art Design, Northeastern University
  “The Role of Publically Displayed Information Visualization in Eliciting Individual and Communal Action”

• Ari Martin Samsky: Global Health Studies Program, University of Iowa
  “Working Through Responsibility: Advertising, Medicine and The Social Good, World War II-the Present"

Student Recipients:

• Abby Bartholomew: College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Advertising Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  “JWT’s Application of Psychological Principles to Advertising, the Work of John B. Watson and his Behaviorist Theories”

• Rebecca Burditt: Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Department of Art and Art History, University of Rochester
  “Seeing Difference: Postwar Hollywood and the Commercial Delay”

• Berti Kolbow: Institute for Economic and Social History, Georgia Augusta University Goettingen
  “Transatlantic Transfers of Marketing Concepts between Eastman Kodak and Agfa, 1880-1945”

• Shawn Moura: Department of History, University of Maryland
  “Target Market Brazil: Postwar Advertising and Consumer Culture in the Country of the Future”

• Cory Pillen: Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  “WPA Posters: A New Deal for Design, 1936-1943”

• Elizabeth Spies: Department of English, University of California, Riverside
  “Advertising Stigmatas: The Evolution of Poetic Advertising throughout the Twentieth Century, 1890-1980”

Watch The Devil's Tale for news about upcoming discussions with several of the travel grant recipients from the Hartman, Bingham, and Franklin Research Centers.