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Robert Gioielli Awarded Grant by Rockefeller Archive Center

26.05.2014

RCC alumnus Robert Gioielli has been awarded a grant by the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He is pursuing research for a new project entitled "To Save the World's Wildlife: International Conservation in Postwar America". The Rockefeller Archive Center contains the records of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, both of which provided significant financial support for wildlife conservation in the decades after World War II.

Gioielli is also exploring the foundations' general involvement in environmental activism and reform in the United States and globally during this period.

Robert Gioielli is a historian of modern America with a specific interest in how the perception and experience of the urban environment has shaped social movements, politics, and policy. For a flavor of his work, please visit our blog and read his piece about the need to expand the definition of environmentalism.