Previous Fellowship Recipients

1992 Kathleen Babbitt

"Social Reform in the Countryside: Rural Women and Cooperative Extension Home Economists in New York State, 1870-1940"

1992 Julia Grant

"Modernizing Motherhood: Child Study Clubs and the Parent Education Movement, 1915-1940"

1993 Nancy Berlage

"Professions and Agricultural Change: Home Economists and Home Demonstration Work in Rural New York, 1910-1930"

1993 Mary Summers

"Rethinking Interest Group Politics: The Making of the United States Department of Agriculture"

1994 Carolyn Goldstein

"Mediating Consumption: Home Economics and American Consumers, 1900-1940"

1995 Janet Hutchinson

"Home Economists and Better Homes during the Interwar Period"

1995 Helen Veit

"Food and the First World War: American Food Aid and Home Economics"

1996 Karen Stupski

"The Role of the Laboratory in the Home Economics Movement, 1900-1930"

1997 Bruce Pietrykowski

"Home Economics and Homo Economicus: The Creation and Diffusion of Diverse Sources of Economic Knowledge in the 20th Century"

1998 Amy Bentley

"Behind the Gerber Baby: A Cultural History of Solid Infant Food and Feeding Practices"

2000 Kathy Cooke

"Non-Sense and Anti-Sentimentality: Home Economics, Euthenics, and the 'Threat' to Race Betterment Efforts in America"

2001 Megan Elias

"Stir it Up: The Home Economics Movement in Higher Education, 1900-1950"

2002 Jan Scholl

"Click, Flash, and Flicker: Educational Technology Used by Home Economists in the Twentieth Century"

2003 Charlotte Biltekoff

"The Problem of Changing Food Habits: National Well Being, Nutritional Health, and Food Reform, 1937-1946"

2004 Gabriella Petrick

"Putting Home Economics to Work: Using Home Economics Research to Tell the Story of the American Diet"

2006 Mary Anne Beecher

"To Make Space Most Useful: The Impact of Home Economics Education and Outreach on Domestic Storage Improvements (1900-1950)"

2007 Karen Dunn-Haley

"The College of Wheels and Post-World War II Extreme Home Makeovers"

2008 Gwen Kay

"Taking the Home out of Economics: From Home Economics to Human Ecology"

2009 Anna Flaming

"The Homemaker and the Home Economist: Definitions and Identities in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century"

2010 Rachel Moran

"Weighing: Physique as Pedagogy and Propaganda, 1920-1950"

2011 Amrys Williams

"Cultivating the Country's Best Crop: Developing Youth Through 4-H in the Early 20th Century"

2012 Anna Schatz

"Fixing Family Problems Around the World: Home Economics at the Cornell School for Missionaries"

2013 Allison Horrocks

"To Encircle the World: Flemmie Kittrell and the International Politics of Home Economics"

2014 Barbara Penner

"Ergonomics in the Postwar Home: Collaborations between Cornell's College of Home Economics and the Center for Housing and Environmental Studies"

2015 Anna Myjak-Pycia

"Another Modernism: Home Economics and the Conception of Domestic Space in the United States, 1900-1960"

2016 Jonathan C.Robins

"As Good as Butter: Home Economics and the New Fats, 1890-1990"

2017 Juliana Barton

"Exhibiting Domesticity: Modernism and Reform in the American Kitchen at Mid-Century"

2018 Alison Bazylinski

"Being 'Better Buyers': Home Economists, Rural Women, and the Politics of Textile Knowledge"

2019 Nel de Mûelenaere

“At Home in the World: Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer in Belgium, 1923”

2006 Corey Early '07

"Blanche Hazard: An Overlooked Pioneer"

2009 Tamar Weinstock '09

"Let Us Hang Up the Dishpan and the Broom: The Pursuit of Culture in the Farmers Wives' Reading Course and the Cornell Study Clubs"