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FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.

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October 31, 2022

Spring 2023: Fellowship Opportunity & Course on 20th-Century US Foundations

Application deadline: November 14, 2022

Fellowships available: Up to eight $1,250 fellowships for participants in “Twentieth-Century American Foundations,” a spring 2023 history course developed in collaboration with the Rockefeller Archive Center

Course designed for

  • students interested in public or applied history and writing historically-based program reviews with a focus on grantmaking foundations
  • students interested in learning about foundations and the wide variety of causes and initiatives that they fund.

CUNY doctoral/MA students eligible to apply. 

Course, funding and application details.

May 25, 2021

Center Director Kathleen McCarthy Published on HistPhile

"Melinda Gates’s The Moment of Lift, is a feminist Gospel of Wealth for the 21st century," writes U.S. historian and Center director Kathleen McCarthy in her review of the feminist billionaire's recent memoir for HistPhil, a web publication on the history of the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors.