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2007 Travel Grant Recipients List

JWT FELLOW

Professor Elspeth Brown: History and Centre for Visual & Media Culture, University of Toronto
“History of commercial modeling in the US, 20th century”

FACULTY WINNERS:

Professor Blaine Branchick:, School of Business, Quinnipiac University
“Gay male images in US print advertising, 1962-1990”

Professor Michael Dawson: Sociology Department, Portland State University
“The history of automobile marketing, 20th century, with emphasis on 1945 to the present”

Professor Melissa Homestead: English Department, University of Oklahoma and Professor Anne Kaufman: Department of Mathematics, Milton Academy
“The career of Edith L. Lewis, Women’s Editorial Dept. at the J. Walter Thompson Collection, early to middle 20th century”

Professor Kevin Keenan: Mass Communication Department, American University in Cairo (Egypt)
“Examination of the relationships and responses of the advertising industry to public and news media criticisms during the 20th century”

Professor James Kimble: Department of Communication, George Mason University
“Study of the War Advertising Council and Domestic Propaganda, 1941-1945”

Professor Ellen Litwicki: History Department, SUNY Fredonia
“Gift giving in the US, c. 1880-1960, on rites of passage occasions (births, bar mitzvahs, weddings) with a focus on the impact of consumer culture on gifting practices and roles of gender & class in shaping gift giving.”

Professor Michael Socolow: Department of American Studies, Brandeis University
“Study of negotiations between original radio networks, the federal government, and advertisers (1926-1948), analyzing many of the social, cultural and political issues raised by national radio”

STUDENT WINNERS:

Rhiannon Donaldson: History Department, University of Sydney (Australia)
“A study of Australian advertising and the advertising industry in World War II”

Adam Mack: History Department, University of South Carolina
“No ‘Cut-Rate Cornucopia’: Supermarkets and American Consumer Society, 1945-1970”

Sally Romano: School of Medicine, Yale University
“Review and analysis of the multiple and intersecting medical, social and cultural beliefs and the broader process of “medicalization” of the sun and the promotion of suntan lotions as preventive medicine”

Dawn Spring: Department of History, University of Cincinnati
“The Advertising Council’s role in promoting America’s cultural, economic and political Cold War strategies from the 1940s – 1960s”

Elizabeth Swift: Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
“Construction of Elite Identity in Popular Visual Culture of the 1980s”