Publications:
Books:
White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming October 19, 2021).
The second book, in progress, details when and why elite foundations such as the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford foundations became particularly invested in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Journal Articles and Articles in Edited Volumes:
“Power of the Purse: How ‘the Philanthropic North’ Has Helped Determine Which Individuals, Groups, and Ideas in the Black Freedom Struggle Will Thrive Nationally,” in In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (eds. Jacob Katz Cogan and Kenneth Mack) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024).
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for Reform,” in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois (eds. Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dan S. Green, Marcus Hunter, Karida Brown, and Michael Schwartz) (available online, June 2022).
“Further Analysis of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) as a Swedish Text,” Humanity Journal (spring 2017).
“An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Gunnar Myrdal, 1944).” America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History. Ed. Edward J. Blum. Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2016. 57-60.
“Swedish Roots to Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944),” in Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare States: An American Dilemma?, eds. Sonya Michel, Pauli Kettunen, and Klaus Petersen (Northhampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015).
“Reassessing Hannah Arendt’s ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ (1959),” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 10(1) (Feb. 2014).
“A Transatlantic Perspective on Philanthropy and Charity in the Swedish Welfare Model,” in Non-profit och välfärden [The Nonprofit Sector and the Welfare State], eds. Kurt Almqvist, Viveca Ax:son Johnson, and Lars Trägårdh (Stockholm, Sweden: Ax:son Johnson Foundation Press, 2013).
“The Civil Commitment of State Dependent Minors: Resonating Discourses that Leave Her Heterosexuality and His Homosexuality Vulnerable to Scrutiny,” New York University Law Review 81 (2006).
Encyclopedia Entries:
Karl, Barry (1927-2010), historian. American National Biography (2019).
Popular Press Articles:
“Behind the Scenes of White Philanthropy,” HistPhil (Nov. 29, 2021).
“Introducing HistPhil’s Forum on Waqfs,” HistPhil (Sept. 23, 2020).
“Updating HistPhil’s Reading List,” HistPhil (June 12, 2020).
“A Grantee’s Freedom and Independence,” HistPhil (Oct. 2019).
“Rockefeller, Carnegie, and the SSRC’s Focus on Race in the 1920s and 1930s,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (January 2019).
“Frank Capra’s Formula for Taming American Capitalism,” Zócalo Public Square (Dec. 2018).
“Choosing between Financial Viability and a Political Voice: A History of the NAACP’s Tax Status,” HistPhil (Nov. 2018).
“In a Democracy, Is That Really a Social Problem?,” HistPhil (Sept. 2018).
“Sweden as Exemplar of Scientific Planning Philanthropy,” HistPhil (March 2018).
“Julius Rosenwald was Not a Hero,” HistPhil (June 2017).
“Gunnar Myrdal in the Latest Issue of Humanity,” HistPhil (March 2017).
“Scientific Knowledge on Minority Groups during the Trump Era,” HistPhil (Feb. 2017).
“Will Ford’s Equality Initiative be Radical or More of the Same?,” HistPhil (July 2015).
“Obergefell (2015): A Time for Reflection on the Role of Philanthropy in a Democracy,” HistPhil (June 2015).
“Increasing the Visibility of Philanthropy among U.S. Historians,” HistPhil (June 2015).
“Are Americans Really Champions of Racial Equality?,” The Atlantic Online (April 2015).
“The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hand in Hobby Lobby,” Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (August 2014).
“Moving Toward Multi-Dimensional Democracy,” Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (July 2014).
“Would Philanthropies Today Fund W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encyclopedia Africana?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Privatize Science,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“Philanthropists and the White House: Who’s the Boss?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?,” The Atlantic Online (May 2014).
“Myrdals amerikanska arv,” Axess Magasin (Feb. 2013).
Book Reviews:
Review of Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European Project. By Hans Kundnani. International Affairs 100(1) (January 2024).
Review of The wrath to come: Gone with the wind and the lies America tells. By Sarah Churchwell. International Affairs 99(5) (Sept. 2023).
Review of White freedom: the racial history of an idea. By Tyler Stovall. International Affairs 98(6) (Nov. 2022).
Review of For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving. By Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean. Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) (Spring 2023).
Review of Sam Klug, “The Phelps-Stokes Fund and the Institutional Imagination of Black Internationalism, 1941-1945,” H-Diplo (February 23, 2023).
Review of Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires. By Shomari Wills. HistPhil (2018).
Review of Forging a Laboring Race: The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination. By Paul R. D. Lawrie. Journal of Social History (2017).
Review of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. HistPhil (2016).
Review of Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science by David L. Seim, Voluntary Sector Review (2016).
Review of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence by Megan E. Tompkins-Stange. HistPhil (2016).
Review of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy by Linsey McGoey, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2016).
Review of Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Karen Ferguson, History: Reviews of New Books (2016).
“A Reconsideration of An American Dilemma,” Reviews in American History 40 (Dec. 2012).
Review of Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks, Journal of American Ethnic History 32 (Fall 2012), 113-115.