Renata Nowaczewska | Szczecin University (original) (raw)

Renata Nowaczewska, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Szczecin University, Poland. She has published articles, book chapters on philanthropy in international context, social welfare, foundations and their interactions with the government. Her award-winning book on public and private unemployment relief during the Great Depression discusses the role private foundations and community funds played in cooperation with/ opposition to H. Hoover’s and F. D. Roosevelt’s relief efforts.
Her research interests lie in the history of philanthropy, foreign aid, social history and intellectual history, exchange programs in particular and the role international actors play within broadly defined transnational relations. Her current book project explores the mechanisms of reinforcing/implementing democratic values through the exchange programs and other cultural activities during the Cold War period in select European countries. She has explored the role foundations, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations in particular, played in organizing help to the refugees and escapees from the Eastern Europe.Research Grants/Rewards:

• Scholarship, Nene College, Northampton, GB, Sept.-Dec. 1992
• Research Scholarship at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, 2000
• Research Scholarship at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands, 2001
• Ruth Lilly Archives Research Fellows Fund- Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA, 2002
• Travel grant of the US Embassy, Warsaw, Poland to participate in the American Studies Colloquium, “The Fiction of Politics and Politics of Fiction” – Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2002
• Second Prize in the Competition for the Best Ph.D. dissertation in the Field of History by the National Culture Center, Poland, 2008.
• US State Department Grant to participate in a six-week program of The Studies of United States Institutes for Scholars, New York University. The theme of the program: American Civilization, July-August 2008
• Research grant at the British National Archives, Kew Gardens, London awarded by the Lanckoronsky Foundation, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences , November 2008
• US Embassy in Warsaw grant for the publication of a book, awarded in the 90th Anniversary of US-Polish Diplomatic relations.
• Szczecin University Rector’s Award of the II degree for the academic achievements, 2010.
• Research Scholarship at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, Netherlands for the project: “Enhancing friendly relations: American foreign aid and private foundations in Great Britain and the Commonwealth, 1945-1961,” 2011.
• 2012 Rockefeller Archive Center grant-in-aid, for the research project: “American Private Foundations and Reinforcement of Democracy in the Cold War Europe, 1945-1968. Rockefeller Foundation- as the case study.”
• 2013 Rockefeller Archive Center grant-in-aid for the research project: “Ford Foundation and the Reinforcement of Democracy in the Cold War Europe, 1950-1969.”
• Research Scholarship at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, 2014. Membership: A member of the Polish Association of American Studies, the Association of Polish Historians, State Department Alumni Association, European Association of American Studies, International American Studies Association.

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