From today until Saturday, June 4th, the ninth biennial Policy History Conference is taking place at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. And just this moment, a wonderful group of scholars has gathered to discuss private foundations and public policy:

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Private Foundations and Public Policy: How Modern Philanthropy Has Shaped Credit, Labor, and Population Policies (3:15pm-4:45pm)

Chair and Commentator: Brian Balogh, UVA

Participants:

Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law Center, “Expertise without Activism: The Russell Sage Foundation and Consumer Lending.”

Elizabeth Harmon, University of Michigan, “A National Menace: The Rockefeller Foundation and Corporate Welfare Policy.”

Emily Klancher Merchant, Dartmouth, “The Technopolitics of Population Control: The Population Council and Population Policy.”

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Please stay tuned to HistPhil in the coming weeks for further discussion of their ongoing work!

-Maribel Morey, HistPhil co-editor.