Cold Warriors, Academics and Mavericks: The Rockefeller Foundation "Postwar’ fellows" (1945-1949)

The 13,633 beneficiaries of Rockefeller philanthropy's fellowship programs constitute a huge corpus, within which exist multiple subsets that deserve particular study. The 'postwar' fellows are one of them. This term does not refer to all the grants awarded by Rockefeller philanthropy after World War II (6,597 awards between 1945 and 1968), but to a small sub-program of 102 fellows who received 111 fellowships under a specific budgetary appropriation that the Rockefeller Foundation itself la...