Patricia L. Rosenfield
Patricia L. Rosenfield, Senior Fellow, the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC), is developing a series of activities to connect practitioners and scholars of philanthropy. From 2013-2015 Rosenfield directed the RAC Ford Foundation History Project to conduct research in the Foundation's archives and prepare reports and briefings on themes requested by new Foundation leadership. The project’s final report is available on the RAC website. The separate reports will be available on-line in 2018. Her current research interests include the history of foundation-funded fellowship programs and foundation support for interdisciplinary social science research. Prior to joining the RAC, Rosenfield served on the program staff at Carnegie Corporation of New York, first as chair of the Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries Program (with activities in African and Caribbean countries, Mexico, and the United States) and then as director of the Carnegie Scholars Program. Earlier she served at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where she led a global program on social and economic research on tropical diseases and was a member of the program’s research capacity strengthening team, providing graduate and post-graduate fellowships in medical and social sciences. Rosenfield holds an A.B. cum laude from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from Mahidol University, Thailand. Rosenfield has written extensively on the history, practice and ethics of philanthropy; interdisciplinary team science linking health and social scientists; and the social and economic aspects of tropical diseases. Rosenfield is co-editor with Frank Kessel and Norman Anderson of Expanding the Boundaries of Health and Social Science (Oxford University Press, 2003), and an updated volume, Interdisciplinary Research, Second Edition (Oxford, 2008). She is also the author of the book, A World of Giving: A Century of International Philanthropy at Carnegie Corporation of New York (PublicAffairs, 2014).
