Humanities Research Centre
Transatlantic Fellowship Award
Final Report Form
APPLICANT DETAILS
Name:
Jennifer Crane
Department:
History
Telephone:
07837843414
Email:
j.m.crane@warwick.ac.uk
DETAILS OF AWARD
Title:
Transatlantic Fellowship Award
Brief outline of Research
Objectives/Activities and Proposed
Outcomes:
I proposed to engage in the following activities:
 Meet students and staff from two research centres at Yale University:
the Violence and Health Group and the Research Initiative on the
History of the Sexualities.
 Present my research to the Student Working Group of the Violence and
Health Group.
 Attend a symposium on science, sexuality and the law organised by the
History of the Sexualities Initiative, where three very prestigious
speakers from my field were speaking.
 Utilise the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Archives to inform my
current research and a potential postdoctoral project.
In doing so, my proposed research outputs were to:
 Organise a future conference on the relationship between policy and
history at University of Warwick, drawing on insights from this visit.
 Forge further links with the Violence and Health Student Working Group.
 Benefit Warwick University's 'History of Violence' network.
 Put researchers from Warwick and Yale with mutual research interests
in touch with one another.
Duration:
Proposed Start Date: 26th January
Actual Start Date: 30th January
Proposed End Date:
9th February
Actual End Date: 7th February
Timescale:
Additional Information:
My start date was delayed due to extreme weather conditions (snow), which
delayed flights and trains into New York and New Haven. I purposefully cut
down my end date, to avoid remaining in New Haven for the weekend, as
students and staff informed me in advance that New Haven was very small, so
there would be little to do there for two weekends, and also that they would not
be working on these days.
OUTPUTS & OUTCOMES
Have the original objectives of the
TF Project/Activity been achieved?
 Yes (please provide details under the sections below)
If applicable, please give details of
any collaborations developed as a
result of this TF award and any
I spent the majority of my time at Yale with the Research Initiative for the History
of the Sexualities. Meeting with students and staff, we found numerous
clear research links. I intend to stay in touch, and to exchange some of
my own chapters with researchers from this group. Through the
plans to further develop those
collaborations:
If applicable, please give details of
specific research outputs, i.e.
monographs or papers published,
conference presentations given,
etc.:
Please give any additional
information regarding the
outcomes from your TF award (e.g.
personal/professional
development).
discussions whilst at Yale, I gained an American perspective on broad
shifts in thinking about twentieth century history of sexuality, and was
able to provide the British context. I hope to continue these productive
discussions in the future.
After attending the evening symposium on the 5th February, as intended, the
students and staff also invited me to attend their prestigious, inviteeonly, all day workshop on the 6th February. During the workshop we
engaged in substantial discussion around the papers presented, and the
broad links between science, sexuality and the law. I engaged in
substantial discussions with Michael Grossberg, a very prestigious
speaker invited from Duke University to this workshop. Grossberg is
writing a monograph on the development of child protection in the
American context - and my work focuses on the development of child
protection in Britain. Grossberg shared a chapter with me from his
forthcoming book, which we discussed at the workshop. I intend to
send Grossberg some work from my thesis for comments shortly, also.
We agreed in our discussions that the construction of child protection
over the 19th and 20th centuries was an international story, with
ongoing connections particularly between America and Britain.
Discussions with Grossberg also encouraged me to think more broadly
about the meaning of the term 'child protection', and its links not only to
safeguarding but also child labour, education, welfare, etc.
I told the Yale Violence and Health Student Working Group about the Warwick
History of Violence network, and have invited any interested students
and staff to join. This will make researchers at Yale and Warwick, all
interested in violence, more aware of one another's work, and hopefully
forge future research collaborations.
I am on the mailing list for the Violence and Health Student Working Group, and
able to attend future meetings via skype, and also to invite other
interested students from Warwick. I am going to email the History of
Violence network with the forthcoming timetable of meetings, once it is
formalised, to see if any researchers at Warwick wish to skype in also.
I presented a paper at the Violence and Health Student Working Group. This is
a very exciting and dynamic group which works with scientists, academics, and
other experts to advise the World Health Organisation about violence
prevention. I presented my research into the 'battered child syndrome' and its
role in raising concerns around child abuse in 1960s Britain and America. My
audience was a very interdisciplinary group and I gained really positive and also
very insightful feedback.
I utilised the Beinecke Archives, where I found materials which will substantially
benefit my thesis, which I intend to turn in to a monograph or a series of articles
after completion next year. I also found materials which will benefit me in
authoring my postdoctoral applications. I would like my postdoctoral project to
substantially analyse the transatlantic development of child protection.
I still intend to begin organising a conference discussing the links between policy
and history in the next academic year, which will build upon the insights which I
gained during this trip. If I gain sufficient funding for this conference, I will also
invite some staff members who I met during my visit to Yale.
Signature
Date:
7/2/2015
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