A twentieth-century U.S. historian and historian of U.S. philanthropy, she has written extensively on Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944), a two-volume study on American race relations commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York in the 1930s. She is currently working on two book manuscripts detailing elite foundations’ changing approaches to racial inequality in the United States throughout the span of the twentieth century. She is cofounder and editor of HistPhil, a web publication on the history of philanthropy. » LESS