Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics

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This is a collection of video and audio presentations given by recipients of the Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics.

Exhibiting Domesticity: Modernism and Reform in the American Kitchen at Mid-Century

Barton, Juliana (2018-03-14)
As Good as Butter: Home Economics and the New Fats, 1890-1990

Robins, Jonathan E. (2017-03-16)

New edible fats with names like "Hogless Lard" and "Cottolene" entered the American diet in the late 19th century, and Americans sought help from the first generation of home economists to understand these novel foodstuffs. ...
Another Modernism: Home Economics and the Conception of Domestic Space in the United States, 1900-1960

Myjak-Pycia, Anna (2016-03-16)

Focusing on the homemaker as the primary user of domestic interior, the Home Economics movement formulated a spatial model that differed from the dominant spatial ideal of architectural modernism in the first half of the ...
Ergonomics in the Postwar Home: Collaborations between Cornell's College of Home Economics and the Center for Housing and Enivronmental Studies

Penner, Barbara (2015-04-16)

In architecture and design, the postwar period in America saw the rise of a new phenomenon: ergonomics research. The primary aim of ergonomics was to improve human environments by studying a wide range of factors that ...
To Encircle the World

Horrocks, Allison (2014-03-20)

Allison Horrocks, 2013 Dean's Fellowship recipient in the History of Home Economics in the College of Human Ecology, traces Kittrell’s rise to prominence as an educator and nutrition expert, connecting her story to a diverse ...

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