Long-Term Research Fellowships at The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

FAIN: RA-269813-20

New York Public Library (New York, NY 10016-0109)
Matthew Knutzen (Project Director: August 2019 to June 2020)
Matthew Knutzen (Project Director: June 2020 to present)

18 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) respectfully requests $285,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support stipend and selection expenses for long-term fellowships housed in the new Scholar Center at the landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellows will benefit from the Schwarzman Building's 4.3 million volume general humanities collection, which includes many rare and unique items, as well as NYPL's system-wide resources. Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities will cover 18 stipend months per year for three years as well as a portion of the costs associated with selecting fellows.

Associated Products

Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City (Book)
Title: Gotham’s War Within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City
Author: Emily Brooks
Abstract: A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city's priorities toward liberal reform. La Guardia's approach to low-level policing anticipated later trends in law enforcement, including "broken windows" theory and "stop and frisk" policy. Police officers worked to preserve urban order by controlling vice, including juvenile delinquency, prostitution, gambling, and the "disorderly" establishments that officials believed housed these activities. This mode of policing was central to La Guardia's influential vision of urban governance, but it was met with resistance from the Black New Yorkers, youth, and working-class women it primarily targeted. The mobilization for World War II introduced new opportunities for the NYPD to intensify policing and criminalize these groups with federal support. In the 1930s these communities were framed as perils to urban order; during the militarized war years, they became a supposed threat to national security itself. Emily M. Brooks recasts the evolution of urban policing by revealing that the rise of law-and-order liberalism was inseparable from the surveillance, militarism, and nationalism of war.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469676593/gothams-war-within-a-war/
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-4696-765

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