Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

Reconstructing American Political History

Barry D. Karl, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, University of Chicago

About Barry D. Karl

Barry D. Karl is a distinguished scholar in the history of public policy and philanthropy. He is a leading figure in the history of philanthropy and an authority on the origins of the modern foundation beginning with Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Mrs. Russell Sage. He has written recently on the subjects of foundations and public policy and the evolution of corporate grantmaking. In 1997, he was appointed the first William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Philanthropy and Volunteerism at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.