NEGOCIERI ACADEMICE ROMÂNO-AMERICANE: SABIN MANUILĂ ÎN ARHIVELE FUNDAȚIEI ROCKEFELLER
ROMANIAN-AMERICAN ACADEMIC NEGOTIATIONS: SABIN MANUILĂ IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes lesser-known aspects regarding Sabin Manuilă's fellowship in the United States, granted by the Rockefeller Foundation between 1925 and 1926, at the suggestion of Iuliu Moldovan, the director of the Institute of Hygiene at the University of Cluj, whose assistant he was. Manuilă distinguished himself in the fields of epidemiology, immunology, demography, biostatistics, biological anthropology, eugenics, ethno- and biopolitics, occupying important scientific and administrative positions. Romania's cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation was an important factor in the modernization of scientific and institutional research in fields that required considerable human and financial investments: public health and hygiene, medical assistance, natural sciences, sociology, statistics. Substantial support has materialized in fellowships, professional training and scientific research in the United States of America. On the basis of the Scholarship File, the study analyzes the professional negotiations between Manuilă and representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation related to his academic career based in Baltimore, and some divergences related to his specialization. Initially, Prof. Moldovan recommended him in 1925 to specialize in hygiene, with the possibility to cover fields such as statistics, demography, organization of the health service. Manuilă will prefer social sciences despite the American recommendation to focus on hygiene. The Scholarship file follows in detail the evolution of his scientific and administrative career from the grades he obtained, his return to his country and his activities, the research scholarship from 1938 with A. Pavel and D. Gusti, the refuge in America after 1948, until the negotiations for naturalization and the failed attempt to raise awareness among the American public about the Soviet danger. The study provides unprecedented information about the American stage of Sabin Manuilă's professional and human training as recorded by Rockefeller officers.

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