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Gerald R. Ford Library & Museum  
     
 
Recent Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant Recipients

Spring 2010 Grants

  • Beckmann, Matthew, University of California Irvine, Assessing Washington’s Arranged Marriage:  Presidents and their Party’s Congressional Leaders
  • Bordelon, Christopher, Brandeis University, Trading Up, Trading Down: The Domestic Politics of America’s Foreign Trade Since World War II
  • Bristol, Douglas, University of Southern Mississippi, Uncle Sam’s Easy Riders and Other Strange Tales of Mass Consumption in the U.S. Army
  • Gavin, Victor, , University of Barcelona (Spain), The foreign dimension of Spain’s political transition (1975-1978)
  • Hopkins, Michael, University of Liverpool (England), The State Department and the Making of American Foreign Policy
  • Johns, Andrew, Brigham Young University, In the Eye of the Storm: John Sherman Cooper and the Cold War, 1946-1976
  • Lauterbach, Allison, University of Southern California, Gagged: United States Foreign Aid and Reproductive Rights
  • McGlinchey, Stephen, Cardiff University (Wales), American Arms and Iranian Ambitions:  Continuity and Change in American Foreign Policy Towards Iran in the 1970s
  • Mitchell, Nancy, North Carolina State University, Race and Realpolitik: Jimmy Carter and Africa
  • Mock, Harold, University of Virginia, Dangerous Power: An International History of German Unification, 1974-1993
  • Passino, Carlo, University of Cagliari (Italy), Iranian Nuclear Program and U.S. Negotiation in 1970s
  • Rodberg, Josie, Harvard University, Human Rights, Women’s Rights, States’ Rights: The Struggle Over Federal Family Planning Programs in the United States, 1965-1988
  • Sharrow, Elizabeth, University of Minnesota, Producing Athletes, Defining Citizens: Title IX and the Construction of Gender in American Politics
  • Spruill, Marjorie, University of South Carolina, Women’s Rights, Family Values & the Polarization of American Political Culture
  • Winger, Gregory, Boston University, Stuck in the Middle with Daoud: American Relations with the Republic of Afghanistan 1973-1978

Fall 2009 Grants

  • Bennett, M. Todd, East Carolina University, The Spirits of ’76:  The American Bicentennial and the Struggle for the Nation’s Soul
  • Cavanna, Thomas, Institut d’Etudes Politiiques de Paris (France), The US Foreign Policy Towards India and Pakistan in the 1970s
  • Depow, Elaine, McGill University (Canada), The Media’s Role in Electioneering Presidential Elections
  • Francis-Fallon, Benjamin, Georgetown University, Minority Reports:  The Making of Hispanic Politics and the Rise of America
  • Gumm, Angela, Iowa State University, Waste, Energy and Ideology:  The American People and the History of Resource Recovery from 1965-2001
  • Hindman, Alex E., Claremont Graduate University, Preserving the Constitutional Presidency:  Separation of Powers, the Ford Administration and the Resurgent Congress of the Post-Watergate Era
  • Kilinc, Aykut, University of New Hampshire, American Foreign Policy Toward Cyprus, 1963-1977
  • Lechner, Zachary J., Temple University, The South of Mind:  America and the Imagined South, 1960-1980
  • Nemchenok, Victor, University of Virginia, Contesting World Order:  International Development and the Search for Justice, 1970-1988
  • Shaw, Jonathan Edwards, College of William & Mary, Ujamaa and Authenticite:  Nyere and Mobutu’s Imagined Nations
  • Tulli, Umberto, Instituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Italy), From Helsinki to Madrid:  The United States and Soviet Dissent (1975-1980)

 

Spring 2009 Grants

  • Barr, Kathleen, Texas A&M University, The Energy Crisis of the 1970s: America and Its Allies Confront OPEC
  • Chen, Ming Hsu, University of California (Berkley) School of Law, From Civil Rights to Multiculturalism:  Political and Legal Incorporation of Language Minorities, 1964-1979
  • Cominelli, Lucrezia, Instituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Italy), Italian American Relations in the Era of Détente
  • Honeycutt, Lee, Iowa State University, “The Moral Equivalent of War”:  Presidential Language in American Energy Politics
  • Hwang, Ingu, University of Chicago, Politics of Human Rights under the NationalSecurityState:  Democratization and Korean-American Relations from 1968 to 1980
  • Klieman, Kairn, University of Houston, “Before the Curse”:  Petroleum, Politics, and Transnational Oil Companies in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa, 1960-1982
  • McFarland, Victor, Yale University, The Oil Crisis:  The United States, the Arab World, and the Shock of the 1970s
  • Middleton, Stuart, University of Queensland (Australia), Reputational Crisis Management in Campaign ‘76
  • Rezk, Dina, Cambridge University (United Kingdom), Worlds Apart?  Anglo-American Political and Intelligence Assessments of Egypt Over Two Decades (1957-1977)
  • Roth, Tanya L., Washington University in St. Louis, America’s Finest Ladies:  Women as Soldiers, Citizens, and Workers in the U.S. Military, 1945-1978
  • Sahara, Ayako, University of California, San Diego, Global Humanitarianism:  U.S. Empire in Asia through U.S. Involvement in the Indochinese Refugee Issue
  • Shao, Xiao, East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), The United States and the Vietnam Unification War (1973-1975)
  • Stahl, Jason, University of Minnesota, Selling Conservatism:  Think Tanks, Conservative Ideology, and the Undermining of Liberalism, 1945-Present
  • Stur, Heather, University of Southern Mississippi, Transformations in Gender Relations and Foreign Policy in the Post-Vietnam War Era

Fall 2008 Grants

  • Bennett, M. Todd, U.S. Department of State, The Spirits of ’76: The American Bicentennial, Public Commemoration, and the Struggle for the Soul of the Nation.
  • Bishop, William, Vanderbilt University, Still ’ Special’?  US-UK Relations and the Search for Zimbabwean Independence, 1976-80.
  • Cook, Jonathan H., University of Cambridge (Great Britain), Détente Declining:  Domestic Politics and U.S. Relations with the Soviet Union, 1972-1976.
  • Dowdall, Aaron, University of Missouri, Fissure Along the Angola Fault Line:  How the Angolan War Created Divisions in the U.S. Department of State.
  • Goode, James, Grand Valley State University, Foreign Policy of the Ford Administration.
  • LaBau, Jason, University of Southern California, Phoenix Rising:  Arizona and the Origins of Modern Conservative Politics.
  • Milnes, Arthur H., Queens University Centre for the Study of Democracy (Canada), Library of Political Leadership:  The Ford-Trudeau Years:  A Documentary History.

Spring 2008 Grants

  • Seth Ackerman, Cornell University, The Making of the Second Cold War
  • Roham Alvandi, University of Oxford, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah:  US-Iran Relations and the Cold War in the Middle East, 1969-1976
  • Barin Kayaoglu, University of Virginia, Authoritarian Modernization and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East:  The United States, Turkey, and Iran, 1961-1980
  • Stephan Kieninger, University of Mannheim, U.S. Perceptions and Misperceptions of the Helsinki Final Act
  • Douglas Little, Clark University, America and Radical Islam during the Nixon, Ford and Carter Years
  • Joe Merton, University of Oxford, The Rise and Fall of the White Ethnic Moment in Post-New Deal American Politics
  • Drew Meyers, University of Michigan, Sun Citizens:  The Culture and Politics of Retirement, 1950-2000
  • Sudina Paungpetch, Texas A&M University, Domino by Design:  Thai-U.S. Relations during the Vietnam War
  • Jaideep Prabhu, Vanderbilt University, Curbing the Buddha:  The Nuclear Control Regime after Pokhran
  • Thomas Rudczynski, Northwestern University, “God’s Waiting Room”:  How Retirement to Florida Transformed the Sunbelt and the Nation
  • Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin, Realism’s Practitioner:  Brent Scowcroft and U.S. Foreign Policy from Vietnam to Iraq

Fall 2007 Grants

  • Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas, Confronting Anti-Americanism:  America’s Political and Cultural Cold War against the Communists in Fance and Italy
  • James Epstein, Ohio University, Securing America:  Federal Crime Control, Domestic Political Intelligence and the Rise of Political Conservatism, 1964-1984
  • Chad Mitcham, Editor, Australian Institute of International Relations, Petroleum and East Asia, 1880-2008:  Conflict, Diplomacy and Development
  • Ross Nicolson, University of Oxford, Young People and American Politics, c. 1950-1980
  • David Painter, Georgetown University, From the Nixon Doctrine to the Carter Doctrine:  Oil and Geopolitics in the 1970s
  • Patrick Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles, Changing Norms of Development at Robert McNamara’s World Bank, 1968-1981
  • James Stocker, Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, The U.S., Syria and Lebanon (1975-1990)
  • Hirotaka Watanabe, Osaka University, U.S. Space Policy during the Nixon and Ford Administrations:  Competition and Cooperation through Apollo
  • Randall Woods, University of Arkansas, The Quiet American:  William Egan Colby and American Foreign Policy
  • Leah Wright, Princeton University, Black Republicans and the Emergence of Contemporary Republican Ideology, 1964-1992

Spring 2007 Grants

  • Nigel Bowles, Oxford University (England), Ford, Carter, and Reagan:  Presidents and Congresses after Watergate
  • Christian Collet, Doshisha University (Japan), “A Profound Moral Obligation”:  The Impact of Gerald Ford and His Administration’s Policies on the Construction and Politics of the Vietnamese American Community
  • Paul Kershaw, New York University, Negotiating a New Economic Regime in Mexico, 1977-1989
  • Benjamin M. Looker, Yale University, A Place Apart:  Imagining the American Neighborhood, 1940-2000
  • Donald W. Maxwell, Indiana University, Unguarded Border:  The Movement of People and Ideas between the United States and Canada in the Vietnam War Era
  • Mark D. Nevin, University of Virginia, The Rise of Political Polling and the Battle for Public Opinion during the Nixon Presidency
  • Thomas Alan Schwartz, Vanderbilt University, Henry Kissinger and the Dilemmas of American Power
  • Katherine Scott, Temple University, A Right to Dissent:  Civil Society, Congress, and the Movement to Restrain the Domestic Security State, 1970-1978
  • Min Song, University of Georgia, Sino-American Economic Relations from 1971-1980

Fall 2006 Grants /

  • Roger Biles, Illinois State University,The Federal Government and Metropolitan America, 1945-2000
  • Paul Coyer, London School of Economics and Political Science,Tacit Allies?  Sino-American Strategic Cooperation and the Reshaping of Asia, 1971-1981
  • Joshua Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,A Different Kind of Black Market:  African American Consumption and Business Enterprise in 1970s United States   
  • Fiorella Favino, Foundation Italianieuropei, Italy,The G7 Summits and the Transformation of the International System in the Mid-Seventies
  • Ernie Fuhr, Rockford Public Schools, Illinois, Using Primary Source Documents to Teach Presidential Decision Making to High School Students
  • Ursula Gurney, The Ohio State University,The United States and European Détente:  Nixon, Ford, and the Helsinki Accords, 1969-1975
  • Karissa Haugeberg, University of Iowa, Women in the Anti-Abortion Movement, 1970-2000
  • David Kinkela, State University of New York at Fredonia,DDT and the Dilemmas of Regulation:  U.S. Environmental Policy Making in a Global Age
  • Heidi Matiyow, The University of Michigan, Federal Policy and the Shaping of Educational Programs for Delinquent and Troubled Youth
  • Iwona Swiatczak-Wasilewska, University of Helsinki, Finland, Ritual in American Political Culture:  Presidential State of the Union Addresses as a Case Study

Spring 2006 Grants

  • Elizabeth Benning, London School of Economics and Political Science, West German Economic Power and the Reshaping of the International Economic System of the West, 1972-1978
  • Lisa Burns, Quinnipiac University, The Construction of Collective Memory in Presidential Museums
  • Roman Deininger, University of Vienna/University of New Orleans, The Presidents’ God – Politics and Religion in the United States from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush
  • Robert Eldridge, Osaka University, A Time to Heal: U.S.-Japan Relations during the Ford Administration
  • Makreeta Lahti, University of Potsdam, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policies of the United States towards the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel
  • Richard Moss, Purdue University, The Rise of Symbolic Ethnicity: Italian-Americans, Jews, and the Negotiation of Identity in America, 1945-1980
  • Giordana Pulcini, University of Roma Tre, The SALT II Treaty and the Internal Opposition in the United States (1975-1980)
  • Joseph Renouard, Emory University, Limits and Morality: The Crisis of Confidence and Post-Vietnam American Foreign Policy, 1968-1981
  • Greg Robinson, Universite du Quebec A Montreal, Japanese Americans, Vietnamese Americans, and the Ford Administration: The End of One Relocation and the Beginning of Another
  • Kim van der Wijngaart, Utrecht University/Roosevelt Study Center, Dutch-American Relations in the Seventies, 1969-1977

Fall 2005 Grants

  • Cheng Guan Ang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), The Cold War International History of Southeast Asia
  • Eduardo Canedo, Columbia University, The End of Regulation: The Movement to Deregulate the American Economy
  • Jeffrey Crouch, The Catholic University of America, The Presidential Pardon Power
  • Prudence Flowers, University of Melbourne (Australia), The Abortion Wars in the United States : Feminism and the Rise of the Christian Right in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Silvia Pietrantonio, University of Bologna (Italy), Europe and America : The European Quest for a Common Middle East Policy in the 1970s: Between Oil Crisis and Transatlantic Tensions
  • Nguyen Quoc Viet, University of Kassel (Germany), The Separation of Powers and Development of Presidency in the U.S.
  • Neil Young, Columbia University, Battling the Equal Rights Amendment: Mormons, Baptists, Catholics and the Rise of ‘ProFamily’ Politics
  • Barbara Zanchetta, University of Florence (Italy), From Détente to the Second Cold War: Continuity or Rupture in American Foreign Policy