Recent Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation
Research Travel Grant Recipients
Fall 2018 Grants
- Barker, Dominic, University of Oxford, Ronald Reagan and Race: The Evolution of Color-blind Conservatism
- Benton, James, Georgetown University, International Trade, Postwar Decline, and How it Changed America
- Carr, Richard, Anglia Ruskin University, March of the Moderates: Realigning the Anglo-American Left, c. 1968-2008
- Culley, Tia, Cardiff University, Gerald Ford and Anglo-American Relations: Re-Valuing an Interim President
- Dufton, Emily, George Washington University, Keep Betty Ford in the White House: How Betty and Gerald Ford Brought Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment to the Forefront of National Intervention Discourses
- Fins, Antonio, Lynn University, Three Days in San Clemente: The Inside Story of the Nixon Pardon
- Gerhard, Jane, Brown University, Historical Novel on the Life and Times of Betty Ford
- Howard, Clayton, Ohio State University, Laws to Save Lives: Gun Control Activism from the War on Crime to the Million Mom March
- Huynh, Kinh-Luyen, Université du Québec à Montréal, Les politiques d'accueil du Canada et des Etats-Unis pour les refugies Vietnamiens
- Katsky, Clay, University of Texas - Austin, Opening Secrets: Congressional Oversight of the CIA, 1975-1992
- Lallani, Shayan, University of Ottawa, Cultural Americanizaion of the Caribbean: The Middle-Class Turn in Cruise Ship Tourism
- Lee, Wonhee, State University of New York at Albany, Field Operations: U.S. Farm Exports to China in the 1970s and 1980s
- Levy, La TaSha, University of Washington - Seattle, Race Matters in the GOP: Black Republicans and the Limits of Two-Party Politics
- Manulak, Daniel, University of Western Ontario, A Light in the Window: Canada, Race, and South African Apartheid, 1958-1994
- McGlynn-Wright, Anne, University of Washington, Farm Bill to Table: Pregnancy and the Politics of Food Assistance
- McKinney, Mark, University of New England, Education Segregation: Examining education segregation differences between No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeeds (ESSA) Acts
- Michel, Edward, University of Pretoria, The Whites are there to stay!: Presidential policy towards apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994
- Ruth, Christian, University at Albany SUNY, The Bitter World: Famine, Foreign Aid, and Development in the Cold War
- Stamates, Nicholas, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Mere Christianity: The Quiet Christian Faith of President Gerald Ford
Spring 2018 Grants
- Allcock, Thomas, University of Manchester, Entertaining Power: Diplomacy, Culture, and the American Presidency during the Cold War
- Andelic, Patrick, Northumbria University, Mr. Chairman: Henry Waxman and the Transformation of American Liberalism, 1975-2015
- Blair, Monica, University of Virginia, From Segregation Academies to School Choice: The Post-Brown History of School Privatization
- Conley, Richard, University of Florida, Native American Politics and Policy during the Ford Presidency: The Crossroads of Consolidation and Change
- Cully, Erin, City University of New York, Banking on Change: The Politics of U.S. Banking Consolidation, 1974-1994
- Gawthorpe, Andrew, Leiden University, Trade Liberalization and its Critics in the United States, 1968-2001
- Haddad, Ryan, University of Maryland, America's Commericial Cold War: Trade, National Security, and the Western Alliance
- Ingelson, Elizabeth, Southern Methodist University, Making Made in China: Race, Labor, and Politics in Sino-American Trade, 1972-1978
- Nofil, Brianna, Columbia University, Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Construction of Immigrant Incarceration
- Roady, Peter, Columbia University, The Revival of National Security in the 1970s
- Robertson, Mitchell, University of Oxford, The Afterlife of the Great Society
- Scarminach, Shaine, University of Connecticut, Making Waves: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea, 1967-1982
- Whitaker, Georgia, Harvard University, Transitional Ties: Human Rights and Neoliberalism in the Chilean Cold War
Fall 2017 Grants
- Boggess Phillips, Jo, Ripley High School - Ripley, West Virginia, Jennings Randolph: A West Virginian with a Hand in History
- Brown, Aaron, Ohio University, A Deepening Divide: Drugs, Immigration, and the Making of a Militarized U.S. Mexico Border, 1968-1980
- Chou, William, Ohio State University, Marketing Japanese Exports and the Expansion of U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1952-1982
- Craig, Malcolm, Liverpool John Moores University, Atomic Ayatollahs?: America, Britain, nuclear weapons, and the ‘greater Middle East,’ 1970-1992
- Drane, Lindsay, University of Houston, The Undeserving Hungry: A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps and Entitlement Liberalism, 1964-1996
- Gaither, Eric, Baylor University, Public Law 93-638: Re-visiting the Indian Question and Policy of Self-Determination
- Gambrell, Rivers, University of Oxford, Pigskin Politicking: The American Presidency and the Changing Politics of Sport
- Haefner, Julianne, Central Michigan University, U.S. Foreign Policy towards Angola during the Ford Administration, 1974 to 1977
- Jensehaugen, Jorgen, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Discovering the Palestinians: The missing link in U.S. Middle East Diplomacy
- Kim, Sejoo, University of Notre Dame, Clothing Americans: The Offshore Garment Industry in the American Pacific
- Lawrence, Scott, Columbia University, The Oil Price Revolution, U.S.-Saudi Relations, and the Crisis of American Leadership, 1967-1979
- Neale, Ashley, University of Kansas, The Architecture of the National Security State: President Richard M. Nixon, the war in Vietnam, and the National Security Council
- Pack, Benjamin Jared, University of Arkansas, Special Relationships: Anglo-American Latin America Policy and the Redefining of National Security, 1970-1982
- Soares, John, University of Notre Dame, Détente Takes a Beating: Sports Diplomacy in the Shadow of Angola
- Taiwo, Olatunde, Olabisi Onabanjo University – Nigeria, Ford in Nigeria’s Foreign Policy
- Taylor, William, Angelo State University – Texas, Citizens, Soldiers, and Society: American Civil-Military Relations since World War II
Spring 2017 Grants
- Carson, Adam, University of Arkansas, Changing the Heart of Dixie: Political Realignment in the Mid-South
- Carter, Todd, University of Oxford, "Clinging like barnacles to the old hull of empire": Race, Rhodesia, and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1964-1980
- Colacios, Roger Domenech, UNESP Sao Paulo State / Brazil, The Trajectory of the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States in the 1970s
- Duah, Manna, Temple University, African Students in a Cold War Global Revolt: Activism and Protest in Ethiopia, South Africa, and the United States
- Ehrenreich, Veronica, University of California, Santa Barbara, Apartheid's Campaign to Secure American Support
- Fink, Pierre-Christian, Columbia University, Strategies of Major Banks for Shaping Financial Regulation, 1945-1980
- Forsberg, Carl, University of Texas at Austin, Searching for Order: The Transformation of the U.S. Middle East Alliance System in the 1970s
- Kane, Eryn, Ohio University, The Political Partnership of Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter
- Kim, Jooeun, Georgetown University, Stepping out from under the Umbrella: Alliance Credibility and Nuclear Proliferation
- Marino, Alex, University of Arkansas, The United States and the Angolan Revolution: Southern Segregation, Black Nationalism, and the Cold War in Africa
- Rafferty, Lisa, Bridgewater State University, SHE DID ALL THAT - Betty Ford: Speaking Out, Saving Lives
- Redihan, Erin, Boston University, Winning Hearts and Medals: The Olympics and the Cold War from 1972-1992
- Scanlon, Sean, Universlty of Nebraska, Lincoln, Domestic Politics and the U.S.-Israeli Relationship During the Ford Administration
- Schwartz, Allison, University of Minnesota, Defining Women's Worth: Credit, Indebtedness, and Homeownership in the New Debt Economy
- Siegal, Sarah, Washington University in St. Louis, Remodeling Renewal?: The Model Cities Program and the Challenges of Urban Redevelopment
- Williams, Daniel, University of West Georgia, The Last of the Moderates: The 1976 Presidential Election and the Rise of Culture War Politics
- Zhu, Tianxiao, University of Minnesota, Secret Trails: Trade, Material Exchange and Cold War in the Late Maoist China, 1960-78
Fall 2016 Grants
- Blumenthal, Seth, Boston University, Children of the Silent Majority
- Daigle, Craig, City College of New York, Camp David and the Remaking of the Middle East
- Do, Khue Dieu, Seoul National University, Drawing the Bamboo Curtain: U.S. Relations with Communist Countries during Ford and Carter Administrations (Focusing on China, Vietnam, and North Korea)
- Gambrell, Rivers, Oxford University, Presidential Pigskin: Football and the American Presidency (1969-1993)
- Gibbs, David, University of Arizona, How the United States Became a Right-Wing Nation: Explaining the Policy Shift of the 1970s
- Lacombe, Matthew, Northwestern University, Beyond Money: The National Rifle Association and Interest Group Power
- Lazic, Milorad, George Washington University, The United States Cold War Strategy and Yugoslav Contested Sovereignty, 1969-1979
- Levin-Bonder, Jennifer, University of Toronto, FIRA and Loathing: The Origins, History, and Legacy of the Foreign Investment Review Agency, 1968-1985
- Lifset, Robert, University of Oklahoma, The Many Energy Crises of the 1970s
- Morefield, Heidi, Johns Hopkins University, Making Technology Appropriate: Modernization, Health, and Development in the Global Cold War
- Sabet, Farzan, Graduate Institute (Geneva), The Iranian Nuclear Program, U.S. Policy, and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, 1968-1978
- Smith, Marcus, Perdue University, The International Community's Response to the Ba'th Party's Anti-Semitic Campaign of Terror in Iraq
Spring 2016 Grants
- Bobadilla, Eladio, Duke University,‘One People without Borders’: The Chicano Roots of the Immigrants Rights Movement, 1954-1994
- George, Nathanial, Rice University, A Third World War: Lebanon, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1967-1990
- Jhong, Ming-Syuan, Texas Tech University, Operation Babylift—Bringing Cold War Orientalism Home
- Jones, Dustin, University of Windsor, Hyper Masculine Portrayals of U.S. Cold War Presidents
- Justice, David, Oklahoma State University, Building Democracy: U.S.-Spain Relations, 1965-1982
- Kurr, Jeff, Pennsylvania State University, When the Fed Speaks: A Rhetorical History of the Federal Reserve
- Lutsch, Andreas, Stanford University, Assuring U.S. Allies in MAD: A History of Nuclear Consultation in NATO
- Maurer, John, Georgetown University, An Era of Negotiation: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1969-1972
- Maxime, Minnie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Gerald Ford and the Panama Canal Question: Stormy Debates and Internal Scuttling
- Özgöde,Onur, Harvard University, In the Name of the System: Governing the Economy at the Limits of Neoliberalism, 1922-2010
- Rathe, Caitlin, University of California Santa Barbara, Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public / Private
Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988
- Sica, Carlo, Syracue University, The Deregulation of Natural Gas and the Rise of Neoliberalism in the 1970s
- Speller, Mo, Johns Hopkins University, Intersecting Streets: Redlining, Urban Planning, & Community Development in St. Louis City 1945-1980
- Toner, Simon, Dartmouth College, At War with Global Development: The United States, South Vietnam, and the War after Tet
- Townley, Dafydd, University of Reading (UK), Spies, Civil Liberties and the Senate: The 1975 Church Committee
- Vander Broek, Allison, Boston College Rallying the Right-to-Lifers: Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Antiabortion Movement Before Roe
- Williams, Brandon, University of California, Berkeley,Building Labor, Building Globalization: The International Labor Organization and Global Labor Development, 1944-1980
- Zeoller, Silkie, Temple University, University of Colorado, Boulder, Internationalizing Counterterrorism: Combating the Threat of Terrorism in the United States and Western Europe, 1968-1980
Fall 2015 Grants
- Adler, William, Northeastern Illinois University, Party Differences in Vice Presidential Selection
- Colbourn, Susie, University of Toronto, Defining Détente: NATO’s Struggle for Identity, 1975–1983
- Conway, Catrina, Ohio University, The Rockefeller Commission and the Year of Intelligence
- Fasulo, Micheal, Texas A & M University, Reckoning with Minuteman: the Effect of ICBM Vulnerability on American Arms Control Policy during the Ford and Carter Administrations
- Franczak, Michael, Boston College, Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and the North-South Dialogue, 1974-1982: A U.S. Perspective
- Germann, Julian, University of Sussex (UK), Triennium of Stabilisation: German-American Economic Crisis Management under Schmidt and Ford, 1974-1976
- Milner, Samuel, Yale University, Robbing Peter to Pay Phil: Business, Government, and Wage-Price Policy, 1945-1980
- Morris, Robin, Agnes Scott College, Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender and the Rise of the New Right 1955-1985
- Reagan, Michael, University of Washington, Capital City: New York in Fiscal Crisis
- Sarkar, Jayita, Harvard University, Nuclear Commerce and Nonproliferation: The United States, its Allies and Industrial Suppliers
- Siekmeier, James, West Virginia University, Present at the Creation: United States - Latin American Relations in the Mid-1970s
- Teague, Aileen, Vanderbilt University, Our War In Mexico: U.S. Drug Control in Mexican Politics and Society
- Toader, Iulian, University of Bucharest (Romania) / American University, The United States, Romania, and European security (1969-1975)
- Zeiler, Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder, If Goods Don’t Cross Borders, Armies Will: Free Trade Thought in the Ford Administration
Spring 2015 Grants
- Beadle, Meaghan, University of Virginia, This is What a Feminist Looks Like! Photography and Feminism, 1968-1987
- Bunker, Rachel, Rutgers University, Pliable Privacy: The State, Business, and the Growth of the American Information Economy
- Caviglia, Daniele, UNINT-Roma (Italy), Competitive Partners. US-EEC Monetary Relations Between Cooperation and Confrontation (1971-1979)
- De Groot, Michael, University of Virginia, Globalization and the Transformation of the International System in the 1970s
- Elliott, Cara, College of William & Mary, P.S. Don't Tell My Mother: American Childhood Experience, Race, and Gender during the Postwar Era
- Ellis, Thomas, University of Southampton (UK), Reds in Space: American Perceptions of the Soviet Space Program 1967-1988
- Foss, Chris, University of Colorado, Boulder, Facing the World: Government and Globalization in the Pacific Northwest
- Halvorson, (George) Charles, Columbia University, Pricing the Environment: Privileged Costs and the Legacy of Regulatory Reform
- Miles, Simon, University of Texas, Austin, Engaging the ‘Evil Empire’: International Crises, Leadership Transitions, and US-Soviet Rapprochement in the Second Cold War
- Minami, Kazushi University of Texas, Austin, From Enemies to Friends: Public Diplomacy and U.S.-Chinese Reconciliation, 1965-1979
- Mitelpunkt, Shaul, Northwestern University, American Liberals, Israel and War: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations and the Reinvention of American Power, 1958–1986
- Pechlivanis, Paschalis, European University Institute, The United States and Romania During Détente: the Rise and Fall of a Special Relationship (1969-1980)
- Peterson Christian Ferris State University, The Ford Administration, Baltic Republics, and Baltic NGOs
- Rowe, Daniel, University of Oxford (UK), The Long Economic Crisis: Reconstructing America in a Decade of Upheaval and Uncertainty, 1974-1984
- Sarantakes, Nicholas, Naval War College, Keeping the Cold War cold: U.S.-Korean Relations in the 1960s and 1970s
- Shepherd, Keegan, University of South Florida, Measuring Up: Standardized Testing and the Fight for Modern American Identity, 1945-2001
- Toller-Clark, Ian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The Silent Majority: A Globalizing Wisconsin and the Realignment of U.S. Politics
- Wilson, Benjamin, Stanford University, Insiders and Outsiders: The Practice and Politics of Arms Control in the Age of Nuclear Weapons
Fall 2014 Grants
- von Bremen, Benedict, Tübingen University (Germany), Two-Way Streets and Einbahnstraßen: U.S. and West German Debates about NATO Defense Cooperation in the 1970s
- Cairo, Michael, Transylvania University, The Personal Politics of Peace: American Presidents, Israeli Prime Ministers, and the Peace Process
- Fioretos, Orfeo, Temple University, The United States and Global Negotiations During Economic Crises
- Gutin, Myra, Rider University, Dancer: A Biography of Betty Ford
- Hiramatsu, Ayako, John Hopkins University, Politics of Boundary Reconstruction: Democratic Consildations in the Deep South, 1964-1980
- Hogan, Jacob, University of Toronto, Early Steps in the Long Marathon for Global Economic Management: the International Monetary Fund, the United States, and China, 1965-1980
- King, Sarah, SUNY Binghamton, Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam Era
- Minami, Kazushi, University of Texas, Austin, International History of China's Embrace of the West, 1971-1979
- Sayle, Timothy, Southern Methodist University, Pax Atlantica: NATO's Cold War, from Harry S. Truman to George H.W. Bush
- Winger, Gregory, Boston University, After the Fall: Rebuilding America's Pacific Alliance After the Vietnam War
Spring 2014 Grants
- Grantham, David, Texas Christian University, Understanding Cold War Diplomacy in Latin America
- Hellwege, Benjamin, CUNY Graduate Center, When Age Changed: Inventing the Senior Citizen, 1945-1975
- Huang, Yuxing, Boston College, Moving Between Credibility and Flexibility: China's Indochina Strategies
- Kaufman, Scott, Francis Marion University, Power, Pragmatism, and Party: The Life of Gerald R. Ford
- Koehler, John, Auburn University, In the Shadow of the Presidency: An Exploration of Presidential-Cabinet Relations
- Michel, Eddie, University of Birmingham (UK), Uncle Sam in Africa: U.S. Foreign Policy on Rhodesia During the Unilateral Declaration of Independence Era of 1965-1979
- Nascimento, Mila, CUNY Graduate Center, Dictatorship Across Borders: Relations between Brazil, Chile and the United States
from 1964 - 1985
- Pachetti, Federico, University of Hong Kong (China), Beyond the Logics of the Cold War: U.S. - China Relations in the 1970s and 1980s
- Phillips, Jared, University of Arkansas, A Tangled Hope: Jimmy Carter and Human Rights at the End of the Cold War
- Pho, Helen, University of Texas, American Economic Aid, Inflation, and Corruption in South Vietnam, 1965-1975
- Reiss, Megan, University of Texas, Presidential Decision Making and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Determining the Place for Nonproliferation in American Foreign Policy
- Rhodes, Joel, Southeast Missouri State University, In a Land Called Honalee: The Sixties in the Lives of American Children
- Roberts, George, University of Warwick (UK), The Cold War in Dar es Salaam, c.1964-1979
- Sharpe, Bethany, University of Kentucky, Consuming Emergencies: Operation Babylift and the Commodification of U.S. Humanitarianism
- Skala, Matthew, Catholic University of America, Presidential Disability and Succession: The Complicated History of the 25th Amendment
- Taylor, William, Angelo State University, In the Service of Democracy: American Military Service from World War II to the Present
- Winn, Ryan, College of the Menominee Nation, President Ford's Serendipitous Role in American Indian Self-Determination
Fall 2013 Grants
- Allen, Neal, Witchita State University, Navigating the Shifting Politics of Race: in the 1950s and 1960s: Future Congressional Leaders and Civil and Voting Rights Legislation
- Camp, Michael, Emory University, Greater Abundance: The 1973 Oil Crisis and the Fate of American Liberalism
- Cooper, James, Oxford Brookes University (UK), US presidents and the Northern Ireland conflict
- Davis, Robert, Army Command and General Staff College, The Quest for Flexible Response: A History of NATO’s Cold War Strategy
- Fear, Sean, Cornell University, Ending the Vietnam War: US-South Vietnamese Reactions, 1973-1975
- Haichami, Hanane, Hassan II University (Morocco), The History of the American Aid to Morocco 1956 – 1984
- Jain, Romi, Indian Journal of Asian Affairs, Trajectory of US-China Economic Relations from the Nixon Administration to the Obama Administration
- Jang, Se Young Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland), U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy towards South Korea and Taiwan During the Ford Administration
- Koncewicz, Michael, University of California - Irvine, Too Many Nice Guys: Republicans in the Nixon Administration Who Said No to the President
- Marsh, Steve, Cardiff University (UK), The Anglo-American Special Relationship: What Role for Summitry?
- Martinez, Michael, University of Tennessee, The Image and Public Memory of President Gerald R. Ford
- Miodek, Anais, University of California - Santa Cruz, The Liberal Constraint: Work, Citizenship and Ideology in the United States, 1933-2014
- Ojo, Patrick, O. Awolowo University (Nigeria), Comparative Study of United States’ Support for Democracy in Nigeria and South Africa
- Olsen, Erik, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), The Unregulated and Regulated United States Intelligence Community 1968 - 1980
Spring 2013 Grants
- Antonopoulos, Athanasios, University of Edinburgh (UK), Greek-US relations: attitudes, policies and interests, 1974-1981
- Balogh, Mate, University of Debrecen (Hungary), Hungarian-American Relations during détente
- Baltz, Matthew, University of California – Los Angeles, The Limits of American Industrial Policy: State Power and the Rare Earth Sector in an Era of Globalization
- Baron, Kevin, University of Florida, Presidents, Partisanship, and Policy Entrepreneurs: Reconceptualizing Institutional Change through the Freedom of Information Act
- Ben-Ephraim, Shaiel, University of Calgary (Canada), Can We Settle this? : The settlements in the occupied territories and US-Israel relations, 1967-1980
- Foxworth, Laura, University of South Carolina, The Spiritual is Political: How the Southern Baptist Convention Debated Feminism and Found the New Right
- Givens, Seth, Ohio University, Cold War Capital: The U.S. Military in Berlin, 1945-1994
- Jackson, Galen, University of California – Los Angeles, A Lost Peace? Superpower Relations and American Middle East Strategy
- Kahn, Matthew, Northwestern University, To Conserve or Develop: The Politics of Energy Extraction and Environmental Protection, 1969-1980
- Kami, Hideaki, Ohio State University, Diplomacy, Migration, and Confrontation with Castro's Cuba, 1974-1992
- Kolander, Kenny, West Virginia University, Religious Special Interest Groups and the Ford Administration's Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- Murphy, Ciaran, University College Dublin (Ireland), Congressional Oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, 1974-1989
- Nickrand, Jessica, University of Minnesota, Health in the Model City: The Social Costs of Deindustrialization in Detroit, 1946-1993
- Rowley, Sarah, Indiana University, A New Right: The Cultural Politics of Abortion, 1960s-1980s
- Rude, Lisa, University of Maine, The First Ladies of the United States: Sources of Their Political Power and Influence
- Sandman, Patrick, Oxford University (UK), Bringing Congress Back In: Watergate and the Politics of Institutional Change
Fall 2012 Grants
- Aigner, Peter Christian, City University of New York, Between Reform and Realignment: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Struggle for a New Democratic Party
- Andic, Savkar, University of Oxford (England), Checkmate, Stalemate: the Cold War and the Iranian Revolution, 1975-1979
- Barrett, Marsha E., Rutgers University, Nelson Rockefeller Confronts the Radical Right: The Life and Death of Moderate Republicanism
- Bentivoglio, Giulia, University of Trieste (Italy), A Role Found? Britain in the 1970s between the Superpowers
- Byrnes, Sean T., Emory University, The United States in Opposition: S.S. Reaction to World Opinion and the Global South in the United Nations, 1972-1984
- Dobbs, Charles M., Iowa State University, Into the Fulcrum: The United States and Northeast Asia, 1963-1976
- Elinson, Gregory, University of California, Berkley, Relative Strength: Conceptualizing the Power of Organized Business, 1968-1980
- Gheorghe, Rodica Eliza, University of Oxford (England), Institutional, Commercial and Diplomatic Tracks to Nuclear Technology: Romania's Nuclear Acquisition Techniques, 1964-1979
- Reger, Alexander, University of Connecticut, Moments in Reconstruction: Rhetorical Leadership in the American Presidency
- Ronan, Jim, Catholic University of America, Living Dangerously: The Uncertainties of Presidential Succession and Disability
- St. Julien, Danielle E., Binghamton University, The “Black Silent Majority”: The Black Middle Class, Federal-Policy Making, and the Post-Civil Rights Transformations of America, 1968-1980
- Shehu, Karl, Attorney and independent historian, America's Vulnerability: Presidential Succession and Inability in the Twenty-first Century
- Stevens, Simon, Columbia University, International Pressure and the End of Apartheid, 1958-1994
- Thompson, Sue, Australian National University, British Military Withdrawal and the Rise of Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia, 1964-1975
Spring 2012 Grants
- Akhtar, Rabia, Kansas State University, U.S. Non-Proliferation Policy and Pakistan’s Nuclear Program (1970s-1980s)
- Bounds, Brittany, Texas A&M University, The Right Response: The Reaction of the Silent Majority to the Social Movements of the Sixties
- Castro, Mauricio, Purdue University, Sunbelt Miami: Race, Cuban Refugees, and Federal Policy, 1959-1984
- Condron, Aidan, Aberystwyth University (Wales), U.S.-Egypt “Common Strategy”1970-1976? Planning and Implementation
- Goyette, Kyle, University of Houston, Southern Discomfort: The Equal Rights Amendment, the New Right, and the Southernization of American Politics
- Griffis, Chelsea, University of Toledo, Conservative Women and the Equal Rights Amendment
- Holland, Max, Editor and writer, A Need to Know: Inside the Warren Commission
- Parrott, Joe, The University of Texas, The Wind of Change Triumphant: The Transnational Politics of Portuguese Decolonization, 1961-1976
- Schuster, Natalie, University of Houston, Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief
- Simpson, Brad, Princeton University, The First Right: Self Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-1991
- Tarsi, Melinda, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, A Veteran Welfare State: Veterans’ Benefits and the Development of American Social Policy
- Taylor, Keeanga, Northwestern University, From American Dream to Predatory Lending: Public/Private Programs to Promote Home Ownership Among Low-Income African Americans in the 1970s
- Vuic, Kara, Bridgewater College, Abortion in the Military in the Era of Roe v. Wade
- Wellum, Caleb, University of Toronto (Canada), Energizing the Right: Economy, Ecology, and Futures in the American Energy Crisis of the 1970s
- Wesolowska, Ksenia, University of Nottingham (England), U.S. mediation in the Arab-Israeli conflict in the period 1967-1979
Fall 2011 Grants
- Basha, Aurelie, London School of Economics (England), “Salted Peanuts and Drinks”: Withdrawal plans for the Vietnam War under the Kennedy and Nixon administrations
- Blackbourn, Nicholas, University St. Andrews (Scotland),
Planning for Victory: The Committee on the Present Danger and Mobilizing America for the “Second Cold War”, 1976-1980
- Branscombe, Jensen Elise, Texas Christian University, Putting the Lid on the Melting Pot: Immigration Policy and the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1965-1986
- Brenes, Michael, City University of New York,
For Right and Might: The Cold War and the Making of Big-Government Conservatism
- Cochran, Joshua D., University of Iowa, Beyond the Water’s Edge: American Expatriates, the Vietnam War, and the NATO Alliance, 1964-77
- Craig, Malcolm, The University of Edinburgh (Scotland),
Anglo-American Relations and Nuclear Proliferation in India and Pakistan, 1974-1980
- Dimari, Georgia, University of London (England),
The Origins of the High Level Agreements in Cyprus: Their Origins, Evolution and Repercussions, 1974-1979
- Fain, W. Taylor, University of North Carolina Wilmington,
The United States and the Indian Ocean in the Era of Cold War and Decolonization
- Guberman, Rachel, University of Pennsylvania,
The Real Silent Majority: The New Metropolitan Politics in the Rocky Mountain West
- Hogue, Andrew P., Baylor University,
Gerald Ford and the Stewarding of American Conscience
- Mauldin, Daniel, Georgetown University,
The Restoration of King Coal: The Energy Crisis and the Debate over Alternatives to Oil
- McLay, Mark, University of Edinburgh (Scotland),
Lyndon Johnson and the Republican Challenge to the Great Society
- Scarnecchia, Tim, Kent State University,
Kissinger in Africa: the African significance of Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy to Africa in 1976
Spring 2011 Grants
- Azari, Julia, Marquette University, Principles and Power: How Institutional Context and Intra-Party Dynamics Shape American Party Ideologies, 1948-2011
- Bowen, Michael, University of Florida, The Watergate Babies and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
- Bunte, Jonas, University of Minnesota, Sovereign Lending and Foreign Policy – The Financial Diplomacy of US Lending in the Late 20th Century
- Henderson, Robert, University of Maryland, Dream Deregulated: The Transformation of Housing Finance, 1968-1985
- Jachertz, Ruth, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), International Cooperation and Conflict in the Food Aid Regime, 1950s-1970s
- Lipman, Jana, Tulane University, Operations Other than War: The U.S. Military’s Engagement with Humanitarian Operations, 1945-1989
- Maragkou, Konstantina, Yale University, American Foreign Policy towards Greece’s Transition to Democracy, 1974-79
- Millwood, Pete, Oxford University (England), The Role of the Chinese Domestic Factor in Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-76
- Musgrave, Paul, Georgetown University, Entangling Alliances: Presidents and Strategic Issue Linkage in International Relations
- Wight, David, University of California - Irvine, Petrodollar Promise and Peril: The Strategic, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Rise in US Trade and Investment with the Middle East after the Oil Shock
- Williams, D. Clinton, Harvard University, Righteous Politics in the Black Metropolis: Race Religion and Urban Space in Postwar Chicago
- Wollet, Benjamin, Ohio University, Switching Tracks: The Place of Railroads in an Era of Economic and Environmental Reform
Fall 2010 Grants
- Allen, Michael, Northwestern University, Bleak House: Congressional Activism and the Confidence of Crisis, 1968-1989
- Badalassi, Nicolas, University of Paris (Sorbonne), France and the Origins of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- Donnally, Jennifer, University of North Carolina, Caught in the Middle: Ford, the Politics of Abortion and the New Right
- Farrington, Joshua D., University of Kentucky, Forgotten Republicans: African Americans and the Party of Lincoln, 1948-1972
- Golland, David H., Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, Biography of Arthur A. Fletcher
- Grove, DeeAnn, University of Iowa, The Education President: The Effects of Presidential Election Campaign on Educational Policy
- Johnson, Jeremy, Brown University, The Republican Welfare State: Social Policy Reinvention from Nixon to Obama
- Lazarowitz, Arlene, California State University, Long Beach, The American Jewish Leadership and President Gerald R. Ford: Differences over the Middle East “Reassessment” Plan
- Macekura, Stephen, University of Virginia, The Fights for the Commons: NGOs, Global Environmental Politics, and the Rise of Sustainable Development, 1972-1992
- Marchiel, Rebecca, Northwestern University, “To Make this City Viable Again”: National People’s Action and Urban Reinvestment, 1968-1989
- Peterman, Kelly M., University of Virginia, Liberalization on the Nile: Architects, Allies, and Opponents of Globalization in Egypt, 1973 to 1991
- Rosenfeld, Sam, Harvard University, Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System, 1950-1994
- Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan, U.S. Naval War College, Buffalo Men: The Boy Scouts of America and the Oval Office
- Snyder, Sarah, University College London (United Kingdom), The Rise of Human Rights in United States Foreign Relations
- Zake, Ieva, Rowan University (New Jersey), Ethnic Politics of American Political Parties and Presidential Administrations, 1960s-1980s
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