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