Recent Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grant Recipients
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
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