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Travel and Research Grants

Mark C. Stevens Fellowship & Bordin/Gillette Fellowship

* Bordin/Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship

# Mark C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship

OCTOBER 2007

• *DANIELLE BATTISTI, University of Buffalo
  • "Manipulating Immigration Restriction in Post War America: Italian Americans and Italian Immigration, 1945-1965"
• #NATHANIEL COMFORT, Johns Hopkins University
  • "History of Human Genetics"
• #MARCIANO R. DE BORJA, Embassy of the Philippines in Madrid, Spain
  • "The State Department Boys and the American Heritage in the Philippine Foreign Service"
• #CHRISTIAN McWHIRTER, University of Alabama
  • "Music and the American Civil War"
• *JULIE MUJIC, Kent State University
  • "Between Campus and War: Understanding Responses to the Civil War at the University of Michigan, Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin"
• *MARIA ELENA P. RIVERA-BECKSTROM, New School for Social Research
  • "The United States and the Philippines: Colonial and Postcolonial Politics in the Philippine Constitution Making"

MARCH 2007

• *JAMES BERKEY, Indiana University
  • "Itineraries of Empire: The Everyday Lives and Narratives of U.S. Agents of Empire"
• #JOHN DIMOIA, Princeton University
  • "Atoms for Sale? Teaching the Atom in South Korea, 1955-1959"
• *DONNA DRUCKER, Indiana University
  • "The Intellectual Life of Alfred Kinsey"
• *REBECCA J. KINNEY, Univ. of California, San Diego
  • "ReMapping Detroit, Encircling Nation"
• #MICHELLE KLEEHAMMER, University of Illinois
  • "Chasing the Climate Cure in the American West: Geographies of Health & Nation in late 19th and early 20th Century American Culture"
• #DAWN OTTEVAERE NICKESON, Michigan State University
  • "The Cost is Sworn to by Women: Counterinsurgency, American Party Politics, and International Relations from the Philippine War to the Philippine Independence Act, 1899-1935"
• *MARTIN JOSPEH PONCE, Ohio State University
  • "Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Critique"
• #ETHAN SHRUM, University of Pennsylvania
  • "Planning an Affluent Democracy: Universities and the American Polity, 1945-1970"

OCTOBER 2006

• *PATRICK BOTTIGER, University of Oklahoma
  • "Vincennes and Prophetstown: Identity and Racial Connections between American Indians and EuroAmericans, 1800-1825"
• *THOMAS FORD, Harvard University
  • "Crimes of Removal: Baw Beese and the Destruction of Squawfield"
• #TIMOTHY GALOW, University of North Carolina
  • "The Hemingway-Fitzgerald Years: Esquire, Celebrity and the Construction of a Modern Male Consumer"
• #LAWRENCE HATTER, University of Virginia
  • "Firm Boundaries: The Indian Trade, State Formation, and the Settlement of the Anglo-American Borderland, 1783-1817"
• *SHIRINE REPUCCI, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
  • "The Internet's Beginnings and the Incipiency Stage of a Social Movement"
• *KIMBERLY VOSS, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
  • "Roberta Applegate: A Groundbreaking Woman Journalist"
• #CHANG-YI YIN, Chinese Culture University (Taiwan)
  • "Taiwan (Formosa) in the Eyes of Professor Joseph Beal Steere in the late Nineteenth Century"

MARCH 2006

• #DENISE DEGARMO, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
  • "From Nuclear War to Nuclear Peace: The University of Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project"
• *JOHN GILKESON Arizona State University West
  • "Place Matters: Regionalism in Twentieth Century American Thought"
• #BRIAN KENNEDY, The Ohio State University
  • "A Divisive Decade: How Foreign Events and Cultural Conflicts Divided Americans During the 1930s."
• *WILLIAM LEBOVICH, Independent Scholar
  • "Shared Sacred Spaces: Albert Kahn, Pre-eminent American Architect"
• #CLEMENT LEVALLOIS, Universite-Lyon 2, France
  • "Kenneth Boulding and the Pre-history of Ecological Economics, 1928-1956"
• *HYUNG WOOK PARK, University of Minnesota
  • "Nathan W. Shock and the Establishment of Gerontology in the United States, 1930-1958"
• #JUNE PARK, University of Pittsburgh
  • "Regulating Layoffs: The Case of U.S. Plant Closing Legislation"
• #JASON PETRULIS, Columbia University
  • "Marketing Politics in America, 1932-1948"
• #JOHN QUIST, Shippensburg University
  • "Michigan and the Civil War Era: A Documentary History"
• *CYNTHIA STAVRIANOS, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • "The Politics of Motherhood: Maternal Frames in Women's Political Action"
• *THERESA VENTURA, Columbia University
  • "Empire for Reform: American Imperialism and Progressivism in the Philippines, 1898-1934"

OCTOBER 2005

• #R. BRYAN BADEMAN, Sacred Heart University
  • "Uplifting the World: Religious Culture, Liberal Ideals, and the American Nation, 1865-1920"
• *THERESA KAMINSKI, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  • "Sentimental Imperialist: Ethel Thomas Herold and the Philippines"
• #DEAN J. KOTLOWSKI, Indiana University
  • "Heir Apparent: Paul V. McNutt and the Age of F.D.R."
• *MAIRI MACDONALD, University of Toronto
  • "The Challenge of Guinean Independence, 1958-1972"

MARCH 2005

• #PAUL FINKELMAN, University of Tulsa College of Law
  • Implementing the Ordinance: Slavery, Race and Equality in the Old Northwest"
• *ROBERT L. A. HANCOCK, University of Victoria (Canada)
  • Anthropology is a Moral Science: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the 'Reinvention' of Anthropology, 1965-1975"
• #NINA REID-MARONEY, University of Windsor (Canada)
  • Higher Ground: The Life of Reverend Jennie Johnson, 1868-1967"
• *MARIA TERESA TOMAS RANGIL, University of Paris (France)
  • "Economic Theory of Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan, 1959-1971"
• #DANA WEINER, Northwestern University
  • "Racial Radicals, Principles Enacted: The Struggle Against Inequality, Prejudice, and Slavery, 1830-1861"
• #NANCY BECK YOUNG, McKendree College
  • "The Politics of War: Congress, World War II, and the Modernization of American Governance"
• *JU ZHANG, Brandeis University
  • "A Black Radical in Red China: Robert F. Williams' Encounter with China"

OCTOBER 2004

• *YAEL EPSTEIN, Michigan State University
  • "The Jewish Refugee Chemists from the Nazi Regime in the United States: Scientific Achievements, Adjustments and Jewish Identities"
• *ANDREA ESTEPA, Rutgers University
  • "Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and the Transformation of Women's Activist Identities in the U.S., 1961-2000"
• #BRIAN M. INGRASSIA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
  • "A Department of the Modern University: Football, Discipline and Manliness in American Colleges, 1869-1929"
• #WILLIAM J. PEACE, Independent Scholar (New York)
  • "James Griffin and the Development of Archaeology at the University of Michigan"
• #HEATHER MUNRO PRESCOTT Central Connecticut State University
  • "Student Bodies: The History of College and University Health"

MARCH 2004

• *SUSAN BRAGG, University of Washington
  • "Marketing the 'Modern Negro': Race, Gender and NAACP Activism, 1909-1945"
• *JENNIFER CRETS, Saint Louis University
  • "An Annotated Reprint Edition of Olive San Louie Anderson's An American Girl, and Her Four Years at a Boy's College"
• #PHILIPPE FONTAINE, London School of Economics (U.K.)
  • "Stabilizing American Society: Kenneth Boulding and the Integration of Social Science, 1956-1980"
• #JOSEPH JONES, Michigan State University
  • "The Making of a National Forest: The Contest over the Michigan Cutover, 1890-1946"
• #DEBIAN MARTY, California State University, Monterey Bay
  • "The Kentucky Raid: Lessons Learned From Practical Abolitionism"
• #CHRISTOPEHR MORRISON, Georgetown University
  • "Embracing a World of Empires: The American-Philippine Colonial State and its Interactions with the Empires of Other Nations, 1898-1920"
• *TERRIANNE SCHULTE, SUNY at Buffalo
  • "Grassroots at the Water's Edge: Women's Environmental Activism in the Great Lakes, 1950-1980"
• *STEFANIE SEEH, University of Cologne (Germany)
  • "Change and Continuity in the Protest Politics of African-American Churches in Detroit, Michigan, 1930-1967"
• *SHERYL JAMES VIGMOSTAD, Independent Scholar (Michigan)
  • "Martha Griffiths: A Biography"

OCTOBER 2003

• *KENNETH CARPENTER, Harvard University
  • "A History of Learned Libraries in the United States"
• *JOHN PAULY, Saint Louis University
  • "Esquire Magazine's Role in the New Journalism"
• *KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN, Columbia University
  • "The Roots of Reganism: Business Activism in the Liberal Age"
• #SILVANA SIDDALI, Saint Louis University
  • "Antebellum State Constitutions in the Old Northwest"
• #MARC VANOVERBEKE, University of Wisconsin
  • "Climbing the Ladder: The Evolving Relationship between Secondary and Higher Education, 1870-1915"

MARCH 2003

• #JANE AIKEN, Library of Congress
  • "Collecting the World: American Research Libraries in the Cold War Era"
• *SHARAN DANIELl, Stanford University
  • "Fred Newton Scott and Thomas Clarkson Trueblood: A Case Study in Disciplinary Relations Between Composition and Speech Rhetoric"
• *KENT KLEINMAN, SUNY at Buffalo
  • "William Muschenheim: American Architectural Modernism"
• #mICHAEL MEZZANO, Boston College
  • "The Problem of Restriction in American Immigration: Italians and the Discourse of Science"
• #TERRY REYNOLDS, Michigan Technological University
  • "Michigan's Iron: A History of the Iron Ore Mining Industry of Michigan and its Role in Shaping the Upper Peninsula"

OCTOBER 2002

• #DIMITRY ANASTAKIS, Michigan State University/Wayne State University
  • "Auto Continent: Consolidating the Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1971-2001"
• #GREGORY BOND , University of Wisconsin
  • "Jim Crow in the Ivory Tower: Changing Attitudes About Integrated Athletics at the University of Michigan"
• *TANFER EMIN-TUNC, SUNY at Stony Brook
  • "American Physicians and Abortion Techniques, 1850-1980"
• #STEPHEN MULCHER , University of Michigan
  • "From the Education of Teachers to Teacher Education: Preparation of Instructors for Michigan Secondary Schools, 1880-1930"
• *KAROLYN SMARDZ, University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • "Rolling that Stone Away: Anti-Slavery in the Lives of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn"
• *PAUL TEED, Saginaw Valley State University
  • "Peace, Unity and Progress: Jabez T. Sunderland and the American Response to India, 1890-1936"

MARCH 2002

• *LISA ANDERSEN , University of Chicago
  • "Social Thought in the Temperance Era, 1873-1933"
• #JOSEPH BONICA, Rutgers University
  • "The Politics of Private Experience: School, Administration and Citizenship in 19th America"
• *SUSIE J. LEE Cornell University
  • "Mapping Associations: U.S. Diplomatic Policy on East Asia and Domestic Race Relations, 1917-1937"
• *LISA S. MASTRANGELO, The College of St. Elizabeth
  • "The Training of a Lifetime: Progressive Era Women in the University of Michigan's Graduate Programs in English"
• #KENT McCONNELL, University of Virginia
  • "'There Must be Tears in the Houses': A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War""
• *WILLIAM MULLEN, University of Texas, San Antonio
  • "Robert F. Williams, Detroit and the World Black Revolution"
• *AARON SHAPIRO, University of Chicago
  • "The Metropolis' Nature - Playground of the Urban Midwest: Rural Tourism in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 1910-1960:"
• DAVID WITWER, Lycoming College
  • "Westbrook Pegler and the Anti-Union Movement"

OCTOBER 2001

• *STEFAN CIEPLY, University of Maryland
  • "The Lineaments of Personality: Esquire, the 'Well-Rounded Man' and the Vicissitudes of Masculinity, 1955-1965"
• THOMAS J. NOER, Carthage College
  • "'Soapy": A Biography of G. Mennan Williams"
• #FRANK SCHUMACHER, University of Erfurt
  • "Cultural Transfer and Empire? The United States and Great Britain in the Age of Imperialism, 1880-1920"

MARCH 2000

• *CHARLOTTE G. BORST, Saint Louis University
  • "Gender and Race in American Medical Education, 1915-1970"
• *SUSAN E. GRAY, Arizona State University
  • "Voices in a Marriage: The Diaries of George and Avilla Smith, Missionaries to the Odawa Indians, 1830-1879"
• #MARY E. MONTGOMERY, University of Maryland
  • "The Eyes of the World Were Watching: Ghana, Great Britain, and the United States, 1957-1966"
• #YIBAO XU, City University of New York
  • "Concepts of Infinity in the History of Chinese Mathematics"
• #GLENN ZUBER, Indiana University
  • "White Religion: Protestant Nationalisms and the Rise of the KKK, 1915-1930"

OCTOBER 1999

• #KEVIN BOYLE, University of Massachusetts
  • "The People v. Sweet: A Story of Race, Class and Murder in Jazz Age America"
• #STEPHEN D. ENGLE, Florida Atlantic University
  • "Lincoln and the War Governors: Forging Civil and Military Authority in the Union"
• *TIMOTHY HODGDON, Arizona State University
  • "Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: The Significance of Masculinity in the 1960s Counterculture"

MARCH 1999

• #KATHY J. COOKE, Quinnipiac College/Yale University
  • "History of Race Betterment and Eugenics in American History"
• *NADAV DAVIDOVITCH, Tel-Aviv University/Harvard University
  • "The Institutional and the Marginal: A Study into the Development of Homeopathy as Opposed to Orthodox Medicine"
• *KATHLEEN NORMAN, Claremont Graduate School
  • "Biologic Living: The Redemption of Women and America through Healthy Living, Dress and Eugenics"
• #SARAH JO PETERSON, Yale University
  • "The Politics of Land Use and Housing in World War II Michigan: Building Bombers and Communities"

OCTOBER 1998

• #IAN K. LEKUS, Duke University
  • "Queer and Present Dangers: Homosexuality, Democratic Politics, and American Peace Activism, 1964-1975"
• #NICK SALVATORE, Cornell University
  • "A Biography of Reverend Clarence L. Franklin"
• *MEGAN TAYLOR SHOCKLEY, University of Arizona
  • "'We Will Not Be Denied:' African American Women's Class-Based Activism in Detroit, Richmond, and Norfolk, 1940-1954"

MARCH 1998

• *ANNA-LISA COX, University of Illinois
  • "The Open Door: Race, Community, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Rural Michigan"
• #MARTIN HERSHOCK, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • The Politics of Uncertainty: Capitalist Transformation, Sectionalism and Political Culture in the Old Northwest"
• #ANDREW JOHNS, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • "The Republican Party and the 'Democrats War" in Vietnam, 1960-1969."
• *JENNIFER McMAHON, City University of New York
  • "Imagined America: Self Examination, Self-Presentation and Re-Presentation of American Identity during the American Colonization of the Philippines"
• DANIEL MOSES, University of Rochester
  • "Tom Sawyer Nation: Lewis Henry Morgan and the Discourse of Savagery"
• *DOROTHY ROGERS, Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna, Austria)
  • "Women Idealists in America, 1860-1900"

OCTOBER 1997

• *STACEY ROBERTSON, Bradley Univeristy
  • "Women Abolitionists in the West: Race, Gender and Politics"
• #JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN, New York University
  • "Storm Over the Schoolhouse: Popular Curriculum Wars in America, 1890-1990"

MARCH 1997

• *ANNE BROPHY, Cornell University
  • "'What of Youth Today?': Social Politics, Cultural Pluralism, and the Construction of Second Generation Ethnicity in Detroit, 1911-1943"
• THOMAS CARTY, University of Connecticut
  • "Resistance to John Kennedy's Religion in the 1960 Presidential Election"
• #JOHN MERTON MARRS, University of Washington
  • "College Sports Salesmen: The History of Sports Information Directors, 1919-1959"
• *KENNETH WHEELER, Ohio State University
  • "The College and Civic Culture in the Old Northwest: The Development of an American Region, 1825-1860"

OCTOBER 1996

• #THADDEUS RUSSELL, Columbia University
  • "Jimmy Hoffa and the Re-making of the American Working Class"

MARCH 1996

• *A. TROY ADAMS, Eastern Michigan University
  • "African-Americans, Cultural Reproduction: Change or Stagnation? The Case of the Ann Arbor Public Schools"
• *RANDALL BURKETT, Harvard University
  • "Charles S. Smith and the A.M.E. Sunday School Union Publishing Board, 1892-1922: Toward an Inclusive History of the Book"
• *JULIE KIMMEL, Johns Hopkins University
  • "American Business Schools and the Invention of New 'Technologies' of Worker Management"
• #ANDREW KERSTEN, University of Cincinnati
  • "The Fair Employment Practice Committee of the Midwest, 1941-1946"
• #CHARLES M. LAMB/JIM TWOMBLY, SUNY at Buffalo
  • "Presidents, Federalism, and Fair Housing Policy"

OCTOBER 1995

• *MARIE FRANK, University of Virginia
  • "Abstract Theory of Design: Emil Lorch and the Architecture Curriculum at the University of Michigan"
• #PHILIP E. HARROLD, University of Chicago
  • "'New Meanings to Unfold, New Acts to Propose': Religious Disestablishment and Social Imagination in the 'Athens of the West', Ann Arbor, 1870-1910"
• *WILLIAM J. PEACE, SUNY-Purchase
  • "Leslie White: Iconoclastic Scholar"

MARCH 1995

• *JAMES KATES, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • "Making a Middle Landscape: Writers, Editors, and the Re-imagining of the Northern Forest, 1900-1940"
• #PAUL KRAMER, Princeton University
  • "U.S. Anthropology in the Occupied Philippines, 1899-1915"
• *JOHN MCGREEVY, Harvard University
  • "Catholicism in the American Intellectual Landscape"
• #MICHAEL NEIBERG, Carnegie Mellon University
  • "The Reserve Officers' Training Corps Program, 1969-1989: the Reform and Rebirth of America's Primary Officer Procurement Program"

OCTOBER 1994

• *PRISCILLA ROBERTS, University of Hong Kong
  • "Senator Arthur Vandenberg and the United States Foreign Policy 'Establishment'"
• # HENRY O. ROBERTSON, Louisiana State University
  • "The Prism of Laughter: Antebellum Humorists in Regional Perspective"

MARCH 1994

• *LIETTE P. GIDLOW, Cornell University
  • "Getting Out the Vote: Gender, Politics, and Consumer Culture in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Beyond"
• *JOSEPH M HAWES, Memphis State University
  • "Children and Youth Between the Wars"
• #DEAN J. KOTLOWSKI, Indiana University
  • "Politics and Principles: The Civil Rights Policies of the Nixon Administration"

OCTOBER 1993

• #LAURA CALKINS, University of Michigan
  • "University Technical Assistance and Technology Transfer Programs in East and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965"
• *SYDNEY HALPERN, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • "Ethical Constraints in Medical Science: Clinical Testing of Vaccines, 1930-1960"

MARCH 1993

• *NANCY COHEN-LACK, Columbia University
  • "The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Capital: Reconstructing Liberal Political Ideology, 1865-1900"
• #ERIC T. DEAN, JR., Yale University
  • "In Evident Mental Commotion: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the American Civil War"
• #CHRISTOPHER VAUGHN, University of California, Berkeley
  • "Obfuscating a New Other, Defining a New Self: Public Discourse and the Colonization of the Philippines, 1898-1908"

OCTOBERr 1992

• #JEFF A. HALE, Louisiana State University
  • "Wiretapping the White Panthers: Nixon, the Mitchell Doctrine, and the Fourth Amendment"
• *SUZANNE E. SMITH, Yale University
  • "'Dancing in the Street': Motown & Detroit's Moment of Rebellion"

MARCH 1992

• #MARTIN HERSHOCK, University of Michigan
  • "Liberty and Power in the Old Northwest: Michigan, 1850-1877"
• *KRISTIN HOGANSON, Yale University
  • "Domestic Affairs and American Expansion: Gender, Militarism, and U.S. Foreign Policy"
• #TERENCE KEHOE, Ohio State University
  • "Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Politics, Policy and Water Pollution Control, 1960-1978"

MARCH 1991

• #IRENE HADERLE, Berlin (Germany) Technical University
  • "German Immigrant Women's Societies in Ann Arbor: 1870-1930"

OCTOBER 1991

• *JENNIFER KEENE, Carnegie Mellon University
  • "Civilians in Uniform: Building an American Mass Army for the Great War"
• #KEITH WAILOO, University of Pennsylvania
  • "Drawing Blood: American Medicine and the Changing Definition of Disease, 1880-1930"

March 1990

• *ELIZABETH LEONARD, University of California, Riverside
  • "Northern Women, Woman's Sphere, and the Civil War: An Historical Study of Gender Stereotypes"
• #ALFRED SKERPAN, University of Wisconsin
  • "Render Unto Caesar, Render Unto God: Defining the Relation of Religion to Public Higher Education at Four American State Universities, 1865-1920"
• *THOMAS SUGRUE, Harvard University
  • "The Origins of the Urban Underclass: Race, Industrial Decline, and Poverty in Detroit, 1940-1980"