2007 Spring Fellowship Conference
May 10, 2007
9:30 AM
Dale C Copeland, Sarah Kreps, Michael J. Smith, Seth Center
The Tools of Diplomacy - 9:30-11:00 am
Seth Center, University of Virginia
"Spreading the American Dream?: Power, Image, and U.S. Diplomacy, 1968–1976"
Mentor: Michael J. Smith, University of Virginia Professor of Political and Social Thought
Sarah Kreps, Georgetown University
"Power, Arms, and Allies: U.S. Multilateralism in an Age of Unipolarity"
Mentor: Dale Copeland, University of Virginia Professor of Politics
Moderated by: William Quandt, University of Virginia Professor of International Relations
May 10, 2007
1:30 PM
Andy Achenbaum, Katie Otis, R. Drew Smith, Larycia Hawkins
New Forms of Activism - 1:30-3:00 pm
Larycia Hawkins, University of Oklahoma
"Follow the Civil Rights Road: Black Capture Meets the Faith-Based and Community Initiative"
Mentor: R. Drew Smith, Morehouse College Scholar-in-Residence
Katie Otis, University of North Carolina
"'Kindly Give this Letter Your Personal Attention': Reexamining the Senior Power Movement Through Floridian Bifocals: Retirees' Mid-Twentieth-Century Correspondence with Congressman Claude Pepper and Senator George Smathers"
Mentor: Andy Achenbaum, University of Houston Professor of History
Moderated by: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia Professor of History
May 10, 2007
3:15 PM
Ellen Herman, Joy Rohde
Social Science and National Security - 3:15-4:00 pm
Joy Rohde, University of Pennsylvania
"Counter insurgency on contract: Project Camelot, Social Science and American National Security in the Cold War"
Mentor: Ellen Herman, University of Oregon Professor of History
Moderated by: Allen Lynch, University of Virginia Professor of International Relations
May 11, 2007
9:15 AM
Ronald Steel, Bob McMahon, Robert Jervis, Melvyn P. Leffler
Manuscript Review - 9:15-11:45 am
For the Soul of Mankind: The U.S., the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
Author: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia
Commentators: Robert Jervis, Columbia University; Bob McMahon, Ohio State University; and Ron Steel, University of Southern California
Moderated by: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia Professor of History
May 11, 2007
1:15 PM
Robert Saldin, David Mayhew, Derek Webb, William Galston
Reshaping the Political System in War and Peace - 1:15-2:45 pm
Robert Saldin, University of Virginia
"World War II and the Democratic Party's Ideological Shift"
Mentor: David Mayhew, Yale Professor of Political Science
Derek Webb, University of Notre Dame
"'Blowing out the Moral Lights around us': Abraham Lincoln, Political Religion, and the Declaration of Independence"
Mentor: William Galston, University of Maryland Professor of Political Science
Moderated by: James Ceaser, University of Virginia Professor of American Politics