2006 Spring Fellowship Conference
May 4, 2006
9:30 AM
Daniel Galvin, Sidney M. Milkis, Stephen Porter, Akira Iriye
Building Organizational Capacities: Political Parties and Refugee Policies - 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Daniel Galvin, Yale University
"Presidential Party Building"
Mentor: Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia Professor of Politics
Stephen Porter, University of Chicago
"A New Deal for Refugees? American Poor Relief at Home and Abroad during the Nazi Era"
Mentor: Akira Iriye, Harvard University Professor of History
Moderated by: Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia Associate Professor of American Politics and Public Policy
May 4, 2006
11:15 AM
Martha Biondi, Heather Lewis, Thomas J. Sugrue, Suleiman Osman
The New Urban Reform: Decentralizing Political Power - 11:15-12:45 p.m.
Suleiman Osman, Harvard University
"Protecting the Middle Cityscape: Brownstoners Defend Urban 'Place' from the Machine"
Mentor: Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania Professor of History and Sociology
Heather Lewis, New York University
"More Than 'Half a Loaf': Everday Governance and Democratic Action"
Mentor: Martha Biondi, Northwestern University Associate Professor of African American Studies and History
Moderated by: Guian McKee, University of Virginia Assistant Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
May 4, 2006
2:00 PM
John Skrentny, Risa Goluboff, Daryl Scott, Thomas J. Sugrue
Manuscript Review of Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty - 2:00-4:30 p.m.
Sweet Land of Liberty
Author: Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Commentators: Daryl Scott, Howard University; Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia; and John Skrentny, University of California, San Diego
Moderated by: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia Professor of History
May 5, 2006
9:15 AM
Stephanie Muravchik, Gary Laderman, Julia Ott, Meg Jacobs
Redeeming Democracy in 20th Century America - 9:15-10:45 a.m.
Stephanie Muravchik, University of Virginia
"Alcoholics Anonymous: Spiritual Therapy as Civil Society After World War II"
Mentor: Gary Laderman, Emory University Professor of Religion
Julia Ott, Yale University
"'Be a Shareholder in Victory': Financial Nationalism and the American Citizen-Investor in the First World War"
Mentor: Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor of History
Moderated by: Gerald Fogarty, University of Virginia Professor of Religious Studies and History
May 5, 2006
10:45 AM
Elisabeth Clemens, Shamira Gelbman, Marc Landy, Caroline Lee
Compromise in Comparative Perspective: The Environment and Labor - 10:45-12:15 p.m.
Caroline Lee, University of California, San Diego
"San Diego's Multiple Species Conservation Plan: Empowered Deliberative Democracy in Action"
Mentor: Marc Landy, Boston College Professor of Political Science
Shamira Gelbman, University of Virginia
"Bringing Race and Class Back In: American Democratization in Comparative Perspective"
Mentor: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Sociology
Moderated by: Lynn Sanders, University of Virginia Professor of American Politics