2005 Spring Fellowship Conference

Nation Building at Home and Abroad - 10:00-11:30 a.m.

David Adesnik, Oxford University
"Reagan Entrapped: Part I, the Philippines"

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Mentor: Melvyn Leffler, University of Virginia Professor of History

Emily Brunner, University of Chicago
"Irish-American Nationalists and the Dilemmas of National Belonging, 1919-1925"

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Mentor: Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America Professor of History

Moderated by: Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia Professor of International Relations

Deliberation and Democracy - 11:45-1:15 p.m.

Christopher Loss, University of Virginia
"Spreading Democracy: American Higher Education in the 1950s"

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Mentor: Julie Reuben, Harvard University Professor of Education

Jon Shields, University of Virginia
"The Nature of Christian Right Activism"

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Mentor: James Q. Wilson, Pepperdine University Professor of Public Policy

Moderated by: Lynn Sanders, University of Virginia Associate Professor of American Politics

Manuscript Review of James Patterson's From Watergate to Bush v. Gore - 2:30-4:45 p.m.

From Watergate to Bush vs. Gore

Author: James Patterson, Brown University

Commentators: Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University; John Skrentny, University of California, San Diego; and Alan Wolfe, Boston College

Moderated by: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia Professor of History

Redrawing the Boundaries of American Citizenship - 9:30-10:15 a.m.

Justin Wert, University of Pennsylvania
"Habeas Corpus and the 'History' of the Warren Court"

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Mentor: Mark Graber, University of Maryland Professor of Law and Government

Jenny Cheng, University of Michigan
"Are Children Citizens?: The Minimum Voting Age and Liberal Democratic Citizenship"

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Moderated by: Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia Professor of Politics

Changing Attitudes Toward Government Intervention and the Economy - 10:30-12:00 p.m.

Shane Hamilton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture"

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Mentor: Edmund P. Russell, University of Virginia Associate Professor of History

Molly Michelmore, University of Michigan
"American Conservatism and the Politics of Welfare in the Nixon Era"

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Mentor: Julian Zelizer, Boston University Professor of History

Moderated by: Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia Associate Professor of American Politics and Public Policy