Fellowships

2015-16


Maria Fedorova

  • Kenneth Mouré and Sara Norquay Graduate Study Award, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research: examines the circulation, transfer, and adaptation of agricultural ideas between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s.

 


Andrew Elrod

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    • Doctoral Grant, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

    Research: interested in the history of capitalism, particularly ideas raised by the transnationalization of business in the 1960s.

     


      Tim Paulson

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      • Graduate Student Fellowship, Institute for the Study of Ecological & Evolutionary Climate Impacts
      • Regent’s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • History Associates Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

      Research: is on the connections between environment and economics that originated on the American frontier and have led to the present obsession with market-based solutions to ecological and climate crises

       


      Serge Ferrari

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      • History Associates Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • All-UC Group in Economic History Data/Research Grant, Univeristy of California 

      Research: examines how General Electric remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century.

       


      Christopher Stephens

      • History Associates Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara

      Research: examines the reception in the United States of “dependency theory” in the 1960s and 1970s.

       


      Doug Genens

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      • History Associates – Frank and Amanda Frost Prize, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • History Associates – Monica Orozco Prize, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper in Labor History, New York Labor History Association

      Research: interested in 20th century U.S. social policy and rural poverty.

       


      Kristoffer Smemo

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      • Frost Prize for Best Work in Political Economy, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Regents’ Dissertation Fellowship, University of California
      • Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center

      Research: examines how interracial working-class mobilization shaped the rise (and fall) of the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

       


      Caitlin Rathe
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      • Graduate Humanities Research Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California Santa Barbara
      • Jerome M. Clubb Scholarship, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
      • Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Grant, Gerald Ford Presidential Library
      • Robert J. Dole Archive and Special Collections Research Fellowship, The University of Kansas
      • Summer Archival Research Fellow on Structural Inequality, University of Baltimore Langsdale Library
      • Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara

      Research: examines food assistance policies as a lens to understand the changes in public and private provision during the 1970s and 1980s.

       


      Jesse Halvorsen

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      • Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
      • History Associates – Don Van Gelderen Award, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

      Research: is on the struggle between labor and business over the terms of technology, regulatory policy, and business practices in the longshore, warehouse, and drayage industries in Southern California from the postwar period through the late 1980s. 

       

      2012-14


      Christopher Stephens

      • Richard and Jeanne Williams Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Christopher Stephens, History Associates Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • All-UC Group in Economic History Data/Research Grant, Univeristy of California

      Research: examines the reception in the United States of “dependency theory” in the 1960s and 1970s.

       


      Tim Paulson

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      • Summer Research Award for Off-Campus Upper Division and Graduate Students, Charles Redd Center For Western Studies, Brigham Young University

      Research: is on the connections between environment and economics that originated on the American frontier and have led to the present obsession with market-based solutions to ecological and climate crises.

       


      Doug Genens

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      • Atherton Award for Best Master’s Thesis on a Missouri Subject, The State Historical Society of Missouri      

      Research: interested in 20th century U.S. social policy and rural poverty.

       


      Maria Fedorova

      • All-UC Group in Economic History Data/Research Grant, Univeristy of California 
      • Darcy Ruth Ritzau Graduate Student Award, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

      Research: examines the circulation, transfer, and adaptation of agricultural ideas between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s.

       


      Kristoffer Smemo

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      • Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, Graduate Division, Graduate Division, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • Kristoffer Smemo, Bordin-Gillette Researcher Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
      • Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Research Grant, Eisenhower Presidential Library

      Research: examines how interracial working-class mobilization shaped the rise (and fall) of the liberal wing of the Republican Party.

       

      2010-11


      Tim Paulson

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      • Regent’s Special Fellowship, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
      • The Peter G. Liddell Humanities Computing Award, University of Victoria

      Research: is on the connections between environment and economics that originated on the American frontier and have led to the present obsession with market-based solutions to ecological and climate crises.

       


      Serge Ferrari

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      • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University
      • Research and Travel Grant, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University

      Research: examines how General Electric remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century.

       


      Maria Fedorova

      • Wayne Stanford Scholarship, Washington State University
      • Maria Fedorova, Graduate Student Travel Grant, Washington State University
      • Master’s Degree Fulbright Award, Washington State University

      Research: examines the circulation, transfer, and adaptation of agricultural ideas between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s.

       


      Christopher Stephens

      • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University

      Research: examines the reception in the United States of “dependency theory” in the 1960s and 1970s.