Higham Travel Grant Recipients

2012
Aaron Bryant, University of Maryland, College Park, “A Different Lens: Alternative Views of the Civil Rights Movement and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign”

Cynthia Greenlee–Donnell, Duke University, “Daughters of the Nadir: Black Girls and Childhood on Trial in Jim Crow South Carolina”

2011
Mimi Cowan, Boston College, “Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Nineteenth Century Chicago”

Joseph S. Moore, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Irish Radicals, Southern Conservatives: Slavery, Religious Liberty and the Presbyterian Fringe in the Atlantic World, 1637–1877”

William Sturkey, Ohio State University, “Freedom’s Journals: Freedom School Student Activism and Leadership through Newspaper Production”

2010
Aaron Cavin, University of Michigan, “Challenging the Second Barrio: Federal Housing Policy, Racial Formation, and Mexican American Activisim”

Shira Miriam Kohn, New York University, “‘We Should Take a Stand:’ Jewish Sororities and the Campaign against California Bill #758”

Julian Lim, Cornell University, “‘The ‘Future Immense’: Multiracial Intersections in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”

2009
Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College, “Countering Nativism: Irish Immigrants’ Fight with the Threat of Deportation in Massachusetts, 1840–1860”

Donald W. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, “‘These are the things you gain if you make our country your country’: American Military Deserters and the Meaning of Citizenship in 1970s North America”

Elaine M. Nelson, University of New Mexico, “Posing for Profits: Tourism and Indigenous Communities in the Twentieth–Century Black Hills”

2008
Stacy Lowe Bondurant, The George Washington University (paper not presented at 2008 meeting)

Mayumi Hoshino, Indiana University Bloomington (paper not presented at 2008 meeting)

Gustavo Licón, University of Southern California, “Immigration, Conservative Backlash, and Chicano Student Response: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán, 1970–2000”

2007
Stephen Seng–hua Mak, Northwestern University, “The Other Internment: The United States, Latin America and 'Enemy Aliens' During the Second World War”

Maddalena Marinari, University of Kansas, “Toward a New Era: World War II and the Fight Against Immigration Restriction”

Eric R. Schlereth, Brandeis University, “Creating a Disenchanted Republic: American Political Independence and the Problem of Religion”

2006 Brian D. Behnken, University of California, Davis, “The Triracial Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas: Blacks, Mexican Americans, and the Limits of Interethnic Unity”

Evan Matthew Daniel, New School for Social Research, “Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigar Markers in Havana, South Florida, and New York City, 1850s–1890s”

Robert McGreevey, Brandeis University, “Organizing the Atlantic: New York, San Juan and the Making of a Global Economy, 1898–1920”

2005
Victoria Cain, Columbia University, “Nationalizing Nature in American Natural History Museums, 1880–1930”

Christopher McKnight Nichols, University of Virginia, “Towards a ‘Trans–National America’: Randolph Bourne on Internationalism, Isolation, War, and the Risks of Integrating Intellectuals into the State, 1914–1918”

Nicolas G. Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles, “Taking it to the Streets: The Practices of History with Urban American Indian Communities”