OAH-IEHS Higham Travel Grants

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”

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"

2007 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"

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

2008 Gustavo Licón, University of Southern California, "Immigration, Conservative Backlash, and Chicano Student Response:  Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán, 1970-2000"

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

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

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"