The impact of Clements Research Grants

This summer 4 UT students and professors will travel to Europe, China, and Washington, DC to enhance their work at UT.

Andy Stravers (PhD candidate, Department of Government) will be traveling to two regional US military combatant commands in Germany as well as Romania and Bulgaria to interview officials about the establishment of American military bases abroad.

Joseph Parrott (PhD candidate, Department of History) will present on a panel at the Transatlantic Studies Association’s 14th annual conference in The Netherlands and will continue his research at the National Archive in The Hague for his dissertation titled “A Luta Continua: Transnational Activism, African Decolonization, and the Mainstreaming of American Anti-imperialism.”

Kazushi Minami (PhD candidate, Department of History) will travel to Arlington, Virginia to participate in a panel at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations titled “From Containment to Reconciliation: Sino-American Relations during the Middle Cold War.” Kazushi will then examine the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republc of China collections housed at the Gelman Library at George Washington University.

Joshua Eisenman (Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs) will continue his research that “seeks to explain the macro political economy of 1960s and 1970s rural China.” He will do this by traveling to Henan Province to present his research at Henan University and collect agricultural data on the county level from 1949-1984.

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