Program of the

2004 Policy History Conference

Sponsored by the

 Institute for Political History

and the Journal of Policy History

                                                           

May 20-23, 2004

Clayton, Missouri

 

THURSDAY, MAY 20

 

Plenary Session, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Gallery I

Federal Education Policy in Historical Context

Chair/Comment:  Regina Werum, Emory University

Panelists:

            Bill Roberti, Superintendent, St. Louis City Public Schools

            Thomas Corwin, U.S. Department of Education

            Gareth Davies, Oxford University

            Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan

 

Plenary Session, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Gallery I

The Scholarship and Legacy of Hugh Davis Graham

Chair/Comment:  Martha Derthick, University of Virginia

Panelists:

            Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University

            John Skrentny, University of California, San Diego

            Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

            Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

Opening Reception.  The Journal of Policy History will host a cash-bar reception with appetizers for all participants and their guests from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 20th in the Gallery Ballroom in the conference hotel. 

 

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 21

 

8:30-10:00 A.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  Why the South Was Lost

Chair:  Robert Lieberman, Columbia University

Panelists:  Byron Shafer, University of Wisconsin

“Economic Development, Racial Desegregation, and Partisan Change”

                   William Rorabaugh, University of Washington

“The South, the Democratic Party, and Civil Rights in the Sixties”

                   David Farber, University of New Mexico

“Conservatives and Civil Rights”

Comment:  Robert Lieberman, Columbia University

 

Gallery IV:  Gun Rights

Chair:  Akinyele K. Umoja, Georgia State University

Panelists:  David Beito, University of Alabama

“Blacks, Civil Rights, and Gun Ownership in Mississippi”

                 Emilie Raymond, University of Missouri, Columbia

“From My Cold Dead Hands:  Charlton Heston and Project Exile”

Comment:  Akinyele K. Umoja, Georgia State University

 

Gallery VI:  Incentives and Costs of Health Care Policy

Chair:  Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University

Panelists:   Rick Mayes, University of Richmond and

                  Jason S. Lee, National Organization for Research at Chicago

“Catch Me If You Can:  Hospitals, Cost Shifting, and the Game of Medicare Payment Policy”

                 Jennifer Erkulwater, University of Richmond

“Making Children Sick?  Disability Policy, Incentives, and Epidemics”

                 Carl Ameringer, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

“Antitrust and Organized Medicine:  From Flexner to Goldfarb”

Comment:  Daniel Gitterman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

Gallery VII:  Race and Public Administration in the American South

Chair:  Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists:  Kimberley Johnson, Barnard College

“’Improving the Tone of Government’:  Training for Modern Public Administration in the South”

                 Deborah E. Ward, Seton Hall University

“Racializing Welfare Administration in the South, 1920s-1960s”

Comment:  Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Gallery VIII:  The Military-Industrial Complex and American Policy History

Chair:  Roger Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Panelists:  Michael Bernstein, University of California, San Diego

“The Capture of Public Policy in Theory and In Fact: Revisionist Notes on the History of the U.S. Military Industrial

Complex”

                 Abraham Shragge II, University of California, San Diego

“War and Urban Development Policy in Southern California, 1898-1998”

                 Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston

“Military Keynesianism and the Economics of War in the 1960s”

Comment:  Julian Zelizer, State University of New York, Albany

 

 

10:15-11:45 A.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  BOOK SESSION:  Jacob Hacker, The Divided Welfare State

Chair:  Julian Zelizer, State University of New York, Albany

Panelists:  Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia

                Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University

                Christopher Howard, College of William and Mary

Response:  Jacob Hacker, Yale University

 

Gallery IV:  Moral Foundations of the Modern American State

Chair:  James Morone, Brown University

Panelists:  Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago

“Members of an Amazonian Corps:  Women in the Federal Indian Service, 1880-1920”

                Michael Easterly, University of California, Los Angeles

“Forgive Some of Us Our Debts:  Usury Laws in Turn-of-the-Century New York”

                Kyle G. Volk, University of Chicago

“The Immorality of Work:  Sunday Law, Religious Freedom, and the Positive State in Nineteenth-Century America”

Comment:  Barbara Y. Welke, University of Minnesota

 

Gallery VI:  Dilemmas of Business and Government

Chair:  David Hart, Harvard University

Panelists:  Eric A. Cheezum, University of South Carolina

“Intervention or Protection?  Woodrow Wilson, Responsible Government, and the Federal Trade Commission”

                John L. Farris, Georgia State University

“American Tripartitism:  The Carter Administration’s Automobile Industry Policy of 1980”

Comment:  David Hart, Harvard University

 

Gallery VII:  Science and Policy in the Cold War State

Chair:  Brain Balogh, University of Virginia

Panelists:  Bruce Helvy, University of Washington

“Scientific Research, State Service, and Knowledge Structures in the Postwar U.S.”

                Michael Dennis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

“Machine Politics:  Vannevar Bush Solves the Problem of Expertise in a Democratic Polity”

                Mary Wammack, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“Atomic Policy at a Crossroads:  The Roots of Atomic Governance”

Comment:  Brain Balogh, University of Virginia

 

Gallery VIIII:  ROUNDTABLE:  Sovereignty and the United States:  With the Perspective of History

Panelists:  Richard Bensel, Cornell University

                Patrick Conge, University of Arkansas

                Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas, San Antonio

                Burke Hendrix, Cornell University

 

 

 

1:30-3:00 P.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  The Sexual Revolution in Postwar America

Chair:  Andrea Friedman, Washington University, St. Louis

Panelists:  Alan Petigny, University of Florida

“The Sexual Revolution Among African Americans”

                 Ian Dowbiggin, University of Prince Edward Island

“Sex without Babies:  Sterilization and the Sexual Revolution in Modern America”

                 Gerald O’Brien, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

“Eugenic Policies, Metaphoric Themes, and the Social Construction of Moronity during the ‘Eugenic Alarm’ Era,

(1900-1945)”

Comment:  Andrea Friedman, Washington University, St. Louis

 

Gallery IV:  Anti-Statism and the Emergence of the Modern Fiscal State

Chair:  Bruce Schulman, Boston University

Panelists:  Ajay K. Mehrotra, Indiana University

“Toilers, Tariffs and the Income Tax Movement”

                 James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago

“Buying into the American State, 1942-1949:  War Bonds, Income Taxes and Patriotic Consumption”

                 Joseph Crespino, Emory University

“Seg Academies or Church Schools?  Race, Religion, and Taxes in the Post-Civil Rights South”

Comment:  Brian Balogh, University of Virginia

 

Gallery VI:  Below the Radar Screen:  Unlikely Allies and Unrecognized Influences in U.S. Policymaking

Chair:  Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia

Panelists:  Paul Milazzo, Ohio University

“The Unlikely Environmentalist:  The Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Waste Management, and the

Transformation of Water Pollution Control Policy, 1965-1972”

                Margaret Pugh O’Mara, Stanford University

“The Customer Sends Its Business Elsewhere:  Place-Based Contracting from Truman to Clinton”

                Daniel P. Gitterman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“The President and the Power of the Purchaser”

Comment:  Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia

 

Gallery VII:  Race, Public Policy, and Employment in the Urban North

Chair:  Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

Panelists:  Guian A. McKee, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia

“American Urban Policy and the Quest for Community Capitalism:  Leon H. Sullivan and Philadelphia’s Progress

Movement”

                 Ronald C. Timmons, Southern Illinois University

“Preferential Policies in the Name of Justice:  The Afro-American Patrolmen’s League of Chicago and the Origin of

Affirmative Action”

Comment:  Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

 

Gallery VIII:  Networks of Power:  Rethinking Government-Business Relations in Nineteenth-Century America

Chair:  Richard R. John, University of Illinois-Chicago

Panelists:  Sean Patrick Adams, University of Central Florida

“King Coal’s Public Servants:  The Impact of Federalism upon Energy Policy in Nineteenth-Century America”

                 Mark R. Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

“The Fangs of the Early American State:  Military Institutions in U.S. Political Development, 1789-1914”

Comment:  James L. Huston, Oklahoma State University; Bartholomew Sparrow, University of Texas, San Antonio

 

 

3:15-4:45 P.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  ROUNDTABLE:  The Iraq War in Historical Perspective

Moderator:  James Matray, California State University, Chico

Panelists:  Mark Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin

                 Michele Angrist, Union College

                 Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin, Madison

                 Chester Pach, Jr., Ohio University

 

Gallery IV:  Economics, Business, and Policy History

Chair:  Guy Alchon, University of Delaware

Panelists:  Steven Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Antitrust and Innovation:  Industrial Policy for the American Century”

    David Hart, Harvard University

“The Computer Industry in U.S. National Policy-Making, 1950-1970”

Comment:  Guy Alchon, University of Delaware

 

Gallery VI:  The Ground Under Our Feet

Chair:  David Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Panelists:  Margaret DeWeese-Boyd, Gordon College

“Citizen Involvement and Land Use and Development Policy in Vermont:  1970 to Present”

                 David J. Webber, University of Missouri

“Prelude to Earth Day:  National Environmental Policy Leadership, 1950-1970”

                 Michael M. Welsh, Albright College

“Reforming the BLM From Within:  The Unexpected Consequences of NEPA, 1978-Present”

Comment:  David Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

 

Gallery VII:  Questioning Authorities:  Power and Infrastructure in Modern America

Chair:  Gail Radford, State University of New York, Buffalo

Panelists:  Michael R. Fein, Brandeis University

“Road Building, State Building, and the Origins of the New York State Thruway Authority”

                Louise Nelson Dyble, University of California, Berkeley

“The Metamorphosis of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District”

                Peter H. Brown, University of Pennsylvania

“Public Authorities and Institutional Change:  The Port of New York Authority Precedent and Four Port Authorities

Today”

Chair:  Gail Radford, State University of New York, Buffalo

 

Gallery VIII:  Rights and Criminal Justice

Chair:  Gerda Ray, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Panelists:  Sean Kheraj, York University

“Hanging In There:  The Failure to Abolish Capital Punishment in Canada, 1966”

                 Norwood Andrews, University of Texas

“Making Victims:  Institutional Politics and Victims’ Rights in Texas Criminal Justice”

                 Gwendoline Alphonso, Cornell University

“Women’s Imprisonment in Nineteenth-Century New York:  An Issue of Social Control?”

Comment:  Gerda Ray, University of Missouri, St. Louis

 

Plenary Session, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Gallery I

Public Policy, Bureaucracy & Democracy

Chair/Commentator:  James Morone, Brown University

Panelists:

Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago

David Robertson, University of Missouri, Columbia

Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University

 

 

The American Political History Initiative and the Miller Center for Public Affairs will host a cash-bar reception with appetizers in the Gallery Ballroom on Friday, May 21st from 6:30-8:30 p.m. All participants and their guests are invited.

 

 

 

Saturday, May 22

 

 

8:30-10:00 A.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  Associations in American Political Development

Chair:  Ann-Marie Szymanski, University of Oklahoma

Panelists:  A. Lanethea Mathews-Gardner, Muhlenberg College

“From Woman’s Club to NGO:  How the United Nations Changed Women’s Associations in the Mid-20th Century”

                Ann-Marie Szymanski, University of Oklahoma

“Regulatory Policy, Associational Development, and the Decline in Civic Engagement”

                McGee Young, Gettysburg College

“Interest Group Liberalism and American State Development”

                Loren Gatch, University of Oklahoma

“Self-Help, Associationalism, and Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts in Antebellum America”

Comment:  David Beito, University of Alabama

 

Gallery IV:  Fissures in the Welfare State

Chair:  Julian Zelizer, State University of New York, Albany

Panelists:  Stephen Ortiz, University of Florida

“The New Deal for Veterans:  FDR’s Veterans’ Policy and the Political Origins of the Second New Deal”

                 Andrea Louise Campbell, Harvard University, and Kimberly J. Morgan, George Washington University

“The End of Social Solidarity?  The Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America”

                 Kevin Yuill, University of Sunderland

“The Silent Majority:  Nixon’s Contribution to Victimhood”

Comment:  Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University and

                 Julian Zelizer, State University of New York, Albany

 

Gallery VI:  The Idea of Disease in Early Health Care Policy

Chair:  James Mohr, University of Oregon

Panelists:   James Alsop, McMaster University

“A Sanitarian Confronts the Mosquito:  Dr. Joseph Porter and the Florida Board of Health, 1889-1915”

                 Sarah F. Rose, University of Illinois, Chicago

“No Right to be Idle:  Industrial Accidents, Workmen’s Compensation, and the Idea of Disability, 1908-1918”

                 David Schuster, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Patients, Physicians, Neurasthenia, and America’s Contested Health Care Policy”

Comment:  James Mohr, University of Oregon

 

Gallery VII:  Public Policy in Two African Nations

Chair:  George Ndege, Saint Louis University

Panelists:  Apollos O. Nwauwa, Bowling Green State University and Ogechi E. Anyanwu, Bowling Green State University

“The Challenges of the Universal Basic Education Policy in Nigeria”

                Creed Mushimbo, Bowling Green State University

“Nationalistic or Opportunistic?  Mugabe’s Land Policies in Post-independence Zimbabwe, 1980-2002”

Comment:  George Ndege, Saint Louis University

 

Gallery VIII:  Communication Policy History in International Perspective

Chair:  William Berry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Panelists:  Richard R. John, University of Illinois, Chicago

“Nickel-in-the-Slot:  The ‘Consumption Junction’ in Urban Telephony, 1894-1907”

                Robert Horwitz, University of California, San Diego

“Negotiated Liberalization:  Stakeholder Politics and Communication Sector Reform in South Africa”

Comment:  William Berry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

10:15-11:45 A.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  BOOK SESSION:  James Morone, Hellfire Nation

Chair:  Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University

Panelists:  Donald Critchlow, Saint Louis University

                Brian Glenn, Harvard University

                Ian Dowbiggin, University of Prince Edward Island

                Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University 

Response:  James Morone, Brown University

 

Gallery IV:  Family, Gender, and the Law

Chair:  Nan Kaufman, Saint Louis University School of Law

Panelists:  Gwyneth I. Williams, Webster University

“The Innovation and Diffusion of Joint Custody:  The Language and Influence of Attorneys”

                 Leandra Zarnow, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Securing Liberal Policies in a Conservative Political Climate:  Public Benefits Protections for Battered Immigrant

Women, 1990-2000”

      Sheila A. Jones, Bowling Green State University

“How the Feminist Movement Defined Sexual Harassment:  A Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural Analysis”

Comment:  Felicia Kornbluh, Duke University

 

Gallery VI:  Knowledge and Policy:  Social Science and the Reconstruction of American Politics, 1930-1975

Chair:  Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists:  Jessica Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

“Pragmatism and the New Deal State:  Legal Science, Social Science, and the Securities and Exchange

Commission in the 1930s”

     Sarah E. Igo, University of Pennsylvania

“Gallup, Roper, and the ‘Man in the Street’:  Producing the Public in Mid-Century America”

     Karen Ferguson, Simon Fraser University

“Organizing the Ghetto:  The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and American Pluralism, 1965-1975”

Comment:  Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Gallery VII:  Labor and Reform in Europe and the United States

Chair:  Judith Stein, City University of New York

Panelists:  Freida Fuchs, Wooster College

“Women, the State, and Protective Labor Legislation in Britain and France:  A Critical Evaluation”

                Diane E. Schmidt, California State University, Chico, and Michele Hoyman, University of North Carolina

“Politicized Performance Monitoring:  The Impact of Civil Service Reform on Case Processing in the NLRB Regional

Offices”

                Danielle J. Swiontek, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Not Just an Eight-Hour Day:  Trade Union Women, Politics, and Labor Policy in California, 1910-1927”

Comment:  Larry Gerber, Auburn University

 

Gallery VIII:  War, the State, and National Security

Chair:  Victor Le Vine, Washington University, St. Louis

Panelists:  Gary R. Hess, Bowling Green State University

“Presidential Leadership and the War Making Power, 1991 and 2002”

                 William H. Thomas, Jr., University of South Alabama

“Vigilantism and the U.S. Department of Justice during the First World War”

Comment:  Victor Le Vine, Washington University, St. Louis

 

 

Luncheon.   A conference luncheon will be hosted at the Sheraton Clayton Plaza at Noon on Saturday, May 22.  Please order your luncheon ticket on the pre-registration form.  At the luncheon, the Journal of Policy History will announce this year’s recipient of the Ellis Hawley Prize for the best article published by a junior scholar in the previous two years in the journal.

 

 

1:30-3:00 P.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  New Perspectives on the American State:  The Exceptional American State Reconsidered

Chair:  Jacob Hacker, Yale Unviersity

Panelists:  Brian Balogh, University of Virginia

“The Strange Career of National Public Authority in Nineteenth-Century America”

                Charles Romney, History Institute

“The Legal Limits of the New Deal State:  The Labor Board and the Pacific Canneries”

                Bruce Schulman, Boston University

“Governing Nature, Nurturing Government:  The Birth of the Resource Management State”

Comment:  Jacob Hacker, Yale University

 

Gallery IV:  Personal Politics:  Rethinking Social Policy in Nineteenth-Century America

Chair:  Richard R. John, University of Illinois, Chicago

Panelists:  Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, Harvard University

“Creating Citizen Savers:  The Political Economy of Personal Finance in Nineteenth-Century America”

                 Cathleen D. Cahill, University of Chicago

“The Federal Indian Service in the Gilded Age:  A Reassessment”

Comment:  Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley

                 Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University

 

Gallery VI:  Regulating Communication

Chair:  Robert Horwitz, University of California, San Diego

Panelists:  Cindie Jeter Yanow, Southeast Missouri State University

“The Federal Communication Commission’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules for the Broadcast Industry:  A

Public Policy Formulated by the Courts”

                 Michael Zarkin, Westminster College of Salt Lake City

“Microeconomic Ideas and the Transformation of US Spectrum Regulation:  Congress, the FCC, and the Move

Toward Spectrum Auctions, 1977-1998”

Comment:  Robert Horwitz, University of California, San Diego

 

Gallery VII:  Radicalism in the Pacific Northwest

Chair:  Greg Hall, Western Illinois University

Panelists:  Jeffrey A. Johnson, Washington State University

“The Politics of Socialism in the Northwest, 1911-1912”

                 Brian Thorn, Trent and Carleton Universities

“It Was the Love of Life that Moved Them:  Left-Wing Women and the Peace Movement in 1950s British Columbia”

Comment:  Greg Hall, Western Illinois University

 

Gallery VIII:  Policing the Poor

Chair:  Stephen Pimpare, Hunter College, City University of New York

Panelists:  Alan Bloom, Valparaiso University

“A Failed Experiment:  The Poorhouse of Cook County (Chicago), Illinois, 1835-1871”

                 David Wagner, University of Southern Maine

“Silent History:  The Poorhouse and Poor Farm in New England, 1890-1967”

                 Molly Michelmore, University of Michigan

“Deadbeats, Taxpayers, and Dependent Children:  Welfare Reform and Child Support Enforcement, 1950-1974”

Comment:  Stephen Pimpare, Hunter College, City University of New York

 

 

3:15-4:45 P.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery I:  The Yellow Brick Road in 21st Century American Law and Public Policy: State Courts, Judicial Independence, and Adherence to Stare Decisis

Chair:  Joseph Benson, Archivist, Missouri Supreme Court

Panelists:  Hon. Ronnie L. White, Chief Justice of Missouri

“The Need to Expand the Missouri Non-Partisan Court to Large Out-State Judicial Circuits: When Former Rural

Circuits Grow into Urban Centers”

                Scott Comparato, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

“Behavior in Judicial Selection:  State Supreme Courts and Stare Decisis

Comment:  Steven A. Puro, Saint Louis University

 

Gallery IV:  Twentieth-Century U.S. Education Policy

Chair:  Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan

Panelists:  Tracy Steffes, University of Chicago

“State Policing of Local Schools:  Compulsory Attendance, State-Level Regulation, and the Modern Origins of

National Education Policy”

                 John Spencer, Rowan University

“The Local Roots of Compensatory Education:  Philadelphia’s Dunbar Elementary School 1958-1963”

                 Heather Lewis, New York University

“Fragmentation or Innovation?  New York City’s Experiment with School Decentralization, 1966-1986”

                 Elizabeth Rose, Brown University and Yale University

“Pushing for Preschool in the 1960s and the 1990s:  Comparing the Origins of Head Start with those of State

Prekindergarten Programs”

Comment:  Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan

 

Gallery VI:  Church and State

Chair:  Kenneth J. Heineman, Ohio University

Panelists:  Nancy Theresa Kinney, University of Missouri, St. Louis

“Organized Religious Interests and the Making of Welfare Policy, 1960s-1990s”

                 Aaron L. Haberman, University of South Carolina

“Negotiating from the Periphery:  The Christian Right’s Crusade for a School Prayer Amendment, 1982-1985”

Comment:  Gregory L. Schneider, Emporia State University

 

Gallery VII:  Expansion, Growth, and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century

Chair:  Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists:  Don Heidenreich, Lindenwood University

“The Federalists’ West”

                 Peter J. Kastor, Washington University, St. Louis

“Building a Federal Government:  Rethinking Institutional Development in the Early American Republic”

     Daniel W. Hamilton, New York University

“Confiscation and Emancipation in the 37th Congress”

Comment:  Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley

 

Gallery VIII:  The 1970s:  Rethinking Policymaking in an Age of Limits

Chair:  Bruce Schulman, Boston University

Panelists:  Ed Berkowitz, George Washington University

“The 1970s as Watershed”

                Judith Stein, City University of New York

“From Keynesianism to Market Fundamentalism:  the 1970s”

                Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Panic at the Pump:  The Energy Crisis and the Politics of the 1970s”

                David Farber, University of New Mexico,

“Making Foreign Policy in Hard Times with a Weak Hand: Islam, Iran, and the Carter Administration”

Comment:  Bruce Schulman, Boston University

 

Plenary Session, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Gallery I

International & Domestic Public Policy

Chair/Commentator:  Bartholomew Sparrow, The University of Texas

Panelists:

Tim Borstelmann, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Ira Katznelson, Columbia University

Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California

Alan Dawley, College of New Jersey

 

 

 

Sunday, May 23

 

 

8:30-10:00 A.M. SESSIONS

 

Gallery IV:  Beyond Race and Class: Black Workers and Labor Policy in America

Chair:  Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University

Panelists:  Paul Moreno, Hillsdale College

“The Right to Work:  Law, Economics, and Racial Discrimination in American Labor History”

                Henry M. McKiven, Jr., University of Southern Alabama

“Beyond the Hill-Gutman Debate:  Black Labor, White Capital, and the Racial Division of Work in Birmingham,

Alabama”

Comment:  Jonathan Bean, Southern Illinois University

 

Gallery VI:  U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policies in the Twentieth Century

Chair:  M. Isabel Medina, Loyola University

Panelists:  Rebecca Bohrman, Yale University

 “Sifting Immigrants:  The Historical Roots of Administrative Failure in the INS”

                 Stephen R. Porter, University of Chicago

“Refugee Resettlement and Labor Exploitation in the Federal Displaced Persons Program, 1948-1952”

                 Carl Bon Tempo, University of Virginia

“Selling Refugees, Selling ‘Americans,’ Selling Public Policy:  Public Relations Campaigns and American Refugee

Policies, 1957-1980”

Comment:  M. Isabel Medina, Loyola University

 

Gallery VIII:  A Variety of Responses:  The Aftermath of Genocide

Chair:  Michael Ruddy, Saint Louis University

Panelists:  Joshua Steele, Bowling Green State University

“The Politics of Denial:  How the Armenia Genocide Continues to Affect World Policies”

                Tara Crugnale, McMaster University

“The Pigeon Caves:  The Suppression of Genocide in World War II and its Consequences for the Former

Yugoslavia”

                Maria Baldwin, Bowling Green State University

“Justice in Rwanda:  International And Local Remedies”

Comment:  Emmanuel Uwalaka, Saint Louis University

 

 

10:15-11:45 SESSIONS

 

Gallery IV:  Law and Administration from FDR to Reagan/Bush

Chair:  Daniel R. Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center

Panelists:  Joanna L. Grisinger, University of Chicago

“The Attorney General’s Committee on Administrative Procedure and the Politics of Procedural Reform”

                Felicia Kornbluh, Duke University

“Friction in the Archives:  The Battle Over Welfare Rights in Administrative Fair Hearings”

                Reuel Schiller, Hastings College of Law, University of California

“A Surprising Antagonist:  Executive Deregulation and the Federal Judiciary, 1978-1992”

Comment:  Daniel R. Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center

 

Gallery VI:  Shifting Expert Consensus in the 1970s:  The Political Economy of Population, Intellectual Property Rights, and Banking in the U.S.

Chair:  Brian Balogh, University of Virginia

Panelists:  Alethia Jones, Yale University

“Exclusion as Expertise:  The Consolidation of Community Banking Advocacy in the Nineteen Seventies”

                 Derek S. Hoff, University of Virginia

“The Invisible Hand of Childbirth:  Population and the 1970s Laissez-faire Revival”

     Shelley L. Hurt, New School University

“Manufacturing the Information Economy:  The 1974 Trade Act”

Comment:  Brian Balogh, University of Virginia

 

Gallery VIII:  Caring for Children and Their Families:  The Politics of Welfare Services, 1930-1972

Chair:  David Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Panelists:  Ethan Sribnick, University of Virginia

“Defining Child Welfare:  Federal Support for Child Welfare Services, 1935-1968”

                 Laurel Joy Spindel, University of Chicago

“From Institution to Community:  Changing Child Care Practices in Chicago, 1940-1970”

                 Mary Jean O’Sullivan, Seton Hall University

“The Politics of Child Advocacy:  The Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., 1945-1972”

                 Andrew Morris, Union College

“Social Service and the Wartime Welfare State in World War Two”

Comment:  David Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas