2012 - Victor McFarland, Yale University, The Oil Crisis of the 1970s: An International History

2011 - Brent Cebul, University of Virginia, Freedom From: Small Government, Big Government Policies, and the Rise of Blue Collar Republicans, 1970-1994

2010 - Josh Mound, University of Michigan, Inflated Hopes, Taxing Times: The Politics of Economic Crisis in the Long 1970s.  

2009 - Candace Clare Sobers, University of Toronto, The Crisis of Decolonization, the Challenge of Intervention: Revolutionary Angola, 1968-1976

2008 - Adam Saunders, Trinity College, University of Oxford, Power and the Welfare State: The Political Economy of American and British Unemployment Insurance Reform, 1964-1986.

2007 - Vanessa P. Walker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ambivalent Allies: Advocates, Diplomats, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America. 

2006 - Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Harvard University, Corporate Leaders and the Pro-Business Agenda in Modern American Politics.

2005 - Erika Franklin Fowler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Party Images, Public Opinion, and Political Change.

The application deadline for the Ford Scholar Award each year is April 10.  For more information, please visit our Ford Scholar page or contact the Library by e-mail or telephone (734-205-0555).