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Laura J. Gifford <lauragifford@frontier.com> George Fox University |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-1960s Former List Editor for H-1960s Reviewer for H-1960s |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies American History / Studies Political History / Studies Religious Studies and Theology |
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Bio: Scholar in Residence, George Fox University, Newberg, OR EDUCATION March 2006 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Field: American history Dissertation: “The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Presidential Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism” June 2003 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles Field: American history May 2000 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington Majors: history, political science Summa cum laude PUBLICATIONS Co-editor with Daniel K. Williams, Decade of Transformation: Contesting the Future of Conservatism in the 1960s (work in progress). The Center Cannot Hold: The 1960 Presidential Election and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (Northern Illinois University Press, 2009). “The Education of a Cold War Conservative: Anti-Communist Literature of the 1950s and 1960s,” in Print Culture in the Cold War, ed. Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). “Washington, Valores J.,” in African American National Biography (Oxford University Press, Spring 2008). “ ‘Dixie is No Longer in the Bag’: South Carolina Republicans and the Election of 1960.” Journal of Policy History, Spring 2007 (19:2): 207-233. Review of Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton, 2006), H-1960s, posted 11 June 2007. “More than Missiles [review of Christopher A. Preble’s John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap (Northern Illinois, 2004)],” H-1960s, posted 11 April 2005. “Nixon and the Clergymen: Politics, Religion, and the Anti-Communist Threat, 1953-1960,” in Robert P. Ericksen and Michael J. Halvorson, ed., A Lutheran Vocation: Philip A. Nordquist and the Study of History at Pacific Lutheran University (Pacific Lutheran University Press, 2005). “Terror on the Wind: Southern Oregon’s Tragic Connection to the Fu-Go Project of World War II.” Southern Oregon Heritage Today 4 (August 2002): 8-13. CONFERENCE PAPERS January 2012 “Midget Missiles and Penny Projectiles: The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and Anti-Communist Education,” Modern Language Association Convention, Seattle, Washington. April 2010 “ ‘Girded With a Moral and Spiritual Revival’: The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and Conservative Politics,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 2009 “Taking This Party Back: Barry Goldwater and the Draft Goldwater Campaigns of 1960,” Goldwater at 100 Conference, Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe [invited speaker]. September 2008 “Kennedy’s Loyal Opposition: National Review and the Development of a Conservative Alternative, 1961-1963,” John F. Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy Conference, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. April 2007 “The Education of a Cold War Conservative: Anti-Communist Literature of the 1950s and 1960s,” Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Portland, Oregon. November 2005 “ ‘Nixon the Freedom Fighter’: American Nationalities for Nixon-Lodge and the Politics of Ethnicity,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. August 2005 “ ‘Nixon the Freedom Fighter’: American Nationalities for Nixon-Lodge and the Politics of Ethnicity,” Pacific Coast Branch—American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Oregon State University, Corvallis. October 2004 “ ‘Dixie is No Longer in the Bag’: South Carolina Republicans and the Election of 1960,” Second American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing. April 2004 “Nixon and the Clergymen: Politics, Religion, and the Anti-Communist Threat, 1953-1960,” GWU-UCSB Second Annual Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
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