The Clark Travel-to-Collections program provides support for research using the automotive history collections of The Henry Ford. Return to overview of program.


2011 Fellows

• Saima Akhtar, doctoral candidate, University of California, Berkeley
  Imported to Detroit: Fordism, Management of (Inter)national Labor Migration and the Making of Ethno-spiritual Geographies, 1914-1953

• Bruce Wright, editor, Fabric Architecture
  Profile and design history of Bill Moss, developer of the Pop Tent in 1955

2010 Fellows

• Christopher Buck, assistant professor of political theory, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
  Industrial ecology of Ford Motor Company

• David Greenstein, PhD candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Assembling Fordism: transnational encounters and the production of automobiles, Americans and Bolsheviks in Detroit and early Soviet Russia

2009 Fellows

• Stefan Bauernschmidt, scientific assistant, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
  Ford in Inter-war Berlin

• Stefan Link, PhD candidate, Harvard University, Cambridge
  International Fordism-Henry Ford, National Socialism, and Illiberal Visions of a Just Economy in Germany and the U.S.A., 1920-1939

2008 Fellow

• Katherine Parkin, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth University, Long Branch, New Jersey
  “Women Drivers in the 20th Century.”

2007 Fellows

• Adam Saunders, doctoral student, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, University of Oxford, England
  “Company Policy and the Welfare State: Ford’s Approach to Unemployment Compensation in the United States and Britain, 1911-1955.”

• Damon Yarnell, doctoral student, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  “Behind the Line: Purchasing Agents, Shortage Chasers and the Origin of Mass Production at Ford Motor Company, 1908-1930.”

2006 Fellow:

• Terence Young, Assistant Professor of Geography, Geography and Anthropology Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
  "Pilgrim's Progress:  The Origin and Meaning of the Four Vagabonds' Camping Trips."

2005 Fellow:

• Andreas Exenberger, Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics
  Innsbruck University, Austria
  "Ford’s Obsession to Rubber: An Empirical Study about Irrational Decision Making"
  
  
• Sarah Rose , Ph.D. candidate University of Illinois at  Chicago .
  " No Right to be Idle:Work, Citizenship and the Invention of Disability 1880 - 1930"

• John Dean, Ph.D., University of Versailles: “The Pluralism of Edsel Ford”

• Dimitry Anastakis, Ph.D., York University and Canadian Fulbright scholar, Michigan State University: Ford Motor Company of Canada.
  
  
  
• Jens Kabisch, visiting tutor, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Meisenweg, Germany: "The Notion of Writing One's Own History in the Life and Work of Henry Ford"
  
  
  
• Miriam Nyhan, graduate student, University College Cork:  Henry Ford and Sons of Cork, Ireland

2001 Fellows:  

• Regina Lee Blaszczyk, assistant professor of History and American Studies, Boston University: The Revolution in Color Styling
  
  
  
• Christopher Wells, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin: "The Great American Love Affair: Cars, Culture and the Origins of the Modern American Landscape"

• Robert Buerglener, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago: "Creating the American Driver, 1895-1915"
  
  
  
• Thomas M. McCarthy, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Yale University : "Cars, Consumers and the Environment"

1999 Fellows:  

• L. Michael Bell, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder: "Carlore"
  
  
  
• Kevin Borg, Hagley Fellow and Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Delaware: "From the Village Blacksmith to Mr. Goodwrench: The Technology and Culture of Auto Repair in the United States, 1896-1950"