Fellows and Grant Recipients

The Dole Archive is pleased to offer several opportunities to assist scholars in their research while using the Dole collections. We can help defray some of the costs associated with research through travel grants and fellowships. Below are past recipients of these awards, which were first offered in 2010. For information on current opportunities and how to apply, please see the Fellowships and Grants page.

Dole Archive Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellowships are awarded annually in the Spring semester to recognize accomplishments in the fields of history and archives. Fellows spend one-two days at the University of Kansas meeting with students, conducting research and participating in public programs.

2011 – David Palkki, Deputy Director, Conflict Records Research Center
Initiated by Secretary of Defense of Defense Robert Gates, the Conflict Records Research Center at National Defense University supports academic research utilizing records captured from the regime of Saddam Hussein and terrorist organizations. The study of these documents, once relegated to purely governmental uses, is now an important research collection. During his visit Palkki spoke with Senior Archivist Morgan Davis in a public interview about his work at the CRRC.

2010 - Richard Baker, Historian Emeritus of the U.S. Senate
Richard Baker and Senator Dole have a relationship that spans over twenty years, beginning with their collaboration in 1987 to create the “Bicentennial Minute” series in celebration of the 100th congress. Baker, now retired from the Senate, spoke to students and the community about the history of the Senate and how it has evolved over time.

Dole Archive Research Fellows

Research Fellowship are awarded annually on a competitive basis to support scholarship utilizing the Dole Archive. Fellowships are advertised in the Fall and awarded in the Spring.

2012 – Prakash Kumar, Ph.D., Colorado State University
“GM Crops and Globalization: US Regulatory and International Trade Policy, 1980-2010”

2012 – Samuel Zebulon Baker, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University
“Forward Progress: Desegregating College Football, 1945-1975”

2011 – Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University
“Congressional Responses to Constituent Casework Regarding Federal Bureaucracies”

2011 – Ben Merriman, University of Chicago
“Agricultural Subsidy and Rural Development in Kansas in the Post-war Period”

2010 - Jennifer Donnally, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“The Politics of Abortion and the Rise of the New Right, 1967-1992”

Dole Archive Travel Grant Recipients

Travel grants are intended to defray the travel cost of conducting research in the Dole Archive. Students and scholars are eligible for these awards of up to $750.

2013 – Neal Allen, Ph.D., Wichita State University
“Successfully Navigating the Politics of Race in the 1950s and 1960s:  Future Congressional Leaders and Civil and Voting Rights Legislation”

2012 – Lucas Richert, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan
“A Prescription for Scandal: Conservatism, Consumer Choice and the FDA during the Reagan Era”
“The Politics of Drug Abuse during the Ford Administration”

2012 – Josh Ryan, Ph.D., Bradley University
Post-Passage Bargaining and Resolution in Congress

2012 – Michael Ensley, Ph.D., Kent State University
“Agent-Based Modeling and the Role of Party Leaders in Congress”

2011 – Alix Meyer, Lumière University Lyon 2
Republican Leadership

2011 – DeeAnn Grove, University of Iowa
Education as an issue in Presidential campaigns

2011 – Christopher Baylor, University of California, Los Angeles
Contribution of party leaders to changes in the Republican party 1970-2000

2011 – David Hamilton Golland, Ph.D. Governors State University
Biography of Kansan Arthur Fletcher

2011 – Nicholas O. Howard, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
“Institutional Settings and Obstruction: Holds in the Senate under the Leadership of Robert Dole”

2010 - Sarah Snyder, Ph,D., Yale University
“The Helsinki Network: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the late Cold War”

2010 - Adam Connell , University of Oklahoma
“Senate Leadership during the Panama Canal Debates”

2010 – Timothy Stanley, Ph.D., Royal Holloway, University of London
Research towards a political biography of Pat Buchanan

2010 – Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University
“Who Writes to Congressional Leaders? Constituent-Initiated Contacts via Letters and Email”

2010 – Hannah Gobel, Ph.D., Texas Christian University
“Changing the Narrative: Political Elites’ Strategic Decisions and Politicization of Issues”