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LBJ School Professor Wins Smith Richardson Foundation Grant in International Security and Foreign Policy
The Smith Richardson Foundation has announced that Professor Francis J. Gavin of the Lyndon B.Johnson School of Public Affairs was awarded a Junior Faculty Research Grant in International Security and Foreign Policy for 2002-2003. This prestigious international grant competition buys out one year of teaching time to support the research and writing of a scholarly book on a topic of interest to the policy community. Gavin's project, "Strategy and Arms Control Reconsidered," will utilize newly declassified historical materials to reassess nuclear strategy and arms control during the cold war.
Gavin's selection was in keeping with the Smith Richardson Foundation's goal of underwriting historical research with clear implications for current policy. A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security affairs, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations. His first book, Gold, Dollars and Power: Money, Security, and the Politics of the U.S. Balance of Payments Deficit, 1958-1971, will be published in 2003 by the University of North Carolina Press in its New Cold War History Series.
Professor Gavin joined the LBJ School faculty in the fall of 2000. He previously was a John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellow in National Security Affairs at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs and an International Security Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was also a Research Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he directed the Presidency and Economic Policy Project, and a Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gavin received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in diplomatic history from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Studies in Modern European History from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) from the University of Chicago. He has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Diplomatic History, International History Review, the Journal of European Integration History, and Orbis, and he has written book reviews and editorials for the Sunday Washington Post, the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer, the Austin American-Statesman, Orbis, and the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science.
Gavin has received grants from the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Ford presidential libraries, the Mellon Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is a Junior Fellow in British Studies at the University of Texas and was recently selected by the American Council on Germany as a U.S. representative for the Young Leaders conference to be held in Berlin in August 2002.
May 1, 2002
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