Caroline Ford (historian)

American historian

Caroline Ford

Born|

Baghdad, Iraq

Spouse| Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Academic background
Education| B.A., 1977, Duke University
MA., PhD., Modern European History, 1987, University of Chicago
Thesis| Religion and rural politics in France: social Catholicism in lower Brittany, 1890-1926 (1987)
Academic work
Discipline| French history
Institutions| University of Chicago
Harvard University
University of British Columbia
University of California, Los Angeles

Caroline Cole Ford is an American historian. She is a Professor and Peter Reill Endowed Chair in European History (1450 to Modern) at the University of California, Los Angeles.

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life and education[edit]

Ford was born in Baghdad, Iraq but raised in Europe.[1] She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and her PhD in modern European history from the University of Chicago.[2]

## Career[edit]

After earning her PhD, Ford taught at Harvard University from 1988 until 1995.[1] While there, she published her first book titled "Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany" through the Princeton University Press. The book focused on the relationship between French nationality and religious institutions.[3][4] She then became an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1995.[1] During her tenure, she was the recipient of the Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship[5] and named a Distinguished Junior Scholar.[6]

Ford eventually left UBC in 2004 to join the faculty of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1] She also published her second book titled "Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France" through the Cornell University Press in 2005, which focused on the impact of gender on religion and politics in France.[7]

As a professor at UCLA, her article “Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria,” received the 2008 William Koren Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article on French history published by a North American scholar.[8] In 2011, Ford and her husband Sanjay Subrahmanyam were elected Guggenheim Fellows which allowed her to research in Europe.[9][10]

In May 2016, Ford received a Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy grant to conduct research on "The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940".[11] Later that year, she published her third book titled "Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France," which explores French environmental consciousness in the 18th and 19th centuries.[12] In 2018, she was appointed the Peter H. Reill Endowed Chair in European History (1450 to Modern).[13]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d Thakur, Pradeep (2009). Indian Americans (Part-I). p. 170\. ISBN 9788190870559. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
2. ^ "GREEN COLLEGE Handbook and Annual Report 2000-2001" (PDF). greencollege.ubc.ca. 2001. p. 56. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
3. ^ Reece, Jack E. (1994). "Caroline Ford. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany". The American Historical Review. 99 (3): 906–907. doi:10.2307/2167834. JSTOR 2167834. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
4. ^ Gildea, R. N. (1995). "Book Reviews Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany. Caroline Ford". The Journal of Modern History. 67 (1): 175–176. doi:10.1086/245054.
5. ^ "HUMANITIES, SCIENCE SCHOLARS EARN KILLAMS". archive.news.ubc.ca. March 8, 2001. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
6. ^ "UBC Honours Distinguished University Scholars". news.ubc.ca. 2004. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
7. ^ Rogers, Rebecca (2006). "Review: Caroline FORD, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France". Clio. Histoire' Femmes et Sociétés (in French): 319–348.
8. ^ "The William Koren, Jr. Prize". societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
9. ^ Strutner, Suzy (April 12, 2011). "4 Professors Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships". international.ucla.edu. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
10. ^ "CAROLINE COLE FORD". gf.org. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
11. ^ "History faculty win grants from the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy". history.ucla.edu. May 26, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
12. ^ Whited, Tamara L. (2017). "Review: Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 47 (3): 425–426. doi:10.1162/JINH_r_01036. S2CID 151405137.
13. ^ "ENDOWED CHAIRS". apo.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2020.

## External links[edit]

* CV

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* Germany
* Israel
* United States
* Netherlands

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