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Gail Radford, Associate Professor
office: 583 Park Hall
email: radford@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 583

Education: Ph.D., Columbia, 1989

Courses Regularly Taught:
HIS 162 U.S. History from Reconstruction to the Present
HIS 240 The United States since 1945
HIS 395 New Deal America
HIS 491 U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s
HIS 503 Graduate Core Seminar in American History, Part 2

HIS 549 20th Century U.S. Political History
HIS 630 Graduate Research Seminar in 20th Century U.S. History

Field(s): American History

Hub(s): Politics

Research Interests: 20th century U.S. public policy, political economy, urban history, and social movements

Current Research: I am working on a book entitled "The Rise of the Public Authority State."  It explores the origins of the quasi-public agencies that American governments use to engage directly in the economy.

Selected Publications:
"From Municipal Socialism to Public Authorities: Institutional Factors in the Shaping of American Public Enterprise," Journal of American History, v. 90 n. 3 (December 2003).

Modern Housing for America: Policy Stuggles in the New Deal Era (Chicago University, 1996).

"William Gibbs McAdoo, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the Origins of the Public-Authority Model of Government Action," Journal of Policy History, v. 11, n. 1 (1999).

"The Federal Government and Housing During the Great Depression," in John F. Bauman, et al., eds., From Tenements to Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000).

Awards:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 2004-05

OAH Binkley-Stephenson Award for best article in Journal of American History in 2003

NEH Fellowship for University Teachers 1999
ACLS Fellowship 1999

Last updated: Monday, January 23, 2006