Stephen Macekura
Fields & Specialties
20th Century United States; U.S. Foreign Relations, International, and Environmental History; History of DevelopmentEducation
University of Virginia
Ph.D Candidate in American History (ABD, March 2010)
Major Field: History of United States Foreign Relations
Minor Field: Global Environmental History
M.A. in American History, 2008
Dartmouth College
B.A. with honors in History, 2006
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “The Limits of Community: The Nixon Administration and Global Environmental Politics,” Cold War History, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2011), 489-518. (Reviewed by Kurk Dorsey, H-Diplo, No. 348, 9 March 2012)
- “For Fear of Persecution:” Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s,” Journal of Policy History, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer 2011), 357 – 380.
- “The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy,” Political Science Quarterly, (Forthcoming, Summer 2013).
Book Chapters, Reviews, and other Publications
- “The Point Four Program and the Crisis of U.S. Foreign Aid in the 1970s,” in Michael Divine and Ray Geselbracht, eds. The Foreign Aid Legacy of Harry S. Truman (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, forthcoming 2013).
- “A Bibliographic Essay on Sustainability,” The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2012), 52-59.
Presentations
- “Towards a Discourse of Sustainability: The UN, NGOs, and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy,” International Conference on Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, DE, October 2012
- “Parks and Poverty: Environmental NGOs, Decolonization, and Development in Post-colonial East Africa,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference, June 2012, Hartford, CT USA (Panel Co-Organizer)
- “Crisis and Opportunity: Debt-for-Nature Swaps, “People-Centered” Conservation, and the Question of Sovereignty,” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Annual Conference, March 2012, Madison, WI, USA
- Presenter on Panel, “The Ecological Dimension,” Symposium on “Citizenship and The Good World,” Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, June 7, 2012
- Presenter on Panel, “The Truman Administration’s Foreign Aid Programs,” Conference on “The Foreign Aid Legacy of Harry S. Truman,” May 2012, Key West, FL, USA
- “Small is Beautiful: Environmental NGOs, Appropriate Technology, and International Development in the 1970s,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference, June 2011, Alexandria, VA, USA (Panel Organizer)
- “Creating the Global Community: Environmentalism, Civil Society, and the 1972 Stockholm Conference,” American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Annual Conference, April 2011, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Panel Discussant, “Food and Famine in the Developing World,” a panel on Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World, Miller Center of Public Affairs, March 2011, Charlottesville, VA
- “The Limits of Community: Global Environmentalism, Civil Society, and the 1972 Stockholm Conference,” World History Workshop Conference on Global Civil Society, University of Cambridge, October 2009, Cambridge, UK
- “‘For Fear of Persecution’: Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference, June 2009, Falls Church, VA, USA
Awards/Fellowships
- Dissertation Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 2012-13
- Dissertation Fellow, Miller Center National Fellowship Program, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2012-13
- Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 2011-12
- Junior Fellow, University of Virginia Society of Fellows, 2010-11
- Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 2011
- George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowship, George C. Marshall Foundation, Fall 2011
- Bankard Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Bankard Fund for Political Economy, University of Virginia, 2011
- Albert Gallatin Research Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2011
- 2011 W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Fall 2010
- Research Travel Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Fall 2010
- O’Donnell Research Grant, George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Fall 2010
- Fellow, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2009-2010
- University of Virginia Corcoran Department of History Departmental Fellowship, 2009-2010
- University of Virginia, Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship, 2009, 2011
- Virginia Center for Digital History/PrimarySourceLearning, Inc. Graduate Student Fellowship, Fall 2007-Spring 2009
