In 2015, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives provided research support grants to forty scholars from Stanford and beyond. Five scholars share their research (and what they found!) after visiting the Hoover Institution Archives reading room this summer.
Project: "Mahjar Maps: Argentina in the Global Arab Diaspora"
"...By delving into collections such as the Juan Bramuglia, and Juan Domingo Perón Papers (among others), I was able to knit together local histories of the Mahjar with the machinations of international politics that brought together Argentine and Arab leaders in the 1940s and 1950s."
Project: “The Pedagogy of Mass Mobilization: Education Work in Communist Base Areas, 1935-49”
"...Hoover Archives also offers a variety of intriguing holdings. Of particular interest to my research is a collection of People's Republic of China (PRC) primary and secondary textbooks from the mid-1950s through the early 1980s..."
Project: “Regulator-In-Chief: How the Executive Branch Took Control of the State in Postwar America”
"...I found materials that greatly enhanced my understanding of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, its operations, agenda, and more. I also felt privileged to be the first researcher to go through the James C. Miller Papers systematically..."
Project: “Mieczysław F. Rakowski: The Political Biography”
"...This question was frequently asked in Poland: to what extent can Michał Rakowski’s diaries be trusted? My research in the Hoover Archives has provided an answer to this question..."
Xiang Zhai, MA student in East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Project: "Rewriting the Legacy of Chiang Kai-shek on the Diaoyu Islands: Chiang's Ryukyu policies from the 1930s to the 1970s"
"..I read every page [of Chiang Kai-shek's diaries] to make sure that I gleaned all the relevant information. I familiarized myself with Chiang's style to get inside his head..."
