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UH Professor Storrs Earns National Recognition
Posted: March 23, 2006
Landon Storrs, associate professor of history, has received two prestigious awards, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and the 2006 Scholar's Award of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute (declined). She will use the ACLS fellowship to work full-time during the 2006-07 academic year on a book manuscript for her project, "Domestic Insecurity: Gender and Cold War Loyalty Investigations of U.S. Policymakers."
Professor Storrs's study uses newly declassified records to argue that loyalty investigations of high-ranking male and female government employees had direct and profound consequences for American social policy and for American feminism. Storrs reassesses both the effects of these investigations and the motivations driving them. Her evidence demonstrates that conservative anticommunists associated communism with men's loss of control over women, and that the feminization of the federal civil service during the 1930s and 1940s gave conservatives another reason to dislike the bureaucratic state. Portions of this research appear in articles in the Journal of American History (Sept. 2003), Feminist Studies (Summer 2006), and Journal of Women s History (Fall 2006).
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