Reagan Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows Program

Nathan Gibson

ngibson@reaganfoundation.org

Dr. Gibson is a political scientist who studies American political institutions. He is particularly interested in how partisan incentives affect policymaking in the executive and legislative branches. Prior to coming to the Institute, he was a Postgraduate Research Associate and Lecturer at Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D. and M.A. in the Department of Politics.

He is working to convert his dissertation, Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization, winner of APSA’s 2022 George E Edwards III Award for best dissertation on executive politics, into a completed book manuscript. This book explores modern presidential use of White House staff and political appointees to influence policymaking within the executive branch, incorporating quantitative, theoretical, and archival perspectives. Beginning in Fall 2023 he will serve as an assistant professor at Elizabethtown College.

William Chou

wchou@reaganfoundation.org

Dr. William Chou is a historian on US-Japanese security and trade relations. His book manuscript, Material Ambassadors: Postwar Japanese Consumer Exports and the Cold War US-Japanese Relationship, examines Japan's commercial exports and how they reconfigured bilateral security, business, and cultural relations during the Cold War. He is also currently working on a chapter on US-Japanese trade and technology exchange in the 1970s and 1980s for an edited volume on 20th century American capitalism.

Prior to arriving at Reagan, William was an AWC Fellow at the Clements Center (UT-Austin), a Smithsonian Fellow at the National Museum for American History, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Tokyo. Previously, he also worked as a researcher at Institute for Defense Analyses and the Army's Center for Military History on issues concerning intelligence integration, counterinsurgency, and defense planning.

He received his B.A. in history from Yale, a PhD in history from Ohio State, and studied Japanese at the Inter-University Center in Yokohama. He is a former Jeopardy! champion.

Frances Tilney Burke

Chris Campbell

Anthony Eames
aeames@reaganfoundation.org

Luke Griffith