Caroline Cole Ford is an American historian. She is a Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Early life and education

Ford was born in

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but raised in Europe. She earned her

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from Duke University and her PhD in modern European history from the

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Career

After earning her PhD, Ford taught at

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from 1988 until 1995. While there, she published her first book titled "''Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany''" through the

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. It was published in French in 2018 as ''De la province à la nation: religion et identité politique en Bretagne'' by Presses Universitaires de Rennes. The book focused on the relationship between French nationality and religious institutions. She then became an associate professor at the

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(UBC) in 1995. During her tenure, she was the recipient of the Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship and named a Distinguished Junior Scholar. Ford eventually left UBC in 2004 to join the faculty of history at the

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(UCLA). She also published her second book titled "''Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France''" through the

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in 2005, which focused on the impact of gender on religion and politics in France. As a professor at UCLA, her article “Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria,” received the 2008 William Koren Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article on French history published by a North American scholar. In 2011, Ford and her husband

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were elected

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which allowed her to research in Europe. In May 2016, Ford received a Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy grant to conduct research on "The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940". Later that year, she published her third book titled "''Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France,''" which explores French environmental consciousness in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was published in French in 2018 as N''aissance de l'écologie: polémiques françaises sur l'environnement, 1900-1930'' by Alma. In the same year (2018) her first book was published in French by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes as De la province à la nation: religion et identité en Bretagne. Also in 2018, she was appointed the Peter H. Reill Endowed Chair in European History (1450 to Modern) for a three year term.

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