Caroline Ford
University of California, Los Angeles · History
Active 1988–2025
About
Caroline Ford is a professor specializing in European history at UCLA. Her research focuses on the history of Europe, contributing to the understanding of its social, political, and cultural developments. She is a member of the UCLA Department of History faculty, where she engages in teaching and scholarly activities related to European history.
Research topics
- Political Science
- History
- Geography
- Archaeology
- Ancient history
- Sociology
- Law
- Humanities
- Economic history
- Art history
- Art
- Ecology
Selected publications
Poster · 2025-09-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding<h3>Aim of the Presentation</h3> This presentation explores the transformative role of language in Advance Care Planning (ACP), focusing on how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques can reduce emotional resistance, increase readiness, and improve the quality of ACP conversations. By shifting from clinical terminology to emotionally attuned, person-centred language, we can shape safety, connection, and engagement. Attendees will be introduced to an accessible framework that empowers professionals to approach sensitive conversations with greater confidence—helping individuals and families feel heard, supported, and understood in the planning of future care. <h3>Background context</h3> ACP is vital for ensuring a person’s values and preferences are respected, yet these conversations are often avoided or delayed. Barriers include fear of death, emotional discomfort, and uncertainty about how to begin. For professionals, these discussions can feel awkward or too clinical. As a Registered Nurse, coach, and NLP Master Practitioner, I work with individuals and families navigating cancer, chronic illness, and end-of-life experiences. I have found that language and framing are critical in helping people feel emotionally safe, connected, and more willing to engage in ACP. NLP provides practical tools to adapt communication in the moment—building rapport, reframing difficult topics, and making space for emotionally safe, values-based dialogue. <h3>Narrative Summary of Key Content</h3> This session introduces NLP techniques to show how they can be used in real-life ACP conversations. I will share client examples from community and aged care settings, where using NLP-based language shifted conversations from resistance to readiness. For example, changing ‘Do you want CPR?’ to ‘What does living well look like to you if your health changes?’ has helped clients move from fear to clarity. I’ll also demonstrate how narrative prompts and sensory-based language help clients explore legacy, values, and identity—leading to more meaningful and confident decision-making. <h3>Unique Contribution to Advance Care Planning</h3> This presentation offers a novel, low-cost communication model grounded in both clinical and behavioural science. NLP reframes ACP as a personalised, emotionally intelligent process rather than a checklist. Its flexibility makes it suitable across a wide range of care settings, providing professionals with tools to humanise conversations and meet people where they are. <h3>Implications for Policy, Practice, Education, or Research</h3> Integrating NLP-based language strategies into ACP practice and education can enhance both the uptake and quality of planning. This approach supports emotionally intelligent care and has implications for workforce training, communication standards, and public engagement—helping ensure conversations reflect what matters most to individuals.
The Sound of Paris: An Environmental History of Noise in the City of Light
Environment and History · 2025-03-26
article1st authorCorrespondingThis article explores the sonic environment of the city of Paris over the longue durée and considers how certain sounds began to be perceived as ‘noise.’ It assesses how the city’s past habitus conditioned its residents’ way of listening and the evolution in the meanings attached to sound. It argues that perceptions of noise evolved from it being considered a ‘nuisance,’ to being a threat to public health, and finally to being a source of environmental pollution in the twentieth century. It explores why authorities were slow to respond to the problem of noise and how it ultimately came to be regulated. Finally, it shows how a sensory history of a city can successfully be employed to elucidate its environmental history, thus contributing to a broader understanding of the emergence of ‘noise’ as a modern urban problem and as a perceived environmental threat.
What is the relationship between academic buoyancy, self-efficacy, and statistics anxiety?
Psychology of Education Review · 2024-01-01
articleThis study, presented at the BPS Psychology of Education Conference (2023), examined the relationship between Academic Buoyancy, Self-Efficacy, Maths Anxiety, and Statistics Anxiety. Previous research has suggested that academic buoyancy (AB) buffers the effects of self-efficacy (SE) and maths anxiety, but it is unclear whether AB operates in the same way for the specific case of statistics anxiety (SA). Using a sample of 104 university students, the findings from this study revealed that because academic buoyancy and self-efficacy were not significantly related, the conditions were not met for mediation analyses. Supplementary analyses focused on examining specific components of SA in relation to SE and AB. The supplementary analysis suggested several important methodological issues in relation to researching statistics anxiety.
:<i>Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City</i>
The Journal of Modern History · 2024-03-01
article1st authorCorrespondingCentral European History · 2024-09-01
article1st authorCorrespondingDesert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety By Philipp Lehmann. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 244. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 978-0691238289. - Volume 57 Issue 3
The American Historical Review · 2023
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- History
- Ancient history
Journal Article Spencer D. Segalla. Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954. Get access Spencer D. Segalla. Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 2021. Pp. 289. Cloth $65.00. Caroline Ford Caroline Ford University of California, Los Angeles, US Email: cford@history.ucla.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1522–1533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad328 Published: 26 September 2023
Comparative Studies in Society and History · 2023 · 2 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Geography
- Archaeology
- History
Abstract This article explores the environmental transformation of the moorland ( landes ) of southwestern France from a much maligned “wilderness” or “empty space” to a forested landscape coveted for its productive potential as well as its aesthetic beauty. This occurred in two stages from the eighteenth century to the present and was effected by the French state and local landowners. It bears resemblance to processes of environmental change in North America, Central Asia, and Africa, where states and colonial or imperial powers took measures to develop alleged empty spaces through seizure, development, and settlement. Drawing on paradigms of colonial rule and Henri Lefebvre’s theory regarding the production of space, the article examines the eradication of the “wilderness” of the region of the Landes, which led to the displacement of its pastoral populations and the end of their way of life. It explores the role of technology in consolidating the power of territorial states and empires and the significance of the parallels that can be drawn between the Landes and France’s overseas empire. Finally, it attests to the porosity of the boundary between man-made and natural landscapes, while illuminating the process by which the artificial forested landscape of the Landes ironically came to be redefined and revalorized as “natural” national heritage that was ripe for environmental protection by the second half of the twentieth century.
French Politics Culture & Society · 2022-03-01
articleOwen White, The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020). Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). Charlotte Ann Legg, The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860–1914 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021)
The Journal of Modern History · 2022-09-01
article1st authorCorrespondingArchitectural Theory Review · 2022-05-04
article1st authorCorrespondingThis article explores the trajectories of two women architects, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Juliette Tréant-Mathé, who, in contrast to most of their female counterparts in interwar Europe, devoted much of their architectural work to the design of social housing. It examines the nature of the shared social activism that informed their work, while considering the gendered dimension of their architectural designs in the 1920s and 1930s. It assesses how Schütte-Lihotzky, in particular, participated in the discussions about the relationship between Existenzminimum, or the minimum level of conditions needed for living, and the construction of housing for single professional women, and how the design of domestic architecture could respond to their needs. Finally, it examines their largely unexplored contributions as women architects to broader debates about “the new dwelling” and the role of architecture in modern life more generally.
Frequent coauthors
- 2 shared
Alexis Spire
- 2 shared
Betty Miller Unterberger
- 2 shared
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Twin Cities Orthopedics
- 1 shared
Michael E. Vance
University of Edinburgh
- 1 shared
Bradley Naranch
- 1 shared
Michael S. Sherry
- 1 shared
Donald P. Little
Concordia University Ann Arbor
- 1 shared
Madeline Woker
ETH Zurich
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Education
Ph.D., European history
University of Chicago
Awards & honors
- William Koren, Jr. Prize (2009)
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