Her book manuscript in progress is titled, Bombs, Bureaucrats, and Rosary Beads: The United States, the Philippines, and the Making of Global Anti-Communism. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Woods was a Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral fellow at Amherst College. She received her PhD in 2012 from Department of History at the University of Michigan. In addition to support from the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Dr. Woods’ work has been supported with grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program (FLAS), the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, both at the University of Michigan. In 2013, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations awarded Dr. Woods the William Appleman Williams Fellowship for junior scholars.