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Fellowships, Prizes, & Grants
GSAS has extended the upcoming deadlines of several fellowships for which you may be eligible to apply. Below, please find deadlines and eligibility information for the Lindt, Zuckerman, and Eisenhower/Roberts fellowships.
- The Lindt Fellowship enables students registered in the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, andSociology to complete the writing of their dissertation during the award year. New Deadline: Friday, March 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m. ET.
- The Zuckerman Fellowship enables students studying certain science-related topics in the departments of History, Sociology, or Philosophy to complete the writing of their dissertations during the award year. New Deadline: Friday, March 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m. ET.
- The Eisenhower Institute’s Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship. Columbia students who wish to apply for this fellowship through GSAS should have received the MPhil and passed the prospectus defense by the beginning of the grant period (September 2021) and be in good academic standing. Students are eligible to apply regardless of citizenship or residency. All application materials must be emailed as separate PDFs to the attention of Sarah Jackman at gsas-fellowships@columbia.edu by Friday, March 5, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. ET.
Students must not be beyond their seventh year of registration in the 2021-2022 academic year to be eligible for the fellowships listed above. Please write to gsas-fellowships@columbia.edu with questions regarding these fellowships.
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WEAI SUMMER 2021 AND ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022 FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Applications for summer 2021 and academic year 2021-2022 WEAI fellowships and grants are open now and will close on March 12, 2021, at 5:00 pm ET. Please see the Institute’s funding page for more information about eligibility and application requirements. Eligibility varies depending on the particular funding opportunity.
To apply, visit: https://weai.smapply.io/prog/
Summer 2021 Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Students
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Theodore de Bary Undergraduate Language Study Fellowship
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Weatherhead UG Training Grant
Summer 2021 Funding Opportunities for MA Students
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Weatherhead MA Training Grant
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Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF)
Summer 2021 and AY 2021-2022 Funding Opportunities for PhD Students
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Weatherhead PhD Training Grant
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Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF)
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Dissertation Write-Up Fellowships
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V.K. Wellington Koo Fellowship
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Julie How Fellowship
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C. Martin Wilbur Fellowship
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The School of Historical Studies is now publishing Call Outs for Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2021-22:
Announcing Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships and Grants in the Humanities
2021-2022 Apply Now
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an institute in Washington, D.C., administered by the Trustees for Harvard University. It supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies.
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Dumbarton Oaks is currently accepting applications from scholars around the world to a variety of opportunities this spring and summer. Please visit our website to learn more.
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| March 15 | Garden and Landscape Studies Workshop |
| March 15 | Virtual Bliss Symposium Award – Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium |
I’m Michaela Williams, the Social Justice Fellow at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life. In collaboration with Multicultural Affairs, we are offering a paid, cohort-based, year-long fellowship to undergraduate students that explores the histories of Black America, Jewish America, racism and anti-Semitism in a U.S. context. This program will begin with a few meetings over the course of this fall semester and pick up biweekly on Fridays in the Spring semester. Students in this program will receive a $600 stipend, as well as engagement in personal identity development, intergroup dialogue, intercultural learning, relationship-building, and social justice education. As the Department of History, I wanted to reach out to see if you had any students who may be interested in this opportunity. If they are, they can find more information as well as the application here: https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/SankofaTzedek. If they have any questions, they can also feel free to email me at mw3502@columbia.edu
The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is accepting applications for research fellowships for the 2021-22 cycle. Specializing in pre-1900 American history and culture, the Clements Library’s primary resources (books, manuscripts, prints, maps, photographs, and much more) support diverse research topics. Particular strengths include: graphic arts, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, Native American history, slavery and antislavery, Atlantic history, the Caribbean, cartography, the Civil War, reform movements, travel and exploration, among others. The Clements offers long term (three months), short term (one month), and week-long fellowships, as well as a digital fellowship with no residency requirement to support the digitization of one of our collections. Applications are due by March 1, 2021, for research to be undertaken between August 30th, 2021, and September 1st, 2022. Please visit our website at https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships or email clements-fellowships@umich.edu for more information.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2021
Total Award Amount: $15,000
Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Scholarships
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Jerrold Seigel Summer Fellowship 2021 CompetitionEvery year, the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History awards up to two summer fellowships, named in honor of Professor Jerrold Seigel, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at New York University. The awards are open to PhD students working in the field of intellectual history broadly defined and in any geographical field or time period, but are limited to students enrolled at Consortium member institutions—Columbia and New York Universities. The amount of these fellowships is $3,000.
Application: There is no application form. Please send a two-page, single-spaced personal statement explaining (a) the project, (b) the particular research and writing for which you propose to make use of the fellowship. Please also send a curriculum vitae, and ask one of your doctoral advisors to send a recommendation letter on your behalf. We recommend that you make clear the intellectual-historical stakes of the overall project and of the research and writing you propose, as well as the conversations to which this work contributes.This year, all materials are due by March 25, 2021.To see past winners of the fellowship, consult the Consortium’s website. Applications should be submitted by email to: anastasia.skoybedo@nyu.edu. Please make sure to indicate in the subject line that the materials (including the recommendations) are for the Seigel Fellowship. Empty emails with attachments only will not be opened.
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life is offering graduate and undergraduate fellowships for Summer 2021. Please click the links below to learn more. If you have any questions, please direct them to Marianna at IRCPL (her email is listed below).
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SUNY Pipeline to Academic Careers SUNY has created a Comprehensive College Consortium to fund late-stage pre-doctoral (ABD) and post-doctoral students interested in exploring academic careers. The consortium represents a collaboration among all SUNY comprehensive sector campuses. The initiative creates a more robust pathway into the academy for historically under-represented minority faculty in any discipline and women in STEM fields. The PRODiG Fellowship Initiative is a model program designed to raise the pace of degree completion and build a more robust pipeline to the professoriate. Personalized mentoring is a key component of the program to develop fellows’ pedagogical readiness for future faculty appointments in addition to support for their scholarship and research.Deadline is expected to be mid-March 2021.
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Jerrold Seigel Summer Fellowship 2021 CompetitionEvery year, the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History awards up to two summer fellowships, named in honor of Professor Jerrold Seigel, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at New York University. The awards are open to PhD students working in the field of intellectual history broadly defined and in any geographical field or time period, but are limited to students enrolled at Consortium member institutions—Columbia and New York Universities. The amount of these fellowships is $3,000.
Application: There is no application form. Please send a two-page, single-spaced personal statement explaining (a) the project, (b) the particular research and writing for which you propose to make use of the fellowship. Please also send a curriculum vitae, and ask one of your doctoral advisors to send a recommendation letter on your behalf. We recommend that you make clear the intellectual-historical stakes of the overall project and of the research and writing you propose, as well as the conversations to which this work contributes.This year, all materials are due by March 25, 2021.To see past winners of the fellowship, consult the Consortium’s website. Applications should be submitted by email to: anastasia.skoybedo@nyu.edu. Please make sure to indicate in the subject line that the materials (including the recommendations) are for the Seigel Fellowship. Empty emails with attachments only will not be opened.
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We would like to inform you that the applications are open for Upsolve Access to Justice Scholarship. All students are invited to apply.
Application Deadline: $2,500
Total Award Amount: March 31, 2021
Upsolve Access to Justice Scholarship
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2021 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship
The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS) seeks applications for the 2021 Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship. The Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship was established in 2017 in memory of Elaine Combs-Schilling (1949-2016), feminist Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The graduate fellowship offers up to $2000 to support travel connected to summer dissertation research. Application submission deadline: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Please click on the following link for application instructions and more information about the Elaine Combs-Schilling Memorial Fellowship: LINK ** Argentine Studies Visiting Fellowship The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University invites applications for the Argentine Studies Visiting Fellowship. This fellowship provides financing for short‐term (two months) visits to Columbia by scholars and scientists from any discipline who are working in Argentina on the topic of choice for that academic year. The Program is supported by the Foundation for Argentinean Development (FUNDAR); its purpose is to strengthen scholarly ties between Columbia and the academic community of Argentina while fostering research that can inform a broad policy conversation in Argentina and the region. The call for the academic year 2021-2022 will concentrate on gender from a broad perspective including social movements and public policies, care policies and work, gender diversity and reproductive rights, gender security and human rights, and economic inclusion in Argentina. Applicants are expected to have an expertise and prior work on the area, and their proposal should list how they plan to use the resources at Columbia to produce a policy paper to be discussed at the end of their fellowship, which will be published in a working paper series by the ILAS and which will be made public by FUNDAR in Argentina. Please feel free to forward this call to any scholar in Argentina who may be interested in applying. Applicants with PhD or equivalent degree are preferred. Application deadline: April 15th, 2021. O’Gorman Scholars Program The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) is pleased to announce the next call for applications for the 2022 Edmundo O’Gorman Scholars Program which provides financing for short-term visits (two months) to Columbia University by scholars and scientists from any discipline who are working in Mexican institutions of higher education. The Program is supported by the National Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT) of Mexico; its purpose is to strengthen scholarly ties between Columbia and the academic and research community of Mexico. Application deadline: April 15th, 2021 Tinker Visiting Professorship The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) is pleased to announce its annual Tinker Visiting Professorship for academic year 2022-2023. (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023). Columbia is one of five major universities to have a professorship endowed by the Tinker Foundation. The goal of the Tinker Visiting Professor program is to bring to the campus pre-eminent scholars and professionals—journalists, writers, artists, public officials—who are citizens of Latin America or the Iberian Peninsula and reside in the region, as a means of encouraging contact and collaboration. A Tinker Visiting Professor offers to teach or co-teach one course, a mixed graduate/undergraduate class in their field of expertise. The visitor is also asked to give two public lectures. The visiting professor receives a stipend, office space at ILAS, assistance arranging Columbia housing, roundtrip airfare from their home country, and part-time research assistance. Funding can also be made available to support conferences or other events at Columbia related to the visitor’s fields of interest during or following their semester of residence. Application deadline: April 15th, 2021.
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Jamestowne Society Fellowship The Jamestowne Society has established an annual Fellowship in the amount of $5,000 for support of the completion of a graduate thesis or essay on the history and culture of Virginia before 1700. Applicants may be candidates for the graduate degree M.A., PhD.) in any relevant discipline, e.g. History, American Studies, Literature, Archeology, Anthropology, Fine Arts, etc., as long as their research is devoted exclusively, or at least very substantially to Colonial Virginia before 1700. The Jamestowne Society does not maintain applications forms of its own design, but urges applicants to follow carefully the following directives concerning guidelines, recommendations, and required materials. Applications must include: – A brief resume’ – A proposal outlining the thesis topic and plans for bringing the project to completion – A sample of the applicant’s writing, such as a term paper or seminar paper – Three letters of reference, at least two of which should come from persons who have taught the applicant on the graduate level. These should be sent from the persons writing the recommendation directly to the Fellowship Committee The application deadline is April 15. The Jamestowne Society Fellowship Committee will review applications and select award winners. Its decision will be announced at the spring meeting of the Jamestowne society in May. The Committee requires that Fellowship recipients submit a final project, which will be retained by the Society and become the property of the society. Fellowship funds will be paid in two parts: one half when the recipient is announced the winner, and one half when the project is completed. The committee suggests that recipients adhere to the following schedule in preparing their project and bringing it to completion. – May 20 Announcement of Award – September 15 Bibliography and completed outline of the project due – January 15 First draft of project due – May 30 Final draft of project due Applications should be sent to The Jamestowne Society Fellowship Committee, PO Box 6845, Richmond, VA 23230 *
2021-22 IRWGS Graduate Fellows
The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS) seeks applications for 2021-22 graduate fellows. Graduate fellows will be expected to participate actively in IRWGS activities and to complete a maximum of 60 hours of work per semester. Responsibilities for Fellows include coordinating graduate-focused events for the Institute, attend and help with IRWGS public programs as needed (and produce occasional pieces of writing related to these events for the IRWGS blog), and assist the IRWGS Director, Associate Director, and the Directors of Graduate Studies and Undergraduate Studies with occasional research and/or administrative tasks. Stipends will be $3000 per semester. Application submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2021 Please click on the following link for application instructions and more information about the IRWGS Graduate Fellowship: LINK * The ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas outlined on our website and constitutes new and original research. Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Fourteenth Annual ASMEA Conference and provide ASMEA the right of first refusal for potential publication in our peer-reviewed Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Separately, ASMEA is offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. Applicants can apply for both grants but will only be awarded one. The application deadline for both grants is April 30, 2021. Attached to this email is a PDF copy of our Grant Opportunities flyer. I would be most grateful if you would arrange to have it displayed in the appropriate public spaces within your department or forwarded to interested faculty and students. Additional guidelines and information as well as the online application for the Research Grant, Travel Grant, Paper Proposals and Panel Proposals can be found on our website at www.asmeascholars.org. If you have any further questions about ASMEA, the Annual Conference, or any of our Grant Opportunities, please do not hesitate to contact us at 202-429-8860 or info@asmeascholars.org. PDF Here
Call for Abstracts, Proposals, & Papers
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We are pleased to announce that EPOCH, the postgraduate history magazine supported by the History Department at Lancaster University, is accepting proposals for upcoming issues. We welcome submissions from all disciplines provided that the topic has a historical slant. We publish postgraduate research interests in a friendly format to make academic history accessible. Our goal is to give postgraduates and early careerists a platform to showcase their work and to engage with wider audiences worldwide.
You can find our submission guidelines and abstract forms on our website, which outline our audience and process. We would appreciate it if you could circulate this within your department. While we accept submissions on an ongoing basis, our editorial board will need the proposals returned for consideration for the June issue before 15 March.
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Here is a link to register for the conference.
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Call for Papers:
Global and local networks have become increasingly important since the COVID-19 pandemic started, with more aspects of our lives happening online than ever before. In response to our growing reliance on online networks for social and professional connectedness, this year’s HAPSAT Conference will investigate networks in the history, philosophy, and interdisciplinary study of science, technology and medicine. The term “network,” however defined, implies the interaction of interconnected individuals. Whether they be construed as social media, news outlets, community organizations, political movements or professional associations, networks serve as a medium for exchange. They are what keep us informed and connected to the world around us. Throughout history, networks have played a key role in social, scientific, and technological change. From laboratories to think tanks, science has been an overwhelmingly social enterprise. Networks have also provided scientists with the conceptual apparatus to create new knowledge. With the emergence of cybernetics in the wake of the Second World War, for instance, the way information is exchanged through networks has established itself as the basis of genetics, ecology, and computing, in addition to many other fields. New ways of thinking about science itself, namely STS, have incorporated networks in their theoretical framework, as exemplified by actor-network theory. The new realities of our globalized, online world keep mobilizing scholars concerned with the changes undergoing contemporary society. New technologies like the Internet and social media connect us like never before; yet they also present ethical dilemmas that philosophers have only begun to disentangle. We invite scholars to reflect on the themes highlighted above as well as the following questions:
- What is the role of professional and transnational networks in the history of science, technology, and medicine? What aspects of history come to the fore when we focus on networks rather than individual actors?
- How do networks create meaning? What role do networks play in producing knowledge and justifying beliefs?
- What are the social and ethical implications of communication technologies such as the Internet and social media?
Please join us in examining global and local networks in the world of science at this year’s HAPSAT Conference, which will be held online on June 11-13, 2021. The deadline for submitting papers is March 12, 2021. Submissions can be submitted here and should include your name, affiliation, paper title as well as a 250-word abstract in PDF format. For more information on our conference, please contact us by email at hapsatcon.2021@gmail.com.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Past Imperfect Volume XXIII (2021)
Past Imperfect is a peer-reviewed graduate student journal based out of the Department of History & Classics
at the University of Alberta. We are currently welcoming submissions in English from graduate students in all
areas of history and classics for publication in its twenty-third annual edition. This open access journal
provides an opportunity for developing scholars to gain experience with peer-reviewed academic publishing.
Past Imperfect welcomes original research articles and book reviews covering a broad range of both time and
geography. The journal especially encourages the submission of revised term papers, conference
presentations, or thesis chapters. Articles that appear in Past Imperfect are abstracted in “America: History
and Life” and “Historical Abstracts.”
Please include one copy of your work, which must have all identifiers removed, along with an abstract of no
more than 300 words, and a cover page containing your contact information.
Authors should submit their documents by March 12th, 2021 for consideration in the 2021 issue. For more
information or to submit please contact pastimpe@ualberta.ca.
Submission Guidelines for Articles and Reviews
1. Research Articles
Submissions will undergo a blind review process by two to three reviewers (including at least one
faculty member).
Reviewers make their recommendations for publication based on the following criteria:
Style & Structure: Originality & Argumentation:
– Approximately 20-30 double-spaced pages – Based on primary sources
– Clarity and coherence – Sound methodology
– Structured and organized presentation – Conversant with relevant literature
– Adherence to the Chicago Manual of Style – Sophisticated analysis
2. Reviews
– Approximately 4-6 double-spaced pages
– Reviews of works published in the previous five years
– Adherence to the Chicago Manual of Style
Past Imperfect Journal
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Past Imperfect Journal
PJEAS is a student academic journal with the official support of the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University. We publish works of scholarship written by both undergraduate and graduate students from around the world on political, economic, social, and cultural issues pertaining to the East Asian region (China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, etc.). PJEAS aims to foster an intellectually rigorous student discourse, while promoting an atmosphere of mutual learning and the development of leadership in these fields.
We are currently reminding and inviting all interested students to submit their academic work for publication in our Spring 2021 Volume (XV), scheduled to be published in May 201. Upon submission, a student’s paper will be reviewed under a blind process. A member of our operational staff will then contact the student within a short period of time to confirm that their paper is under review.
We want to take into consideration the COVID-19 pandemic situation around the world in our article submissions policy. To this end, we will have two deadlines this year: a priority deadline on February 26, 2021, 11:59 PM EST (North America) for students who already have papers ready for submission as well as a final deadline on March 12, 2021, 11:59 EST (North America).We accept articles on a rolling basis, so it is in the author’s interest to submit as soon as possible.
Students should refer to the attached submission guidelines and fill out the Google submissions form at https://forms.gle/4y6WSpygWy7yEWt47. If you have any general inquiries, please email Jason Qu or Gene Chou (jason.qu@princeton.edu and gchou@princeton.edu).
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The James Blair Historical Review, William & Mary’s undergraduate history journal, is currently accepting submissions for our Spring 2021 issue. We consider papers with any historical approach and area of focus, but they must meet the requirements listed in the attached flyer. The deadline to submit papers is February 28th by 11:59pm.
You can submit papers via email to jbhr@email.wm.edu. Please let us know if you have any questions. Details here.
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“Humanities at the Limit of ‘the Human’”:
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Graduate Colloquium
August 5th and 6th, 2021
Virtually hosted by Brown University
Submission Deadline: March 22nd, 2021
Call for Papers
Across the humanities, as well as the social and biological sciences, there is growing recognition that the concept of “the human” is neither empirically fixed nor transcendentally universal. Rather, it is a rhetorical artifice—an attempt to answer questions about who we are and why we exist. Moreover, critical theorists in Black Studies have examined not only how Black people have not been recognized as human under white supremacy, but also how gestures of inclusion into humanity have failed to put an end to the gratuitous violence enacted against them. This has led scholar Zakiyyah Iman Jackson to ask: “If being recognized as human offers no reprieve from ontologizing dominance and violence, then what might we gain from the rupture of the human?”
This Graduate Colloquium invites graduate students to share work-in-progress that interrogates the human’s connotative, denotative, and empirical baggage as well as dares to invent, refine, and imagine new concepts and practices in the human’s wake. Moreover, we invite work that considers humanities in the plural and challenges reigning disciplinary strictures. Prospective applicants might consider sharing work that:
- critiques humanist discourses on the topic of ecology or environment that challenge current understandings of the ethical relation between the human and non-human.
- confronts the co-optation of Black radicalism for liberal, humanist politics.
- challenges disciplinary humanities and gives space to alternative modes of knowing and knowledge systems.
- rethinks narratives of “the human” that assume a universal relationship to the body, which causes those who diverge from this relationship to be seen as lacking, defective, damaged or in need of a cure.
- envisions spatio-temporal frameworks that offer expansive views of being in and relating with what Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith have called “otherwise worlds”.
The workshop will be held virtually on August 5th and 6th, 2021. To apply, please submit by March 22nd, via this Google Form, a brief description of the work you intend to workshop at the Colloquium. We will notify successful applicants by May 1st. Participants in the workshop will be expected to share their work-in-progress (10-25 pages) by June 25th, to give the other participants time to read and engage it before the Colloquium. We invite participants to share work at any stage.
We look forward to receiving your proposals. Please send any queries you may have to CSSJGraduateColloquium@gmail.com.
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The Waring Library Society will grant one award for an undergraduate essay ($1,000) and one award for a graduate essay ($2,000). The essay must be sent to the Waring Historical Library by May 31, 2021. To learn more about the submission guidelines, please visit our website here.
Organiser: ‘Onyks’ – Academic Association of PhD Students of History of the Pontifical
University of John Paul II in Krakow
Conference fee: 10 euro (conference materials + conference certificate sent by post)
Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2021 (Wednesday)
Acceptance notification: 12 April 2021 (Monday)
Conference languages: Polish, English, Spanish, Italian
Post-conference publication: no
Length of presentation: 20 minutes
E-mail: konferencja.upjp2@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/3727671467329165
‘Onyks’ – Academic Association of PhD Students of History of the Department of
History and Cultural Heritage of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow invites
you to participate in the 4th Doctoral Academic Conference whose main subject are
conflicts. The title “Work, Education, Cultural Heritage – Conflicts through the Ages” is to
be understood as an attempt to scrutinise the discords, disputes and conflicts over the
course of centuries in the areas of work, education, as well as broadly understood cultural
heritage. Our invitation is addressed to postgraduate students, PhD candidates and
researchers representing various fields of humanities, in particular those who are
historians. For the sake of continuous pandemic emergency, we decided to hold our
conference in the form of an on-line meeting.
Work has always been one of the most important areas of human activity, playing a
vital role in the development of economy, in the well-being of societies, as well as in
setting standards of living of entities. Therefore, it’s not surprising that issues connected
with work have always involved tensions and conflicts, both between individuals and
social groups. We thus invite to our conference all those researchers who work on various
economically motivated conflicts, as well as on any kind of tumults and social revolts that
originated from fights for working conditions, rights of workers and also widely
understood strifes between employers and employees.
Education has always attracted remarkable figures, frequently sensitive to criticism
and distinguished with high self-esteem. Therefore, scientific progress, based on clashes
between diverse mental currents and beliefs and also on verification of popular theses, has
often taken place in the atmosphere of furious, caused by ambition arguments – individual
or corporate. Conflicts in the area of education have also involved various education
reforms that sometimes strongly antagonised public opinion. We therefore invite to our
conference those who research on historical conflicts that affected different areas of
science, on arguments and rivalry between notable scholars, on clashes between various
communities and scientific theories, as well as on controversial reforms in the very field of
education.
Last but not least, we also invite those researches who focus on any examples of
conflicts and tensions in the sphere of broadly understood culture. We are curious about
how conflicts influenced and still influence cultural heritage and we want to learn, how
they leave their mark on the cultural legacy of the mankind. Thus, we are interested in the
varied ways of presenting manifold historical disputes in visual arts, but also in the
influence that conflicts (military and political ones in particular) had on the issue of
cultural heritage protection.
We would like to devote these two days of the conference to the discussion on
reasons for conflicts, their course and results. We also pay attention to the positive aspect
of conflicts: is consensus and reconciliation possible in the context of conflicts connected
with work, education and cultural heritage or does the unleashed conflict last until
whichever side of it still exists and aims at reaching the goal?
Conference application form can be found on:
https://forms.gle/Ch7Gyxx1aFhPNT6h9. The abstract, which is to be included there,
should have about 250 words. Please, include also bibliography, with primary sources and
secondary works clearly divided. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us via:
konferencja.upjp2@gmail.com.
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tba: Call for Submissions
We are pleased to announce the call for papers/art submissions for tba, the graduate students’
journal of the department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario.
tba is an annual peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students of the Visual Arts
Department at Western University in London, Ontario. It provides an interdisciplinary forum
for emerging and independent artists and scholars by bringing together studio, art history,
cultural studies, theory and criticism, gender studies, and related fields. It encourages
experimentation and risk.
Please note that the deadline for submissions is Friday, April 30, 2021. Thank you!
Iraboty Kazi
Sasha Opeiko
Ashley Snook
editors
email: tbaedit@uwo.ca
website: www.tbajournal.ca
Reworlding
“A dark bewitched commitment to the lure of Progress (and its polar opposite) lashes us to
endless infernal alternatives, as if we had no other ways to reworld, reimagine, relive, and
reconnect with each other, in multispecies well-being. This explication does not excuse us
from doing many important things better; quite the opposite.” – Donna Haraway, Staying
with the Trouble, 51.
The upcoming issue of tba will explore the meanings of and themes pertaining to the idea of
reworlding. We view reworlding as a concerted and collaborative effort to reimagine our
spaces by building upon a deconstructed, decentered, unfixed understanding of a world
changeable by art that puts forth alternative temporal and spatial possibilities. This kind of
reworlding offers possibilities of rethinking of ideas of unity by generating a multiplicity of
futures with which to affect the present.
Send us your thoughtful investigations, careful evaluations, and creative assessments of the
concept of reworlding. Articles and artworks (sound, video, photography, paintings,
drawings) are welcome!
• Indigenous present and futurities
• (Post)colonial structures and decolonization
• Identities and representations of diaspora
• States of the in-between, the liminal, the uncertain
• Heterotopias and ruptures in time and/or space
• Apocalyptic visions and imaginings of the afterlife
• New media and virtual reality
• Compost (as defined by Donna Haraway)
• Environmental preservation and sustainability
• Climate grief
• Social media and online communities
• Post-Internet art
• Speculative realism (Afrofuturism, utopian fictions, fantasy, etc.)
• Posthuman visions and/or multi-species relations
• Protest and social activism
• Queer spaces, identities, and temporalities
• Re-imagining the museum and the art world
Job Listings (teaching; assisting with research; tutoring; etc.) & Internships
We are writing on behalf of Past Tense Graduate Review of History to announce that we are extending our call for external reviewers. Please forward this message to graduate students in your department.
Past Tense provides a forum for developing scholars to gain experience with academic publishing. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews and critical commentaries about issues in the field of history. It welcomes submissions from researchers of all disciplines and institutions on topics that concern a broad range of time periods and geographies. Past Tense is published online at https://pasttensejournal.com.
The ideal external reviewer candidate will be an ABD graduate student in a History PhD program (or closely related field) with both thematic and geographic expertise. External reviewers will participate in the double-blind peer review process by evaluating research article submissions with respect to their originality, argumentation, style, and historiographical rigor. The feedback we receive from external reviewers is instrumental in determining the acceptance of articles for publication.
The majority of external review work will take place in April and May. The number of submissions reviewers are asked to review each issue cycle will vary based on submissions received. We typically will not ask reviewers to review more than three articles per cycle.
If you are interested in applying, please complete the form available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs7rmtLNqFtjWiJz5pgBjZ2F7LuX2fxHvZOOKzVDDOGm7B8Q/viewform?usp=sf_link by March 14th, 2021.
Teach Reading Classes to Students of All Ages
Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2021
The Institute of Reading Development is now hiring summer teachers for our live online reading skills programs for students of all ages. Our programs provide students with the skills, books, and experiences they need to achieve greater success in school and beyond.
As an Institute teacher you will:
- Earn between $600-$700 per week.
- Improve your teaching skills and confidence during our comprehensive, paid training program.
- Gain valuable teaching experience with a variety of age groups from 4-year-olds to high school students.
- Help your students become successful readers with a love of great books.
We provide comprehensive training and ongoing support for our teachers, so we do not require teaching certification or experience to apply. All applicants must have a bachelor’s degree or higher and must be available to teach classes five days a week, including both weekend days. We are looking for full-time teachers with availability to work 37-40 hours per week during the summer. There will be some opportunities for continued employment with the Institute after the summer.
Successful Institute teachers:
- Have strong reading skills and read for pleasure.
- Are responsible and hard-working, with strong communication and organizational skills.
- Are comfortable and confident with technology.
- Are patient and supportive with students and parents.
Learn more about us and our reading programs at https://readingprograms.org/about-us/.
Fall 2021 TA Call for WMST UN3125 Introduction to Sexuality Studies
The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University announces its search for 2 Teaching Assistants for the Fall 2021 course WMST UN3125 Introduction to Sexuality Studies taught by Professor Jack Halberstam (Gender Studies and English and Comparative Literature).
Application submission deadline: Friday, April 16, 2021.
Graduate students currently enrolled in a PhD program in any Arts and Sciences Department, who are within their funding years and will not be in their Dissertation Fellowship year starting in Fall 2021 are eligible to apply, with approval from their home department. Students beyond their funding years will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please click on the following link for application instructions and more information: LINK
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ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Global Racial Justice
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to launch its
inaugural postdoctoral program for the 2021–2022 academic year. Our postdoctoral fellowships
provide focused support for both research and concrete engagement with global racial justice
issues and campaigns. These humanities-centered fellowships will support scholars whose
academic research demonstrates a deep investment in the areas of inquiry related to anti-racism
and social inequality, at home and abroad. These fellowships foster the academic careers of
scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees by permitting them to pursue their
research while also receiving guided mentorship.
The program supports five postdoctoral scholars engaged in full-time research and writing for a
one-year term starting September 1, 2021 (with the possibility of renewal). Fellows in the
program are supported by the institute and are provided with $5,000 for research funds, a
$55,000 annual salary, and further support including faculty mentor(s), office, computer, and
health benefits. In addition, fellows will have opportunities to access, review, and/or collaborate
with existing anchor institution equity activities that are happening within the Rutgers University
community. This cohort of fellows will participate in meetings and workshops structured for the
purposes of networking, social interaction, and supporting professional development for fellows
within the program. Applicants may request to be affiliated with a particular campus across the
Rutgers corridor and will teach one class over the course of the academic year. In deciding
placements, the ISGRJ will consider the postdoc’s campus preference and the teaching
requirements/needs of each campus.
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University is committed to the
idea of the humanities as a discipline that travels beyond the university and engages the public
sphere. The institute will fuel and amplify the scholarship of researchers who are based in the
humanities or lean on humanistic methods and whose work has consequences in applied spaces
such as policy reform, K–12 education, social justice work, public health, and the carceral state.
The institute is also committed to the creation of spaces for scholars to be in conversation with
communities, as both an aspect of scholarly inquiry but also for the purpose of mutual sharing of
knowledge between the university and its surrounding communities. The ISGRJ draws from a
range of fields, including: visual, language and other creative arts; traditional humanities
disciplines; new fields such as the digital and environmental humanities; the humanistic social
sciences; and research in law, public policy, and behavioral health.
Eligibility and Criteria
Applicants must have completed and been awarded their Ph.D. in a humanities-related field no
more than five years prior to the date of application.
All U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents (holders of a Permanent Resident
Card); individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals Program;* Indigenous individuals exercising rights associated with the Jay Treaty of
1794; individuals now eligible to apply for DACA under the new reopening of the program;
individuals granted Temporary Protected Status; political asylees; and refugees, regardless of
race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
*Eligibility includes individuals with current status under the DACA Program, as well as
individuals whose status may have lapsed but who continue to meet all the USCIS guidelines for
DACA.
Application Guidelines
• All application materials are due by March 15, 2021. Materials should be addressed to
Michelle Stephens, Founding Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Racial
Justice, and submitted electronically. An electronic application will be available soon.
For further inquiries and information about applying to the fellowship, please write to
isgrj@oq.rutgers.edu.
• Project description not to exceed 1,500 words. Document should be single-spaced, 12 pt.
font (approx. three pages). The project description will be considered by a panel of
scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines and should be written for non-
specialists.
• Curriculum vitae of no more than three pages.
• Three letters of recommendation.
• Writing sample not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages.
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LECTURER ON SOCIAL STUDIES
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
Position Description: The Committee on Degrees in Social Studies seeks applications
for part-time lecturers to teach Studies 10, a year-long sophomore social theory course,
and/or Social Studies 98, semester-long junior tutorial seminars that immerse students in
focused studies of social science or historical topics while also providing instruction in
research methods. This is an open search, but we particularly invite applications from
lecturers who can teach junior tutorials on race and ethnicity (American or global).
The appointment is expected to begin on July 1st, 2021. The lecturer will be responsible
for leading tutorials as assigned. Additional responsibilities include attending faculty
meetings, trainings, and student events, academic advising, supervising and evaluating
senior theses, and conducting senior oral examinations.
Lecturer positions are for one year, with the possibility of renewal for three additional
years. For more information about Social Studies, an interdisciplinary undergraduate
concentration, please visit our website: www.socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu.
Keywords:
Faculty, instructor
Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA, Northeast, New England
Social theory, political theory, political science, sociology, anthropology, history,
intellectual history, philosophy, economics, race, ethnicity
Basic Qualifications: Doctorate in the Social Sciences or History required by the time
the appointment begins
Additional Qualifications: Demonstrated excellence in teaching is desired
Special Instructions: Please submit the following materials through the ARIeS portal
(http://academicpositions.harvard.edu). The committee will begin reviewing applications
on March 1 st , 2021.
1. Cover letter: please indicate in bold on the first page which course or courses you
are applying to teach (Social Studies 10, 98, or both).
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. At least one and up to three junior tutorial proposals (if the candidate is applying
to teach a junior tutorial). Each proposal should include a course title, 2-3
paragraph description, and a list of books to be consulted
4. A full set of teaching evaluations for at least one course, including a summary
page if available. Please limit total teaching evaluations to 10 pages.
5. Names and contact information of three references (three letters of
recommendation are required, and the application is complete only when all three
letters have been submitted)
6. If you have not yet completed your Ph.D, one of your letters of recommendation
must come from your dissertation chair, who must confirm that you will receive
your Ph.D. by June 30 th , 2021.
Harvard University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation,
pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Contact Information:
Shane Iverson
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
William James Hall, Third Floor
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact Email: shane_iverson@fas.harvard.edu.
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Summer Teaching Opportunities
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA)
Click here for full details: PDF1 + PDF2
LEDA is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to identifying and developing the academic and leadership potential of exceptional public high school students from under-resourced communities. LEDA is seeking candidates for summer teaching positions at our 7-week summer program housed at Princeton University. Aspects of Leadership Facilitators lead discussion sessions and leadership workshops exploring contemporary social issues with student leaders from across the U.S. LEDA Writing Instructors teach college-level academic writing to small classes of LEDA Scholars. Please see attached job descriptions for more information on the positions and how to apply. The priority application deadline for these positions is January 18, 2021. Note that we are currently planning for an in-person Summer Institute, but are prepared to run our Institute remotely if need be.
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An exciting, new, tenure-track position at Sam Houston State University. Despite the challenges generated by the pandemic, the SHSU Department of History is hiring an Assistant Professor in East Asian History. Please feel free to circulate the following job ad to potentially interested parties: https://shsu.peopleadmin.com/postings/25334.
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The Center for Teaching and Learning at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) would like to announce the following paid opportunity for graduate students and postgraduate students of history. We ask if you would share this information with your networks. Please direct any questions toLearningAAHC@si.edu.
Conference and Seminar Applications
Online conference, hosted by Durham University
12-16 July 2021
The tendency of the modern state is to wipe out the freedom of the intellect, and yet at the same time every state, especially under the pressure of war, finds itself more and more in need of an intelligentsia to do its publicity for it.
George Orwell, ‘Poetry and the Microphone’ (1943)
Writing in 1943, George Orwell reflected upon the challenges posed for both governments and intelligentsia by the rapid growth in wartime propaganda production. If the British government had begun the war ‘with the more or less openly declared intention of keeping the literary intelligentsia out of it […] after three years of war almost every writer, however undesirable his political history or opinions, has been sucked into the various Ministries or the BBC’. As Orwell recognised, the recruitment of cultural actors by government information and psychological warfare departments changed both spheres, since the ‘tone and even to some extent the content of official propaganda’ were ‘modified’ by the new entrants – a negotiation known all too well to Orwell himself due to his own role as a propagandist during the war.
At a moment when disinformation and ‘fake news’ are of pressing political concern, this conference aims to understand these debates as part of a longer history of propaganda across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, decades in which new military and media technologies raised political warfare to the status of the ‘Fourth Fighting Arm’ of the state and consequently made cultural figures integral actors in modern conflict. Organised by the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’, this event invites papers from a range of disciplines, periods of study, and global perspectives, with topics that might include:
- Revaluation of writers and organisations in the light of new or overlooked propaganda archives
- Study of the evolution of propaganda techniques and cultural modes between conflicts or between competing states
- Narratives disseminated through historical disinformation campaigns: what traces of these remain in cultural discourse? How have they been contested or countered? How do they compare to contemporary narratives?
- Cultural representations of propaganda service
- The impact of technological change on the form, content, dissemination or influence of propaganda (radio/film/television/social media)
- Life as a propagandist: how did intellectuals combine their official duties with their personal and cultural spheres? What forms of propaganda service have been marginalised or overlooked in archival records or later histories?
- Material and visual culture of propaganda (leaflets/posters/ephemera)
We invite proposals for papers of between 10-20 minutes. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic this event will take place entirely online: speakers will be asked to record their papers as sound files, to be circulated to conference participants in advance of online panel discussions.
We plan to produce an edited collection drawing on selected contributions to the event.
Please send proposals (max. 300 words) together with a short biographical note to Guy Woodward at guy.t.woodward@durham.ac.ukby 19 March 2021
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New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance●njsaa.org
An association for studying and teaching about New Jersey
The 2021 Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate New Jersey History Award
The Stellhorn Award recognizes excellence in undergraduate writing about New Jersey history.
It honors an outstanding and much-loved historian of New Jersey, the late Paul A. Stellhorn.
In 2021, there will be one or more awards in two categories, one for course or seminar papers,
the other for senior theses. Awards will consist of a certificate and a cash payment of $200.
The sponsors will present the award(s) at the New Jersey Historical Commission’s annual
conference in November 2021. The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance will invite the
recipient(s) to speak about her, his, or their work at one of the Alliance’s 2022 meetings.
Stellhorn Award recipients’ papers will be eligible for publication in the online journal, New
Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, https://njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.
php/njs/index.
2020 Recipients
Senior Thesis: Vayne Ong, Princeton University, “Springwood Avenue Rising: Race, Leisure,
and Decline in the 1970 Asbury Park Rising.”
Term or Seminar Paper: Sean Graham, Centenary University, “The Origins of Centenary
Collegiate Institute: A Story of Industrialization, Wealth, and Natural Resources.”
Both papers are published in the January 2021 issue of New Jersey Studies.
Submission Criteria
Papers or theses may be about any subject in New Jersey’s history and may come from
history and other departments, and from institutions in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Nominated works should be truly outstanding in all respects (see evaluation criteria,
below).
Senior theses are eligible for the award and will be judged separately in their own
category.
Papers or theses must be nominated by the professors for whose courses students wrote
them or who mentored the thesis or served as one of its readers. Students may not nominate their own papers or theses.
Nominations should include a discussion of why the paper or thesis is award-worthy.
Papers or theses must have been written by undergraduate students attending colleges
(including community colleges) or universities during calendar 2019, 2020, or 2021.
Papers by current graduate students are not eligible unless a student wrote the paper as an
undergraduate in 2018, 2019, or 2020. NOTE: The New Jersey Studies Academic
Alliance sponsors an annual award for graduate student writing about New Jersey history.
Contact Professor Paul Israel at pisrael@rutgers.edu, or visit njsaa.org for criteria.
Email nominating letters and papers by June 1, 2021, to acrelius@optonline.net, or
surface-mail nominating letters and four (4) copies of each paper by the same date to
Richard Waldron, 150 Flock Road, Hamilton, NJ 08619; 609.468.3824.
NOTE: The NJSAA has established the Marc Mappen Student Research Scholarship to assist
high school and undergraduate research and writing projects. Awards of up to $300 will be
made in March and October of each year. Visit njsaa.org for requirements and application
procedure or email the committee chair, Professor Melissa Ziobrio, mziobrio@monmouth.edu.
Receipt of a Mappen Scholarship is NOT a requirement for the Stellhorn Award.
Evaluation Criteria
A paper or thesis submitted for the Stellhorn Award will be evaluated on its narrative strength,
the thoroughness of its author’s research (mastery of sources and the standard forms of
historical citation), and analysis of the paper’s subject, including its historical context. A
nominated paper should, therefore, tell a good story, explain its subject’s significance and how
the subject changed over time, and utilize a broad array of relevant primary and secondary
sources. Evaluators are historians the sponsors have chosen for the breadth and depth of their
knowledge of New Jersey and American history.
Sponsors
The Stellhorn Award’s sponsors are the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance; the New Jersey
Historical Commission, New Jersey Department of State; Special Collections and University
Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; and the New Jersey Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference.
Outside Events
Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance
Wagner College Holocaust Center
With the participation of leading Holocaust scholars from ten different nations including the US, Europe, Israel and the UK, this program features roundtables, panels, film screenings, educational workshops, as well as several artistic events. The aim is to create a new narrative around female agency in the Shoah and other genocides, to inspire transformative activism today. Date/Time: June 2-3 2021 For more information, click here.
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Miscellaneous (sublet offers; programs; new courses; etc.)
Registration for the inaugural Teaching History Writing Conference on Friday, March 12, 2021 is now open. We have been able to assemble a wonderful group of participants for our day-long conference. Registration for this free, virtual conference, will be open until March 10, 2021. Please circulate to the historians in your department or Unit. Thank you.
The day will include a keynote address by Dr. Katherine Pickering Antonova, Associate Professor of History at Queens College–CUNY and author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays.
The conference will also include the following sessions:
Session 1 – Using Music, Media and Literature to Design Meaningful Writing Assignments
Session 2 – Writing for the Real World: Practical Historical Writing
Session 3 – Teaching and Grading to Student Learning Outcomes
Session 4 – Assignment Workshopping Session
More information, including the registration form, can be found at the conference website:
http://cuny.is/teaching-history
Feel free to email us at teachinghistorywriting@gmail.com with any additional questions
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The Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce two opportunities for students. The application deadline for both is March 15, 2021. Please share with your colleagues. We hope to get the word out broadly.
The Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Workshop—for PhD candidates, MLA candidates, and recent MLA recipients, who received their degree within the last three years, is intended to develop the field of garden and landscape studies across distinct and related disciplines and to promote the depth and breadth of future landscape and garden history scholarship. This year’s focus will be: “Public Landscapes and Public Health: An Inquiry into the Histories of Landscape Design.” The intensive virtual workshop is scheduled for May 10–28, 2021. Upon successful completion of the workshop and submission of the final project and required documentation, participants receive an honorarium of $1,500.
The Bliss Symposium Award—is for currently enrolled graduate students and undergraduate juniors and seniors wishing to attend the virtual spring symposium, “Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom“ scheduled for every other Thursday from April 29–June 10, 2021. Successful applicants will receive complimentary registration to attend the symposium and up to five Dumbarton Oaks publications, of their choosing.
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COVID-NYC Documentary Project
The COVID-NYC Documentary Project has built a digital directory of the many
efforts to historically document New York City’s experience with the COVID-19
pandemic. Our directory is housed on the website of the Gotham Center for New
York City History at the CUNY Graduate Center.
If you have a project to share, let us know. To create a consistent body of
information, we have attached a short Word document. Please fill it out and send it
to GothamCenter@gc.cuny.edu as a Word attachment.
To give your project a compelling presentation online, please send us a digital
version of your logo, a digital photograph of your institution, or a digital image of
something that represents your collection in the form of a high-resolution jpeg.
Please send this image in its own attachment separate from the above form.
Warm regards,
Peter Aigner/Director, Gotham Center for New York City History
Rob Snyder/Manhattan Borough Historian and Rutgers professor emeritus
Send events for posting (word .doc/docx preferred over .pdf) to (HISTORY@columbia.edu)