Discussions

A professional career in the academy is perceived as a desirable, if not the only, outcome of doctoral study. Many students in the humanities are, however, keen to leverage the skills they acquire during graduate study to identify and apply to jobs in the creative and cultural industries. Lately, even students who are determined to become academics have been forced to reevaluate their plans owing to lack of adequate faculty positions

The American Battlefield Trust, America’s largest non-profit battlefield preservation organization, is seeking an enthusiastic Education Assistant with a passion for helping to educate the public about the first 100 years of our nation's history.

Location: Washington, DC
Job Classification: Full-Time; Exempt
Department: Education

The Education Assistant is expected to:

• Manage the administrative and

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.  

The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly

Regular Panel Proposal

Afropessimism, Afrofuturism, and Black German Studies

In her insightful book Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (2015), Michelle Wright, whose contribution to contemporary Black scholarship has been significant, shows how the scholars of Black studies in the United States, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Gates, and Paul Gilroy use the Middle Passage and the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the central

Feminist Theologies in American Literature

Call for Chapters

The editor of a collection in development seeks completed chapters on literary expressions of feminist theology broadly construed. The scope of the volume is wide and inclusive. Chapters may focus on any religious tradition, historical period, genre, or form of American literature. We particularly

The 15th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 23, 2023, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2023 conference theme “Louisiana Works,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought

The New England Historical Association (NEHA) invites submissions of individual papers, full panels or sessions for its Fall 2023 conference, to be held at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 21, 2023. NEHA welcomes proposals that reflect research from any historical field or subdiscipline, including applied historical scholarship in pedagogy

The Department of History at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for TWO open-rank, tenure-track positions in African History. This position is open to all fields, and the second position prioritizes Science, Health, or Disability broadly conceived, including intersections with religion, environment, gender, sexuality, etc. Salary and compensation will be competitive, commensurate with rank and achievement. A strong

The Department of History at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for TWO open-rank, tenure-track positions in African History.One position is open to all fields and this second position prioritizes Science, Health, or Disability broadly conceived, including intersections

Many graduate students within the broader humanities and social sciences want to pursue a teaching career either inside or outside the boundaries of higher education. As such, the time they spend working as teaching assistants and instructors of record in the college classroom constitutes valuable experience to them in many ways. In the absence of insufficient pedagogical resources and curricular training, the processes of developing