The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2020/2021 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference will be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics.
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The deadline for submission of abstracts to the 5th Annual Journalism Historians Conference has been extended to Feb. 17, 2020. The conference will be May 28 and 29 at Augusta University in Augusta, Ga. Please contact Debbie van Tuyll with any questions.
Dear Collegues,
We are soliciting proposals to complete a panel on kinship and emancipation during the Civil War and Reconstruction for the 2021 AHA conference. Currently, the panel is comprised of two Ph.D. candidates in history at the University of Maryland and a visiting professor of history at Baruch College. The topics of the papers include black Tennessean's social networks during emancipation, black motherhood during the Civil War, and black widows in postwar Virginia.
Call for Papers/Proposals:
Engaging Indigenous Communities: Respect, Reciprocity and Reconciliation
Date: 18-20 June 2020 at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Description:
The latest issue of BJHS Themes is now available. All papers are fully open access.
Click on this link to go the journal website.
HOW COLLECTIONS END, edited by Boris Jardine, Emma Kowal, and Jenny Bangham.
Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Authority in Twelver Shia Islam: Clerics and the State, Past and Present
Call for Papers
Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Authority in Twelver Shia Islam: Clerics and the State, Past and Present
10-11 September 2020
A University of Birmingham Conference at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin
Purpose
The Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter is an annual award of $5,000 given to a doctoral student to support dissertation research in any field related to United States political process and public policy – particularly the role and analysis of public opinion – during the last half of the 20th century. Award funds may be used for travel, reproduction fees, administrative costs, and other research and writing expenses.
Eligiblity Requirements
International Workshop
Carcerality in the Globalised Present: Prison Spaces, Forms and Imaginaries
18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. Máximo Sozzo (Sociology and Criminology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
Dr. Jennifer Turner (Human Geography, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
We invite graduate students using the methods of social science history to attend a two-day summer school in Jyväskylä in June 2020. The summer school will address the challenge of research design for methods in social science history.
We offer postgraduate students the opportunity to develop their knowledge of research methods and to test methodological choices in their dissertation research with top researchers and teachers in the field.
See our website for more information on the workshop and applying. Applications are welcome until March 15, 2020.
Breaking News
Issue number 141 (October 2021)
Abstract Deadline: EXTENDED to February 15, 2020
Co-Edited by Steven Fabian, Marissa Moorman, and Josh Shepperd