Announcements

Announcement
Black Metropolis Research Consortium 2020 Summer Fellowship Call for Applications
Date: 
November 8, 2019 to January 12, 2020
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Race Studies, Urban History / Studies
2nd Call: Teaching African-American History in the #BlackLivesMatter Era (OAH 2021)
Date: 
December 1, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Human Rights, Ethnic History / Studies, Teaching and Learning
FEATURED JOB: Israel Studies Faculty Search, Open Rank, Northwestern University, Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Type: 
Home Office Notices (Jobs, Reviews)
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
ACLA 2020 Unfolding the Untold: New Stories from Old Parables
Date: 
September 23, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Film and Film History, Literature, Popular Culture Studies, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
**CFP EXTENDED** CFP- NIU Emerging Scholars History Conference, "Individuals to Empires: Historical Scale in Method and Practice"
Date: 
August 1, 2019 to September 22, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Graduate Studies, Intellectual History, Local History, Oral History
OAH 2021 Roundtable: Teaching African-American History in the #BlackLivesMatter Era
Date: 
April 15, 2021 to April 18, 2021
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Human Rights, Ethnic History / Studies, Teaching and Learning
Submission Portal Open: Nature and Morality (ACLA 2020, Chicago)
Date: 
March 19, 2020 to March 22, 2020
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Animal Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
CFP: ACLA seminar: Feminist Repetitions/Repeating Feminisms
Date: 
August 31, 2019 to September 23, 2019
Type: 
Conference
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Literature, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Special Issue: Visions and Words for Children of the African Diaspora: FALL 2020
Date: 
January 15, 2020
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Childhood and Education, Humanities, Literature
CfP: "Nature and Morality: (Non)Human Sexuality in Science and Literature" (ACLA 2020)
Date: 
September 23, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Literature, Sexuality Studies, Animal Studies
Call for Proposals: "Pathways to Democracy" 2021 OAH Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Date: 
December 2, 2019 to February 3, 2020
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Chicana/o History / Studies, History Education, Public History
Call for Submissions- Queer History Month (Journal of Queer Studies in Finland)
Date: 
November 29, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Childhood and Education, Cultural History / Studies, Teaching and Learning, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Sexuality Studies
Truth Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells- new documentary website
Type: 
Online Digital Resources
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
The Conflict of the Faculties: Scarcity and Competition in Higher Education
Date: 
May 15, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Teaching and Learning
Black Intellectuals and the Making of the Atlantic World
Date: 
June 15, 2019 to September 30, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies
Together We RISE: Reaching Inclusivity for Student Excellence- Call for Proposals- Deadline June 1 2019
Date: 
October 11, 2019
Type: 
Conference
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Race Studies, Sexuality Studies, Teaching and Learning, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Educational Technology
Call For Papers: 2019 Conference on Illinois History
Date: 
May 1, 2019
Type: 
Conference
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Political History / Studies, Political Science, Archaeology
Newberry Seminar on Religion and Culture in the Americas
Date: 
March 22, 2019 to June 4, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, Social History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies
Newberry Seminar on Religion and Culture in the Americas, March 15, 2019
Date: 
March 16, 2019
Type: 
Seminar
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Race Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, Urban History / Studies
“Deemed Inadvisable”: The University of Chicago’s Wartime Japanese American Ban and the South Side Nikkei Community
Type: 
Event
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Asian American History / Studies, Japanese History / Studies, Oral History, American History / Studies
The HistoryMakers New Website Has Launched!!
Type: 
Online Digital Resources
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Digital Humanities, Humanities
CFP_Studies in American Humor_, special issue on Native American Humor
Date: 
March 1, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies, Literature, Native American History / Studies, Theatre & Performance History / Studies
Northwestern University Comparative Historical Social Sciences Conference
Date: 
January 25, 2019
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Political History / Studies, Political Science, Social Sciences, Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies
The Designs of African American Life, Nov 2-3, Chicago
Date: 
November 2, 2018 to November 3, 2018
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Popular Culture Studies
CFP: “Anxiety and Politics” for Panel at 2019 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference (Apr. 4-7, 2019, Chicago, IL)
Date: 
October 1, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Humanities, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Sciences
Opportunities for Early American Historians
Date: 
December 15, 2018
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Native American History / Studies
CFP: Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Sciences
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, Research and Methodology
The Designs of African American Life
Date: 
November 2, 2018 to November 3, 2018
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Journalism and Media Studies, Public History
Newberry Seminar on Religion and Culture in the Americas 2018-2019
Date: 
June 1, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies
Interracial Intimacies
Date: 
April 18, 2018 to April 19, 2018
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, American History / Studies, Anthropology, Asian American History / Studies
Call For Papers: The Conference on Illinois History
Date: 
October 4, 2018 to October 5, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Contemporary History, Cultural History / Studies, Political History / Studies
MLA 2019: Bion and the humanities
Date: 
January 3, 2019
Type: 
Conference
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Humanities, Intellectual History, Literature, Philosophy, Sexuality Studies
The ‘Other’ Border: Canada and the United States
Date: 
March 8, 2018 to March 10, 2018
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Canadian History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Native American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Humanities
CFP: "Worlds of Exchange: The Utopia and Dystopia in Francophone Literature" (MLA 2019)
Date: 
March 16, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
French History / Studies, Modern European History / Studies, African History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies, Literature
CFP: Mark Twain Circle Panel for MLA 2019, Chicago January 3-6.
Date: 
March 1, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Literature, Sexuality Studies, Social History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Society for U.S. Intellectual History CFP 2018 Chicago Conference
Date: 
May 1, 2018
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Intellectual History, Borderlands
Engendering Change 2018: Graduate Gender/Sexualities Conference in Chicago
Date: 
January 22, 2018
Type: 
Conference
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Sexuality Studies, Literature, Sociology, Humanities, Social Sciences
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellowship for Independent Researchers
Date: 
December 15, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Theatre & Performance History / Studies, Social Sciences, Public History, Popular Culture Studies, Human Rights
Opportunities for Early American Historians
Date: 
December 15, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies
CFP: SSAWW at CLA Panel on Immigrant American Women Writers across the Diaspora (Extended Deadline)
Date: 
September 29, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, American History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Literature
CFP: LHS at CLA Panel on the Black Metropolis in Hughes and His Contemporaries (Extended Deadline)
Date: 
September 29, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Literature
CFP: SSAWW Panel at the College Language Association Convention, April 2018
Date: 
September 8, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Literature
The 'Other' Border: Canada and the United States. Research Residency Fellowships, Spring 2018
Date: 
February 11, 2018 to April 14, 2018
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Native American History / Studies, Borderlands
Transforming Midwest Culture and Society: Women Artists, 1960s to 1980s
Date: 
November 2, 2017 to November 3, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Fine Arts, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Newberry Library Labor History Seminar Call For Papers for 2017-2018
Date: 
May 15, 2017 to June 1, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Chicana/o History / Studies, Labor History / Studies, Urban History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Hinesight: A Symposium on the Work of Darlene Clark Hine
Date: 
May 12, 2017 to May 13, 2017
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Contemporary History, Women's & Gender History / Studies
CFP for Panel at ASA Annual Meeting: Artists of the African Diaspora and the Art Historical Canon
Date: 
November 16, 2017 to November 18, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, African History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Black History / Studies
CFP- Women's and Gender History Symposium at Urbana-Champaign
Date: 
March 3, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies, World History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies
Second Generation African Immigrants: Identity and Transnationalism in the United States
Date: 
February 15, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Sociology, Black History / Studies
CLOSING SOON! BMRC 2017 Summer Short-term Fellowship Program Applications Deadline
Date: 
January 1, 2017 to January 17, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Urban Design and Planning, Architecture and Architectural History
Final Call for Submissions- Fwd: Museums Journal
Date: 
January 3, 2017 to January 6, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Area Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Chicana/o History / Studies
CFP: Graduate Student Conference: "Converging Narratives: Besieged and Transgressive Bodies": Chicago, IL (March 31-April 1, 2017)
Date: 
March 31, 2017 to April 1, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
European History / Studies, Humanities, Popular Culture Studies, Race Studies, Sexuality Studies
Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Twentieth-Century Chicago // NEH summer institute
Type: 
Summer Program
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Literature, Women's & Gender History / Studies
CFP: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Knowledge in Global Affairs March 30-31, 2017
Date: 
December 15, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Diplomacy and International Relations, Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Social Sciences, World History / Studies
Call for Publications: Contributions to Gender Studies Reader
Date: 
December 3, 2016 to January 5, 2017
Type: 
Call for Publications
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Sexuality Studies, Social History / Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology, Women's & Gender History / Studies
BMRC 2017 Summer Short-term Fellowship Program Application NOW OPEN!
Date: 
November 14, 2016 to January 15, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, American History / Studies, Architecture and Architectural History, Urban Design and Planning
Timuel D. Black Short Term Fellowship in African American Studies
Date: 
November 14, 2016 to January 15, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Archival Science, Black History / Studies
2017 BMRC Summer Short-term Fellowship Program RFP
Date: 
November 15, 2016 to January 15, 2017
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Architecture and Architectural History, Archival Science, Urban Design and Planning
Opportunities for Early American Historians
Date: 
December 15, 2016
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellowship for Independent Researchers
Date: 
December 15, 2016
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Theatre & Performance History / Studies, Social Sciences, Public History, Popular Culture Studies, Human Rights
"Vestiges: The Obama Presidency Remembered" Call For Submissions
Date: 
September 2, 2016 to November 9, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black History / Studies, Government and Public Service, Theatre & Performance History / Studies
Conseula Francis Award
Date: 
December 1, 2016
Type: 
Prize
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Call for Papers: Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Present
Date: 
May 12, 2017 to May 13, 2017
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Indigenous Studies
The Black Feminist Futures Symposium
Date: 
May 20, 2016 to May 21, 2016
Type: 
Symposium
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Black History / Studies, Literature, Popular Culture Studies, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Urban Studies Popular Culture- MPCA/ACA 2016 Conference
Date: 
April 6, 2016 to May 1, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Urban History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Indigenous Studies- Midwest Pop/American Culture Assoc. Conference, Oct 6-9 Chicago
Date: 
April 30, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Australian and New Zealand History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Native American History / Studies, African American History / Studies, Asian American History / Studies
CFP: African American-Popular Culture Area at 2016 MPCA Conference (Chicago; 6-9 Oct)
Date: 
April 30, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Area Studies, Black History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies
CFP: Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal
Date: 
July 1, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Fine Arts, Humanities, Languages, Social Sciences, Research and Methodology
CFP: Popular Romance: Midwest Popular Culture Association
Date: 
April 30, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Literature, Popular Culture Studies
GRANTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS
Date: 
January 1, 2016 to April 1, 2016
Type: 
Grant
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, History Education, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Sciences
2016 MPCA/ACA Urban Studies Area- Call for Papers
Date: 
April 30, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Local History, Popular Culture Studies
Organization of Educational Historians, 2016 Annual Conference, North Park University, Chicago, IL, September 30- October 1, 2016
Date: 
March 1, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Childhood and Education, Ethnic History / Studies, History Education, Oral History, Urban History / Studies
African Arts: Open Session
Date: 
January 8, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, African History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black History / Studies, Graduate Studies
CEHILA USA [Commission for Historical Studies of the Church in Latin America USA]
Date: 
December 1, 2015 to January 20, 2016
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
American History / Studies, Canadian History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Mexican History / Studies, Religious Studies and Theology
Black Metropolis Research Consortium- 2016 Summer Short-term Fellowship Program
Date: 
November 15, 2015 to January 15, 2016
Type: 
Fellowship
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Local History, Political History / Studies, Public Health, Urban History / Studies
CFP: The Successes and Pitfalls of Fellowships and Grants for the Visual Arts
Date: 
October 31, 2015 to December 1, 2015
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Vertical Exploration: Journal of Pole and Aerial Movement Studies
Date: 
December 31, 2015
Type: 
Call for Publications
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
Popular Culture Studies, Psychology, Research and Methodology, Sexuality Studies
The Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston and the Study of Africana Religions
Date: 
October 1, 2015
Type: 
Call for Papers
Location: 
Illinois, United States
Subject Fields: 
African American History / Studies, Literature, Women's & Gender History / Studies