Native American History / Studies

Harrisburg, PA - The Pennsylvania State Archives and the Pennsylvania Historical Association are now accepting applications for the 2019 Scholars in Residence Program.

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Postdoctoral Fellowship, American History

Harvard University, Charles Warren Center

The Charles Warren Center, Harvard’s research center for North American history announces next year of its Global American Studies postdoctoral fellowship. This postdoc, distinct from the Center’s long-standing faculty fellowship, will in fall/winter 2019/20 select its next cohort of two fellows. Appointments are for one year starting July 1, 2019, renewable for a second.

Join us for this in-depth exploration of museums and curated cultural collections around Washington, D.C. This four-week NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers will bring the rich and diverse histories of America’s public museums into wider use for teaching and research in the humanities. The Institute approaches museums as sites for interdisciplinary inquiry into advances in humanistic and scientific research, the effects of ongoing international conflicts, the speed of evolving technologies, and ethical debates over privacy, sustainability, and cultural heritage.

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CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference

The 61st Annual Western Social Science Association Conference will be held in San Diego, California, from April 24th to 27th, 2019.  

The Western Social Science Association conference hosts 33 different social sciences under its umbrella organization, providing the best of both for an academic conference--smaller audiences for discipline specific presentations and a larger overall conference venue.  The WSSA is extremely supportive of both undergraduate and graduate work as well as emerging scholars.

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Clinical Assistant Professor of Theater Studies and Director of Dramatic Literature Program

New York University Arts and Science

The volume Predicting the Past. Worldwide Medieval Dream Interpretation is planned to be published in Brill’s series Reading Medieval Sources and aims to give a high-level survey and analysis of dream-books in the Middles Ages (400-1500 CE), in different parts of the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and explore their development, dispersal, and typologies. We also intend to investigate issues such as production, use, and audience according to different disciplinary perspectives (e.g. history, literature, art, and religion).

L'Association des Bibliothécaires du Québec/Québec Library Association

Graduate students preparing a dissertation on any area of early American history (up to 1815) are invited to submit proposals for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts’s annual Graduate Student Forum.  You will discuss your work with between six and ten peers from other universities, and with the Colonial Society’s members, at our Beacon Hill townhouse at 87 Mount Vernon Street on Friday, June 7, 2019.   

“Screening Indigenous Bodies” 

Special Issue of Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display 

Guest Editor: Dr. Sol Neely (Cherokee Nation)