The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC invites applications for a new Visiting Faculty Fellowship program from scholars who are committed to diversity and the advancement of groups historically underrepresented in the professoriate. Part of the Dresher Center’s Inclusion Imperative Program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this regional program is open to full-time faculty doing […]
Call for Applicants: The Mary Baker Eddy Library 2018 Fellowships
The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston is now accepting online applications for our Summer 2018 Research Fellowships. The fellowship program is open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students. The Library’s collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science, offer scholars countless opportunities for […]
CFP: #LeaderImage – Exploring, analysing and challenging attitudes towards gender and leadership in images of politicians in the digital age
CALL FOR PAPERS #LeaderImage – Exploring, analysing and challenging attitudes towards gender and leadership in images of politicians in the digital age A session at the Association for Art History Annual Conference 5 – 7 April 2018 Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College London, London Session convenors: Dr Fern Insh, Courtauld Institute of Art, fern.insh@courtauld.ac.uk Dr Kevin Guyan, Researcher, Equality […]
CFP: Southern Cultures Special Issue on Music and Protest
Southern Cultures, the award-winning quarterly of the Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, musicians, and visual artists for our Music and Protest Issue, to be published Fall 2018. We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through December 1, 2017, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/submit . This call aims to gather work that […]
Call for Papers: Trump’s America? Call for Essay Submissions WGFC
Trump’s America? Disquiet Campus? Marginalized College Students, Faculty, and Staff Reflect on Learning, Working, Living, and Engaging CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS from Students, Faculty, and Staff for a special issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color. Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017 Your voice, your experiences, and your contributions are critical to Women, Gender, and Families of Color. […]
CFP Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, May 24-26, 2018 “Tropicana: Commodities Across Borders”
CALL FOR PAPERS The Agricultural History Society welcomes proposals for sessions and papers on the conference theme Tropicana: Commodities across Borders. The theme locates the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America in a global history of commodity production and consumption. South Florida’s diverse agricultural systems, its history of immigrant labor, and its industrial processing […]
Call for Papers: Beer Culture Subject Area (2018 PCA/ACA Conference)
The 2018 National Conference marks a milestone for Beer Culture, as it will be our first as a permanent subject area with PCA/ACA after four years as a provisional special topic. We welcome proposals to join or return to present with our fast-growing and lively group of diverse scholars in Indianapolis next year. The Midwest […]
Women’s History Network 27th Annual Conference
This conference is being held to commemorate the centenary of the granting of the parliamentary vote in Britain to certain categories of women aged 30 and over on 6th February 1918. We invite established scholars, postgraduate researchers, independent scholars, museum curators, local history groups and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines researching women’s suffrage […]
DEADLINE APPROACHING: CFP The Many 14th Amendments
The U.S. Civil War from 1861-1865 resulted in a forging of a second constitution that in time transformed the structures of American governance. With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the nation recast the relationship between the state and subordinated people. This revolutionary amendment created a national citizenship, set terms for southern states to reenter the […]
Call for Volunteers to Research and Write Biographical Sketches of Women Suffrage Activists
Since March 2015 the online journal and database, Women and Social Movements in the United States (WASM), has been engaged in successive projects to create an Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. The Dictionary will include about 400 biographies of activists of the National Woman’s Party, 200 Black women suffragists, and 2,500 […]