Month: January 2016

William Randolph Hearst Fellowship 2016 May 31-July 29, 2016

The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden (MVHMG) offers two summer Fellowships for undergraduate or graduate students interested in U.S. history, museum studies, museum education, material culture or other related fields. Fellows participate directly in the daily operations of a historic site. Fellows complete original research projects on antebellum NYC that become interpretation resources, conduct tours, and participate in programs for children and adults. Now in its thirty-second year, the full-time Fellowship, funded by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, consists of nine weeks with a $2,750 stipend. Hours are 9AM-5PM Monday-Friday, with occasional evenings for special events.  Fellows are responsible for their own housing and transportation.

Further information and application forms will be available in the history department office.

Call for Papers: CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Second Annual Graduate Student Conference Revolutionary Boundaries in Early American History May 13th, 2016

CUNY EARS invites proposals for papers that range from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War. Topics can include but are not limited to gender, material culture, religion, the Atlantic World, slavery, Native American history, politics, law, print culture, immigration, urbanism, capitalism, digital humanities, and environmental history. This year’s event builds on the success of last year’s conference, which hosted graduate students from throughout the country

The conference will be held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Submissions The deadline for submissions has been extended to JANUARY 22ND, 2016. Please send an abstract (300 words) and a short CV as one document to cunyears@gmail.com. Include your name in the title of the document. Also be sure in the abstract to note any AV requirements or special accommodations for your paper.

We may be able to provide sleeping accommodations for a few presenters, so please note in your email if this option would make presenting viable.. For any questions about this event, contact our conference organizers, Roy Rogers (royrichardrogers@gmail.com) and Nora Slonimsky (nslonimsky@gmail.com).

he Swan Historical Foundation Scholarship is awarded to a full-time or part-time graduate student, with preference for students with interests in public history and based on academic merit and financial need. Recipients are encouraged to conduct research using the Swan Historical Foundation collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth century artifacts and documents. The collection includes more than 600 American Revolutionary War items at the National Museum of the American Revolution – founded and developed by the Swan Historical Foundation – in the Visitor’s Center at Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville, N.J.
The scholarship is administered by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden.