2016 – Page 7 – Graduate History Blog

Congratulations

Sharece Blakney will be attending the Mellon Scholars summer workshop at the Library Company of Philadelphia. This is a professional development program to help students prepare for graduate study and independent research in early African-American history archival collections.

The program will include cv-building, research lectures, and training on creating competitive applications for doctoral programs. Activities will also include mentoring and networking with African-American history scholars and an introduction to the Library Company’s African Americana collection and other area repositories.

Certificate in Public History

We are pleased to announce that starting in fall semester 2016 graduate students at Rutgers Camden have the opportunity to earn a Certificate in Public History. The completion of the Certificate will be noted on a student’s transcript. To be awarded a Certificate in Public History graduate students would need to complete the following 3 courses: 1) Issues in Public History 2) A public history elective 3) An internship in public history or an approved substitution for this course such as an Independent Study public history project, the Practicum in Public History Course, or Eagleton Program Internship. Students interested in the Certificate should contact the Graduate Program Director, Dr. Janet Golden (jgolden@camden.rutgers.edu)

Job Opening

Hunter Research, a Trenton-based cultural resources consulting firm, has an open position for a full-time historian/architectural historian. The announcement can be accessed on our web site here: https://www.hunterresearch.com/historian-architectural-historian.

Alumni News from Will Buie

Here’s a post from our recent graduate Will Buie:

It is a real joy to be the senior research oral historian at the Rutgers Oral History Archives. I am heavily involved in audio production and editing transcripts before they go live. When not processing, I am usually out conducting oral history interviews, speaking to groups about oral history and thinking of different ways to help the public engage with our material. Later this year, I will be executing my own research project, with support from the archive, on the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. I encourage you to visit our website and return to it later this year as we begin posting our new collections of interviews on the evolution of the ACLU and Livingston College. We will also post collections highlighting the experiences of refugees from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and black alumni who attended Rutgers University in the 1960s and 1970s. Our website can be found at https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/.

New Graduate Fellowships Announced

We are pleased to announce a new Graduate Program in History Fellowship that offers financial support and full-tuition* to students for two years. This program is described below along with other graduate funding.

Graduate Program in History Fellowship: These fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to incoming students. It covers tuition plus $5000 stipend per semester for up to 4 semesters and requires students to perform 150 hours of work per semester in an experiential learning program overseen by the graduate program director. Continuing funding is dependant upon maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher, making adequate progress toward degree completion, and satisfactorily fulfilling the experiential learning requirement. The award cannot be used in conjunction with other awards such as the Swann Fellowship or Eagleton Fellowship).