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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.

An informal survey of recent job postings finds positive trends for the public history job market in the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States. Graduate students in our Issues in Public History seminar during Fall 2015 analyzed recent postings on online jobs boards including listings maintained by the National Council on Public History, the American Association of State and Local History, and the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. An encouraging number of employers are seeking to hire public historians with master’s degrees to work in history-related organizations as educators, interpreters, communicators, managers, and development specialists. The study located 115 positions advertised between March and November 2015.

 

What do employers seek? Above all, they seek communications skills of all kinds – written, oral, and interpersonal. New opportunities are opening for public historians with skills in social media and the ability to create and maintain websites. Employers are looking for people who can multi-task, work well in teams, and creatively solve problems. History organizations place a high value on specialized knowledge of histories related to the organization’s mission, for example maritime history for maritime museums or community history for local historical societies. In public history seminars at Rutgers-Camden we emphasize transferable skills to meet these requirements of a changing job market.

On December 2, NCPH will begin advertising volunteer positions for the 2016 Annual Meeting, which will be held March 16-19 in Baltimore, Maryland.  This year we’re are asking for student volunteers and volunteer photographers (who do not need to be students).We are giving you an advance notice of this opportunity because we appreciate your support of NCPH as a Patron or Partner—thank you! 

The deadline for volunteer applications is January 13, 2016.  Please fill out the volunteer application attached and email it to Nick Johnson, the volunteer coordinator, at nickjohn@iupui.edu as soon as possible to secure a time slot that works for your schedule. Volunteer shifts are four hours long. Please note that you will be unable to attend any conference activities during your volunteer shift (including sessions, working groups, workshops, and field trips/tours), so we suggest you take a look at the Conference Program and plan accordingly when indicating your shift preferences. 

Please see me (Janet Golden) or Dr. Mires for the volunteer form.

 

 

Our next Lees Seminar is December 4, 4-6 pm in the first floor seminar room 429 Cooper Street. 

Our presenter will be ELEANOR HUBBARD, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. Professor Hubbard’s presentation is entitled “English Sailors in the World: Cultural Contact, Performance, and Identity in the Early Seventeenth Century.” Our commentator will be Professor Naomi Taback from Temple University.

The Lees Seminar was endowed by Andrew Lees, Distinguished Professor of History, to promote research endeavors Seminars open with a brief comment followed by discussion, and conclude with light refreshments.

Advance reading of the pre-circulated paper is required of all attendees. In order to receive the paper, please RSVP to Professor Nick Kapur (nick.kapur@rutgers.edu) by Friday, November 27.