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Graduate Student Conference: Call for Papers

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).

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Congratulations to Swann Fellowship Winner Scott Hearn

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.

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Our Students and Alumni at Work on the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Our students and alumni are helping to build The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (philadelphiaencyclopedia.org) a digital-first research and civic engagement project produced on our campus at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH). Graduate students and recent graduate program alumni working on the project during 2015-16 include Mikaela Maria (editorial assistant, essay author, and web-page builder), Scott Hearn (web-page builder, essay author, and social media manager), Arthur Murphy (web-page builder), and Sharece Blakney (fact-checker). The work is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Paid Summer Internships in Boston

The Boston Furniture Archive, a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, seeks interns for its third annual summer field cataloging project, scheduled for June 1-August 23, 2016. Up to four interns will receive training and work as a team to document furniture at a number of museums and heritage sites in the Boston area. The internship is an exciting opportunity to build knowledge of material culture and decorative arts, museum and non-profit collections management, and database creation.

The Boston Furniture Archive is free, online database that provides catalog information and photographs of furniture produced in Boston between 1630 and 1930. Visit https://bostonfurniture.winterthur.org/ to access the database and learn more about the project.

Interns will receive a stipend of $5,000 plus $1,000 for travel over the twelve weeks. Housing is not provided.

Please visit https://www.winterthur.org/pdfs/boston_furniture_internship.pdf for more information and application instructions. Applications are due February 1, 2016.