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Looking Back at the 2011 Little Berks
The 2011 Littler Berks was held at the beautiful Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. The relaxing locale provided a perfect backdrop for the historians to discuss the fascinating presentations given by Claudia Koonz (our Friday night keynote speaker), Nadia Jones-Gailani, Kathi Kern, Anna Sheftel, and Lisa Ndejuru. Below, Nadia and Lisa share [...]
Announcements Article and Book Prizes
Berks Book and Article Prize Deadline – January 15, 2012
A reminder that the Berks Book and Article Prize deadline is quickly approaching. Submissions are due January 15, 2012 Book Prize The Berkshire Conference now awards two book prizes. One prize is for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America. This prize is [...]
Announcements Article and Book Prizes Previous Winners Prizes & Awards
2010 Winners of the Berks Article and Book Prizes
Congratulations to Sherry L. Smith, winner of the 2010 Article Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for her “Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 41 (Spring 2010): 4-25. In her thought-provoking and compelling article, Sherry L. Smith invites readers to consider how groups and nations can acknowledge monumental historical [...]
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF 19TH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY New York University
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF 19TH-CENTURY U.S. HISTORY Department of History ARTS AND SCIENCE New York University The Department of History at New York University invites applications for a position in 19th-century US history, including transnational approaches. This is a full-time, tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor. Appointment will begin September 1, 2012, pending budgetary [...]
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Book and Article Prize Updates and Deadlines
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historian invites nominations for the 2011 book and article prizes. Book Prize Congratulations to Christina Snyder, winner of the 2010 Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for her Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2010). The Berkshire Conference [...]
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Past Winners of the Book and Article Prizes
2010 Sherry L. Smith, “Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 41 (Spring 2010): 4-25. In her thought-provoking and compelling article, Sherry L. Smith invites readers to consider how groups and nations can acknowledge monumental historical injustices and what role history and historians play. Focusing on the Native peoples of the American [...]
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FACULTY POSITIONS History NYU ABU DHABI
NYU Abu Dhabi is currently inviting applications for a faculty position at any level (assistant, associate, or full professor) for appointment to its History Program. The applicants should offer a special area of research and teaching dealing with the Indian Ocean region and/or Africa and the Gulf region, in which a transnational, comparative or global [...]
Article and Book Prizes Previous Winners
Winner: Article Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for 2010
Sherry L. Smith, “Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 41 (Spring 2010): 4-25 The jury’s citation reads: “In her thought-provoking and compelling article, Sherry L. Smith invites readers to consider how groups and nations can acknowledge monumental historical injustices and what role history and historians play. Focusing on the Native peoples [...]
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Follow-up on Little Berks Digital Storytelling Panel
The topic of our Saturday evening panel will be digital storytelling and feature projects at the University of Kentucky and at Concordia University in Montreal. Kathi Kern of the University of Kentucky, and our Berks secretary, will begin the session and help frame the discussion by drawing on some of the digital storytelling projects which [...]
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Little Berks, Fall 2011
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is planning a retreat for the weekend of November 4-6, 2011. The “Little Berks” will be held at the Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, a location back by popular demand. The facility features the Roosevelt Baths and Spa, where women historians have been known to soak [...]
Think, Learn, Teach, Do: Your Stories from 2011 Big Berks
Blog Wrap-Ups
As we recuperate from the 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women and begin to look forward to 2014′s first ever Canadian Big Berks at the University of Toronto, take a few minutes to read an assortment of reports from UMass Amherst trenches. Several participants brought the Berks into the twenty-first century by live-tweeting sessions, using [...]
Calls for Papers
Call for Papers – Women in Early America
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS This project, Women in Early America, is an anthology on women in America from contact through the Revolutionary era. Proposals for essays that employ a transnational approach and that rewrite master narratives are especially encouraged. As the volume is largely intended for use in undergraduate courses, essays that are written for that [...]
Featured Think, Learn, Teach, Do: Your Stories from 2011 Big Berks
Think/Learn/Teach/Do
*THINK/*LEARN/*TEACH/*DO This space is dedicated to sharing new perspectives stirred by the Berks “Generations” conference that have the potential to change our practices as thinkers, scholars, students, teachers, and activists. What did you learn from your conference experience? Will it lead you to teach differently? To see the world in new ways? To act in [...]
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Big Berks Conference Information, 2011
The 2011 Big Berks will be held from June 9th-12th at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For more information on lodging, transportation and UMass please visit our conference website. To download the program please visit http://berksconference.org/BerkshireConference2011.pdf To register, sign up for meals or housing, or to preregister for tours and workshops please visit our registration page. We regret [...]
Jobs
Assistant Professor Opening in Antebellum History – Cal Poly Pomona
The History Department at the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, seeks an assistant professor in Antebellum United States history, with preference for cultural or diplomatic history. Duties and Responsibilities: (1) Teaching general and topical courses at the undergraduate and graduate level (2) student advising; (3) participation in programs and activities related to the mission [...]
