What’s Going On in the Field
Announcements Conferences
Symposium – Women’s Archives/Women¹s Collections: What does the Future Hold?
Please join us for an afternoon or evening at the Newcomb College Institute in New Orleans (one day before SAA’s opening) for a symposium: Women’s Archives/Women¹s Collections: What does the Future Hold? Perspectives on Women’s Archives: A Reader (ed. Tanya Zanish-Belcher with Anke Voss) will be hot off the press when the Society of American [...]
Article and Book Prizes Featured Prizes & Awards
Finalists of the 2012 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2012 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians book prizes. The seven finalists are: Natalie Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930 (University of Georgia Press) Lisa Cohen, All We Know: Three Lives (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Francoise Hamlin, Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black [...]
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Join us at the Little Berks! University of Toronto, May 2013
Little Berks meeting of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Hart House, University of Toronto, May 3-5, 2013 One evening: 10 dollars Two evenings: 20 dollars Please pre-register before April 15 by emailing Camille Bégin (camille.begin@utoronto.ca) using “Little Berks Evening” in the subject line. Friday, May 3, Music Room, Hart House, 7.30-10pm Dessert and Refreshment [...]
Fellowships Jobs
McPherson/Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow in Afro-American Studies
The Department of Afro-American Studies at Smith College invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history beginning July 1, 2013. The McPherson/Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellowship is a continuing initiative at Smith College that offers a combined teaching and research position at a selective liberal arts college. We welcome applications from candidates whose work includes twentieth [...]
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Job Opportunities at Michigan State University
Lyman Briggs College, an undergraduate, residential, liberal arts, science program at Michigan State University, invites applications for visiting instructors for 2013-2014. (We anticipate three full-time openings.) Candidates must be committed to undergraduate teaching, and should hold a MA/MS with a specialization in the history, philosophy, and/or sociology of science, technology, environment, or medicine. Interests in [...]
2014 Berks: Toronto Announcements Calls for Papers Conferences Featured
Instructions for Submitting to the 2014 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and New Deadline – January 21st
We are pleased that you intend to submit a proposal to the 2014 Big Berks! Here is an overview to remind you of the major theme and the 11 different subthemes (in this system called “tracks”). In submitting a proposal, you must submit to one subtheme/track, but you can note a second choice in your [...]
Calls for Papers Conferences Featured
Your New Year’s Resolution? Submit A Proposal to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2014. Deadline January 15 2013.
Update: Proposals should be entered into the system today, January 15 2012. What if you are having trouble with the website, or difficulty having your co-panelists get their stuff to you? Anonymous Program Fairies report that the submission site will not actually close until January 22nd. On the 21st, the program chairs may decide to extend the [...]
Jobs
One-Year Leave Replacement, Grinnell College: Deadline February 1 2013
Grinnell College. One-year leave replacement position in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, starting August 2013. Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) possible. We are particularly interested in candidates who can contribute courses in Gender and Science, Transnational Feminisms, Sexuality Studies and/or Masculinity Studies. Grinnell College is a highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college. The College’s curriculum [...]
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NEH Summer Institute, Bard Grad Center NYC: Deadline March 4 2013
At the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York City, July 1-26, 2013 Objects matter. Material culture scholars use artifactual evidence such as consumer goods, architecture, clothing, landscape, decorative arts, and many other types of material. The Bard Graduate Center will host a four-week NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture. The institute will focus [...]
Fellowships
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs: Deadline March 1 2013
The University of Connecticut is pleased to announce a call for applications for the first Pre-doctoral In-Residence Fellowship to advance diversity in higher education. The program will support scholars from other universities while they complete their dissertation or post-MFA study for the term of an academic year. Fellows will have access to outstanding resources, faculty [...]
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Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Women’s and Gender Studies Program: Deadline January 15 2013
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Women’s and Gender Studies Program Location: Norman, OK Type: Full time, Ranked renewable term Deadline: January 15, 2013 Open Until Filled: Yes Description: The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a ranked renewable 5-year term position at the assistant level with an emphasis on [...]
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Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship at Yale: Deadline January 15 2013
This fellowship provides a year of support to a graduate student from an institution other than Yale who is writing a dissertation in LGBT Studies, with lesbian studies particularly encouraged. The winner receives $20,000. The fellowship runs from September 1, 2013–June 31, 2014. Residence in New Haven and participation in LGBT Studies programs are required [...]
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Chair, Women & Gender Studies, Towson State. Deadline: January 2013.
Towson University seeks applicants for chairperson of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies to begin in summer 2013. Applicants should have excellent records in teaching and a strong record in scholarship appropriate to appointment as a Professor with tenure. The Chairperson, who reports to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, works collaboratively [...]
Calls for Papers
CFP: Beyond the Binaries: Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America. Deadline: January 31 2013
A special issue of Early American Studies: In a 1993 article in Sciences, biologist and historian Anne Fausto-Sterling provocatively argued that human sex could not be neatly divided into two simple categories, men and women. Instead, she recommended a five-part system of categorization, including men, women, merms, ferms, and herms. At the time of publication, [...]
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Susan Currier Visiting Professorship, Cal Poly. Deadline January 6 2013
The Susan Currier Visiting Professorship for Teaching Excellence is a residential teaching professorship that recognizes superior teaching in the liberal arts, emphasizing (where possible) the intersection between gender/women’s issues and global justice/humanitarian concerns. The goal of the Susan Currier Visiting Professorship is to bring an associate or full professor with a distinguished record of teaching excellence to Cal Poly to share [...]
