View the H-Law Discussion Logs by month
View the Prior Message in H-Law's August 2007 logs by: [date] [author] [thread] View the Next Message in H-Law's August 2007 logs by: [date] [author] [thread] Visit the H-Law home page.
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM H-NET This index comprises all verified entries from H-Net's events database on the indicated dates. It has been sorted by type of event, not by content field. Users may print, post, or forward all or part of the index, or click on individual items to view and use the entire entry from the events site. H-Net assumes no liability for the accuracy of subsequent repostings of this material, so please check them carefully. To receive the digest by email, send the following command as the plain text of an email message addressed to listserv@h-net.msu.edu: subscribe h-announce yourname example: subscribe h-announce James Smith Please do not send events announcements to this list; instead, visit: http://www.h-net.org/announce/ The following types of events are contained in this listing: Fellowship Grant Prize To skip down to the section listing calls for papers, for example, use the find feature of your mailer to look for: "Category: Call for Papers". The following 36 announcements were posted to the H-Net web site between 2007-08-09 and 2007-08-13. ###################################################################### # Category: Fellowship ###################################################################### Title: Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 2007-2008 Fellowship Appointments Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the appointment of 19 new fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year. The museum's program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships. The 2007-2008 museum fellows are ... Contact: SAAMFellowships@si.edu URL: www.AmericanArt.si.edu/fellowships Announcement ID: 157510 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157510 Title: Research Fellowships in European History Date: 2007-08-30 Description: The Institute of European History awards fellowships for a research stay in Mainz from January 2008. The Institute promotes historical and theological research on the foundations of Europe comparative or transnational resp. transcultural projects dealing with European communication and transfer proc ... Contact: berger@ieg-mainz.de URL: www.ieg-mainz.de Announcement ID: 157454 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157454 Title: Graduate Scholarships in International History at the University of Melbourne Date: 2007-08-31 Description: The University of Melbourne (Australia) offers scholarships for international graduate students, covering tuition, health insurance, a stipend, and other benefits. Top-ranked prospective PhD students in the field of international history are encouraged to apply, especially those interested in topics ... Contact: bkeys@unimelb.edu.au URL: www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/int/ipg/ipgapply.html Announcement ID: 157584 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157584 Title: The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, invites international applications for up to 5 PhD fellowships. Deadline 1st September 2007. Date: 2007-09-01 Description: The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, invites international applications for PhD fellowships. Due to generous support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the GCSC can offer in 2007 up to 5 PhD fellowships. The GCSC e ... Contact: gcsc@uni-giessen.de URL: www.uni-giessen.de/graduiertenzentrum/home/index.html Announcement ID: 157556 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157556 Title: N-YHS Fellowship Deadline Extended Location: New York Date: 2007-09-01 Description: Stipends of $1500 to $2000 will be awarded in the amount of $500 per week, for no less than three weeks and no more than four weeks, depending on the time required for the completion of the project. Fellowships must be undertaken for consecutive weeks between October 15, 2007 and August 30, 2008. Th ... Contact: nnazionale@nyhistory.org URL: www.nyhistory.org Announcement ID: 157506 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157506 Title: Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science:Dissertation Fellowships Date: 2007-09-27 Description: The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) offers short-term residential fellowships for conducting dissertation research in history of medicine, science and technology. These fellowships are intended for students who wish to use the collections of two or more institutions in the PA ... Contact: fellowships@pachs.net URL: www.pachs.net Announcement ID: 157412 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157412 Title: Bookwriting, Publication, Translation Grant on Korean Studies 2007 Date: 2007-09-28 Description: SIKS (Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies) in The Academy of Korean Studies in Korea is pleased to announce a Very new grant for Korean Studies for 2007. The aim of this grant is not only to publish excellent books on Korea, but also to help research on Korea. The grant is composed of thee: (1) ... Contact: siks@aks.ac.kr URL: www.aks.ac.kr Announcement ID: 157433 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157433 Title: Robert Bosch Regional Fellowships Date: 2007-09-30 Description: The New Europe College, an Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, invites applications for one-term Fellowships in Spring - Summer 2008 (from March through July, 2008) The two Fellowships shall enable young outstanding researchers - social scientists and humanities scholars - or academics from t ... Contact: imihai@nec.ro URL: www.nec.ro Announcement ID: 157553 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157553 Title: Foundation for Child Development: Young Scholars Program Call for Proposals Date: 2007-11-01 Description: The Foundation for Child Development: Changing Faces of Americas Children - Young Scholars Program's goals are to: Stimulate both basic and policy-relevant research about the early education, health and well-being of immigrant children from birth to age 10, particularly those who are living in low- ... Contact: ysp@fcd-us.org URL: www.fcd-us.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=447982 Announcement ID: 157428 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157428 Title: Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology Location: New York Date: 2007-11-15 Description: The Bard Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History announce a Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology. The fellowship provides support to a postdoctoral investigator to pursue a project in association with a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natura ... Contact: adams@bgc.bard.edu URL: www.bgc.bard.edu/academic/ Announcement ID: 157537 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157537 Title: 2008 OAH/White House Historical Association Fellowships Location: New York Date: 2007-12-01 Description: 2008 White House Historical Association Fellowships The White House Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians seek proposals for research projects focusing on the roles of the White House as home, workplace, museum, structure, and symbol. Teachers and scholars whose work enh ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157616 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157616 Title: NSF IGERT Traineeship Opportunity Date: 2008-02-01 Description: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks applicants for our NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program, Water in the Urban Environment. Solutions to complex problems associated with the effect of urbanization on the water cycle require integrated ecological ... Contact: bhanlon1@umbc.edu URL: www.umbc.edu/cuere/igert Announcement ID: 157608 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157608 ###################################################################### # Category: Grant ###################################################################### Title: Postgraduate Scholarships in German Studies Date: 2007-08-31 Description: Mary Immaculate College is offering 2 Assistantships for German graduates wishing to do a MA or PhD in German Studies starting in September 2007. Possible research areas include: Questions of identity in German literature/culture Memory in German literature/culture Transnational relations/intercultu ... Contact: rachel.magshamhrain@mic.ul.ie Announcement ID: 157447 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157447 Title: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Research Travel Grants Date: 2007-09-15 Description: The Gerald R. Ford Foundation awards grants of up to $2,000 each in support of research in the archival collections of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, part of the system of presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The collections are especiall ... Contact: helmi.raaska@nara.gov URL: www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/foundationgrants.asp Announcement ID: 157562 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157562 Title: Daiwa Foundation Grants And Awards: The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to announce its next funding round for grants and awards available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to support UK-Japan i Date: 2007-09-30 Description: Daiwa Foundation Grants And AwardsThe Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to announce its next funding round for grants and awards, to include:Daiwa Foundation Small Grants of 1,000 to 5,000 available to individuals, societies, associations or other bodies in the UK or Japan to support UK-Jap ... Contact: grants@dajf.org.uk URL: www.dajf.org.uk/grants Announcement ID: 157487 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157487 Title: 2008 OAH/IEHS John Higham Travel Grants Location: New York Date: 2007-12-01 Description: 2008 OAH/IEHS John Higham Travel Grants Graduate Students: Apply now for a 2008 OAH/IEHS Higham Travel Grant. OAH and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) have created a fund to award travel grants in memory of John Higham (1920-2003), past president of both organizations, and a towerin ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157596 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157596 Title: Hugh Davis Graham Award Location: Missouri Date: 2008-02-15 Description: The Institute for Political History, a nonprofit foundation, is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the Hugh Davis Graham Award. The purpose of this grant, named in honor of the late Professor Hugh Graham, is to assist scholars undertaking archival research in the fields of Ame ... Contact: grahamaward@gmail.com URL: www.politicalhistory.org/graham%20award%20procedures.html Announcement ID: 157426 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157426 ###################################################################### # Category: Prize ###################################################################### Title: Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching Date: 2007-09-24 Description: The Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching recognises instructional uses of the Aluka digital library that enrich teaching about or related to Africa. The Aluka Digital Library is a broad and diverse collection of materials about African history, culture, and botany relevant to disciplines such as glob ... Contact: library_relations@aluka.org URL: www.aluka.org/page/about/news/20070718.jsp Announcement ID: 157578 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157578 Title: 2008 Ellis W. Hawley Prize Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH ELLIS W. HAWLEY PRIZE The Ellis W. Hawley Prize, given for the first time in 1997, is awarded annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the pres ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157595 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157595 Title: 2008 OAH Avery O. Craven Award Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 MERLE CURTI AWARD The Merle Curti Award is given annually for the best book in social, intellectual, and/or cultural history. The committee may decide to give the award to two books, one in social history and one in intellectual history. Each entry must be published during the period January 1, ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157594 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157594 Title: 2008 OAH Richard W. Leopold Prize Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH RICHARD W. LEOPOLD PRIZE The Richard W. Leopold Prize, first given in 1984, was designed to improve contacts and interrelationships within the historical profession where an increasing number of history-trained scholars hold distinguished positions in governmental agencies. This prize recog ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157598 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157598 Title: 2008 OAH James A. Rawley Prize Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH JAMES A. RAWLEY PRIZE The James A. Rawley Prize, given for the first time in 1990, is awarded annually for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of Professor James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157613 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157613 Title: 2008 OAH Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH LERNER-SCOTT DISSERTATION PRIZE The Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize was given for the first time in 1992 for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history. The prize is named for Gerda Lerner and Anne Firor Scott, both pioneers in women's history and past presidents of the Organiza ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157609 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157609 Title: 2008 OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH LIBERTY LEGACY FOUNDATION AWARD Inspired by OAH President Darlene Clark Hine's call in her 2002 OAH presidential address for more research on the origins of the civil rights movement in the period before 1954, the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award is given for the best book on any historical ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157610 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157610 Title: 2008 OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AWARD The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, first given in 1959 as the Prize Studies Award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, has been given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of America ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157615 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157615 Title: 2008 OAH Avery O. Craven Award Location: New York Date: 2007-10-01 Description: 2008 OAH AVERY O. CRAVEN AWARD The Avery O. Craven Award, first given in 1985, is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military h ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157593 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157593 Title: 2008 OAH Lawrence W. Levine Prize Location: New York Date: 2007-11-01 Description: The Lawrence W. Levine Prize, which will be given for the first time in 2008, is an annual prize for the best book in American cultural history. Each entry must be published during the period January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007. One copy of each entry must be received by each committee member ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157559 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157559 Title: 2010 OAH David Thelen Award Location: District of Columbia Date: 2007-11-10 Description: 2010 OAH DAVID THELEN AWARD The Organization of American Historians sponsors a biennial award (formerly the Foreign Language Article Prize through 1998) for the best article on American history published in a foreign language. The winning article will be published in the Journal of American History. ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157617 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157617 Title: 2008 OAH Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Location: New York Date: 2007-11-30 Description: 2008 OAH LOUIS PELZER MEMORIAL AWARD The Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians invites candidates for graduate degrees to submit essays for the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award competition. Essays may deal with any period or topic in the history of the United St ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157611 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157611 Title: 2008 OAH Huggins-Quarles Award Location: New York Date: 2007-12-01 Description: 2008 OAH HUGGINS-QUARLES AWARD Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually to one or two graduate students of color at the dissertation research stage of their Ph.D. program. To apply for a $1,000 ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157597 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157597 Title: 2008 OAH ERIK BARNOUW AWARD Date: 2007-12-01 Description: The Erik Barnouw Award, first given in 1983, honors the late Erik Barnouw, Columbia University, a historian of the mass media. One or two awards are given annually in recognition of outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the s ... Announcement ID: 157605 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157605 Title: 2008 OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year Award Location: New York Date: 2007-12-01 Description: 2008 OAH TACHAU TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD The Organization of American Historians sponsors an annual award to recognize the contributions made by precollegiate or classroom teachers to improve history education. The award, to be given for activities which enhance the intellectual development of othe ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157614 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157614 Title: THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, 2008 Date: 2007-12-31 Description: THEODORE SALOUTOS BOOK AWARD, 2008 Closing date for submissions for the annual Theodore Saloutos Book Award is December 31, 2007. To be eligible, a book must be copyrighted 2007. A book may be nominated by the author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Immigration and ... Contact: tdublin@binghamton.edu URL: www.iehs.org/ Announcement ID: 157427 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157427 Title: 2009 OAH Willi Paul Adams Award Location: Washington Date: 2008-05-01 Description: The Organization of American Historians (OAH) sponsors a biennial award for the best book on American history published in a foreign language. The award (formerly the Foreign Language Book Prize through 2001) is named for Willi Paul Adams, who was an active member of OAH in Germany and a tireless a ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157590 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157590 Title: 2009 OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize Location: Washington Date: 2008-10-01 Description: 2009 OAH RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American frontier history, defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157592 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157592 Title: 2009 ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award Location: Washington Date: 2008-12-01 Description: The ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award is a biennial award given to recognize and encourage scholarship in American history in the journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics. The award is not confined to any particular subject a ... URL: www.oah.org Announcement ID: 157589 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=157589 --
|