Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Calls for Papers, Funding Opportunities, and Resources, January 7, 2025

 

CONFERENCES  AND WORKSHOPS

Roundtable on Teaching Women's/Gender History

https://www.oah.org/conferences/cfp/

We are seeking two to three additional panelists for a roundtable proposal for the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Philadelphia April 16-19, 2026.

This roundtable will be composed of informal presentations regarding different strategies, challenges, and methods of teaching Women’s, Gender, and/or Sexuality history in contemporary classrooms or learning settings. Ideally, each presenter would explain their teaching context and focus for 5-7 minutes on a particular issue of choice (i.e. approach, activities in the classroom, student engagement, etc.). The deadline for OAH submissions is April 14, 2025; We would like interested panelists to send a bio and short description of their proposed focus of discussion by January 31, 2025. Please send materials to both Nicole Greer Golda (ngreergolda@ferrum.edu) and Marie Stango (mariestango@isu.edu).

 

Well-Being & Social Justice: Co-creating Kitchen Table History - Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities

https://berksconference.org/2026-big-berks/

18-21 June 2026 at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

What does a well society – or wellness in a socially just society – look like? These are profound questions of great magnitude and consequence whether we are examining the past or abiding in the present. And they are quite definitely weighty matters as we consider and construct, right here and now, our individual and collective human- and eco-futures. We invite historical, intellectual, artistic, activist, and world-building contributions that define and explore wellness, well-being, and care in relationship to the personal, interpersonal, societal, human-centric, and eco-centric. We invite you—national and international scholars, activists, and artists of all persuasions, and especially graduate students and early career colleagues—to collaborate and be nourished and nourish each other.

Submit your proposals before January 31, 2025.

For more information, please email: execadmin@berksconference.org

 

Unsettling Institutions

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdc5spzSti3vIIdumWuens54she4y47GgqR2nf8VnQqRu1nBg/viewform

The Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites proposals for its 21st annual Graduate History Conference on April 18-19.

The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to consider how bedrock institutions have shaped – and continue to shape– societies, cultures, politics, and our collective lived experiences. How, for example, have institutions constrained the lives of particular groups in the past? How have people responded when institutions have stopped serving their intended purpose? We encourage proposals to engage with the question of how we might connect these topics to modern-day issues of social justice, democracy, and community.

Proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2024 and accepted applicants will be notified in early February. Proposals should be 200-300 words.

Contact Email  ghapage@umass.edu

 

Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum

https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-papers-displaced-arts-creative-practices-and-geographies-asylum

University of Edinburgh, June 24th 2025

Building on a burgeoning body of scholarship in the arts and humanities, as well as the social sciences, which has emphasised the importance of creative practices and methodologies in migration studies, the symposium will focus on the situated nature of displaced arts as it asks: How have displaced arts and indigenous knowledges been used as creative placemaking practices to navigate unfamiliar environments? How might they render obscured or hidden geographies of asylum more visible? How can creative initiatives facilitate integration in new (and sometimes unlikely) sites of refugee resettlement? What cross-cultural artistic practices have emerged from these evolving geographies? And how might these practices form new socialities and solidarities which transcend or challenge the sovereignty of national borders asserted through asylum regimes?

Please submit abstracts (250 words) for fifteen-minute papers and a short bio (100 words) to displacedarts25@gmail.com by 15th January.

 

Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice

https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/kolleg/newsroom/2024-12-02-call-time-and-justice.html

DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" based at the University of Hamburg is hosting the Young Scholars' Conference: "Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice" from 8–10 October 2025 in Hamburg, Germany.  Participants are invited to submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography by 15 February 2025 to zukuenfte.der.nachhaltigkeit@uni-hamburg.de with the subject line "Time & Justice Abstract."

 

Imaginary Futures: Utopias, Dystopias & Protopias of Cultural Studies

https://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.html

May 29 - 31, 2025, ​California Institute of the Arts–Valencia, California \

How can we as cultural studies scholars make sense of different possibilities for the future, through both optimistic and pessimistic lenses, and the ways in which culture shapes those possibilities? And to what extent can theoretical imaginings structure praxis and make actual these potential futures? The keywords provided by this year’s theme offer some directions: While a utopia denotes a static state of cultural and political perfection—a society when it has become as good as it possibly can get—a dystopia can be defined as a space wherein people are stuck in a kind of recurring pattern of suffering. Through this year’s theme, we encourage submissions that explore the production and consumption of future imaginaries, and/or how future imaginaries intersect with lived material conditions, cultural practices, or other major discourses. In doing so, we embrace the call for a “futurist cultural studies” (Powers 2020), one that acknowledges both the possibilities for emancipatory progress, and the consequences of failure to achieve that progress.

Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, February 23, 2025, 11:59 pm EST

 

Comics Arts Conference

https://comicsartsconference.wp.txstate.edu/

San Diego, CA, July 24–27, 2025

We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historians to engage in discussion of the comics medium in a forum that includes the public.  Proposals are due February 1, 2025, to our online submission portal at  https://forms.gle/Udbe4uYkczpofd8U8 or via email.  For more information, please contact Kathleen McClancy at comicsartsconference@gmail.com.

 

Asia in the Digital Age

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20054524/cfp-asia-digital-age-second-ku-graduate-student-asian-studies

The Digital Age has reshaped how Asian regions engage with the world and transformed cultural, economic, and political landscapes across Asia. The rapid advancement of digital technology in Asia has created new opportunities for cultural exchange, economic growth, and political interactions, while also presenting unique challenges in areas such as digital citizenship, privacy and information control, and the emergence of hegemonies rooted in online interactions and rising technological inequities. These developments offer rich ground for exploration within the field of Asian studies, as the region continues to navigate the evolution of the digital age.

Abstract Submission Date: Friday, January 17, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.

email: gseas@ku.edu

 

 Heroes in Contemporary Popular Culture: Figures, Forms, and Functions

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/02/heroes-in-contemporary-popular-culture-figures-forms-and-functions

21-23 October 2025, McGill University and Concordia University Montréal,  Hybrid (Onsite and Online)

Stories shape the way that we view the world and understand our relationship with it. One of the oldest and most universal kind of story features the hero. The hero is an inspirational and aspirational figure who saves individuals or communities from hostile forces, misfortune, or ruin. Some heroes do this by means of supernatural powers, while others rely on strength, courage, wisdom, or cunning. The purpose of this conference is to bring scholars across disciplines into conversation on the nature and role of heroes in popular culture in all its media expressions, and on the influence of hero stories on contemporary society.

Please submit your proposal to Sarina Odden Meyer <sarina.meyer@mail.concordia.ca> before 10 January 2025.

 

A Sustainable Digital Future

https://sites.usnh.edu/psudigitalculture/news/

Plymouth State University (April 4-5, 2025)

The Digital Culture Center (DCC) at Plymouth State University invites scholars, practitioners, and digital culture enthusiasts to submit proposals for our inaugural conference, which will focus on the theme of "A Sustainable Digital Future." We are particularly interested in proposals that engage with emerging digital issues impacting both local and global communities.

 The deadline for submission is February 28, 2025.

email: meray@plymouth.edu

 

Haunted Modernities, Present Pasts and Spectral Futures

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/03/haunted-modernities

Wed 16th-Sat 19th July 2025, Cornwall, UK, on the Falmouth Campus

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc.

Please send 250 word abstracts and a short bio (and any questions) to: DESA@falmouth.ac.uk and, k.saxton@northeastern.edu by March 17, 2025

 

Religion Graduate Students Association (RGSA), Annual Symposium

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20054468/call-papers-rgsa-annual-symposium-university-florida-religion

April 4-5, 2025, University of Florida, Gainesville

This symposium seeks to highlight instances of religious practices—broadly construed—within the frameworks of the prescribed and performed spheres, as well as their interconnectedness through exploring the intersections of discursive traditions and lived experiences. Drawing on diverse methodological perspectives (ie., religion, philosophy, ethics, theology, history, art history, anthropology, and social sciences). For consideration: Please send paper abstracts  to RGSASymposium2025@gmail.com by January 31, 2025.

email rgsasymposium2025@gmail.com

 

Urban Humanities Global (Un)Conference

https://urbhum.net/

The Urban Humanities Network warmly invites proposals for its second signature event, (Un)Conference 2, to be held at Washington University in St. Louis, October 16-18, 2025. Letters of Interest are due January 31, 2025. The call includes a variety of ways to participate, from workshops with pre-circulated papers to more experimental formats including field work and installations. Themes to be explored: practices and methods in the urban humanities, movement & migrations, (un)earthing, fluidity, and entanglements.

Feel free to reach out to info@urbhum.net with any questions.

 

Media & Civil Rights History Symposium

https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/journalism_and_mass_communications/conference_symposium/mcrhs/index.php

Abstracts of up to 1,000 words for research papers, research-in-progress presentations and panel sessions on any aspect of the historical relationship between media and civil rights are now being accepted for the 2025 Media & Civil Rights History Symposium, which will be held Friday, March 28, 2025 in Columbia S.C.  The submission deadline is Monday, January 6, 2025.

Contact Email  kcampbell@sc.edu

 

The Hilltop Short-Term Research Fellowship

https://catholicstudies.georgetown.edu/hilltop-fellowship/

Who can apply: Scholars working in any field that is part of Catholic Studies. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline. Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and scholars with terminal degrees who live and work outside of the Washington metropolitan area are eligible to apply.

Deadline: January 31, 2025

 

Feminist reclamations for emancipatory futures in life and work

https://slownetwork1.wordpress.com/feminist-reclamations-for-emancipatory-futures-in-life-and-work/

18-20 June 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University

This stream engages with the idea of regeneration, adopting feminist perspectives with the aim of interrogating, problematizing and critiquing its dynamics and implications for life and work. Regeneration has become the central narrative in the exploration of future possibilities of being and living. Terms like renewal, recovery, reinvigoration and reinvention have been associated with regeneration; implicit to these terms is moving away from the past and present as moments that have failed to deliver sustainable ways of existence, and the importance of embracing a future that is crafted with a view to pioneer new forms of existence. However, important questions remain regarding why regeneration is needed, what kind of regeneration is expected, what is the agenda for regeneration and whose interests it serves. 

Send abstracts, summaries or synopses of approximately 500 words to  feminist.reclamations@proton.me by Friday, 31st of January 2025.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Genders & Sexualities in Transnational Perspective

Genders & Sexualities in Transnational Perspective is intended to produce an accessible text that explores the intersectional relationship between gender studies and sexuality studies; contest the binary constructions of “North”/ “South”, “East”/ “West”, and “developed”/ “developing” worlds; and help bridge conversations across scholars in different parts of the world. We begin with the premise that gender and sexuality are social constructions that can only be understood in intersectional, historical, cultural, and transnational context. Potential areas of interest include, but are not limited to: theoretical debates and critical interventions relating to essentialism and/or constructionism, intersectionality; postcolonalism and indigenous, trans, intersex, and queer perspectives, feminist and queer disability; and cross-cultural analyses. Topics of focus relate to social media, but also are not limited to: socialization, family, religion, work, education, science, religion, war and militarism, crime and punishment, health and medicine, politics, activism, social movements, and the environment. Cross-national perspectives and local case studies that link to broader structural concerns are strongly encouraged in line with the broader focus of the volume.

We welcome proposals of various sorts: traditional academic investigations, innovative theoretical or research ideas, personal narratives as learning tools, ethnographic analysis, and others. We intentionally wish to welcome innovative, creative, and non-standard contributions to stand alongside traditional academic ones in order to reflect the diversity of knowledge and knowledge sharing that this volume hopes to represent.

Proposals should be roughly 300-500 words (longer proposals and full submissions are also welcome) and can be submitted jointly to Nancy (nancy.naples@uconn.edu) and Michael (j.michaelsociology@gmail.com). We would like to receive all proposals by January 1st, 2025

 

What’s Your Story? Being the First in the Family to Attend College

https://form.jotform.com/242387930745162

Lumina Foundation and STAR Scholars invite students, researchers, faculty, and practitioners to contribute to an inspiring book that highlights the experiences of individuals who were the first in their families to attend college. This project seeks to document powerful narratives that explore the challenges, triumphs, and transformative impact of education in fostering equity, justice, and social mobility. We welcome a variety of contributions, including personal stories, reflections, and research.

Abstract: 120 words (due by Feb 1, 2025, or earlier).

For submissions and further inquiries, please get in touch with Dr Krishna Bista at krishna.bista@morgan.edu or Dr Uttam Gaulee at uttam.gaulee@morgan.edu

 

Puerto Rican Radical Tradition

https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/opportunities/the-puerto-rican-radical-tradition/

This is a call for contributions to a special issue of CENTRO Journal on The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition. We define the Puerto Rican Radical Tradition as a complex political space encompassing a variety of political, social, and cultural movements opposing and resisting racial/colonial capitalism from the particularity of Puerto Rican experiences. This call for papers is an invitation and call to action, to reconceptualize, document, and carry on the Puerto Rican Radical Tradition in its fullness and complexity. We seek original and previously unpublished contributions from a wide range of academic disciplines and activist perspectives, as well as formats and genres. We are encouraged by abundant recent scholarship opening new avenues for this kind of work, as well as recent developments in Puerto Rican politics that suggest the radical tradition is alive and well.

Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2025

Iris Morales  (imorales4@gmail.com)

 

Challenging Nihilism An Exploration of Culture and Hope

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/html#specialIssues

It seems that nowadays a fairly generalized feeling is that we are living through bleak and incongruous

times. 1) Bleak because in recent times there has been an unprecedented retreat from human rights and

social values as the logic of capital (growth, profit, accumulation) is, to all appearance, replacing the

principles of justice, solidarity, and the common good that, to a greater or lesser extent, used to preside

over social and civic life. In like manner, the erosion of democratic politics, the growth of inequality, the

spread of ethnonationalism, and the normalization of cruelty are transforming the ways we make sense

of social relations. Given present circumstances, hope can be a revolutionary force. Hope requires a different way of conceiving the past, present, and future. Hope helps question the sense of inevitability of history and the imposed limitations of dominant narratives.

Submissions will be collected from January 1 to April 30, 2025 via the online submission system at

https://www.editorialmanager.com/culture/

 

Pasts Imagined: Creative Methods in Knowledge Production about History, Memory and Culture

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20053967/call-book-chapters

Creative methods are increasingly considered a source for new knowledge production, while the past has increasingly become a site of fascination and nostalgia for contemporary audiences and scholars alike. Yet, historical revisionism might also offer a way of giving voice to marginalised perspectives at the intersections of gender, sex, race, ability, sexuality, religion and embodiment. What, then, does this mean for contemporary artists, arts-workers and communities to return, revise or intervene in narratives about the past? In what ways can techniques like fictionalisation and anachronism draw attention to the links between past, present and future? What are the ethics and methodological responsibilities of representing the past in multiple media? In what ways can other versions of the past disrupt dominant knowledge systems and power structures?

Title and abstracts for chapters of 5000-6000 words due: 3 March 2025

Please submit to avanluyn@une.edu.au

 

Dissenting Feminisms

https://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder

From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success. We ask whose feminist voices are excluded from, or marginalized in, prevailing feminist discourse and consider what this implies about feminism's future. Please send completed written work (2,000-2,500 words max -- MS Word), jpegs of artwork, and short bios to irw@sas.rutgers.edu with "Rejoinder Submission" in the subject line by January 15, 2025.

URL: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20053791/rejoinder-call-submissions-dissenting-feminisms-deadline-extended-jan

 

Handbook of Trans Cinema

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20054511/call-chapters-handbook-trans-cinema

he Handbook of Trans Cinema provides an encyclopedic overview of international trans cinema, with chapters examining the variety of genres of trans cinema from around the world, as well as the connections between these films and core concepts in trans studies and in film theory. Each chapter will provide a broad overview of its subject, with extensive references to both trans theory and film theory. In addition to giving surveys of the chapter’s topic, chapters will include in-depth discussion of at least three films. Abstracts for proposed chapters should include several references to both trans theory and film theory, and abstracts should list at least three films that will be explored in-depth.

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to https://bit.ly/HandbookofTransCinema no later than January 30, 2025

Contact Email dvakoch@meti.org

 

Special Issue on Place

https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/issue/view/8

This special issue examines how people in an array of cultural contexts interpret the experience of place to furnish the conceptual language that structures collective narratives of the world and the cosmos. The issue encompasses articles that illuminate the forces that hold our realities together and render them intelligible. As editors, we have elected to label this complex of cultural practices and expressions local cosmology, but we also acknowledge that the discourses produced therein have ramifications that extend into the regional, the national, the global, and the universal.

Like all thematic issues, this issue will remain open to new essays and interventions, and there is thus no deadline for submission.

Contact Email  jat639@psu.edu

 

 

FUNDING/FELLOWSHIPS/PRIZES

Writers and Artists Grant

https://glreview.org/the-gay-lesbian-review-writers-and-artists-grant/

The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide (The G&LR) is a bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics that publishes essays in a wide range of disciplines as well as reviews of books, movies, and plays for an educated readership of LGBT people, and their allies. The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide has created a writers and artists grant program to cultivate a diverse pool of writers for The G&LR to bring new perspectives, ideas, and voices to the magazine and to encourage and support emerging and unpublished  LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers, scholars, and artists. We are currently accepting proposals from graduate students across disciplines and fields that make a contribution to LGBTQ+ scholarship or the arts. Students who are enrolled in an accredited graduate school program whose proposed project makes a contribution to LGBTQ+ scholarship or the arts are eligible to apply.

The application deadline is 11:59 PM EST on January 31, 2025

Questions? Quinn Tahon, at quinn.tahon@glreview.org

 

 Women@MIT Creative Fellowship

https://libguides.mit.edu/c.php?g=991573&p=10064824

MIT Libraries’ Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC) is seeking applicants for its 2025 Women@MIT Fellowship. We invite artists, activists, musicians, writers, and scholars who are engaged in the expansion and expression of knowledge to help inform the understanding of women in MIT’s history and the history of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Fellows will focus on the creation and sharing of knowledge and history present in the Women@MIT collections in informative and engaging ways within the scope of the interdisciplinary fields of women’s studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies. Successful candidates must be willing to engage in archival research either in person or in a remote environment. The fellowship is supported by a stipend of $5,000 for each project.

Applications are due by midnight on January 17, 2025

email  twebb@mit.edu

 

Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship

https://printinghistory.org/programs/fellowship/

The Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History is an annual award of up to $2,000 for research in any area of the history of printing in all its forms, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letterforms. There are no geographical or chronological limitations on the subject: it may be national or regional in scope, biographical, analytical, technical, or bibliographical in nature. Printing history-related study with a recognized printer or book artist may also be supported. The fellowship can be used to pay for travel, living, and other expenses.

All materials must be received by Friday, January 10, 2025

 

Clements Library Fellowship

https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/

The William L. Clements Library offers fellowships to help scholars access the Library’s rich primary source collections for research. The four broad categories are Long-term, Short-term, Week-long, and Digital fellowships.

Applications are due by January 15, 2025

For further information, contact clements-fellowships@umich.edu.

 

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society

https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships

The Massachusetts Historical Society now offers multiple awards to scholars who need to use its library and archival collections. The research projects that the MHS supports through its fellowship programs produce cutting-edge historical scholarship. In addition, the MHS facilitates the visits of scholars in residence at the MHS through the support of other funding agencies. Awards are open to all applicants, including but not limited to graduate students, senior scholars, adjunct faculty, and independent researchers (please note that long-term grants are only awarded to those already holding a PhD).

Applicants are encouraged to contact the Assistant Director of Research, Cassie Cloutier (ccloutier@masshist.org)

Deadline: February 1, 2025

 

 ACHS Research Travel Grant

The American Catholic Historical Society (Philadelphia, PA) welcome applications for its 2025 research travel grant.  The grant of up to $2500 is offered to support scholars and researchers working on any project related to American Catholic history who need to conduct research in any archive, library, or repository in the five-county Philadelphia area.  The deadline to apply is February 15, 2025.  For more information and application instructions, please visit https://amchs.org/research/research-travel-grant/.

Contact Email  info@amchs.org

 

2025 grant available for Friedman Feminist Press Collection

https://lib.colostate.edu/about/library-grants-and-funding/

The Friedman Feminist Press Collection of Colorado State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections provides original sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays by feminist publishers of the 1970s and 1980s that brought women and women’s words out into the world. This rich collection also includes materials related to the study of feminist publishing.

The deadline is February 9, 2025.

 

Research Fellow and Artist-in-Residence

https://www.library.miami.edu/kislak-collection/research-fellowship-artist-in-residence.html

The Special Collections department at the University of Miami Libraries invites applications for the inaugural Jay I. Kislak Research Fellowship and Artist-in-Residence. Research fellowships will support doctoral candidates and faculty who wish to use the Kislak Collection at the University Libraries as a primary resource for a dissertation or scholarly work. Fellowships of $4,000 per month will be granted for periods of one to two consecutive months, depending on the range of materials the applicant wishes to consult and the centrality of Kislak materials to their research.

Applications will be accepted in English or Spanish through Friday, January 24, 2025.

contact Email danielarbino@miami.edu 

 

Research Fellowships | University of Michigan Library

https://www.lib.umich.edu/research-and-scholarship/awards-and-grants/special-collections-research-fellowships

The Hubert I. Cohen Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers Collection.This collection documents all aspects of the film production process through the papers of notable independent filmmakers including Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Alan Rudolph, Nancy Savoca, John Sayles, and Orson Welles, It also includes the papers of various specialty film producers and distributors including Ira Deutchman and Robert Shaye.

The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including those held in the Special Collections Research Center and the Stephen S. Clark Library. The Joseph A. Labadie Collection and the Papyrology Collection are out scope for this fellowship.

The William P. Heidrich Visiting Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection

Applications are due by Friday, January 31, 2025

 

Short-Term Fellowships at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

https://www.haverford.edu/libraries/quaker-special-collections/fellowships

Each year Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections offers a $3,000 fellowship for researchers to use our unique materials. The Gest Fellowship provides support for a minimum of two weeks of research in Quaker & Special Collections. Projects engaging with any religion, historical religious practices, history, literature, material culture, Quakerism, or other topics supported by collections material will be considered.

Deadline: February 16, 2025

Contact Sarah Horowitz with your questions:
shorowitz@haverford.edu | (610) 896-2948

 

New York Public Library Long-Term Fellowships

https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships-institutes/neh-long-term-fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships to support advanced research at the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to scholars researching the history, literature, and culture of peoples represented in collections accessible at the Schwarzman Building and to professionals in fields related to the Library’s holdings, including librarianship and archives administration, special collections, photography, prints, and maps. Projects drawing heavily on collections traditionally used to advance the social sciences, science and technology, psychology, education, and religion are also eligible, but only if the project takes a humanistic approach, relies on humanities-related methodologies, and contributes to the body of knowledge which enlightens the human experience.

The deadline to apply is January 27, 2025.

For assistance with the application process, contact fellowships@nypl.org.

 

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program

https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships/diamonstein-spielvogel-fellowship-program

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to support advanced research at the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with projects that would significantly benefit from research conducted onsite at the Schwarzman Building. Projects requiring access to original materials including manuscripts, archives, books, photographs, prints, maps, newspapers, and journals will be given preference, but all worthy projects will be considered.

Applications due: Jan. 20, 2025

Questions about this fellowship may be directed to fellowships@nypl.org.

 

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library 2025 Research Fellowships

https://prod.libraries.emory.edu/rose/research-and-learning/fellowship-and-award-opportunities/visiting-researchers

The Rose Library offers a variety of programs to support the use of its research collections. From short-term fellowships to awards for the best use of primary sources, the Rose Library encourages the Emory University and broader research communities to engage with the rich materials found in our holdings.

The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library offers a variety of fellowships and awards to support travel for researchers to come to Emory to conduct research in 13 subject-specific areas and 5 strategic areas.  Applications for both the Short-Term Fellowships and Subject Specific Fellowships are open through 11:59pm EST on February 28, 2025.

Contact Email  eglogow@emory.edu

 

 

JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

Postdoctoral Associate, Humanities Program

https://apply.interfolio.com/158738

Yale University invites applications for 3 one-year postdoctoral fellowships in the Humanities Program, to begin July 1, 2025. Each appointment is renewable, conditional upon favorable review, for up to two additional one-year terms. Candidates in any field of the Humanities and humanistic Social Sciences are welcome to apply. The Postdoctoral Associate will also have standing to hold a secondary appointment as a Lecturer and will teach one section of Directed Studies every semester. Additional responsibilities will include organizing Directed Studies colloquia and planning other enrichment activities.

To ensure full consideration, please submit all materials through Interfolio by January 5, 2025

 

Teaching Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=25615&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at West Virginia University invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor starting August 16, 2025. This is a 9-month, full-time, position with full benefits. Teaching Assistant Professor appointments have renewable terms of up to three years, with no limit on the number of terms. These positions are eligible for promotion (e.g., Teaching Assistant Professor to Teaching Associate Professor, etc.); however, promotion to senior ranks is not a requirement for institutional commitment and career stability.   The teaching load is four (4) courses per semester or equivalents. The successful candidate will be expected to teach classes, both in-person and online, that complement the current offerings in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Review of applications will begin January 31, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled.

Please contact the Co-Chairs of the Search Committee, Dr. Cynthia Gorman (cynthia.gorman@mail.wvu.edu) or Dr. Kelly Watson (kelly.watson@mail.wvu.edu) with questions.

 

Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Mount Royal University

https://mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3091

The Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) Program at MRU is committed to intersectional, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive pedagogies and to providing a brave learning space for students where they are encouraged to think critically, creatively, and self-reflexively in the pursuit of a more just world. Women’s and Gender Studies courses investigate the construction and mobilization of racialized, cis-heteronormative and colonial gender formations and are explicitly interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational, reflecting the rich interdisciplinary frameworks of feminist, gender, and queer theories.

The successful candidate will be a teacher-scholar broadly trained in gender, women’s, sexuality, and/or feminist studies with expertise in field(s) that complement but do not duplicate those already represented. Particular areas of interest include but are not limited to theories and practices of Indigenous, critical race, and/or transnational feminist, queer and/or trans studies. We are also interested in feminist science and technology studies.

First consideration will be given to complete applications submitted by February 14, 2025.

For more information about Women’s and Gender Studies, contact Dr. Corinne Mason, cmason@mtroyal.ca.

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Environmental Humanities

https://apply.interfolio.com/160426

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, in partnership with the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons, invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellowship beginning July 1, 2025. The fellowship is for a duration of two years. The fellow will take a leading role in a university-wide collaborative research project focused on reimagining campus environments, challenging hierarchies of knowledge production, diversifying monocultural ecologies such as lawns, and deconstructing the histories of land possession and animal production that higher education institutions have supported.

Review of applications will begin February 1, 2025 and continue until the position is filled.

 

African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship

https://apply.interfolio.com/159412

Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) announces its dissertation fellowship competition.  Scholars working in any discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities, with projects focusing on any topic within African and/or African Diaspora Studies, are eligible to apply.  We seek applicants pursuing innovative, preferably interdisciplinary, projects in dialogue with critical issues and trends within the field.

Submit all application materials – including letters of recommendation – by Friday, 10 January 2025 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) via Interfolio.

 

Lecturer - Trans Studies

https://oneonta.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp;jsessionid=46D07F50479CB2823C3CD3DF6AB4230D?JOBID=182925#pageTop

The Women's and Gender Studies Department at the State University of New York at Oneonta invites applications for a two-year lecturer in Trans Studies. We seek a feminist teacher-scholar who approaches gender from an intersectional perspective. The ideal candidate will have research and teaching expertise in one or more of the following foci: intersectional approaches to trans and gender-nonconforming identities, communities, embodiment, politics, activism, history, and/or cultural production, including, but not limited to, media, art, and performance. The position starts in Fall 2025. **For priority consideration, please submit your application by January 15th**

email: elizabeth.fitzgerald@oneonta.edu

URL: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68253

 

 

RESOURCES

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with Margot Canaday

https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-margot-canaday

In this episode of Hagley History Hangout Roger Horowitz interviews Margot Canaday about her remarkable book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America that received the received 2024 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history that year.  Canaday’s Queer Career’s principal focus is on the private sector, business enterprises large and small, and traces the opportunities, obstacles, and accomplishments of LGBT+ people as they sought to make a living from the 1950s through today. She emphasizes that as federal and many state agencies routinely refused to hire LGBT+ people, their most important sources of employment was in the private sector.

Contact Email ghargreaves@hagley.org

 

Studies in Oral History

https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/journal/

Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA), is an open-access, online publication that is produced annually and is available through this website for the benefit of OHA members and the broader oral history practitioner community.

 

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America

https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-margot-canaday

In this episode of Hagley History Hangout Roger Horowitz interviews Margot Canaday about her remarkable book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America. Canaday’s Queer Career’s principal focus is on the private sector, business enterprises large and small, and traces the opportunities, obstacles, and accomplishments of LGBT+ people as they sought to make a living from the 1950s through today. She emphasizes that as federal and many state agencies routinely refused to hire LGBT+ people, their most important sources of employment was in the private sector. Still facing pressures to keep their sexuality hidden in their jobs, their precarity lead them to accept lesser positions and pay than they might otherwise would have qualified for. Once stablished, they nonetheless made great strides in economic opportunity over these decades in white collar and blue collar jobs, and by creating their own firms. 

 

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies

http://www.blackfreedomstudies.org/news/2024/announcing-the-spring-2025-season

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a monthly roundtable discussion at the Schomburg Center with authors and experts in Black history.  All the events in the series are free and open to the public and recordings of all our events are available on the Schomburg Center's youtube page. Our Spring 2025 season begins with an online event on February 6th, First Person: Writing Activist Lives from the Inside. Four life-long activists will discuss their lives in the movement and the process and politics of writing personal histories of Black freedom struggles.

 

Free eBooks on Democracy

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/democracy/

Now that the results of the U.S. presidential race are clear, we thought it would be helpful to highlight some of our books on democracy and the threats to it. Please take a look at some related titles below. For a limited time, Rutgers University Press is offering the ebooks of four of our titles free of charge.

 

 

EVENTS: WORKSHOPS, TALKS, CONFERENCES

Denton Black Film Festival

https://dentonbff.com/film-festival/

January 22 – 26, 2025, Extended Virtually until Feb. 2nd

The Denton Black Film Festival has grown into a multi-day event that allows you, our guest, to immerse yourself in some of the best artistic showcases of Black cinema, music, spoken word, art, and more.

 

Online seminar on Historical Anxiety, Winter 2025

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events

Our events are on Mondays at 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK time unless otherwise stated. They last for one hour, including time for audience questions. They are free and all are welcome.

 

2024-2025 #Slaveryarchive Book Club (ONLINE)

https://www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/2024-2025-slaveryarchive-book-club/

Events occur throughout 2025

The #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative is intended to educate academics, students, and the public about the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. International and multilingual in its scope, the initiative will promote scholarship in this vast field through blog posts, book talks on video, a podcast, reviews of books, movies, and exhibitions, the creation of syllabi, and the curation of annual book lists.

 

Society for the Study of American Women Writers Spring Meeting

https://txssaww.wordpress.com/2024/09/07/spring-2025-meeting/

The Spring 2025 meeting will be on Saturday February 8, 2025 at Texas A&M Kingsville, hosted by Stephanie Peebles Tavera. The common reading will be A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett (1885),edited by Don James McLaughlin (U Pennsylvania, 2023). Dr. McLaughlin will be our special guest participant.

RSVP to Stephanie Peebles Tavera at stephanie.tavera@tamuk.edu by January 31st and please be sure to indicate whether you will be staying for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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