35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (15 Feb; 18-21 Nov; Chicago))

This one's close by.

Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 November, 2010
Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010
Power and Politics
http://www.ssha.org/

The 2010 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on Power and Politics. Power is a foundational concept in history and the social sciences, and just as clearly a contested one. Traditionally, the understanding of power as the capacity to enact one’s will against resistance and images of the coercive, central state apparatus held sway, and these are still compelling visions. More recently, we have seen the emergence of a rather different conception of power as a diffuse set of forces, at work in the practices of everyday life, which may entangle actors in their own subjection. Here, the analysis of power has expanded to include the constitution of domination outside the formal polity, in forms of inequality and difference such as race, gender, or sexuality, or in terms of capillary processes working through classification systems, therapeutic discourses, and other technologies of regulation. Similarly, notions of politics and the political are debated. Some focus on collective practices, formal and informal, directed at states, while others stress the ways in which “the personal is political,” or examine individual or smallscale acts of compliance, resistance or inauguration that may be carried into the polity. And which issues and relations are considered political is historically specific. Power and politics, then, have many faces, and we may trace their institutionalization in forms of rule and the formation of subjects in a broad array of spatial, national and historical contexts.

As historical social scientists and social science historians, we hail from many traditions and disciplines. But we share common ground in the weight we assign to historicizing our understandings of power and politics. SSHA is a site in which we may use our collective intellectual resources and disciplinary traditions to help us to challenge foundational concepts and conventional understandings within our own fields. More broadly, still, we can ask what the streams of social science history and historical social science imply for understanding power and politics in today’s world, and in the future.

The 2010 conference will be held in downtown Chicago, in the Palmer House Hilton. Chicago has served as a stage for some of America’s most memorable political events and has a rich history as a site of civil rights, labor, feminist, anti-war, student and other social movement organiz ing; many are fascinated by its municipal politics, its role in national partisan battles, and its emergence as one of North America’ s global cities. Thus, we also encourage panels and papers organized around Chicago themes. As ever, papers and panels on themes not related to the conference theme are also welcome.

CFP: “Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History (1 Nov; 4-6 Mar; UIUC)

A good number of EALC students have presented at this conference in the past. It's a very supportive place to get experience if you haven't presented very much or at all. And of course there's no transportation or hotel expenses.

You do not have to be focused on history in your degree as long as the paper you propose has a historical aspect to it. This paper could be something you've written or plan to write for a course.

If you haven't presented before, you might want to ask a colleague with experience to help you work on your proposal/abstract.

"Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / March 4-6, 2010

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009

The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers. This year’s theme, “Mysterious Things,” speaks to a variety of trends that are currently shaping the field of women’s and gender history. This is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things—be they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof—continue to delight, baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions. Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the implications of the moment in Marx’s thought concerning commodities, wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this life in a variety of fields—particularly gender and sexuality—and its
effects upon those with whom it comes into contact. Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of gender and women’s history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative, inviting
perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives.

For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp at gmail dot com. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee.” We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chair, T.J. Tallie at gendersymp at gmail dot com.

CFP: Early Modern Japan meeting (15 Oct; 25-28 Mar; Philadelphia)

As in the past, the Early Modern Japan Network is soliciting proposals
for panels at its next meeting in association with the annual meeting of
the AAS. We do not have a fixed number of panels, and in the past have
accommodated as many as a half dozen over the course of the AAS's
Thursday to Sunday meeting schedule.

Please submit complete panel proposals to Philip Brown at
brown dot 113 at osu dot edu. Proposals should include the following:

Panel Title
Panel abstract (Maximum 200 words)
Abstracts for each paper (Maximum 200 words)
Participant list, with snail- and e-mail contacts

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Format can be the traditional 3-4 presentations plus comment, discussion
panels, or more innovative approaches.

NOTE that we can not provide for rental of any projection equipment and
that sometimes contracts with hotels prohibit use of personal equipment.

Please contact Philip Brown in advance if you have questions; I would
appreciate hearing as soon as possible from people who plan to submit
proposals so I have an idea of what space and time slots to prepare.

Thanks in advance for your interest..


Philip Brown

CFP: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora (30 Oct; 14-16 May; U Toronto, Scarborough)

The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to present

A Call for Papers

The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora

Friday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010
University of Toronto Scarborough

For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/TLKY/event3

Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGill
University)

This international and interdisciplinary conference will examine
the role religion, and specifically Buddhism, plays within
diasporic communities. Communities like Chinese Buddhists,
Tibetans, Newars, Sinhalese, and many others have brought with
them, translated, or alternately reformulated specific types of
Buddhism as crucial pieces in the ongoing negotiation of their
cultural and social identities. In this context, the conference
inquires whether there have been or are currently specific ways
that Buddhism has answered the challenges, problems, and
expectations that accompany displacement and relocation.

This conference will question the role diaspora has had in the
history and self-perception of Buddhism through the ages, both
within Asia and during its more modern spread to other parts of
the world. This can prompt us to examine how Buddhism has figured
in developing and changing notions related to authenticity,
tradition, ethnicity, belonging, nation, and landscape, in the
light of displacement, exile, violence, travel, and integration.
By thematizing diaspora as a situation in which both Buddhism's
local articulations as well as its trans-local content are
confronted, questioned and reformulated, this conference is an
opportunity to bridge current methodological and thematic
dichotomies between current ethnographic and text-oriented
approaches in the study of Buddhism and Buddhist societies. These
questions will help address larger issues of how Buddhist texts
and Buddhist practitioners conceptualize and participate in the
formation of lived diaspora in both modern and historic settings.

The conference will encourage speakers to probe into the
following questions:

- How may a Buddhist heritage account for a certain kind of
diasporic experience?
- Which strategies do Buddhist agents, practice and doctrine
offer to mediate between the locality of the community's
provenance and that of its host country? Between the diasporic
communities and other religious communities? Between the
political and economic conditions of their displacement?
- What role does Buddhism play in the creation of such
conditions?
- What kind of new forms of religiosity emerge from such transfer
and reconfiguration?

This conference will address such questions through multiple
formats for scholarly inquiry, namely organized panels with
discussants, roundtables, keynotes lectures, and public events.

The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from
academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals
that include a max 300 word abstract of the paper and a short
academic CV should be made online through our submissions site
at: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/buddhiststudies/conference/

At this website applicants can cut and paste both abstract and CV
into our web form.
The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2009. Participants
will be notified by December 1st if their submission has been
successful.

This conference is sponsored generously by an endowment for the
advancement of Buddhist studies, made possible by a gift from the
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Foundation (Hong Kong) to the University of
Toronto Scarborough. Questions about this event or any other
aspect of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference Series in Buddhist
Studies may be addressed to Sarah Richardson at:
tlkyconf at utsc dot utoronto dot ca

CFP: IAHA (International Conference of Historians of Asia) (30 Sept; 22-25 June; Singapore)

Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010.
DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009

A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and developments that have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities and social sciences. IAHA 2010, generously supported by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore will delve into the past and look into the future. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent with a large body of delegates from around the world. We would like you to be involved too, so please come and join us!

Our Programme Committee has already identified a number of themes which we would like delegates to explore in their papers and panels (see below), but we are open to other suggestions as well:

Asia's Political/Economic History

Agriculture; Ancient History; Archeological Perspectives; Asian Diasporas; Border & Boundaries; Maritime History; Nation-Building; Trade/Trade Networks; Societies on the Margins

Asian Cultural History

Asian Identities in the Past; Crime and Criminal Activities; Film & Music; Food; Gender; Literature & Art; Popular Culture; Religion/Missionary Activities; Sport

Current Issues & the Past in Asia

Financial Crises; History of the Asian Press; Human Rights; Labour & Labour Movements; Law of the Sea; Piracy; Protest Movements; Terrorism & History

Historiography/Heritage
Archives & the Maintenance of Documents; Asian Historiography; Asia in Museums/Museums in Asia; Educational History; Memory & Heritage; The Idea of Asia

History of Science
Biosciences & Modern Asia; Environmental History; Medicine & Public Health (Biomedicine, Forms of Traditional Practice, Western Medicine); Technology (Traditional to Colonial & Post-Colonial)

Military History
All forms of military involvement in Asia stretching from the distant past to the present will be considered

Proposals for individual papers, panels and colloquia, along with titles and short abstracts, are strongly encouraged from all interested parties and should be sent to the Chair of the Programme Committee to arrive no later than 30 September 2009.

An early bird registration fee of S$300 is offered to all delegates if they make payment by 28 February 2010. Thereafter, the registration fee will be S$350.*

Tentative Programme:

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6 pm
Opening Event
Address by University Professor Wang Gungwu
National University of Singapore

8 pm
Dinner for all participants

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9am till Friday 25 June 2010, 5pm

Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions

Friday, 25 June 2010

5 pm
IAHA Business Meeting


Venue:
River View Hotel
382 Havelock Road
Singapore 169629

Tel: +65-6732 9922
Fax: +65-6732 1034
Website: www.riverview.com.sg

Accommodations:

Delegates will arrange their own accommodations. A listing of accommodations in Singapore can be found on this site:

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/where_to_stay/accommodation_in_singapore.html

IAHA 2010 promises to be a vibrant gathering in a safe but vivid environment. This is a conference that shouldn't be missed. Do, please, think about coming here. We would love to have you with us.

Best wishes

The Steering Committee of IAHA 2010

* Conference package will include Opening Event Dinner, 3 lunches, 6 tea/coffee breaks and a conference bag.



Jointly Organized By:
Department of History | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

CFP: Milestone Documents in World History (Encyclopedia)

Call for Writers

Schlager Group, the publisher of the award-winning "Milestone Documents"
series of reference books, is seeking writers for its newest project,
Milestone Documents in World History (MDWH). Aimed at high school and
lower undergraduate history students, MDWH covers 130 of the most
important primary source documents in history. Our unique approach pairs
the full text of the primary document alongside an in-depth analysis
that explains the historical context of the document as well as its
influence and impact. The set covers documents from every region and
period of history (excluding U.S. history), including Africa, the
Americas, the Western World, ancient Greece and Rome, the ancient Near
East, the Middle East, and Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast
Asia).

Each entry will include approximately 4,500 words of original analysis.
Every entry will carry the author's byline. We welcome practicing
historians as well as talented graduate students. To receive more
information about the project, including the writing honorarium, model
entry, contributor guidelines, and entry list, please contact Marcia Merryman-Means: marcia@schlagergroup.com.

Editorial Board, Milestone Documents in World History

Christopher Blackwell
Furman University

Brian Bonhomme
Youngstown State University

Frank L. Chance
University of Pennsylvania

Eleanor Congdon
Youngstown State University

R. Hunt Davis
University of Florida

Ainslie T. Embree
Columbia University

Paul R. Goldin
University of Pennsylvania

Ronald Leprohon
University of Toronto

Thomas Metcalf
University of California, Berkeley

James A. Reilly
University of Toronto

Lawrence Waldron
St. John's University

___________
Neil Schlager
Founder and president
Schlager Group Inc.
Phone: 214-347-9469, ext. 801
Fax: 214-347-9469
E-mail: neil at schlagergroup.com
http://www.SchlagerGroup.com

CFP: Korea and Japan History Entries for Encyclopedia of World History (no deadline noted)

Call for Authors: ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic reference
works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume
Encyclopedia of World History. We are seeking interested scholars to
prepare 500-1500 word articles on the history of Japan and Korea.

Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the
entries they contribute and will receive access to the e-book version of
the encyclopedia (list price $1,800) for personal use. Contributors
assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards
purchase of ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, and Praeger books.

In addition to the topics listed below, please see list of additional
open topics:
http://www.abc-clio.com/academic/aboutus/callToAuthors.aspx


In order to meet review standards, we require that contributors hold a
Ph.D, ABD, be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, or have
recognized expertise in the field. If you are interested in writing 1
or more of the entries listed below, please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis
and/or Jeanie Azizian:
Fred Nadis, Project Editor FNadis at abc-clio.com

Jeanie Azizian, Project Coordinator JAzizian at abc-clio.com



OPEN TOPICS WHE - Japan & Korea

Era 1 (To 4000 BCE) Science & Technology Tools/Technology of
Modern Humans: Jomon in Japan 200
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Society & Culture Concept of female
rulers in Yayoi Japan 600
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Society & Culture Late Jomon and Yayoi
funerary sculpture 600
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Politics & Statecraft Governance in the
Period of the Three Kingdoms 600
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment Human Imprint
on Environment: The Cities of Japan and Korea 500
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment Kyoto and/or
Seoul 300
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment The Populations
(gains and losses) of Japan and Korea: 1000-1500 600
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) WAR & DIPLOMACY The Fortifications of
East Asia 1000
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) ECONOMICS & TRADE Lynchpins of the East
Asian Economy: Ryukyu and Malacca 750
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) THOUGHT & RELIGION Major Sites of
Intellectual Inquiry: Yi Hoe's World (Korean) 750
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) THOUGHT & RELIGION Yi Hoe, Kangnido
(1402; 1460 copy) 200
Era 7 (1750 - 1914) Society & Culture Government-Mandated
Dietary Rules in Meiji Japan 600
Era 8 (1900 - 1945) Society & Culture Japanese Literature
(conflicts tradition/new; native/foreign) 1000
Era 9 (1945 - present) Politics & Statecraft Indigenous People of E.
Asia 600





Fred Nadis, Ph.D.
Project Editor
ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-5505
phone: (805) 968-1911 x132
toll free: (800) 368-6868 x132
fax: (805) 685-9685

CFP: "Asia: Backwards and Forwards." P.E.A.R. vol. 1 (grad student journal; 9 Mar.)

*Papers, Essays and Reviews *(P.E.A.R.), a new interdisciplinary English
language journal of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, in
conjunction with the Center for International Studies, is now accepting
submissions for its first issue from graduate students. The periodical
publication includes varying disciplines and methodologies, but each issue
will attempt to be thematic. Submissions fall into one of three categories:
*Papers,* original research that follow the theme of the issue with proper
citations and ranges between 3,000 to 8,000 words; *Essays,* dedicated to
editorials, recommendations, and reflections that do not necessarily adhere
to the theme and ranges between 1,500 to 3,000 words; or *Reviews,* focusing
on evaluating existing arguments contained in essays, articles and books, in
addition to the inclusion of policy reviews, not exceeding 2,000 words.

The inaugural theme is "Asia: Backwards and Forwards." All submissions are
(blind) peer reviewed, should follow *The Chicago Manual for Style* and
submitted no later than March 9, 2009 for the first issue via email at
pear at yonsei.ac.kr. For more information, please visit our website at
http://web.yonsei.ac.kr/pear.

CFP: Education About Asia (various topics) (journal; various deadlines)

EALC students have frequently published in EAA. It's a great place to get your feet wet.

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New Education About Asia Planned Special Sections: Winter 2009-Winter
2010, Asia in World History; Business, Economics, and Asia; Asian Religions;
Environmental Challenges and Asia

Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the
Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include secondary school
teachers and undergraduate instructors, and our articles are intended to
provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic
understanding of Asia-related content. Qualified referees evaluate all
feature manuscripts submitted for consideration.

The following four special sections are being developed for 2009 and 2010:


Fall 2009-We are in the process of developing a special section in the fall 2009
issue entitled "Asian Intercultural Contacts: Diasporas and Minorities."
In this special section, it is hoped that articles will be published
where authors develop manuscripts that describe the historical and
contemporary experiences of Asian ethnic and minority groups as they
have encountered new cultures in both Asia and other parts of the world.
Although the primary focus of the special section will be on the
experience of Asians, we also will consider manuscripts where authors
focus upon the experience of non-Asians in Asian cultures. Prospective
authors should be aware that approximately sixty to sixty-five percent
of our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest
teach at the undergraduate level.


Winter 2009-Asia in World History: The Twentieth Century. In this
concluding special section of the series based upon National Standards
for World History, we seek manuscripts that encompass a wide range of
topics including economic, maritime, military, political, and social
history. We also invite authors to submit manuscripts about important
individuals who influenced twentieth century Asian and World History.
The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August 10, 2009.


Spring 2010-Business, Economics, and Asia. In this special section, we
invite authors to address economics, economic history, and
business-related topics such as entrepreneurship in Asia, the benefits
and costs of the East Asian economic "miracles," international trade and
Asia, and Asian values and capitalism. The deadline for initial
submission of manuscripts is December 10, 2009.


Fall 2010-Asian Religions. We invite authors to submit manuscripts that
address topics such as the historical and contemporary roles of
religions in Asian cultures, everyday religious practices in Asia,
comparative religions, and teaching about Asian religions in world
history and literature survey courses. May 10, 2010 is the deadline for
initial receipt of manuscripts.


Winter 2010-Environmental Challenges and Asia. We invite authors to
submit manuscripts that address topics such as the potential conflicts
between economic growth and the environment in Asia, the environmental
movement in Asian countries, natural resources and their utilization and
conservation, and environmental problems that affect particular Asian
countries. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August
10, 2010.


We are most interested in manuscripts that are useful for survey-level
courses. Prospective authors are encouraged to share possible manuscript
ideas with me via email before developing a submission. Interested
authors are strongly encouraged to consult the EAA guidelines and
examine sample articles available on the Web site under my signature,
before submitting manuscripts.


Cordially,

Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423)425-2118, Fax (423)425-5441
email: l-ellington at comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

CFP: "Making Memory, Making History: Ideas and Identities Beyond Borders Location" (Grad Hist Conf) (21 Dec; 6-7 Mar; Bloomington, IN)

The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions by graduate students for its 2009 conference entitled Making Memory, Making History: Ideas and Identities Beyond Borders.

The year's conference seeks to engage with a variety of sources and perspectives related to the movement of ideas and identities, whether figurative or literal, across and beyond borders. Addressing themes that are particularly relevant to a contemporary audience, both inside and outside the academy, our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings of self and society. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, time periods, and geographic focus. The conference is intentionally broad and invites multiple interpretations of complex issues such as national and transnational identities, migration, globalization, media and visual culture, urban studies, material culture, memory, violence and trauma.

This year, in accordance with our themes, we are integrating our conference with an exciting public arts and media event. The conference will coincide with the opening reception of a photography exhibit by artist Jonathan Moller at the Mathers Museum followed by a presentation by the artist and guest note speaker from Indiana University. The exhibit, accompanied by the publication of a book entitled Our Culture is our Resistance, has received international attention and acclaim. Please submit the items and information below no later than Monday, December 21st. The HGSA Conference Committee will evaluate abstracts and inform participants by January 5, 2009 of their acceptance and panel assignment.

Full papers are expected by the 16th of February, 2009. For visiting graduate students, we will organize accommodations with IU graduate students participating in the conference. The conference is free to IU graduate students in any field. Non-IU students must submit a registration fee of $30. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~hgsaconf/

Please submit the following information via e-mail as an attachment to hgsaconf at indiana.edu:

1. Paper abstract and title (no more than 250 words) 2. Institutional affiliation and title/position 3. Contact information: name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone/fax numbers

The Paul Lucas Conference in History History Department Indiana University 742 Ballantine Hall Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

Jennifer Boles
Heather Vrana
The Paul Lucas Conference in History
History Department
Indiana University
742 Ballantine Hall
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103

CFP: Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference (2 Feb; 24-25 Apr)

This is close enough to perhaps make it worth the effort to go up to Chi-town. Plus several EALC students have presented at this conf in the past and it sounds like a good one.

Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference
April 24-25, 2009 Loyola University, Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, IL
Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University Chicago

Emerging Scholars, Evolving Scholarship: A Graduate History Symposium
Call for Papers

Masters and doctoral graduate students in any field of historical study are invited to submit proposals to present individual papers at Loyola's Fifth Annual History Graduate Student Conference. The goal of this conference is to provide an opportunity for students to gain experience presenting papers and receiving feedback from their peers on their work. Sessions will include: Cultural History, Social History, Religious History, History of Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Public History, Economic History, Political History, and other topics TBA.


Proposals should include: submitter's name, contact information, institutional affiliation(s), a one page abstract of the paper (with a title), and a brief biographical statement indicating your academic status along with a return address and current e-mail address. Please note that submissions will be accepted as time and space permit.

Deadline for submissions is February 2, 2009. E-mail proposals as an attachment to HGSA Vice President Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium at gmail.comm or mail to:
History Graduate Student Association c/o Lisa Davis Loyola University Chicago History Department 6525 North Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois 60626
For more information about the conference, please contact Lisa Davis at: lucsymposium@gmail.com

History Graduate Student Association
c/o Lisa Davis
Loyola University Chicago
History Department
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60626

Email: lucsymposium at gmail.com

CFP: The Construction of "Memory" in Asia, EAA (journal; 20 Dec; spring 2009)

Remember that EAA is looking for relatively short pieces aimed primarily to educators at the secondary and undergraduate level. A number of EALC students have published in this journal. It's a great way to get your feet wet, if you haven't already.

Call for Manuscripts: The Construction of "Memory" in Asia, EAA Spring 2009

Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the
Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate
instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our
articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists,
with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Manuscripts submitted
for consideration are evaluated by qualified referees.

We are in the process of developing a special section in the spring 2009
issue entitled "History, Literature, and the Construction of "Memory" in
Asia." It is hoped that articles will be published where authors develop
manuscripts that will enable teachers and students to better understand
how academic and popular historical narratives and works of literature
influence the way Asians perceive their past and those of other cultures.
Manuscripts will also be considered where authors address how history and
literature influence a non-Asian's perception of Asia. I am looking for
essays that will be particularly applicable to educated non-specialists.
We are especially interested in obtaining more manuscripts that focus upon
South and Southeast Asia.

Prospective authors should be aware that approximately sixty percent of
our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest teach at
the undergraduate level. Therefore, we are most interested in manuscripts
that are useful for survey-level courses.

Prospective authors should consult the EAA guidelines, available on the
Web site under my signature, before submitting a manuscript for this
special section. Prospective authors are also encouraged to share possible
manuscript ideas with me via email. The deadline for initial receipt of
manuscripts for this special section is December 20, 2008.


Cordially,
Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423) 425-2118, Fax (423) 425-5441
email: l-ellington at comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

CFP: "T'ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years" (1 Nov; 8-9 May; Albany, NY)

The T‘ang Studies Society and the University at Albany will co-sponsor an international conference on T‘ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society’s founding.

The conference will be held at the University’s campus in Albany, NY May 8-9, 2009. The goal of the conference is to assess the current state of T‘ang studies and to encourage new avenues of research and collaboration among scholars of medieval China. The Society is therefore soliciting paper proposals concerning the following themes: (1) T‘ang China and the World;
(2) Historical Transitions and the T‘ang (both from Six Dynasties to T‘ang and from T‘ang to Sung); (3) Religion in the T‘ang; (4) T‘ang Literature; (5) T‘ang China in Intellectual History; (6) T‘ang material culture (including archaeology, art history, history of science, and technology). Paper proposals should contain the author’s name, institutional affiliation, address, and a 250 word abstract of the paper.

Please send proposals to the chair of the organizing committee: Anthony DeBlasi, Department of East Asian Studies, Humanities 210, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 or deblasi_ _albany.edu by November 1, 2008. The committee also welcomes proposals for complete panels, with abstracts for each paper. Limited funding is available to cover some of the costs for scholars presenting papers. Please note: one must be a member of (or join) the Tang Studies Society to deliver a paper at the conference. Non-members are welcome to register for and attend the conference. For more information about proposals, membership, and conference registration visit the Society’s website at http://www.tangstudies.org.

Anthony DeBlasi
Department of East Asian Studies
Humanities 210
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5316
Email: deblasi_ _albany.edu
Visit the website at http://www.tangstudies.org

New "Asian History Carnival" Post on Frog in a Well

Check out the latest post at Frog in a Well. Lots of amazingly useful links!

CFP: Encyclopedia of World History: "Asian History and Culture" (no deadline noted)

ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global
perspective in the area of Asian history and Culture.

Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia (list price $1,800) for personal use.

Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO books.

In order to meet review standards, we do require that contributors hold a Ph.D, ABD or be currently enrolled in a doctoral program. If you are interested in writing 1 or more of the entries listed below, please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis and/or Jeannie Azizian

Thank you,

Fred Nadis
ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-5505
phone: (805) 968-1911 x132
toll free: (800) 368-6868 x132

Asia Entries - Unassigned 2-5-08

Era 1: to 4,000 BCE (Words)
ERA 1 3. Lifeways in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Austronesia (1000)
ERA 1 5. Plant and animal domestication in East Asia 1000
ERA 1 b. Bashidang (China): early rice cultivators 200
ERA 1 10. The Jomon foragers of coastal Japan 1000
ERA 1 2. Homo sapiens enters East and Southeast Asia 1000
ERA 1 4. Into Europe and across central and northern Asia 1000

Era 2: 4000 BCE - 1000 BCE

Era 2 6. India 500
Era 2 8. China: An Ecology of Diversity 500
Era 2 6. Volcanic Eruption in Iceland ca. 1200 600
Era 2 7. Warming Treds in he Sahara 600
Era 2 3. Vedic Intoxicants 600
Era 2 3. Ancient Ethnicity in India: What Makes an Harrapan? What makes
an Aryan?
Era 2 2. New Types of Social Organization in Vedic Culture 1,000
Era 2 4. The Aryan Restructuring of India 1200
Era 2 5. New Lifeways in Southeast Asia 1200
Era 2 4. Gender in the Indus Valley 600
Era 2 5. Harappan Writing 500
Era 2 8. Monumental Architecture in India 500
Era 2 6. The Art of the Indus Valley 1,500
Era 2 8. Shang Art 1,500
Era 2 The Shang Cemetery at Xibeigang 1,000
Era 2 3. China: 3,000
Era 2 7. Jomon: Hunters, Gatherers, Rice Cultivators, and Potters 600
Era 2 3. Shang Bronzeworkers: Elites Outside of the Cities 600
Era 2 3. Harrapan Trade 1,000
Era 2 2. Aryan Invaders 1,000
Era 2 6. Shang Temples 800
Era 2 4. Ancient Festivals in Southeast Asia 1,000
Era 2 3. The Vedas 200
Era 2 2. Early Oral Traditions of Vedic Literature 750

Era 3: (1000 BCE - 300 CE)

Era 3 Changes in Central Asia 1000
Era 3 Spread of agricultural development south in China with the
emergence of Chu? 1000
Era 3 Development of iron technology in Yayoi Japan 800
Era 3 Introduction of rice into southeast Asia. 1000
Era 3 Steppe migrations of the Scythians, Sarmatians, Hsiung-Nu and the
Yuezhi 1500
Era 3 Family as it emerges in early Jainism and Buddhism. 600
Era 3 Changing society in Japan with endof Joman and beginning of Yayoi
1000
Era 3 Concept of female rulers in Yayoi Japan 1000
Era 3 Panini and the first Sanskrit Grammar 1000
Era 3 Late Jomon and Yayoi funerary sculpture 600
Era 3 Hsuang-Nu and Scythian kurgan burials 1000
Era 3 Small city states of India before the rise of Mauryas. 1500
Era 3 Kautilya's Arthashastra (Manual on admistration and politics) 1000
Era 3 Ashoka and the formation of an Indian Empire 1500
Era 3 Large scale cotton production in India 500
Era 3 Introduction of Buddhism to Central Asia and China 1500
Era 3 Religious development in early Three Kingdom Korea 1000

Era 4: (300 - 1000 )

Era 4 4. Families and Kinship in Early Medieval India 400
Era 4 2. Invaders become Rajputs 1000
Era 4 2. Urban Classes in East Asia 1000
Era 4 5. Education in Early Medieval South Asia 1000
Era 4 2. Harsha's Empire and Feudalism in North India, 600-1000 1000
Era 4 3. The Kingdoms in South India 300 - 1000 1000
Era 4 4. The Pala Dynasty of North India 1000
Era 4 2. China, the economic powerhouse of the Early Medieval World 1000
Era 4 4. Cities in early Medieval India 1000
Era 4 4. Southeast Asian wars: Khmers, Chams, Vietnamese, Nanzhou
and Pyu 1000
Era 4 5. Southeast Asian Wars: Srivijaya and Java 500
Era 4 11. Indian Philosophies, 300-600 1000
Era 4 12. Indian Philosophies, 600-1000 1000
Era 4 Early Medieval Indian Metallurgy 1000
Era 4 1. Overview 1000
Era 4 3. Early Medieval Chinese Astronomy and Astrology 750
Era 4 4. Early Medieval Indian Mathematics 750

Era 5: (1000 - 1500)

Era 5 Hindu and Muslim Cross-Fertilization in India 600
Era 5 The Khmer Empire 500
Era 5 The Indian Bazaar: Anything Can Be Bought Here 800
Era 5 Hormuz and Aden: Cities Built on and for Commerce 800
Era 5 On the Way to Egypt: Commerce on the Red Sea 600
Era 5 Chinese Heavy Industry: Coal, Iron, and Steel 600
Era 5 The Inland Waterway System of Transportation 600
Era 5 Markets beyond China 800
Era 5 The Merchant in Reality: Specialized, Organized, Rich,
and Powerful 600
Era 5 Tha Armies of China 500
Era 5 Courage Cultures: Turks, Mongols, Warriors of Oceania,
and American Indians 800

Era 6: (1450 - 1770)

Era 6 The Brink of Starvation: China's 15th Century Agricultural
Plateau 750
Era 6 The Columbian Exchange in East Asia 750
Era 6 Population Growth in Early Modern India 750
Era 6 Early European studies of the Indian Environment 750
Era 6 The Making of an Islamic Peasant Culture in Bengal 750
Era 6 The Double Structure of Japanese Life 750
Era 6 Big Men Towns: Everyday Life in Southeast Asia's Port Villages 750
Era 6 "White Town" and "black Town" in the Coromandel enclaves:
Madras, Pondicherry, and Tranquebar 750
Era 6 Sanjue: The 'Three Perfections' of Chinese Aesthetics 750
Era 6 Japan: Haiku and Kabuki 750
Era 6 Indian cultural influences in the West 750
Era 6 The Columbian Exchange with Southeast Asia 750
Era 6 A Great Wave: Chinese Migration Manchuria, Szechuan,
Taiwan, and the Southwest 750
Era 6 Sher Shah Sur's reform of rveenue collection in North India 750
Era 6 Mughal religious policies- from Jihad to tolerance 750
Era 6 Mughal religious policies- from tolerance to jihad 750
Era 6 Trading Guns for Religion: Anti-Christian Policies in Tokugawa
Japan 750
Era 6 Women and Power in Early Modern India 750
Era 6 Akbar's subjugation of Rajasthan 750
Era 6 High finance and paper credit- the flourishing economy of early
modern India 750
Era 6 A Single Whip: China's "Third Commercial Revolution" 750
Era 6 The Achean Pepper Trade:Taking the Trade from India 750
Era 6 The Spice Islands in Southeast Asian Trade 1200
Era 6 Mughal Art for Western Styles 750
Era 6 Sunni Shia Tensions: Continuity and Change 1500
Era 6 The Ain-I-Akbari- Akbar's empire-in-a-book 750
Era 6 Christian Missions: Catholic and Protestant Approaches to
Conversion 750
Era 6 The Art and Literature of European Interaction in West Asia 750
Era 6 South Asia Imagines Europe 750

Era 7: (1750 - 1914)

Era 7 Asian Population Patterns, 1750-1914 600
Era 7 Family Law in Meiji Japan: The Civil Code of 1898 630
Era 7 The Decline of the Indian Cotton Industry in India 600 600

Era 8: (1900 - 1945)

Era 8 Depopulation (following WWI; in USSR; in China, etc.) 600
Era 8 Asian Visual Arts 1000
Era 8 Socialist Movements in East Asia 600

Era 9 Hinduism 750
Hindu Fundamentalism 800
Era 9 Piracy, Smuggling 700
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Ed. note: Parties interested in any of the above topics should contact Fred Nadis or Jeannie Azizian

Other: The Job Market for Japanese Historians

Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well just posted some comments about the current job market in Japanese history that might be of interest and relevance, even to those of us working on Korea and China.

This could be a very interesting year for the job market, not to mention for Asian history blogging. [...]

Well, the majority of this year’s crop of jobs has been posted, and it’s time to take stock. I’ll start. [...]

When I look at the market, I divide it up into four groups, roughly:

Japan jobs: usually at top-tier research or teaching institutions, these positions require little or no teaching outside of Japanese history (though interdisciplinary program-building comes up sometimes). A department doesn’t hire a Japan specialist unless they’ve got a lot of other bases covered, and large departments like that often have a strong research orientation, four- or five-course per year teaching loads, graduate programs.

Asia or East Asia jobs: East Asia positions usually want someone who can teach at least China and Japan3 ; Asia positions often include South Asia as a desirable teaching field. A regional survey is very often a required part of the teaching load, part of the contribution to general education. Sometimes a regional or period specialization is specified, which can mean either pre-existing programs or the presence of other Asianists in a department. These positions are usually in medium-sized departments with strong US/European coverage, and some non-Western history; sometimes these are fairly distinguished schools with strong research expectations, and/or very high standards for teaching, and graduate programs are also a possibility.

Asia + World jobs: A lot like the above category — China and Japan, sometimes India, plus a regional survey are expected courses — plus some World History teaching. Sometimes very large teaching-oriented departments, but more often smaller departments with a lot of general education service expected. Rarely less than a 3-3 teaching schedule, and specified regional specialties usually indicate what they think students will be interested in (or other external factors) rather than the presence of other Asian historians.

World + Asia jobs: Sometimes “Non-Western World” jobs with no region specified, these positions are always heavily oriented to general education teaching, often with 4-4 teaching loads and multiple sections of World History required on a regular basis. These may be small departments in large institutions (actually, they’re almost always small relative to the institution), medium-sized or large departments without a lot of depth, or departments which have some non-western coverage but which need World History sections more than they need regional speciality courses. Community colleges, if they have any non-Western history at all, usually fall into this category.4
I wonder if Americanists or Europeanists see a similar kind of segmentation, or if the descriptions shake out in a different pattern?

CFP: Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal (refereed) (no deadline noted)

Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a refereed, on-line publication sponsored by the Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet), a sub-committee of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. We welcome submissions from all disciplines related to Early Modern Japan (roughly the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). We publish in the following broad categories:

1) Scholarly articles. Manuscripts are sent out to at least two referees for evaluation, comment and suggestions.

2) Translations. As with scholarly manuscripts, translations are sent to referees for evaluation.

3) Research notes, pedagogically oriented pieces, and professional news.

4) Book reviews. Those interested in reviewing books for /EMJ/ should contact our review editor, Carol Tsang, at emj4reviews@verizon.net.


As an on-line publication, we have no restrictions regarding length and the publication of illustrations -- something that gives authors great flexibility.

Potential authors can contact me at brown.113@osu.edu, and potential contributors can follow the Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal link on the EMJNet web site (http://emjnet.osu.edu/) to get to a style sheet and submission guidelines.


Thanks in advance,

Philip Brown, Editor

Award: History Compass--Graduate Essay Prize (15 Oct)

The editors of History Compass are now inviting submissions for the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize.

Unique in both range and approach, History Compass (http://www.history-compass.com) is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline.

Win $200/£100 of free Blackwell books and have your article published in History Compass!

There will be a prize-winning graduate essay for each of the 9 sections on History Compass:

Africa
Asia
Australasia & Pacific
Britain & Ireland
Caribbean & Latin America
Europe
Middle & Near East
North America
World

DEADLINE: 15 October, 2007.

GUIDELINES

The prize is open to all graduate students engaged in study at a college or university after their first degree and having not yet completed their doctorate.

Those entering can choose their own topic; however, as with articles already published on History Compass, submitted essays should have a survey element, putting the chosen topic in context for the non-specialist. The incorporation of advanced graduate work is strongly encouraged.

The upper word limit is 5000 words, INCLUDING endnotes and bibliography.

History Compass Graduate Essays should be submitted by email as a Word document to:
HICOeditorial@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com.

Graduates must specify:

- which section they are entering their essay for
- provide the details of their affiliation
- provide their supervisor's name and email address

Only one entry per person.

Winners will be announced at the 2008 AHA conference.

For more information, please go to
www.history-compass.com
Good luck!

Kivmars Bowling
Senior Managing Editor, Literature Compass & History Compass
Wiley-Blackwell
9600 Garsington Rd
Oxford
OX4 2DQ
UK

Tel: +49 (0)30 327 906 17
Fax:+49 (0)30 327 906 10
Email: kivmars.bowling@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
Web: www.history-compass.com

CFP: Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History (6-8 Mar.; 1 Nov.; UIUC)

Last year EALC had more grad students presenting at this conference than any other department! Let's do it again. This is a great chance to get experience presenting at a conference as long as you can put a historical spin on your work--even if you aren't technically doing "history." And they welcome individual proposals so there's no need to put together a panel. Don't miss this chance.

The Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 6-8 , 2008; Submission Deadline: November 1, 2007

The Executive Committee of the Ninth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 6-8, 2008. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.

This year's theme, "Contentious Voices," incorporates a variety of trends shaping the field of women's and gender history. We welcome paper or panel submissions that analyze the state of the field, particularly those that problematize it or suggest new avenues of inquiry. We are especially interested in papers that engage with the intersections between women's and gender history and sexuality studies, and address such themes as race, religion, dissent, discipline and embodiment from a range of methodological vantage points, including queer theory, black feminist thought, transnational/post-colonial thought, the social sciences and humanities. We also are interested in assembling a geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, topics ranging from queer temporalities and identities, to gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages or Non-West, as well as gendered analyzed through South-South comparisons.

For this year's Symposium, we are delighted to announce two plenary speakers who engage many of these themes in their work:

Saidiya Hartman (Professor of African American and American Literature - Columbia University)
Sara Ahmed (Professor in Race and Cultural Studies - Goldsmiths, University of London)
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume.

We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters' proposals and the availability of funds.

All submissions must be received by November 1, 2007. To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format (preferred method), please send five (5) copies of a 250-word abstract AND a one-page curriculum vitae for EACH paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to:

Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To submit a paper or panel by email, please send ONLY ONE attachment in Word format containing all abstracts and curriculum vitae. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee" and should be sent gendersymp@gmail.com. We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, Carmen Thompson or Jacob Baum at gendersymp@gmail.com.

$$$: Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards for 2007-2008 (U Maryland; 9 Nov 07; 31 Oct 08 まで)

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library's Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders of the Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply.

The application deadline is November 9, 2007. The grants must be used by October 31, 2008. Grant funds will be disbursed in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, photoduplication, and related research expenses. Such costs as computers or software are not eligible. Reimbursement will require submission of receipts for processing by the University.

To apply, send a curriculum vitae and a two- to three-page description of the research project to the following address. Applications from graduate students must be accompanied by a letter from the principal faculty advisor attesting to the significance of the dissertation project and to the student's completion of all other degree requirements.

Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Department of History, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA

Materials in the Prange Collection include virtually all Japanese-language newspapers, news agency releases, magazines, pamphlets, and books dating from the period of Allied censorship, 1945-1949, in addition to over 10,000 newspaper photos. There are also materials published by Chinese and Korean residents, most of which are written in Japanese. Related collections in English include the personal papers of Charles Kades and Justin Williams. Office correspondence documenting policies and decisions of the Publications, Pictorial, and Broadcast Division, Civil Censorship Detachment, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Japan, are complementary to official Occupation records housed at the National Archives, College Park. Japanese newspapers and magazines from the Prange Collection are available for research on microform in the East Asia Collection. Other Prange materials are made available for research in the Prange Collection reading area after consultation with the Prange Curator or Manager. The East Asia Collection contains Japanese-language books published during the wartime period, scholarly monographs on Occupied Japan, and a wide variety of reference works.

Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Department of History, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA

Email: historycenter@umd.edu
Visit the website at http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/awards.htm