Monday, January 27, at 6 pm, Richard Bell, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, will deliver a lecture on his work about free blacks kidnapped into slavery, entitled "On the Road to the Dismal Gulf: Free Blacks' Journey into Slavery." The lecture will be held in Lloyd Hall room 38. Particularly if you're teaching a relevant upper-level course, please bribe your students accordingly. A flyer for the event is attached.
Monday, February 17, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Associate Professor at the University of North Texas and a foodways scholar, will be presenting, "'Clean, fresh beef': Black Progressive Food Reformers and the Case Study of the Tuskegee Institute." We will host this event in the Summersell Room in the evening, and as with the event with Natalie Ring from this past spring, it will be a lecture accompanied by dinner and conversation, so I will be sending around a request for RSVPs in a few weeks to be sure I'll have enough food for everyone.
Historicus - Military History, books, and teaching
Friday, January 17, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Pre-doctoral fellowships in Security Studies at Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin will offer up to two pre-doctoral fellowships in security studies for the 2014-2015 academic year. The Strauss Center will consider advanced PhD student applicants working on a broad range of topics related to issues of national and international security, law, and diplomacy. The nine-month fellowship will last from September 2014 to May 2015 and includes a stipend of $24,000 and one round-trip airline ticket.
Pre-doctoral fellows are encouraged to present their research within and outside the Center, participate in the research activities of the Center, attend and take an active role in seminars and conferences, engage with younger scholars, and immerse themselves in the greater University community during their appointment.
The deadline for application entry is February 15, 2014.
For more information on the 2014-2015 pre-doctoral fellowship, please visit
https://strausscenter.org/strauss-news/security-studies-pre-doctoral-fellowship-2014-2015.html
For the fellowship application form, please visit
https://strausscenter.org/images/Predoc%20Application%20Form.pdf
Please email Andrew Ehrhardt (andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.edu) with any specific questions concerning the fellowship.
Andrew Ehrhardt
Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law
University of Texas at Austin
2300 Red River Street, Stop E2700
Austin, TX 78712
P: 512.471.6267
F: 512.471.6961
andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.edu
www.strausscenter.orgEmail: andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.eduVisit the website at http://strausscenter.org/strauss-news/security-studies-pre-doctoral-fellowship-2014-2015.html
Pre-doctoral fellows are encouraged to present their research within and outside the Center, participate in the research activities of the Center, attend and take an active role in seminars and conferences, engage with younger scholars, and immerse themselves in the greater University community during their appointment.
The deadline for application entry is February 15, 2014.
For more information on the 2014-2015 pre-doctoral fellowship, please visit
https://strausscenter.org/strauss-news/security-studies-pre-doctoral-fellowship-2014-2015.html
For the fellowship application form, please visit
https://strausscenter.org/images/Predoc%20Application%20Form.pdf
Please email Andrew Ehrhardt (andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.edu) with any specific questions concerning the fellowship.
Andrew Ehrhardt
Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law
University of Texas at Austin
2300 Red River Street, Stop E2700
Austin, TX 78712
P: 512.471.6267
F: 512.471.6961
andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.edu
www.strausscenter.orgEmail: andrewehrhardt@austin.utexas.eduVisit the website at http://strausscenter.org/strauss-news/security-studies-pre-doctoral-fellowship-2014-2015.html
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Graduate Fellowships
SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION - TWO SHORT-TERM GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS (2014)
The Medici Grand Ducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete record of any princely regime in early modern Italy as well as an extraordinarily rich historical reservoir of European history. This collection offers an incomparable panorama of human history, expressed through the words of the people most immediately involved, opening new windows onto the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.
The Medici Archive Project (MAP) wishes to provide graduate and doctoral students from diverse disciplines with the opportunity to have exposure to original source materials and training in their use. For this reason MAP is offering five short-term fellowships sponsored by the SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION for graduate students in art history or rlated field who are in the early stages of their dissertation work. The KRESS fellowships have been developed to enable students working on their dissertations to conduct primary research using the Mediceo del Principato and other collections housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence.
This scholarly residence will be of considerable benefit in helping students to gain the necessary skills, experience and confidence to continue independent academic research in the later stages of their graduate trajectory. While undertaking primary research for their dissertation in the Florentine state archives, the Fellows will benefit from the supervision of the MAP Staff, academics drawn from a variety of disciplines who are experts in archival research, paleography and the digital humanities. The Fellows will also have the opportunity to expand their academic networks through contact with the many international scholars who regularly visit and collaborate with MAP. Finally, Fellows will be enrolled in the annual MAP Archival Studies Seminar.
The fellowships last for an uninterrupted period of two-and-a-half months, taking place at any point between 1 March 2014 and 15 December 2014. The KRESS Fellows will undertake their dissertation research on-site in the Archivio di Stato.
Candidates must be enrolled in graduate programs at United States universities, and working on dissertation topics that treat any aspect of Italian Renaissance or Baroque art history; Tuscan art history topics will be given preference.
The stipend is $5,000 plus an allowance for travel expenses for the spring/summer term (2 - 2 1/2 months); 8500 plus an allowance for travel expenses for the fall semester (3 - 3 1/2 months).
To apply for this fellowship, the following material should be sent electronically to Elena Brizio (ebrizio@medici.org):
The application deadline is: 15 February 2014.
Please note:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Elena Brizio
(ebrizio@medici.org)
Elena Brizio
The Medici Archive Project
Via di Pian dei Giullari, 66
50125 Firenze - Italy
+39 055 240221
Email: ebrizio@medici.org; info@medici.org
Visit the website at http://www.medici.org
The Medici Grand Ducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete record of any princely regime in early modern Italy as well as an extraordinarily rich historical reservoir of European history. This collection offers an incomparable panorama of human history, expressed through the words of the people most immediately involved, opening new windows onto the political, diplomatic, gastronomic, economic, artistic, scientific, military and medical culture of early modern Tuscany and Europe.
The Medici Archive Project (MAP) wishes to provide graduate and doctoral students from diverse disciplines with the opportunity to have exposure to original source materials and training in their use. For this reason MAP is offering five short-term fellowships sponsored by the SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION for graduate students in art history or rlated field who are in the early stages of their dissertation work. The KRESS fellowships have been developed to enable students working on their dissertations to conduct primary research using the Mediceo del Principato and other collections housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence.
This scholarly residence will be of considerable benefit in helping students to gain the necessary skills, experience and confidence to continue independent academic research in the later stages of their graduate trajectory. While undertaking primary research for their dissertation in the Florentine state archives, the Fellows will benefit from the supervision of the MAP Staff, academics drawn from a variety of disciplines who are experts in archival research, paleography and the digital humanities. The Fellows will also have the opportunity to expand their academic networks through contact with the many international scholars who regularly visit and collaborate with MAP. Finally, Fellows will be enrolled in the annual MAP Archival Studies Seminar.
The fellowships last for an uninterrupted period of two-and-a-half months, taking place at any point between 1 March 2014 and 15 December 2014. The KRESS Fellows will undertake their dissertation research on-site in the Archivio di Stato.
Candidates must be enrolled in graduate programs at United States universities, and working on dissertation topics that treat any aspect of Italian Renaissance or Baroque art history; Tuscan art history topics will be given preference.
The stipend is $5,000 plus an allowance for travel expenses for the spring/summer term (2 - 2 1/2 months); 8500 plus an allowance for travel expenses for the fall semester (3 - 3 1/2 months).
To apply for this fellowship, the following material should be sent electronically to Elena Brizio (ebrizio@medici.org):
- A copy of the candidate’s dissertation proposal (or a final draft).
- A short essay (two pages maximum) on how a candidate’s topic will benefit from archival research.
- A complete and up-to-date curriculum vitae.
- The name and email address of one scholar, preferably the candidate’s supervisor, who can comment on the applicant’s qualifications and the merits of the research proposal (please do not include letters of recommendation with the application).
The application deadline is: 15 February 2014.
Please note:
- All materials submitted by the applicant should be in English.
- All materials should be in a single .pdf file.
- Please do not include supplementary material (publications, papers, etc.).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Elena Brizio
(ebrizio@medici.org)
Elena Brizio
The Medici Archive Project
Via di Pian dei Giullari, 66
50125 Firenze - Italy
+39 055 240221
Email: ebrizio@medici.org; info@medici.org
Visit the website at http://www.medici.org
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Scottsboro Boys Photo Exhibit
"An exhibit of historic photographs documenting the 1933 retrial of one of the Scottsboro Boys defendants will be on display at the University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Gallery of Art in downtown Tuscaloosa until Feb. 21.
The exhibit “Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs” opened Friday and features images from the Morgan County Archives. The photos record the second trial of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine black teenagers pulled from a train in Paint Rock in 1931 and falsely accused of raping two white women.
There will be two free talks in conjunction with the exhibit. Robin D.G. Kelley, the Gary Nash professor of American history at the University of California-Los Angeles, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 in Room 205 of the Gorgas Library, and Dan T. Carter, Education Foundation professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and author of “Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South,” will speak at a reception from 5-7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Jones Gallery.
The gallery at 2308 Sixth St. is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m." Tuscaloosa News, Jan. 13, 2014.
The exhibit “Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs” opened Friday and features images from the Morgan County Archives. The photos record the second trial of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine black teenagers pulled from a train in Paint Rock in 1931 and falsely accused of raping two white women.
There will be two free talks in conjunction with the exhibit. Robin D.G. Kelley, the Gary Nash professor of American history at the University of California-Los Angeles, will speak at 7 p.m. Feb. 6 in Room 205 of the Gorgas Library, and Dan T. Carter, Education Foundation professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and author of “Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South,” will speak at a reception from 5-7:30 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Jones Gallery.
The gallery at 2308 Sixth St. is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m." Tuscaloosa News, Jan. 13, 2014.
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