Around the Field December 13, 2023

12 December 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: NCPH opens student volunteer application for our 2024 meeting; NPS closes applications on a grant program; the Museum Association of New York hosts a webinar; the American Historical Review closes submissions for a special issue

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Society of American Archivists calls for leader self-nominations through December 15, 2023
• NCPH is looking for student volunteers for the NCPH-UHS 2024 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, you can fill out an application here
• A group working with the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project are conducting a national survey on LGBTQ+ Historic Sites, you can take the survey here
• Participate in “Redacted: a Survey on Grammar + Language Use in History Communications”

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Cornerstone: Learning for Living calls for humanities project applications for their grant program, deadline is December 15, 2023
• The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for their two Digital Justice Grants, Digital Justice Seed Grants and Digital Justice Development Grants, through December 15, 2023
• The Newberry is accepting applicants for their short-term fellowships, with applications due December 15, 2023
• The Women’s History Institute of Historic Hudson Valley calls for applications for their Summer Research Fellowships, due December 15, 2023
• The Society for the History in the Federal Government have opened submissions for their 2024 awards, deadline of December 15, 2023
• The National Park Service is accepting applicants for their Save America’s Treasures  grant program until December 19, 2023
• The Research Society for American Periodicals invites submissions for their 2022-2023 Article Prize through December 22, 2023
• The Maryland Center for History and Culture is accepting applications for their Ashby M. Larmore Fellowship Program 2024-2025 and Baltimore Research Fellowship 2024-2025, with applications for both due by December 31, 2023
• Montana The Magazine of Western History is accepting applications for their Emerging Scholar Contest through January 9, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation are accepting applicants for their  2024 National Preservation Awards through January 12, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for two of their grant programs: Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions, with applications due on January 11, 2024, and Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections, with applications due on January 12, 2024
• The Ohio Academy of History is accepting applicants for its Public History Award through January 15, 2024
• The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is accepting applications for their research fellowships through January 26, 2024
• The Massachusetts Historical Society is accepting applicants for four fellowship programs with application deadlines between February 1 and March 1, 2024
• The National Endowment for Humanities is accepting applications for their Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education grant, deadline is February 14, 2024
• The National Endowment for Humanities is also accepting applications for their Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators through February 14, 2024
• The American Historical Association is accepting applications for their research grants through February 15, 2024
• The Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for their Mosaic Scholarship through February 28, 2024
• The National Archives Foundation is accepting applications for the 2024 Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History until May 15, 2024
• The American Historical Association will accept applications for their 2024 awards and prizes through May 15, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The American Historical Association will host their annual meeting in San Francisco, California, US, January 4-7, 2024
• The Florida Conference of Historians will host their 2024 annual meeting at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa, Florida, US, January 26-28, 2024
• The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison will host their 2024 annual conference, “Reckoning,” in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US, February 7-10, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their virtual summit, “Doing History in Polarized Times,” February 8-9, 2024
• The National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates will host their 2024 annual conference in Austin, Texas, US, February 15-17, 2024
• IU Indianapolis will host an Arab American Public History Conference in the IU Indianapolis University Library Lilly Auditorium in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, February 16, 2024
• The Small Museum Association will host their 2024 conference, “Telling Through Stories,” in Richmond, Virginia, US, February 19-21, 2024
• The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association will host their 2024 Annual SWPACA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, February 21-24, 2024
• The 2024 Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium will take place in Champaign, Illinois, US, February 29 – March 2, 2024
• The National Council for History Education will host their 2024 conference, “History at the Crossroads,”  in Cleveland, Ohio, US, March 7-9, 2024
• The African American Intellectual History Society will host their annual conference, “Reparations: Past, Present, and Future,” in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, March 8-9, 2024
• The History Department at the University of Toledo calls for abstracts for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate History Colloquium to be held in Toledo, Ohio, US, March 22, 2024 (abstracts due by February 9, 2024)
• Temple University’s James A. Barnes Club calls for papers for their Barnes Conference (for graduate students) to be held at Temple University’s Center City Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, March 22-23, 2024 (abstracts due January 5, 2024)
• The South Carolina Historical Association seeks proposals for their 2024 conference, History Teaches, to be held in Florence, South Carolina, US, March 30, 2024 (proposals due December 31, 2023)
• The Indiana Association of Historians is accepting proposals for their 2024 conference, “Historical Intelligence,” to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, April 5-6, 2024 (proposals due on December 15, 2023)
• The Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is accepting proposals for their conference, “Contested Ground: Claiming and Reclaiming Territory in History,” to be held in Amherst, Massachusetts, US, April 5-6, 2024 (proposals due on January 15, 2024)
• The North Carolina Association of Historians calls for papers for their 2024 conference to be held in Pembroke, North Carolina, US, April 5-6, 2024 (proposals due January 31, 2024)
• The Museum Association of New York will host their 2024 conference, “Giving Voice to Value,” to be held in Albany, New York, US, April 6-9, 2024
• Mercy University calls for paper abstracts for their Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, “Perception,” to be held in Dobbs Ferry, New York, US, April 6, 2024 (abstracts due on February 16, 2024)
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society will host our joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2024
• The New England Historical Association calls for papers for their Spring 2024 meeting to be held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, US, April 13, 2024 (call ends January 15, 2024)
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2024 conference, “Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation,” in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, April 11-14, 2024
• PA Museums will host their 2024 conference, “Chance for Change: Opportunities in a Community,” in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, April 14-16, 2024
• The Society of Indiana Archivists calls for proposals for their 2024 annual meeting to be held in Gary, Indiana, US, April 19, 2024 (proposals due December 22, 2023)
• The Midwest Archives Conference will host their 2024 Annual Meeting, in Des Moines, Iowa, US, May 2-4, 2024
• The George Washington Cold War Group calls for paper for their 2024 annual Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War to be held in Washington, DC, US, May 2-4, 2024 (papers due by February 9, 2024)
• The Midwestern History Association invites paper proposals for their annual Midwestern History Conference, “Finding the Lost Region,” to be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, May 30-31, 2024 (proposals due by January 16, 2024)
• The History of Recent Social Science calls for papers for their 2024 conference to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, May 31 – June 1, 2024 (proposals due February 2, 2024)
• The University of California of San Francisco calls for proposals for Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives to be held in San Francisco, California, US, June 5-6, 2024 (call ends January 5, 2024)
• The Agricultural History Society will host their 2024 meeting, Borderlands, Marginal Spaces, and Agriculture In-Between, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, June 6-8, 2024
• The Committee on LGBT History will host their Queer History Conference 2024, at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, US, June 10-13, 2024
• The Oral History Association calls for proposals for their AI in OH Virtual Symposium, tentatively scheduled for the week of July 15, 2024 (applications due January 1, 2024)
• The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association calls for papers for their 2024 annual meeting, “Disaster, Resilience, and Recovery,” to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, US, July 31 – August 2, 2024 (proposal deadline, January 15, 2024)
• The Association of African American Museums calls proposals for their 2024 conference, Acknowledging Legacy, Fostering Progress: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 13-16, 2023 (proposals due on March 1, 2024)
• The Society of American Archivists will host Archives*Records 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 14-17, 2024
• The International Federation for Public History will host their 2024 World Conference in Belval, Luxembourg, September 3-7, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for their 2024 conference, Doing History, to be held in Mobile, Alabama, US, September 11-14, 2023 (proposals due on December 21, 2023)
• The American Historical Association calls for session proposals for their 2025 annual conference to be held in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025 (proposals due by February 15, 2024)
• The Organization of American Historians calls for proposals for their 2025 Conference on American History to be held in Chicago, Illinois, US, April 3-6, 2025 (accept proposals and papers through March 1, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Irish Studies Workshop & Library will host a webinar titled, “Oral History for Beginners: A Taster Session,” December 14, 2023 from 5:00 – 7:30 am Eastern
• The Museum Association of New York will host a webinar on, “Conversations About Community Engagement, Audience Diversification, and Relationship Building,” December 15, 2023 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their 2024 History Leadership Seminar (applications due by December 31, 2023)
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their online courses on “Developing Exhibitions: Planning & Design” and “Collections Management 200: Stewardship and Public Access,” January 8 – March 8, 2024
• The NCPH New Professional and Student Committee will host their “Public History Hangout: Early Career Panel,” online on January 9, 2024 starting at 7:00 pm Eastern
• The Museum Association of New York will host a webinar, “Conversations About Community Engagement, Audience Diversification, and Relationship Building,” on January 26, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their 2024 Project Management for History Professionals Workshop in Overland Park, Kansas, US, February 29 – March 1, 2024 (registration closes February 1, 2024)

PUBLICATIONS

• Rejoinder calls for submissions for a special issue, “The Archival is Political,” by December 15, 2023
• The Southern Historian is seeking original scholarship from graduate students for their 2024 issue, manuscript submissions due by December 15, 2023
• The American Historical Review calls for proposals for a special issue titled, “The Mistakes I Have Made,” with submissions due on December 15, 2023
• Process calls for proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on protests in U.S. History in late 2023
• Process also is calling for proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on U.S. intervention in Latin America for late 2023
• The University of Leicester calls for proposals for the twenty-seventh edition of Museological Review looking at museums as spaces of rootedness and response-ability, submissions due by January 15, 2024
• The University of San Francisco Center for Asian Pacific Studies calls for submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives by January 17, 2024
• The Oral History Review calls for papers for a special issue on Oral History and Disability, submissions due March 31, 2024
• The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal is seeking abstracts for a special volume, “Oral History and Literary Criticism: Approaches to Researching and Teaching about Latinos/as/x in the U.S.,” with a deadline of April 1, 2024
• The UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History is seeking paper proposals
• White House History Quarterly calls for abstracts on general thematic issues

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