Around the Field December 16, 2020

15 December 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: Mount Vernon offers 2021-2022 fellowships; the American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for their annual conference; and the American Historical Association hosts two webinars.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Preservation Maryland completed a statewide LGBTQ Heritage Context Study 
• Ali Kane, Grants Manager of Tower Hill Botanic Garden, and Sam Dinnie, Research Associate at the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden, created a Facebook page to support LGBTQ+ Museum Staff & Students

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Applications for Mount Vernon’s 2021-2022 research fellowships are due December 31, 2020
• The National Women’s History Museum’s “2021 Graduate Collections and Archival Fellow” applications are due January 3, 2021
• The deadline for Georgia Historical Society’s “Dooley Distinguished Research Fellows” applications is January 8, 2021
• The first deadline for The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund” grants is January 15, 2021
• The Linda Hall Library’s fellowship applications are due January 15, 2021
• The New-York Historical Society offers a variety of 2021-2022 fellowships, the deadline for most of which is January 15, 2021
• Save America’s Treasures offers two grants in preservation and collections, closing January 26, 2021
• The deadline for the Arlen Specter Center’s fellowship is February 1, 2021
• The National Park Service’s “Battlefield Preservation Planning Grants” applications are due February 12, 2021
• The deadline for the Carl & Marilynn Arts Foundation’s  “Digital Changemaker Grants” is March 11, 2021

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for their annual conference in Little Rock, Arkansas, US September 22-25, 2021 (deadline is December 18, 2020)
• The West Virginia Association of Museums calls for proposals for their 2021 conference, “Stayin’ Alive: Sustainability, Relevance, and Culture,” in Bridgeport, West Virginia, US March 25-27, 2021 (deadline is December 31, 2020)
• The Massachusetts Historical Society calls for papers for their 2022 conference, “Underrepresented Voices of the American Revolution,” in Boston, Massachusetts, US July 14-16, 2022 (deadline is January 4, 2021)
• The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is offering student scholarships to attend their 73rd annual “Antiques Forum: Virtually Unstoppable!” February 19-24, 2021 (deadline to apply is January 6, 2021)
• The Vernacular Architecture Forum calls for papers and posters for their virtual annual meeting, May 21-22, 2021 (deadline is February 1, 2021)
• The Organization of American Historians calls for proposals for their hybrid 2022 annual meeting virtually and in Boston, Massachusetts, US March 31-April 3, 2022 (deadline is February 1, 2021)
• The National Humanities Alliance will host their virtual annual meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, March 8-11, 2021

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The American Council of Learned Societies will host a webinar, “How Did We Get There?: Accelerating Diversity in Slow to Change Humanities Fields,” tomorrow, December 17, 2020
• The American Historical Association will host two webinars as part of their “History and Historians in Response to COVID-19”: “Containing Contagion” tomorrow, December 17, 2020, and “Infection and Inequality” on December 23, 2020
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their “2021 History Leadership Institute Seminar,” virtually and in-person in Indianapolis, Indiana, US June 1-26, 2021 (deadline is December 31, 2020)
• The Costume Society of America will host a webinar, “Oral History: Founding the Costume Society of America Foundation,” on January 6, 2021
• The American Association for State and Local History is offering online courses on the “Basics of Archives,” January 25-February 28, 2021 (registration closes January 11, 2021)
• Heritage Ohio is hosting a webinar, “New Solutions for House Museums: Five Lessons Learned,” on January 13, 2021
• The Northeast Document Conservation Center is offering virtual training programs; the next one, “Fundamentals of AV Preservation,” will be on January 14, 2021
• The first session of the Arts + Business Council for Greater Philadelphia’s virtual “Business on Board: Training and Matching Business Leaders with Arts + Culture Nonprofits” series, “A Bird’s Eye View” is January 22, 2021
• The deadline to apply to the American Alliance of Museums’ “Museum Assessment Program” is February 1, 2021

PUBLICATIONS

• Theory & Practice: The Emerging Museum Professionals Journal is accepting papers for its fourth volume, We the Museum, by February 1, 2021
• Southern Cultures calls for submissions for their The Sonic South issue by February 22, 2021
• Public History ( >>公众史学<< ) calls for papers for a special issue discussing “Public History in the Global Context” by February 28, 2021
• Reading Southern Art calls for paper proposals by March 12, 2021
• New article from Clio and the Contemporary blog: “History on the Government’s Dime”
• The White House History Quarterly calls for abstracts on a variety of topics
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers relating to the study of Material Culture
• The Museum Scholar calls for paper submissions from museum students and emerging professionals

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