Around the Field October 26, 2022

25 October 2022 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Museum Association of New York is accepting award nominations; the Organization of American Historians is offering a webinar about inclusive history education; the National Historic Landmarks Program released a new theme study

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is asking for responses to a survey about their organization
• Rutgers University Press is offering free downloads of a collection of books about abortion and reproductive rights

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is accepting applications for the James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship, the Robert Silman Award, and the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, due October 27, 2022
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is accepting applications for short-term research fellowships, due October 31, 2022
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting applications for the Mellon Travel Fund, due November 1, 2022
• Harvard Business School is accepting applications for the Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in US Business History, due November 1, 2022
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting nominations for the Tachau Teacher of the Year Award, due November 1, 2022
• The National Museum of the American Latino is accepting applications for the Latino Museum Studies Program Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, due November 1, 2022
• The University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum are accepting applications for the Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, due November 1, 2022
• The NCPH 2023 awards cycle is now open, with nominations for the Book Award due November 1, 2022, and all other nominations due December 1, 2022
• The Newberry Library is accepting applications for both long-term fellowships, due November 1, 2022, and short-term fellowships, due December 15, 2022
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education grants, due November 2, 2022
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting letters of intent for the 2023 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, due November 4, 2022
• The National Park Service is accepting applications for the African American Civil Rights Grant Program, due November 8, 2022
• The Huntington Library is accepting applications for long-term fellowships, short-term fellowships, and travel grants, due November 15, 2022
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is offering several funding opportunities, with most applications due November 15, 2022
• The Museum Association of New York is accepting nominations for the Awards of Distinction, due November 30, 2022
• The Society for History in the Federal Government is accepting nominations for several awards, due December 15, 2022

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The New York State History and Education Conference, “History Fights Back!,” will be held in Oneonta, New York, US, October 28-30, 2022
• The Council of American Jewish Museums will hold their conference, “Re/Imagining: The Future of Culturally Specific Museums,” in New York City, New York, US, November 1-3, 2022
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold the PastForward National Preservation Conference virtually, November 1-4, 2022
• The American Association for State and Local History will hold their virtual annual conference, “Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place,” November 1-4, 2022
• The Society for US Intellectual History will hold their annual conference, “Democracy and Community in Crisis,” in Boston, Massachusetts, US, November 3-5, 2022
• George Washington’s Mount Vernon will hold the 2022 George Washington Symposium, “Mapping the American Revolution,” virtually and in Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, November 4-5, 2022
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will hold the 2022 National Humanities Conference in Los Angeles, California, US, November 10-13, 2022
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture will hold their virtual symposium, “Tools of the Trade,” November 19, 2022
• The Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past project will hold the virtual 2022 International Symposium, December 7, 2022
• The Florida Conference of Historians call for proposals for their annual meeting in Stuart, Florida, US, January 27-29, 2023 (deadline is October 28, 2022)
• The Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “From Local to Global: History at Every Scale,” in Chicago, Illinois, US, mid-February 2023 (deadline is December 1, 2022)
• The call for proposals is open for the virtual conference, “Item not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Institutions,” March 8-9, 2023 (deadline is November 4, 2022)
• The Missouri Conference on History calls for proposals for their 65th Annual Conference in Springfield, Missouri, US, March 15-17, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast calls for proposals for the Greater Gulf Symposium in Beaumont, Texas, US, April 4, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• NCPH will hold their annual meeting, “To Be Determined,” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, April 12-15, 2023
• The call for papers is open for “Moonscape of the Mind: Japanese American Design after Internment” in St. Louis, Missouri, US, April 14-15, 2023 (deadline is November 21, 2022)
• The Museum Association of New York calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Finding Center: Access, Inclusion, Participation, and Engagement,” in Syracuse, New York, US, April 15-18, 2022 (deadline is November 14, 2022)
• The Boston University American & New England Studies Program calls for proposals for a symposium, “Archives and Knowledge Keepers: Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Art of History,” in Boston, Massachusetts, US, May 4, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• The call for papers is open for the Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, “Historicizing the Refugee Experience 17th-21st Centuries,” in Duisburg, Germany, July 4-7, 2023 (deadline is October 31, 2022)
• The Western History Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Restorations and Repairs: Lives and Landscapes Across Many Wests,” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 26-29, 2023 (deadline is December 5, 2022)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Organization of American Historians will hold a webinar, “Advocating for Inclusive History Education in Contentious Times,” October 27, 2022
• The Humanities and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will hold the annual Robert K. Webb Lecture, “The Decade of Returns: Museum Curation after the ‘Universal Museum,'” with Dan Hicks in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 27, 2022
• The Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a symposium, “Impacts of a Nation,” virtually and in Washington, DC, US, November 4, 2022

PUBLICATIONS 

• The National Historic Landmarks Program has released a new theme study, Protecting America: Cold War Defensive Sites

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