The School of History and Anthropology is seeking to appoint a full time, permanent member of academic staff. This post is available to undertake high quality research and teaching which will complement, diversify or enhance research activities within the School.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Anthony Stanonis, telephone: 028 9097 5030 or email: a.stanonis@qub.ac.uk.
Anticipated interview date: Tuesday 27 January 2015
Please visit our website for further information and to apply online – www.qub.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively contact the Personnel Department, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 90973044 FAX: (028) 90971040 or e-mail on personnel@qub.ac.uk
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society and particularly welcomes applications from people with a disability.
University of Bristol – Department of History (Historical Studies)
Location:
Bristol
Salary:
£35,256 to £39,685
Hours:
Full Time
Contract Type:
Contract / Temporary
Placed on:
22nd December 2014
Closes:
19th January 2015
Job Ref:
ACAD101204
The University of Bristol invites applications to a permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in North American History. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research interests are in global and transnational approaches, however candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research and teaching in any aspect of this history are invited to apply.
The successful candidate will have a PhD (or completion by August 2015), and will be expected to contribute fully to high-quality teaching and administration within the Department of Historical Studies and to pursue research in her/his area of specialism to the highest standards in order to enhance the international research profile of the Department, the School of Humanities, and the Faculty of Arts. The post-holder will be a specialist in North American History.
S/he will be expected to develop further an established research profile through publication, bidding for external research funding, and presentations at national and international conferences. S/he will also be expected to supervise postgraduate research students.
Please note that the University will be closed for Christmas from 24 December to 4 January so you may not get a response to your email until 5 January.
Timescale of appointment:
Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 30th January 2015. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 10,000 words) as soon after notification as possible but no later than Wednesday 4th February 2015.
Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 13th February 2015 and invited to interview. They will be required to submit brief outlines for 2 units they might teach (see department website for unit types http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/)
Interview date: Wednesday 4th March 2015 Anticipated start date: September 2015
The University of Bristol is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students.
We wish to appoint a Lecturer in Modern American History (twentieth century). The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher and researcher, able to deliver a range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and possessing outstanding research potential. S/he will demonstrate an ability to develop innovative pedagogy, including the use of technology-enhanced learning techniques, and be able to make an appropriate contribution to the 2020 REF.
Applications are welcome from specialists in any area of modern American history. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates able to strengthen one of the Department’s core teaching and research interests, which include political, cultural, gender, and transnational history, and the history of ideas and beliefs.
You will have:
– Excellent skills in teaching and facilitating learning
– Research profile commensurate with level of experience
– Good organisational skills
– Clear potential to make a full contribution to the 2020 REF
To formally apply, please visit www.reading.ac.uk/jobs or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail)
Please quote the relevant reference number. We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
University of Hull – Arts and Social Science; History
Qualification type:
PhD
Location:
Hull
Funding for:
UK Students, EU Students, International Students
Funding amount:
£13,863
Hours:
Full Time
Placed on:
12th December 2014
Closes:
2nd February 2015
To celebrate the University’s research successes, the University of Hull is offering one full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursary for candidates applying for the following project.
Studentships will start on 28th September 2015
Supervisor: Professor Joy Porter, joy.porter@hull.ac.uk, 01482 465464, Department of History
Co-supervisor: Professor John Oldfield (WISE)
Project Title:
Interest in the role and significance of Native American Indian slaveholding continues to grow significantly across disciplines. However specific Native American slaveholding connections to the early biracial communities that so deeply resisted Euro-American domination remain obscure. Thus this project sets out to investigate Native American Indian slaveholding and its specific relationship to the formation of biracial communities as well as their continued assertion of cultural and political sovereignty. The successful PhD applicant will have the opportunity to expand his/her knowledge of the history of coalition and biracial agency in North America through investigation of a number of themes including (but not restricted to): Slave rebellion and African and Indian coalition from the first slave rebellion (Hispianola, 1522) and the first on U.S. soil (North Carolina, 1526); Escaped Africans, Maroon or quilobo communities including the “Republic of Palmores” 1600-1694; Seminole resistance and the Second Seminole War; African American involvement in the Trail of Tears 1838/39; John Horse 1812-1882, African American Seminole leader. The project leader is a specialist in indigenous North American Indian history, and the co-supervisor is a specialist in the history of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world (1750-1850) and Director of the University’s Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE). The project will benefit from research synergies with WISE’s recent AHRC £1.5 million grant award under the “Care for the Future” research theme. This doctoral project also links directly with the University of Hull’s Ethics and Social Justice research theme.
To apply for this post please click on the Apply button below.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarships will include fees at the ‘home/EU’ student rate and maintenance (£13,863 in 2014/15) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress, due to funding restrictions.
Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependant on satisfactory progress, due to funding restrictions.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
Successful applicants will be informed of the award as soon as possible and by 17th April 2015 at the latest.
The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature, with special reference to American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. The post is designed to foster research and teaching across conventional period boundaries. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research in any area of the subject are eligible to apply.
The successful candidates will join a Department with a long-standing reputation for the quality of its teaching and its research and become part of a dynamic community of scholars in the School of Humanities and the Faculty of Arts.
Please note that the University will be closed for Christmas from 24 December to 4 January so you may not get a response to your email until 5 January.
Timescale of appointment:
Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 30th January 2015. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 8,000 words) by Wednesday 4th February 2015.
Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Monday 16th February 2015 and invited to interview.
Interview date: Week of 9th March 2015 Anticipated start date: September 2015
The University of Bristol is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students.
It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of Tony Emmerson after a short illness. A founder member of the Association, Tony was a dedicated servant to the Association in a number of committee roles over the last forty years and who, up to this sudden news, was our Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a lifelong Sunderland fan, and a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, William Anthony Emmerson laid claim to a unique academic distinction: in 1967 he became the first and also the last graduate of the BA in Ancient and Medieval History, an achievement to which he referred with characteristic good humour.
After leaving Queen’s, Tony established himself as a keen historian of the United States of America and flew the flag for history, both within the IAAS and in the classroom. For forty-six years – and one month, he would regularly remind both himself and others – his academic home was the University of Ulster where successive generations of students were nurtured by his ardent commitment to the academy and to the education of Northern Ireland’s third level students in very difficult historic times. Tony’s academic career was defined by his promotion of the values of interdisciplinarity, and by his understanding of the importance of international contexts for a university education. With research and teaching interests in railroads and the West, the New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tony was perfectly placed to contribute significantly to the pedagogical development of the history curriculum in the north of Ireland, whether in terms of teaching, policy-making and what now would be termed outreach activities.
One of Tony’s major achievements was as Head of American Studies in the University of Ulster (Jordanstown and Coleraine). For many years before his retirement, he developed a very successful interdisciplinary programme which attracted students from Britain, Ireland and the United States of America. In addition, he co-ordinated the International Student Exchange Programme for the university, and consistently arranged innovative USA-Ulster exchanges for students. To succeed as he did, Tony undertook an annual or bi-annual road-trip in the States. He drove remarkable distances to visit universities in order to build and maintain connections in the interests of his students. Such commitment to bring this international perspective to the University of Ulster must be set in the context of his crowded teaching and administration schedules in his home university. For those of us who came to know Tony well over the years, it was always his energy matched by the intelligence and enthusiasm he brought to all his roles that marked him as a special contributor to the academy.
To encourage an all-Ireland engagement with American issues and the study of the USA, the Irish Association for American Studies was founded in the 1970s to support and offer an academic forum for the work of Americanists in Ireland. Those involved at the beginning included Peggy O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin), Denis Donoghue (University College Dublin), Alan Graham (Queen’s University Belfast) and, of course, Tony Emmerson (Ulster College then; now Ulster University). Of that first committee, Tony continued to be an active member of the IAAS to this year, and has served its committee with distinction.
Tony always defined his work as being both within and beyond the classroom. For example, he, along with his brother Michael, was a key figure in developing the Belfast Arts Festival in 1964. Since its genesis, the Belfast Festival has arguably become the main arts and culture showcase in Northern Ireland. Stories from those formative years of the Festival are now legion: Anthony Burgess reading from a manuscript called A Clockwork Orange; Alex Haley arranging for Playboy to arrange his trip to the Festival and then travelling to Carrickmacross to track down presumed slaveholder ancestors buried there; or Tony having to ask the Queen’s bursar for money to pay an irate Patrick Kavanagh in the Elms Bar. His involvement with the Belfast Festival also lead to another lifelong commitment: his brother Michael’s secretary Mary Mills would become Tony’s wife in 1968.
In addition to his commitments to the University of Ulster and the IAAS, Tony was the long-time Treasurer of the influential British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association. Tony was the IAAS’s representative on the Board of the European Association for American Studies for an extended period and was elected to the prestigious post of Treasurer of the EAAS during his time on the EAAS Board. Indeed, Tony’s presence and influence on the EAAS Board was an important factor in the decision to bring the biennial EAAS conference to Dublin in 2010.
For those of us in Ireland who had the pleasure to work alongside Tony, it was his assiduous commitment to the IAAS cause that always heartened the membership and kept the Association alive when otherwise it may well have folded. While the IAAS has continued its work without a break since its formation, it is fair to say that it experienced a crisis in the mid-1990s. With the sudden death of Alan Graham, and the departure of Peggy O’Brien and Denis Donoghue to the US, the IAAS was active in a number of ways (conferences and the Irish Journal of American Studies), but faced dwindling membership numbers. Tony was a very significant influence in its continuity and its recent renewal. He served as Secretary, as Treasurer, and as Chair at crucial moments in the development of the IAAS, and, since 2011, had taken on the combined role of Membership Secretary and Treasurer. The continuity and even-handedness that he brought to all our discussions were important elements in the recent expansion of the IAAS’s membership and activities. For Tony, no distance was too great to bridge, no journey too far to travel to ensure the success of the Association. Apocryphal road trips were not confined to the USA: for the annual IAAS conference in Cork in 2005, Tony set off from Coleraine having finished his teaching at 6pm that Friday evening, travelling the length of Ireland to arrive at UCC shortly before midnight. Stragglers from the reception that evening as well as delegates the next morning shared a general sense of awe at Tony’s willingness to drive through at times atrocious conditions to take his seat at the conference and also, as ever, to offer his unique knowledge of constitutional affairs at the AGM.
Tony’s work with the Association was defined consistently by his openness to new ideas, by his willingness to work closely with a number of committees and by his incisive, gentle, sensible, and good-humoured contributions to discussions. The IAAS is a relatively small association and has managed to achieve a great deal on, often, limited resources. If it were not for the intelligence, enthusiasm and selflessness evident in all Tony accomplished and sought to accomplish, the IAAS would not have survived to become the organisation that it is today. I know I speak for everyone that has come into contact with Tony when I say that it has been a privilege to know him and to work with him. On a personal note, as the current IAAS Chair, he offered me nothing but total support and wise counsel over the last four years. None of our committee or association business shall ever be the same again.
It is for men like Tony Emmerson that the phrase a gentleman and a scholar was invented. He was an academics’ academic: dedicated to the study and teaching of his specialist subjects, to connecting through a community of scholars to the wider world, and to supporting the coming generations to realise their potential, the true measures of impact to which every academic should ever wish to aspire.
Tony is survived by his wife Mary, his sons Alan and Christopher, his daughter-in-law Miranda, and grandchildren Alice and Rosalind. His family has asked us to make well-wishers aware that donations to the Macular Society are gratefully received.
The Department of North American Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic (http://kas.fsv.cuni.cz/ASFSVEN-1.html) is announcing a vacancy for a full-time academic position of assistant professor in U.S. Cultural/Social History/Studies.
While the Search Committee will consider candidates from a variety of disciplines, consideration will be given to those who specialize in recent and contemporary U.S. cultural/social history/studies, primarily since the end of the Cold War.
All candidates must satisfy the requirements specified below.
The deadline for applications is January 31, 2015, midnight Central European time.
One of the most prestigious European universities and one of the oldest in the world, Charles University was founded in 1348 and is today a powerhouse public research university with 17 different faculties, institutes, research centers, and over 50,000 students. Its unique history, heritage and vibrant life make Prague “the heart of Europe” in culture and knowledge production and transfer. The Czech Republic is one of the most affordable countries to live and work in the region, and its geographical location provides easy access to most other parts of Europe. To learn more about Charles University, go to http://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-10.html.
Required:PhD in hand by October 1, 2015 at the latest
Specializing in: U.S. Studies (and/or) Migration Studies, Urban Studies, Latino/a Studies, Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies – especially focusing on engagement with national government, policy/politics, history, memory and/or identity
Post-1945, including but primarily since the end of the Cold War to the present day
With some record and a clear potential for high level professional (academic and policy) research outputs
Experience in international education (study abroad, international students, international collaboration) – the position will conduct academic international relations for the department
A demonstrated record of versatility and breadth in teaching, academic service, and administrative duties (including co-editing departmental publications, grant writing, international collaboration)
University College London from April 30 – May 1, 2015
The UCL Americas Research Network is pleased to invite scholars to participate in its first International Postgraduate Conference.
This two-day conference seeks to cater to an international community of postgraduate and early-career researchers of the Americas from across the humanities and the social sciences. We welcome paper proposals that address the overarching theme of the conference:
Power and Change in the Americas in the Modern Era
Geographically, this includes the whole Western Hemisphere (Central, South, and North America, as well as the Caribbean). By adopting a broad, hemispheric perspective, we hope to encourage debates that extend beyond the boundaries of the nation-state, and to question the validity of cultural divides that often limit research agendas and enclose perceptions of complex problems and communalities.
The conference, organized by UCL Americas Research Network, especially invites doctoral students and early career researchers whose work ranges both geographically and temporally, and will encourage interdisciplinary conversations on national, regional and local topics and those whose focus is comparative, transnational and global. By facilitating a space to have these discussions, this conference aims to create an ongoing platform and network for collaborative exchange.
The structure of the conference consists of three thematic approaches:
1. Representations, Ideology, and Ideas of Change:
Evolutionary and revolutionary concepts in post-independence Americas have brought about significant changes to the ways in which actors and groups think, represent, and position themselves and their demands vis-à-vis the formal structures of power. This stream invites papers that address the topics of “change” and “power” in the Americas in its multiple forms of representations, ideas, and ideologies. The underlying tensions and contestations of certain ideas that have a direct impact on our understanding of what power and change means form the major rationale of this inquiry. Developing new modes of thinking continues to be fundamental in the attempt to understand the political in terms of the modern nation and the major forces shaping the lives of subjects in the Americas.
2. Institutions, The State, and Governments:
This second thematic approach focuses on political institutions and the state in the Americas, and addresses the changing parameters of power and the political in modern times. This includes the ways in which the state and its associated institutions (both non-state and governmental) have evolved over time and geographical space; the modes of interaction between states and institutions, both within and across countries; as well as domestic, regional, and transnational actors. This stream invites papers that address themes from across the spectrum of political interactions, encompassing debates around sovereignty and global governance, regional integration and subnational decentralization, and institutional design and practice. We particularly welcome papers that take an explicit comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and that can appeal to students and scholars of the Americas from diverse disciplinary backgrounds.
3. Contesting Power and Social Practices:
This thematic approach is interested in accounting for how different actors, communities, and movements in the Americas engage and interact with multiple-layered power structures, the state and its institutions and wider social systems. Social, economic, and political changes in the Americas are processes in which social actors are both objects and subjects. Confronted with these changes, historical and contemporary subjects have followed distinctive paths, from support and passive acceptance, to engagement in active contestation. This stream invites papers that address both the processes of resistance and the emergence of ‘from-below’ alternatives driven by non-hegemonic subjects, including, but not limited to, resistance to economic and productive models and to political and governance regimes; the contestation of hegemonic knowledge; the bottom-up emergence of social and material alternatives in the everyday life of social subjects and movements.
The organizing committee invites all interested doctoral students and early-career researchers to submit abstracts, which should not exceed 300 words, as well as a brief biography of no more than 50 words, which should include your name, email, and institutional affiliation. The deadline for abstracts and paper proposals is November 15th 2014.
NB: This conference will be free to attend, both for speakers and for the general public, though prior registration for attendance without presenting a paper is essential. Details on how to register will follow shortly. Keynote speakers will be confirmed soon.
Key dates:
Deadline for paper-proposal submission: November 15th 2014
The European Association for American Studies is pleased to announce that its next biennial conference will take place in Constanta, Romania from 22nd to 25th April, 2016.
The EAAS conference will be hosted by our colleagues at Ovidius University in Constanta, with the local support of the Romanian Association for American Studies. Constanta is an ancient and beautiful resort city on the Black Sea coast. The easiest entry point for international visitors is likely to be Bucharest airport, and this location provides a great opportunity to add days for vacation and exploration. The conference website currently being designed will give full details of travel and accommodation options.
Open Call for Presentations
To highlight the range and diversity of American Studies in Europe the EAAS is issuing an open call for proposals for the 2016 conference.
Proposers may wish to identify and explore long-standing, current and emerging intellectual debates in American Studies; to explore critically the varying practices and methodologies in American Studies; to bring to life current discussions and to posit potential paradigms in American Studies.
The various anniversaries of 2016 provide a variety of potential foundations for proposals. It will be 150 years since the start of the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction. That was also the era of the dime novel, and Seeley Regester’s The Dead Letter, credited by some as the first full-length American crime novel, appeared in 1866. 125 years will have passed since Thomas Edison patented the motion camera and 100 since the creation of the US National Parks Service.
1916 also saw the opening of the nation’s first birth control clinic, the election from Montana of Jeanette Rankin, the first woman to sit in the US House of Representatives, the release of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance and the publication of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems. It was also the birth year of Shirley Jackson, Walker Percy, and Walter Cronkite. The National Organization for Women celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016, as does Star Trek.
Contemporary American Studies topics could include, for example, discussion of the USA’s strong, diverse and expanding literary canon; the multi-dimensional character and seemingly endless inventiveness of America’s cultural output; the inventiveness of American culture in an age of new social media; the heritage that might be left after the nation’s first African-American presidency.
The EAAS conference encompasses topics across the disciplinary spectrum in American Studies, as well as interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to the subject. The themes mentioned here are not intended to be a definitive list, and the conference committee looks forward to receiving many different and stimulating proposals.
Format
The EAAS is moving away from its former Workshop format. Proposals are now invited that may use a variety of presentation styles. The conference structure is expected mainly to consist of traditional panels sessions with papers, and proposals targeted at this format are very welcome indeed, but submissions may also be proposed as roundtables, workshops, shop-talks, dialogues, interviews, performances, individual lecture presentations, readings or in other innovative formats. All proposals are expected to include the opportunity for discussion.
Session chairs
Volunteers are invited to fill the role of chairs or facilitators for sessions where these positions are vacant. Volunteers to chair sessions should include their name and affiliation, and a brief statement of their areas of expertise. The conference committee will gratefully call on volunteers to add them to appropriate sessions where possible.
Selection
The EAAS is committed to a conference that reflects the broadest disciplinary range within American Studies, the multinational membership of the EAAS, and the international participation that its biennial meetings attract.
The conference committee will take these aims into account in reviewing proposals and in constructing the conference programme.
Deadline
The deadline for Proposals will be 15 June 2015. The Proposals process will be managed by the Secretary General of the EAAS and full details of the submission process will appear soon on the EAAS website.
Meanwhile – note the dates in your diary, and take this opportunity to begin drafting your proposal for the 2016 conference.
As part of the project EHDLM (Writing History from the Margins) funded by Sorbonne Paris Cité, the following conference will be held at Université Paris 13, on June 18-19, 2015.
Historians and the Margins: from North America to Former Empires
Scientific committee: Christine Chivallon (LAM, CNRS), Elisabeth Cunin (IRD, CNRS), Odile Goerg (Paris Diderot), Ivan Jablonka (Paris 13), Martha S. Jones (University of Michigan) Elika M’Bokolo (EHESS), Mélanie Torrent (Paris Diderot).
Languages of the conference: French and English
Plenary speakers: Partha Chatterjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta ; Columbia University), Odile Goerg (CESSMA, Université Paris Diderot)
This event is the final conference of a three-year project funded by Sorbonne Paris Cité and entitled “Writing History from the Margins: the Case of African Americans” (hdlm.hypotheses.org). This project, which involves 3 universities—Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 13, and Paris Diderot—explores the relationships between African Americans and history. A first conference (University Paris Diderot, June 12-13, 2014) investigated the works and the legacy of black historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Between the 1830s and 1940s these historians wrote from the margin of American society, both as amateurs, and later as professional historians, who launched journals, organized conferences, and developed institutional tools for their segregated scientific activity. The upcoming conference aims to extend the exploration to other historians who wrote from the margins. We would also like to question the very notion of margins. At a time when many wonder about the future of history as a discipline, we will examine whether margins can be considered as a site of innovation for historical writing.
Indeed, one of the objectives of this conference is to contribute to the ongoing debate about the historical discipline. Participants are invited to use the notion of “margins” to question the writing of history, its fictional and artistic representations, and the links between “professional” history and memory, between scholarly historical writing and the staging of history in museums and through commemorations.
The notion of “margins” will be considered in its widest sense, with a particular focus on historians located at the margins.
Papers may address any of the following issues, whether through theoretical explorations or case studies, without limitation of period or space:
– At a time when connected, entangled, transatlantic, and transnational histories render the opposition between “center” and “periphery” less pertinent, what exactly does it mean to write history from the margins?
– Who are historians “at the margins”? Does one write history differently when doing so from the margins? Is such history necessarily activist?
– What are the challenges involved in writing and publishing history from the margins? In the case of early African American historians, writing from the margins meant, among other things, looking for scattered sources and devising innovative solutions to break into print. How does this apply to other historians who find themselves at the margins of empire (writing colonial history from the point of view of the colonized; writing in languages other than the dominant ones), of gender (renewing historical writing from a gendered perspective in the case of female historians), of social class (writing from outside the socioeconomic and intellectual elites), and of historiography (challenging conventional wisdom; participating in revisionism)? How do we include historians of the past whose works have been forgotten, who still stand at the periphery/the margin of contemporary historians’ vision, and whose legacy often remains invisible?
Please send an abstract (300 words maximum) in English or French and a one-page CV to:
