Job alert!! 🚨

Congrats to MPhil, Mia Blainey, who won the 2023 BrANCH Harriet Tubman Prize for, 'Hanging by a Thread: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Complexities of Memorializing and Mourning Lynching in America,” written during her undergrad studies at the U. of Warwick!

Job alert! Teaching Fellow in US History at Oxford Brookes University to cover me for 9 months. Feel free to message me with questions. g.co/kgs/jqzbHTY

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Currently marking UG assignments? ✍️ Keep an eye out for entries for our Harriet Tubman Prize!

It celebrates the best undergrad essays/research projects on 19thC US history by Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic students based in the UK!

Details below 👇

The BrANCH Harriet Tubman Prize, sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, is now open! Please do encourage your BAME students to send their essays on c19th US history to me at [email protected]

branch.org.uk/tubmanessaypri…

Interested in getting more involved with BrANCH? We're looking for a new Treasurer to join our wonderful committee!

You can find more info & application details below 👇
branch.org.uk/2023/4-committ…

Next Thursday May 2 we kick off another term of the IHR North American History seminar IHR North American History Seminar!

Looking forward to hearing from Dr Tim Galsworthy on Civil War memory during the Nixon era

Thurs May 2 5:30pm at LSE

All very welcome, please register here history.ac.uk/events/spiro-a…

As part of #SHEAR24 #SHEAR2024 #JER co-editors Ronald Angelo Johnson ✍🏾 and Johann Neem are offering the annual “From Conference Paper to Article” workshop. For details, please see the #JER Pano: thepanorama.shear.org/2024/04/22/she…

Pleased to see my first article on forced reproduction out with American Nineteenth Century History ! BrANCH

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CFP: BAAS PG Roundtable Series 2024 - Online Roundtables open to all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers interested in American Studies. Themes, dates and more information here: forms.office.com/e/u72HcN4Kgm
BAAS (British Association for American Studies) U.S. Studies Online

Over the next few months, BAAS (British Association for American Studies) Postgraduates will be hosting a series of online roundtables focused on contemporary events, issues and texts in American Studies.

Roundtables will take once a month on Zoom and consist of short 10-minute papers followed by discussion.

New job posting 🚨 Trinity College Dublin are looking for a post-1865 Americanist!

Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern United States at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin ⁦BrANCH⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC426/ass…

Check out EAAS postgraduate travel grants available to postgraduates researching American Studies BAAS (British Association for American Studies) U.S. Studies Online HOTCUS SHAW Society WomenInAmericanStudies BrANCH BrANCA American_Politics Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania @ BL
eaas.eu/eaas-grants/tr…

The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024. Submit nominations by May 15. historians.org/awards-and-gra…

The CFP for our annual conference is live! This year’s conference will take place at Rothermere American Institute on 5 July and will focus on the theme of history from the margins. Deadline for abstracts 10 May, see website for details shawsociety.net/conference/

We can’t wait to read it!

The #DigitalBAAS conference starts tomorrow!

Browse the CAP BAAS (British Association for American Studies) virtual exhibit for some of the best new American Studies publications from Duke University Press NYU Press Indiana University Press Rutgers University Press Cornell University Press Stanford Press and more! ⬇️
combinedacademic.co.uk/baas-2024/

The RAI is pleased to announce that Professor Adam Smith has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant for a three-year project on 'Conservatisms in an Age of Revolutions', to be hosted at the Institute from September 2024: rai.ox.ac.uk/article/adam-s…

Don’t forget to register for this year’s Digital BAAS!