SHA Grad Council
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“Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in St. Pete Beach this November and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our third year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/5!”
Grad Students! Do you work on the Civil War Era? If so, consider applying for the Society of Civil War Historians' Graduate Student Connection Committee!
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Grad Students! Do you work on the Civil War Era? If so, consider applying for the Society of Civil War Historians' Graduate Student Connection Committee!
Hey y'all! The Southern is next week, and we hope to see some of you there—comment if you'll be in St. Pete!
Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation!
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch
Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation!
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hey y'all! The Southern is next week, and we hope to see some of you there—comment if you'll be in St. Pete!
Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation!
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch
Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation!
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch
“Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in St. Pete Beach this November and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our third year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/5!”
August 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in St. Pete Beach this November and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our third year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/5!”
The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!
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Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
May 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
Grad students! Consider attending a panel on how to get your work published!
Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
June 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Grad students! Consider attending a panel on how to get your work published!
Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
May 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub
SoEx Spotlight: Summer Perritt is a History PhD candidate at Rice University.
Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.
Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Summer Perritt is a History PhD candidate at Rice University.
Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.
Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.
SoEx Spotlight: Madison Ingram is a History PhD Candidate at Temple University. Follow her at mingsga.bsky.social!
Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.
Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.
Madison (@mingsga.bsky.social)
TUGSA member. History PhD Candidate at Temple University, studying libraries in the South. UGA alum and Arsenal supporter. Build a Better South.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Madison Ingram is a History PhD Candidate at Temple University. Follow her at mingsga.bsky.social!
Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.
Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.
SoEx Spotlight: Sammie Chomsky is a PhD student in US History at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.
She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.
April 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Sammie Chomsky is a PhD student in US History at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.
She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.
SoEx Spotlight: Leslie Garrote, a third-year PhD student at Baylor University, will be presenting her research on April 9th!
Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.
Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.
April 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Leslie Garrote, a third-year PhD student at Baylor University, will be presenting her research on April 9th!
Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.
Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.
SoEx Spotlight: Sam Bisno, a Mitchell Scholar and MA student at Queen's University Belfast, will be discussing his thesis at SoEx on April 9!
His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.
His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.
April 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
SoEx Spotlight: Sam Bisno, a Mitchell Scholar and MA student at Queen's University Belfast, will be discussing his thesis at SoEx on April 9!
His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.
His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.
SoEx Spotlight: Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
April 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.
SoEx Spotlight: Katie Drash Mapes, an MA student at Virginia Commonwealth University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!
She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.
She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.
April 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Katie Drash Mapes, an MA student at Virginia Commonwealth University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!
She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.
She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.
SoEx Spotlight: Morgan Bettin-Coleman, a PhD Candidate at Rice University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!
Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.
Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.
March 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
SoEx Spotlight: Morgan Bettin-Coleman, a PhD Candidate at Rice University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!
Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.
Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.
SoEx Spotlight:
Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!
Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!
March 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
SoEx Spotlight:
Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!
Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!
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Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
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February 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
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Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
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Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.
Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com
Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
February 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Sign up for Southern Exchanges!
Historians in the United Kingdom who study the American South! Have YOU heard about the Southern Historical Association's Edinburgh Workshop?
If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
Call for papers due February 28th!
If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
Call for papers due February 28th!
January 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Historians in the United Kingdom who study the American South! Have YOU heard about the Southern Historical Association's Edinburgh Workshop?
If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
Call for papers due February 28th!
If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk
Call for papers due February 28th!
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This is a really great, low pressure, way to practice your research "elevator pitch" and receive feedback from peers. I'd strongly recommend that grad students take advantage of this opportunity.
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
January 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is a really great, low pressure, way to practice your research "elevator pitch" and receive feedback from peers. I'd strongly recommend that grad students take advantage of this opportunity.
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025
tinyurl.com/SoEx2025