Southern Connecticut State University History Department Graduate Program

02/17/2017

Graduate Student Research Conference
May 9, 2017; 5:00pm-8:30pm
Call for Abstracts
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2017

The Office of GSRI and GSAC is sponsoring a Graduate Research Conference to highlight graduate student research, help students gain professional development experience, and to form an interdisciplinary community among SCSU graduate students and faculty

We are accepting various stages of graduate student research. Graduate student presenters will be eligible for awards. Multiple awards will be selected at the university and school level.

Further information will be forthcoming.

01/24/2017

Nominations Sought for Outstanding Teaching and Advisor Awards

The Office of Faculty Development invites you to nominate SCSU’s outstanding professors for two exclusive awards, the J. Philip Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor Award.

To nominate your choice for each award, read the brief award descriptions, click on the links provided, and give the name, department, and reason (limit of 1000 characters) that you believe your professor deserves the award. Both the quantity and the quality of overall nominations for outstanding professors will be considered by the review committee. Be sure to place your own vote and encourage your peers to place their nominations for their outstanding professors, as well. Awardees will be announced by April 1.

The last day to nominate your outstanding professors for these awards is Monday, February 6, 2017, at 12:00pm.


J. Philip Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching

Have you been taught by an outstanding professor? Maybe they made you think in a new way, touched your life in a positive way, or motivated you to a higher level of performance based on their knowledge, teaching style, and interactions.

The J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teaching Award is presented each year to one full-time professor and one-part time professor. Awardees receive $2,500 and a personalized plaque and are recognized at undergraduate commencement.

Click HERE to nominate your Outstanding Teacher.


Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award

Nominations are also sought for the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award. This award recognizes and rewards faculty who provide exceptional academic advising and mentoring to undergraduate or graduate students. The recipient will receive a $1,000 award, a personalized plaque, and public recognition for their outstanding effort.

Full-time faculty at all ranks who are currently employed at SCSU are eligible for nomination. Faculty who work collaboratively with students in charting their academic direction, display knowledge of academic programs, degree requirements, and university resources supporting student success, and who provide exemplary guidance to students are especially qualified for nomination.

Click HERE to nominate your Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor.

That is all.
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Byron Nakamura, PhD
Associate Prof of Ancient History
Graduate Coordinator
GCCC Chair
Department of History
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
Phone: 203-393-7039

01/16/2017

CT History Day Judges Needed!

We Need You!
Please consider volunteering to judge
for Connecticut History Day 2017


We need your help at the upcoming Connecticut History Day (CHD) Regional Contests! Please consider signing up as a volunteer judge...

Judges will meet students from across the state who have spent months researching a topic and are eager to share their work. It is going to be an extremely competitive Spring 2017!

Our judges are asked to arrive for a brief training at 7:45 a.m. Most of the day is spent meeting students and reviewing their projects. Judges are asked to complete evaluation forms for each student participant. The day usually ends by 2 p.m. As a thank you, we'll provide breakfast and lunch!

**We need judges for the following contests:

Manchester Regional Contest (Manchester High School) Feb. 25
New Haven Regional Contest (Southern Conn. State. University) March 4
Mansfield Regional Contest (Mansfield Middle School) March 4
Torrington Regional Contest (Torrington High School) March 11
Fairfield Regional Contest (Sacred Heart University) March 18
Hartford Regional Contest (Capital Community College) March 25

To Volunteer:
Click here and fill out our Judge Registration Form.


Connecticut History Day is an affiliate of National History Day. Thousands of Connecticut students conduct research and make creative projects based on a yearly theme; this year's theme is Taking a Stand in History. To learn more, visit our website: http://www.historydayct.org/


Connecticut History Day is led by the Connecticut Public Affairs Network (CPAN), with support from theConnecticut League of History Organizations and ConnecticutHistory.org

01/16/2017

Graduate Conference: Borderlands

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

As the precarious nature of political landscapes continue to show themselves—in the United States and other regions of the world—researchers, activists, artists, and other stakeholders have developed complex ways of interrogating the inequalities prevalent within them. Additionally, many critical scholars have asserted that the “post-racial, post-feminism, post-homophobic melting pot” narratives that have been central to contemporary discussions of identity, place, and space have always been dangerous fallacies. Such perspectives illustrate that inequality takes on institutional and interpersonal forms that are constantly changing in their scope and discourse.
Influenced by this, the 2017 conference theme is “Inequality: Transmutations and Contestations.” This two-day symposium will explore scholarship and artwork that highlight the many faces of power, inequality, oppression, and resistance within our social worlds. All disciplinary interventions are welcomed!
We are looking for the following types of proposals:
· individual academic papers (will be used in the construction of thematic sessions by conference organizers)
· wholly constituted panels or workshops
· visual or performance artworks
· academic posters.

All proposals should be submitted via: https://goo.gl/forms/jRXrCTCjRRoTrHsr2 by January 20th, 2017.

Submissions should include 2-5 keywords, short abstracts, contact information, A/V needs, and short bios of all presenters.

Guiding Questions/Ideas for Proposals, along with more information about Borderlands: A Critical Graduate Symposium can be found at https://borderlandsgraduatesymposium.wordpress.com/cfp/

Borderlands: A Critical Graduate Symposium 2017 Theme - "Inequality: Transmutations & Contestations" Submit proposals for the 2017 Borderlands Symposium here. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected]

01/16/2017

Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History

The Society for Military History and the Center for Military and Diplomatic History are pleased to announce the inaugural Graduate Student Prize in Applied Military History. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best essay of 5,000 to 8,000 words that uses military history to inform current international security problems. Contestants are permitted to use any historical period, place, or persons to offer insights into current international security issues. The competition is open to graduate students studying military history, including those pursuing a second degree.

The prize will be awarded at the Society’s awards luncheon. The awardee will receive $1,000, and will be reimbursed for up to $1,000 in travel expenses to attend the Annual Meeting. In addition, the awardee will receive a paid trip to Washington, DC to deliver the essay’s findings to members of the national security policy community. The winning essay will be considered for publication in the Journal of Military History.

Essays should be submitted in electronic form to https://foreignpolicyi.formstack.com/forms/fpi_cmdh_essay_contest. The application deadline is February 18, 2017, and the winner will be announced in early March.

01/16/2017

Society for Military History Conference Travel Grants

The organizing committee for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History just wants to remind graduate students presenting papers at this year’s gathering that the deadline for travel grants is fast approaching. The Society sponsors two awards that have a deadline of January 15, 2017:

“The Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant”
The Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant Awards honors one of the great American military historians of the 20th century and supports conference participation by gifting funding to promising graduate students. For more information, please use the following link: http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/awards/weigleyapp.html

“Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant”
This travel grant honors the late Dr. Jeffrey Grey, past president of the Society, and is awarded to an outstanding graduate student who is enrolled in a graduate program located outside of North America. Funds are intended to defray costs associated with presenting a paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. Those interested in learning more about the award and the application process can find the information by using the link: http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/awards/greyapp.html

Graduate advisors, please encourage your students to apply, and thank you for your letters of support.

Thank you for your interest in the 2017 Annual Meeting!

Sincerely,

Eleanor Clark
SMH 2017 Coordinating Team

The Russell F. Weigley Awards are given to outstanding graduate students to help defray costs associated with presenting a paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The award provides $1,000 to each recipient.Only students whose proposal for a paper or poster has bee...

12/14/2016

Central Michigan University is hosting an international history graduate conference in Spring 2017 and we would appreciate it if you could circulate our Call for Papers to the graduate students at your university:

The International Graduate Historical Studies Conference will host “Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries, ” at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, March 31-April 1, 2017. We invite graduate students from across the social sciences and the humanities to submit proposals for papers or panels that adopt an interdisciplinary or transnational approach but we are also seeking papers or panels that approach historical topics in more traditional ways. All submissions must be based on original research.

Preference will be given to those proposals received by December 19, 2016. The final submission deadline is February 8, 2017.

For any questions, please email us at [email protected]

Best regards,

Julianne Haefner

Julianne Haefner
IGHS Conference Coordinator
Department of History
Central Michigan University

12/14/2016

THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL:
CHALLENGING MARGINALIZATION THROUGH THEORY, ANALYSIS, & PRAXIS

A Graduate Student Conference on Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality
March 31 & April 1, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS
In the late 1960s, the statement “the personal is political” emerged as a central rallying cry for feminist activists. While salient before, it has become all the more urgent in light of the 2016 United States election results. Given this, the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is hosting a graduate student conference, The Personal Is Still Political: Challenging Marginalization through Theory, Analysis, & Praxis, to investigate how this slogan has been, can be, or is now being mobilized as a concept for resistance by marginalized groups theoretically, analytically, and practically.

Thirty years ago, Audre Lorde remarked that “the absence of [race, sexuality, class, and age] weakens any feminist discussion of the personal and the political.” We build upon this inclusive declaration to examine the diverse reach of state oppressions, violence, hegemonic intervention, and marginality in the contemporary moment. We also aim to explore modes of resistance to such repression. Some of the questions this conference seeks to address include (but are not limited to):

• How have intersectional approaches to praxis reshaped this concept as a useful tool for counter-hegemonic struggles?
• How do repressed groups and individuals enact or challenge “the personal as political” in their daily, lived experiences?
• How is this concept relevant to linkages between academia, activism, and practice?

Topics to be explored in papers and presentations may include (but are not limited to):
• Activism (e.g., Black Lives Matter; the prison abolition movement; the Standing Rock Protective Actions; abortion ban protests in Poland; support for openly q***r teenagers kicked out of their homes)
• Legal policies (e.g., transphobic bathroom laws; work and family policy; sexuality-based discrimination and policy; social welfare policies; labor rights; treaty rights; the “We are All Amina Filali” movement in Morocco)
• Nationhood, globalization, and immigration (e.g., refugees and displacement - Syrian refugee crisis; family and migration; persistent Islamophobia and anti-Semitism; nationalism)
• Environmental issues and justice (e.g., climate change; resource scarcity; pollution/toxic contamination - the Flint water crisis, the BP oil spill)
• Health issues (e.g., health care access; reproductive rights; (dis)ability and accessibility; food access; the U.S. opioid crisis; global health disparities)
• Theoretical interventions (e.g., intersectionality; q***r theory; postcolonial feminism; feminist psychoanalysis; FemCrit; settler colonialism) as explored by scholars such as Butler (2009), Edelman (2004), Evans-Winters & Esposito (2010), hooks (1984), Moraga & Anzaldua (1981), Spivak (1992), Wolfe (1999), among others

We welcome proposals for papers and/or projects (i.e. paintings, sculptures, film, performances, poetry/literature, songs) from graduate students of all disciplines that explore issues of marginality, repression, and resistance through the lenses of gender and/or sexuality.

Academic Paper Submission: Paper submissions should be for 15-minute presentations. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract tohttp://tinyurl.com/GCWS2017 by January 6, 2017. Submissions should also include your name, program, university affiliation, e-mail address, a short bio (3-5 sentences), three to six keywords, and any audio/visual requirements. Participants will be notified about the status of their proposal no later than February 6th. The conference itself will be held on March 31, 2017 and April 1, 2017.

Projects: Project proposals should include a 250-300 word abstract as well as your name, program, university affiliation, e-mail address, a short bio (3-5 sentences), three to six keywords, and any audio/visual requirements. Also include the scale and duration of your piece (if relevant), as well as space or presentation preferences. Lastly, please provide a web link to relevant visual, audio, portfolio, or support materials (no more than 5 images or 5 minutes of audio or video). Please submit this to http://tinyurl.com/GCWS2017by January 6, 2017.

Note: The conference will be held in an academic building at MIT that is not normally used or set up for some art displays or performative works. The building has outlets in the classrooms and common spaces. Video projectors and screens are in the classrooms. Individuals with projects that have tech requirements beyond this will need to bring their own materials. Accepted projects will be programmed into the conference schedule by the selection committee. If you have a specific vision for how you would like your project to be included please note that in your abstract. Those with accepted projects will be able to schedule site visits.

All participants will be notified about the status of their proposal no later than February 6th.

For more information contact the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality at [email protected] and http://web.mit.edu/GCWS.

11/29/2016

Connecticut State University “Making History” Conference
March 24, 2017
To be held at
Eastern Connecticut State University
Call for Papers

The four Chairs of the CSU History Departments (Professors Katherine Hermes, Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Troy Paddock and Kevin Gutzman) would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from the CSU History Departments to submit proposals for a conference to be held Friday, March 24, 2017 at Eastern Connecticut State University. Our goal is to establish academic ties and networks among our four departments, and we encourage submissions made up of participants from more than one campus.
This conference will bring together history undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from our four CSU campuses in a day-long exploration of historical questions. The subject matter and themes are open to encourage the widest possible participation. We welcome complete panels, poster sessions, roundtables, workshops, and special projects, as well as individual papers that can be combined into inter-campus panels.

To submit a presentation, please send 250-word proposals for individual papers, poster sessions, panels, roundtables, workshops or special projects between Dec. 15 and Feb. 15 to Dr. Anna Kirchmann, Chair, Department of History, ECSU at [email protected].

11/02/2016

CT Academy of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship

We are pleased to announce an opportunity for graduate students at Southern Connecticut State University to apply for a Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship. This Fellowship runs from January 2017 to November 2017, and includes a $1,000 stipend.

Chartered by the Connecticut Legislature in 1799 “…to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest and happiness of a free and virtuous people,” the Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences is the third-oldest learned society in the United States. Its purpose is the dissemination of scholarly information. For the past 200 years, the Academy has fulfilled this mission through lectures and extensive publications. The Graduate Fellows program is a new pilot initiative extended to selected Universities.

Expectations of the Graduate Fellow:

1.) The Graduate Fellow will be expected to attend the meetings of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. The meetings include a reception, a scholarly lecture, dinner and discussion. The Graduate Fellow will be the guest of the CT Academy at all of the meetings. There are four meetings in the Spring semester, and three meetings in the Fall Semester. Meetings during the Spring 2017 semester are scheduled for Wednesday January 18; Wednesday February 15; Tuesday March 14; and Wednesday May 24. All meetings begin at 5:00pm with a reception, followed by a scholarly lecture at 5:30pm and dinner at 6:45pm. All meetings are held at the Whitney Center in Hamden, CT., except for the May 24 meeting, which is held at the Oswenego Inn in Branford, CT. Fellows will receive detailed information about each meeting. Meeting dates for the Fall semester 2017 will be announced during the summer.

Fellows will have the opportunity, at Academy meetings, to benefit from interactions with distinguished faculty who are members of the Connecticut Academy and who have similar research interests and experiences.

2.) The Graduate Fellow will be expected to make a brief presentation regarding his or her research/project. The presentation will occur in the Fall 2017 semester. There will be a number of options for the presentation. For example, the Graduate Fellow may make a poster presentation at an Academy meeting during the reception. The Academy will make arrangements to accommodate the preferences of the Fellow regarding the presentation.�
Eligibility Requirements:

All graduate students whose special project, thesis or dissertation proposals have been approved are eligible to apply.

Application Instructions:

1. The Graduate Fellow Application must include a one-page description of the approved project proposal and a two-page curriculum vitae
2. All applications must be printed (hard copy).
3. The deadline for the submission of your application is December 2, 2016, no later than 4 p.m.
No applications submitted past the 4pm deadline will be considered.
4. The selected candidate will be notified by December 15, 2016.

Please submit all applications (hard copy only) to:

Christine Caragianis Broadbridge, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Research, and Innovation (GSRI)
GSRI office (EN B110)
Southern CT State University

For further information, please contact the chairperson for the selection committee: Dr. Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Director & Professor of Women's Studies. E-mail: [email protected]; Office: (203) 392-6133; (203) 392-6864

04/13/2016

SCSU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL BASED INTERSNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Current and prospective graduate students pursuing education programs are invited to apply for a school-based internship with the School of Education. The University has partnered with school districts in the New Haven Area to offer opportunities for students to gain valuable experience in area school districts while pursuing their education.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS:
§ Full or part-time, matriculated graduate student at SCSU

§ Acceptance into a teacher education program pursuing certification

§ Enrolled in 6-15 credits for each fall & spring terms

§ Enrolled in 1 credit for each winter & summer session A terms

§ Have at application and maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA.

§ School of Education and academic program approval

§ Completed background/fingerprint check on record


*Candidates pursuing student teaching may be eligible for placement in their internship district providing they can meet all of the state requirements for certification and their program requirements. The State of Connecticut does not permit student teacher candidates to be compensated during their student teaching period.

**The School of Education and academic programs may require successful completion of designated courses prior to an internship placement.

Candidates must successfully complete an SCSU Interview and School District Interview to be eligible for consideration. Intern candidates are required to participate in an SCSU Internship Orientation in August.

REMUNERATION
§ $12,000.00 per school district academic year (August – June). Candidates are expected to follow the school year/day schedule to be eligible for the full remuneration.

Some districts may provide a student teaching opportunity for internship candidates after the internship period. The student teaching period cannot be compensated by the district or the University during student teaching.

APPLICATION INFORMATION
APPLICATION DUE: May 1 (midnight)
SCSU INTERVIEWS: May
SCHOOL DISTRICT INTERVIEWS May – August

COMPLETE APPLICATION AT: https://southernct.tk20.com
§ Click Admissions (under Helpful Resources)
§ Purchase of an account for the Intern application is not required.
§ New applicants must create an account in the “create an account to complete a field experience placement request” function.
§ After the new account is created click “Admissions”
§ Click “Create New Application”
§ Select “ School Based Internship Application”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
School of Education
Office of Educational Services
LOCATION: Davis Hall. RM 110
PHONE: 203-392-5906
EMAIL: [email protected]

03/08/2016

Graduate Internships Available
http://www.southernct.edu/student-life/office-of-student-affairs/graduate-intern.html