Announcements
To our history majors: During the 2011-'12 academic year (and in subsequent years), we will offer the pro-seminar (HIS 4936) once each semester (during the upcoming year: Dr. Carlson in Fall 2011, Dr. Winsboro in Spring 2012). Also for the foreseeable future, we will offer one section of HIS 3064 each semester.
We recommend that you take HIS 4936 during your senior year, although you may take it earlier. We recommend that you take HIS 3064 during your junior year. You may take it earlier or later, but we strongly recommend that you take HIS 3064 before taking HIS 4936.
For those of you considering graduate school (here or elsewhere): Please visit our history program's M.A. site; the home page has several very useful links. And here is some advice for how to write a CV at this stage of your career: http://history.wisc.edu/undergraduate/career/resume_coverletter.htm
Undergraduate History journals
http://www.uncg.edu/his/ghro/
http://www.jiss.org/
http://cujh.columbia.edu/
http://uwho.rso.wisc.edu/archive.shtml
http://www.janus.umd.edu/
http://www.historymatters.appstate.edu/
http://www.tuftslife.com/organizations/322
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~clios/
http://gainesjunction.tamu.edu/
http://www.history.upenn.edu/pennhistoryreview/
And this new journal was announced in June 2011:
CFP: Inaugural Issue of "Ellipsis...A Journal for Undergraduate Research in the Humanities"
The Undergraduate History honors society - Phi Alpha Theta - is holding competitions for several awards:
http://www.phialphatheta.org/awards/
Including this one:
Phi Alpha Theta and the World History Association, with a generous subvention from Oxford University Press, a publisher of history textbooks, co-sponsor two student paper prizes in world history, each of $400, for the best undergraduate world history paper and the best graduate-level world history paper composed in the 2010-11 academic year.
A world history paper is one that examines any historical issue with global implications. Such studies can include, but are not limited to, the exchange and interchange of cultures, the comparison of two or more civilizations or cultures, or the study in a macro-historical manner of a phenomenon that had a global impact. For example, world history topics might include a study of the trans-cultural impact of Eurasia's Silk Road; a comparative study of the Ottoman and British empires; or the worldwide impact of the Influenza Pandemic of 1919.
More information: http://www.phialphatheta.org/awards/worldhistory/
Undergraduate History conferences
Please check this page regularly, and also check here for news about upcoming grad-student conferences, some of which accept paper proposals from undergraduates:
http://www.fgcu.edu/CAS/HistoryMA/Annnouncements.html
And see H-Net/Academic Announcements for additional journal and conference announcements.
American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org
