GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Each year the Center awards two full graduate fellowships to advanced students in the Department of History. A committee within the department selects these scholars. Recipients are ordinarily excused from normal teaching duties and will be expected to organize a small one-day conference or workshop as well as to help manage other Center activities.

The 2007-2008 Center Fellows were Lonnie ROBBINS and Strother ROBERTS, while in 2008-2009 they are ANNE KOENIG and MARYGRACE TYRELL.

Center Support for Graduate and Faculty Workshops

The Center for Historical Studies welcomes proposals from Northwestern University faculty members (from all schools and departments) and advanced graduate students to fund small, focused workshops that reflect the Center’s broad theoretical and comparative goals. For example, a group of graduate students or faculty members working in different areas and time periods, but interested in a common interpretive theme, might present research papers in a session where one or two historians from other universities would comment. Or, applicants might propose organizing a seminar in which students and/or professors would explore a major topic or disciplinary challenge not currently examined in our normal course offerings. The Center would underwrite travel, meals, lodging and stipends for the visitors. Please contact Professor T.H. Breen about your workshop proposal.

In 2008-2009 CHS will inaugurate a new program of

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS

with one in Ireland in Fall 2008 and one in Germany in Spring 2009.

A small group of History graduate students from NU will meet their peers in other parts of the world, network, compare notes on the state of the profession, and engage in discussions of their research.

For more details on the Graduate Fellow workshops and the

NEW PROGRAM OF INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS, please click on Conferences

First CHS Faculty/Graduate Workshop

Environmental History

with keynote speaker Richard WHITE (Stanford University)

Saturday, April 5, 2008

10:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Harris 108

Convener: Strother Roberts (CHS Graduate Fellow)

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Second CHS Faculty/Graduate Workshop

Reconstructing Social History

in a Post-Structural World

with keynote speaker Keith WRIGHTSON (Yale University)

Saturday, May 17, 2008

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201)

Convener: Lonnie Robbins (CHS Graduate Fellow)