You are invited to submit your paper for possible inclusion in the 23rd Annual Graduate History Forum, held at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on April 1st and 2nd, 2011. Sponsored by the Graduate History Association, we are proud to announce featured guest speaker Dr. Orville Vernon Burton from Clemson University. Dr. Burton is the author of such works as, In My Father’s House are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985). And The Age of Lincoln (2007), which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction. We are honored to have him as the keynote speaker this year.

We accept paper proposals from graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. Interdisciplinary approaches and topics within all areas of study that have a foundation in history are welcomed. Paper proposals should include an abstract followed by the paper. Please email papers to zusher@uncc.edu by the deadline of February 15, 2011. Awards will be given for the best graduate and undergraduate papers.

Thank you very much and we look forward to receiving your papers.

Graduate History Association
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Department of History
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223
Email: zusher@uncc.edu