Greetings:
Welcome back to a new semester and another opportunity to
mentor, inspire and overwork. I do hope your summer was refreshing and
relaxing. Before long we will be
gathering in New Orleans and
we are indebted to First Vice President Sandy Treadway for what will surely
be a memorable occasion.
Firstly, due to the altered dates for this meeting of the
SHA, our regular times and days are also changed. The SAWH Executive Council Meeting will be
Friday afternoon, November 16, 2001, 1:30 - 5:30 p.m in the Chancellor's Room
at the Fairmont Hotel and the Members' Meeting for SAWH will be Saturday,
November 17, 2001, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m, in Bayou III at the Fairmont. Our annual address will be given by Rosalyn
Terborg-Penn of Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. As a co-founder of the Association of Black
Women Historians, Rosalyn has chosen to explore the organization and its impact
on Black Women's History. Her topic is
"The ABWH, Black Women's History and Black Women Historians." The address will be held on Saturday, November 21, 2001, at 4:45 p.m. in the Emerald Ballroom at
the Fairmont Hotel. I am personally
pleased she consented. It will be exciting to hear her assessment of the status
of black women's history.
Usually
the presidential reception and book sale have followed in an adjoining area but
this year we have been most favored in securing the Historic New Orleans
Collection, located in the heart of the French Quarter to host our
"fun." This location will offer us the opportunity to peruse the wonderful collections at Historic New
Orleans. The book sale offers us an
excellent opportunity to support the graduate
students' participation in SAWH. We count on a successful return in order to
assist many graduate efforts. I
encourage you to support the sale with donations of books and numerous
purchases. The previous success of the
book sale has necessitated that we take more prudent steps in arranging the
transfer of funds. For that reason, we
request that all book sale transactions be via checks, if at all possible. Graduate students interested in working the
book sale should check with Sandy.
Due to miscommunication on my part with Sandy, we
will not host the graduate workshop this year.
I regret any inconvenience this may cause on the part of students who
were planning to attend but we can still mentor and assist at our gatherings. I will bring the workshop before the
Executive Council in order to officially establish a policy on the structure
and organization of this worthwhile project.
Congratulations
to our new members of the Executive Council:
Stephanie Cole, Second Vice President, Council Member Jacquelyn Hall,
and graduate representative Mary Rolinson.
We wholeheartedly welcome you aboard.
I am indebted to those who have served with steadfastness
on ad hoc and standing committees, the Council, and other avenues of
organizational duties. I am also appreciative to those who mentored and guided.
See
you in New Orleans.
Jacqueline A. Rouse
Georgia State University
E-mail:
hisjar@panther.gsu.edu
THE COORDINATING
COUNCIL FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY AND BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN HISTORIANS are
pleased to announce the eleventh annual competition for two $500 Graduate
Student Awards to assist in the completion of dissertation work. The awards are designed to help support with a
crucial stage of research or the final year of writing. The CCWH/BERKSHIRE Award is for women
graduate students in a history department in a U.S. institution and the CCWH/IDA B. WELLS Award is
for women graduate students in a U.S. institution in any department, but working on a
historical topic. The application
deadline is October 1, 2001. For more
information write to Professor Montserrat Marti Miller, CCWH Awards
Committee Chair, History Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755, or email millerm@marshall.edu.
THE COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR
WOMEN IN HISTORY is pleased to announce it will accept applications for the
fifth CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award Scholarship of $10,000. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a
former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work
of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional
path of uninterrupted study. Eligible
applicants must be members of CCWH and hold either A.B.D. status or the Ph.D.
at the time of application. For
application guidelines, contact Dr. Marguerite Renner, Dept. of History, Glendale College, 1500
North Verdugo Rd., Glendale, CA 91208. Deadline for applications is Februrary 2,
2002.
THE EPISCOPAL WOMEN’S HISTORY
PROJECT offers Travel/Research Grants of $500 each to aid projects which focus
on the activities of women within the Episcopal church in the United
States. Projects dealing with women whose life and
work were closely associated with their membership in the church are also
eligible. The deadline for applications
is December 1, 2001. For application forms and more information,
please contact Dr. Jane Harris, 4220
Raleigh Dr., Conway, AR 72022,
email: harris@mercury.hendrix.edu.
THE 45TH ANNUAL
MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE will be held March 7-9, 2002, at
the Sheraton, Omaha,
adjacent to Omaha’s historic
Old Market district. Proposals for
papers or sessions in all areas of history, including public history, are
welcome. The conference will award a
prize of $250 to the best paper presented by a graduate student. Send one-page abstracts and vitae by October 15, 2001, to
Professor Sharon E. Wood, Missouri Valley History Conference, Department of
History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182. Those wishing to have their proposals
acknowledged should include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Email for information only, mvhc@unomaha.edu.
THE SOUTHEASTERN SOCIETY FOR
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (SEASECS) invites submissions for its annual article
competition, the Percy G. Adams Article Prize.
The Society will give an award of $500 for the best article on an
eighteen-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or
collection between September
1, 2000 and August 31, 2001. Articles may be submitted by the author or by
others acting in his/her behalf.
Submissions written in a language other than English must be accompanied
by an English translation. The
interdisciplinary appeal of the article will be considered but will not be the
sole determinant of the award. Winning
authors must join, or be a member of, SEASECS.
Please submit articles in triplicate, postmarked no later than November 15, 2001 to
Mary McAlpin, Department of Modern Languages, 701 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. The winning article will be announced at the
annual meeting of the SEASECS in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina,
February 28-March
2, 2002.
SUPPORT THE SAWH BOOK SALE THIS
FALL
A heartfelt thank you to all SAWH members and
friends who have donated or pledged donations of books for the annual SAWH Book
Sale, which will be held this year on Saturday, November 17, 2001, during the
SAWH Presidential Reception at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Contributions of books on any subject, but
with a special emphasis on women’s and southern history, are still
welcome. Please ship your donations to
Sandy Treadway, c/o Library of Virginia, 800 Broad St., Richmond, VA 23219-8000—or you may bring them to
the Book Sale table the evening of the reception.
We are also in need of several volunteers to
help staff the sale between 6 and 7:30 p.m. on November 17. Graduate students who volunteer will be
compensated with free books. If you
would like to volunteer to help some or all of that time, please e-mail Sandy
Treadway at streadway@lva.lib.va.us. See you in November!
IN MEMORIAM
Debbie O’Neal of Wingate
University, an SAWH member, died in
July after a long bout with cancer.
Debbie was a member of the program committee for the Fifth Southern
Conference on Women’s History.
SIXTH SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE ON WOMEN’S HISTORY
The program committee requests submissions
for the Sixth Southern Conference on Women’s History, to be held on the campus
of the University of Georgia, in Athens, June 5-7, 2003. The program
committee welcomes all topics in gender and women's history, broadly defined;
in addition to southern women's history, it also encourages panels from the
South West, other regions in the U.S., and from other countries
as well. Complete panels and round
tables are preferred, but the program committee will consider individual papers
as well. To facilitate the process of
putting together panels, the SAWH is setting up a web page designed to bring those
wishing to present papers together and put them in touch with potential
commentators. Please look for the link
on the SAWH web page after November 1, 2001. Please send submissions to Laura Edwards,
SAWH Program Committee Chair, History Department, 226 Carr Building, Duke University, 27708. You can also submit by email
ledwards@duke.edu. The deadline is August 15, 2002.
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Please Keep Us Informed
We’d
love to know what you’ve been doing lately. Please send member news and address
changes to us by December 1, 2001
for the Winter 2002 issue.
Please
send all correspondence to:
Melissa Walker—SAWH
Dept. of History and Politics
Converse College
Spartanburg, SC 29302
Melissa.walker@converse.edu
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THE RADCLIFFE
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, a
scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range
of academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts, invites applications
for Radcliffe Institute Fellowships.
Fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and
writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to
pursue independent work in academic and professional fields and in the creative
arts. Applications will be judged on
the quality and significance of the proposed project, and the applicant’s
record of accomplishment and promise.
Women and men from across the United States and throughout the world,
including developing countries, are encouraged to apply. We seek to build a community of fellows which
is diverse in every way. Proposals are
accepted from applicants in any field with the receipt of a doctorate or
appropriate terminal degree at least two years prior to appointment (September
2002), or comparable professional achievement.
Each applicant is reviewed in a dual-tiered process
by peers in the relevant disciplines.
Applicants are notified of the results of the selection process in early
Spring. Stipends are funded up to
$45,000 for one year with additional funds for project expenses. Fellows receive office or studio space and
access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University. Residence in the Boston area and participation in
the Institute community are required during the fellowship year, which extends
from September 9, 2002 through June 9, 2003. Fellows are
expected to present their work-in-progress at public colloquium, performance,
or exhibition, and to attend other fellows’ events.
Applications must be postmarked by October 15, 2001. For more
information visit www.radcliffe.edu or
request an application from Application Office, Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, fellowships@radcliffe.edu.
The SAWH Newsletter is published
three times a year by the
Southern Association for Women Historians
Managing Editor: Melissa Walker
Phone (864)
596-9104
Fax
(864) 596-9202
Converse
College
Dept. of History and Politics
Spartanburg,
SC 29302
Melissa.Walker@Converse.
edu
Asst. Editor: Jane Marion
Jane Marion@Converse.edu
Web Site:
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~sawh
Membership is $18 per year
for regular members, and $5 per year for graduate students, retirees, and
independent scholars. A lifetime membership is available for $200, payable
in quarterly installments. The SAWH especially welcomes as members women
and men who are interested in southern history and/or women’s history, as
well as all women historians in any field who live in the South.
If you would like to become a member or know of someone
who would like to be a member of this dynamic organization,
just fill out the enclosed membership
made payable to SAWH.
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VICTORIA BYNUM’s (Southwest Texas State University) book, The
Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s
Longest Civil War, is scheduled for a fall 2001 release by the University of North Carolina Press.
PATRICIA GREENWOOD HARRISON’s (Spring Hill College) book, Connecting Links: The British
and American Woman Suffrage Movement, 1900-1914 was just published by
Greenwood Press.
WANDA HENDRICKS (University of South Carolina) was awarded the
Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award by the Commission on the Status
of Women at Arizona State University for her work as chair of
the Committee on African and African American Research Lecture Series. She has accepted a new position as associate
professor of history and graduate director of the women’s studies program at University of South Carolina.
RANDOLPH HOLLINGSWORTH (Kentucky Virtual University) reports that she has
become a “suit.” She is the director of
product development at Kentucky Virtual University. She also wrote the introduction to Lucy Stone:
Pioneer of Women’s Rights (April 2001).
MARY CARROLL JOHANSEN (Holy Family College) has accepted an
appointment as assistant professor of history at Holy Family College in Philadelphia.
SHIRLEY A. LECKIE’s
(University of Central Florida) book, Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian
(Univeristy of Oklahoma Press, 2000) was selected by the Oklahoma History
Society as an “outstanding book” for 2000.
SUZANNE C. LINDER (retired) has recently published
three books. Anglican Churches in Colonial South Carolina was published by
Wyrick & Co. in 2000. A River in Time: The Yadkin-PeeDee River System was
published by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation and the South Carolina
Archives in 2001. Her Historical Atlas of Rice Plantations in
Georgetown County and the Santee River, published by the South Carolina
Archives, with the sponsorship of the Historic Ricefields Association, will
appear in October 2001.
JANET MOORE LINDMAN (Rowan University) is co-editor,
along with Michele Lise Tarter, of an anthology entitled “A Center of Wonders”: The Body
in Early America published by Cornell University Press in July 2001.
MARGARET T. MCGEHEE (Emory University) received the
Lucy Sommerville Howarth Award from the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s Studies
at the University of Mississippi for the best graduate paper/thesis on women’s
studies. She won for her master’s thesis
entitled “Beneath the Sheets: An
Intellectual History of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, 1923-1931.” She is now a doctoral student at Emory
University.
MARGARET JENKINS SCHWARTZ (University of Rhode
Island) was awarded a 2001 Albert J. Beveridge grant by the American Historical
Association for research on her book-length project “Medical Men, Midwives, and
Spiritual Healers: Managing the Health
of Enslaved Women and Children in the American South.”
LENI ASHMORE SORENSEN (Virginia Tech) completed the
design and interpretive narrative “Kitchen Tales: Mrs. Walker Talks of Her Life and Work at
Maymont” as part of the exhibit “In Service and Beyond: Domestic Work and Life in a Gilded Age
Mansion” for the Maymont Foundation. She presented the piece at the Virginia
Association of Museums Conference. She
will continue one more year as a Teaching Fellow at the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech while finishing her dissertation,
“Absconding: Fugitive Slaves in 1830s
Richmond.” She will give a talk on
antebellum African American gardens and food production at Old Salem’s
Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes Conference in the early fall.
BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN (University
of Florida) has just published The Making
of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and
War, 1860s-1880s (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and “How to
Make a Yankee Southern: Memories of
Sewanee in the 1940s” in William Leuctenburg, ed., American Places: Encounters With
History (Oxford University Press, 2000).
HISTORY. MODERN BRITISH. Tenure-track assistant professor in Modern
Britain with preferred emphasis on the history of the British Empire. Ph.D. required by the starting date of the
position, August 1, 2002. Salary
dependent upon qualificationS.
Excellence in teaching and research required. Candidates will be expected to teach World
Civilization survey as well as upper division undergraduate and graduate
courses in Modern Britain and British imperial history. Some teaching at the college or university
level and experience working with a diverse student body required. The Department of History at Georgia Southern
University has 26 members and offers both BA and MA degrees. Initial screening
of applicants will occur at the AHA’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, January
3-6, 2002. Send letter of application,
curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts, three letters of recommendation, as
well as teaching evaluations and sample publications to: Prof. Charles P.
Crouch, Chair, Modern British Search Committee, Department of History, P. O.
Box 8054, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8054. Postmark deadline: 15 November 2001. The names of applicants and nominees, résumés
and other general non-evaluation information are subject to public inspection
under the Georgia Open Records Act.
Georgia Southern is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Institution. Persons who need reasonable
accommodation(s) in the search process under the Americans with Disabilities
Act should notify the search chair.
HISTORY. MODERN CHINA.
The History Department of Emory University invites applications for a
tenure-track assistant professorship in modern Chinese history (Qing dynasty
and later). Ph.D. required, teaching
experience and publications desirable.
Submit letter of application, c.v., three letters of recommendation, and
a writing sample to Professor Mark Ravina, Chair, Chinese Search Committee,
Dept. of History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
30322. Review of applications
will begin on November 19, 2001.
Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the AHA annual meeting. Emory is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer.
HISTORY. MODERN U.S. SOUTH. The History Department of Emory University
invites applications for a tenured senior position in the history of the modern
U.S. South. The appointment may be made
at the level of associate or full professor.
The position includes responsibilities to the graduate and undergraduate
programs, and applicants must demonstrate strong credentials in teaching and
scholarship. A letter of application and
curriculum vitae should be sent to Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Chair, U.S. Search,
Dept. of History, Bowden Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Review of applications will begin on October 15 and will continue until
this position is filled. Emory is an
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
HISTORY.
SOUTH ASIA. Purdue University is
accepting applications for a tenure track assistant professor in the history of
South Asia. The candidate should hold a
Ph.D. in history with a research specialty in any aspect of the field. Publications and evidence of teaching
experience and excellence are highly desirable.
The person selected will teach courses in South Asian history, upper
division and graduate courses in the area of specialization, and a survey of
global history. The teaching schedule is
two courses per semester. The appointee
will be expected to undertake independent research, to publish the results of
that research, and to teach with distinction.
The deadline for applications is November 15, 2001. Please send a letter of application,
curriculum vitae, placement file, and three confidential letters of
recommendation addressing the candidate’s research and teaching strengths to
Professor Gorgon R. Mork, Head, Dept. of History, Purdue University, 1358
University Hall, West Lafayette, IN
47907-1358. Purdue University is
an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications
from women and minorities.
