 2003 HUD Urban Scholars Fellowship Award Winners (H-Urban: 9 Apr 2004)
Who and what projects received the 2003 Awards conferred by the Dept. of Housing and Development (HUD), US government.
2003 UHA Book Awards (H-Urban: 23 Feb 2004)
Announcement of 2003 Book Awards by the Urban History Association.
IPHS Scholarly Prizes for 2004 (H-Urban: 11 Oct 2004)
International Planning Historcy Society (IPHS) announcement of book, article, and paper prizes awarded at annual conference in Barcelona in July 2004.
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Includes KEY EVENTS such as Lectures, Seminars, Exhibits, and other events of urban-related interest. Refer to Conference Calendar for scheduled conferences and conference paper deadlines.
2004
2 May 2004 through 2008: EXHIBIT (H-Urban: 15 Jun 2004)
"The 1904 World's Fair: Looking Back at Looking Forward", artifact-rich retrospective of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
21 September 2004 - 5 May 2005: SEMINARS (H-Urban: 7 Aug 2004) Schedule of Boston history seminars: "Boston Area Early American History", "Boston Environmental History", "Boston Immigration & Urban History ", Massachusetts Historical Society, USA.
26 October 2004 - 28 January 2005: EXHIBIT (H-Urban: 13 Oct 2004) "Vertical City: The Life and Design of Pruitt-Igoe", at the Wolk Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The traveling exhibit is curated by Prof. Joseph Heathcott, Saint Louis University, with graduate students from
The American City Studio.
2005
Spring 2005: RESEARCH WORKSHOP (H-Urban: 15 Jun 2004)
"Straddling State and Civil Society: Government-Linked
Grassroots Organizations in Asia", sponsored the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Fund, at the University of Iowa, USA.
11-14 May 2005: WORKSHOP (H-Urban: 6 Aug 2004)
"Custom, Ritual, Habit, Fetish: The Idols of the Eighteenth Century", 4th Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Papers by 4 January 2005.
July 2005: ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT COMPETITION (H-Urban: 26 Jun 2004)
"'Extreme' : Creating Space in Extreme and Extraordinary Conditions", student competition with an UNESCO grand prize during the XXII World Congress of Architecture of the International Union of Architects (UIA), hosted by the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, at Istanbul, Turkey. Competition launched 1 September 2004. Final submissions March 2005.
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American Academy: Rome 2005 Prize (12) (H-Urban: 31 Jul 2004)
Eleven-month resident pre-doctoral (ABD) and post-doctoral awards in the Humanities for $15,750 and $21,000, respectively at the American Academy in Rome. Entry deadline 1 November 2004.
AJHA Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (H-Urban: 29 Apr 2004)
The American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) $300 prize for dissertations completed between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2004 dealing with mass communication history. Entry deadline 5 February 2005 (postmark deadline).
Douglas F. Seymour Prize In Vernacular Scholarship ($500) (H-Urban: 30 Sep 2004) Student Vernacular Scholarship Essay Contest for the best paper produced by an undergraduate or graduate student on a topic addressing the vernacular in the built environment of Georgia. In order to win, students must present a version of the paper at the annual Vernacular Georgia session of the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio, April 8-9, 2005. Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2005.
GCI Conservation Guest Scholar Program (H-Urban: 13 Jul 2004)
Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) 2005/2006 in-resident (3 to 9 months) scholar program for research on conservation or allied fields at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, USA. Applications are due 1 November 2004.
La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship in Transnational History (1)
(H-Urban: 12 Aug 2004)
This $1,250 fellowship provides financial assistance to graduate students whose dissertation topics deal with aspects of American history that extend beyond U.S. borders.
Applications due by 1 December 2004.
Leverhulme Grant for Contemporary Chinese Studies Fellowship (1) (H-Urban: 18 Nov 2004)
Fellowship up to three years funded by institute in Oxford, England. Applications due by 14 Janaury 2005.
Library Company of Philadelphia 2005-2006 Fellowships (H-Urban: 7 Aug 2004)
Awarded under the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the fellowships are designed to promote scholarship on the origins and development of the early American economy, broadly conceived, to roughly 1850. One-month and dissertation-level fellowship applications by 1 March 2005.
Massachusetts Historical Society-NEH Fellowships, 2005-2006 (2) (H-Urban: 3 Sep 2004)
Long term fellowships for research. Applications by 15 January 2005.
Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) 2005-2006 Short Term Fellowships (20) (H-Urban: 3 Sep 2004)
Fellowships of $1,500 each for four weeks of research at the Massachusetts Historical Society sometime between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006. Applications by 1 March 2005.
New England Regional Research Fellowships, 2005-2006 (8) (H-Urban: 5 Sep 2004)
Consortium of 16 major cultural agencies offers $5,000 grants. Applications by 1 Feb 2005.
PA Historical and Museum Commission Scholars in Residence Program 2005-2006 (H-Urban: 28 Oct 2004)
Stipends of $375 per week for up to eight weeks of full-time research and study in manuscript and artifact collections maintained by any Commission facility, including the Pennsylvania State Archives, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and twenty-five historic sites and museums around the state. Open to all researching Pennsylvania history at any time during the period May 1, 2005 - April 30, 2006. Applications due by 14 January 2005.
Princeton University Library Short-Term Research Grants 2005-2006 (H-Urban: 11 Nov 2004) Several grants (up to $2,500 each) available for normally one month of research between May 2005 and April 2006. Applications by 15 January 2005.
Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Awards Competition
(H-Urban: 7 Sep 2004)
Publication, paper, research, and service awards will be announced at SACRPH's National Conference on Planning History, to be held in Miami, October 20-23, 2005. Paper and research submissions due by 15 February 2005; publication and service submissions due by 15 July 2005.
UIA 2005 Istanbul Congress Student Competition (H-Urban: 29 Oct 2004) "EXTREME Creating Space in Extreme and Extraordinary Conditions", grand prize of $7,000.00 by UNESCO to winning project as well as other prizes by International Union of Architects (UIA) at 2005 Istanbul Congress of UIA. Registration by 25 January 2005, submissions due by 13 June 2005.
University of Ulster Ph.D. Scholarships in Comparative Film Studies (4) (H-Urban: 11 Nov 2004) Conducted jointly by the School of Media and Performing Arts of the University of Ulster (Coleraine, Northern Ireland) and the Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (CSCS, Bangalore, India), the 3-year program leads to Ph.D. from University of Ulster. Applications due by 20 December 2004.
Virginia Historical Society Research Fellowship Program (2005) (H-Urban: 10 Jan 2005) $150 to $500 a week for research in reading room at Richmond, Virginia, USA. Applications due by 1 February 2005.
WAWH Kanner Prize 2005 (H-Urban: 15 Nov 2004) Intended to promote the practice of bibliomethodology or autobiography in historical context, the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) $500 Kanner Award is for the best scholarly bibliographical and historical guide to research focused on women or gender history. Papers due by 15 January 2005.
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2004-2005, LECTURES (H-Urban: 29 Sep 2004)
As part of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics (http://www.lse.ac.uk), researchers and practitioners present their current work in urban studies to the graduate student community of urban researchers every Thursday of the academic year. Held at Houghton Street, London,
England, UK.
11 September 2004 - 7 May 2005, DISSERTATION WORKSHOP (H-Urban: 8 Aug 2004)
Newberry Urban History Dissertation Group, monthly workshop in which graduate students studying urban history issues present to their peers works-in-progress from their dissertations, at The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, Illinois.
23 September 2004 - 28 April 2005 Hagley Museum and Library Research Seminars
(H-Urban: 30 Aug 2004)
Research seminar where the papers are all unpublished works in progress and are circulated in advance to seminar participants.
Papers due by 1 December 2004.
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Nick Papayanis Obituary (H-Urban: 25 Jan 2005), by Stuart Schaar, Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Nick Papayanis, Professor Emeritus of History at Brooklyn College, CUNY left behind a legacy as a devoted teacher and a fine scholar of French social and urban history. His fourth and last book, Planning Paris Before Haussmann, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in October, 2004.
Paul Barrett Obituary (H-Urban: 31 Oct 2004), by Mark Rose, Florida Atlantic University.
Paul Barrett, author of The Automobile and Urban Transit : the Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1983), was a long-time member and former chair of the Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago.
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H-Urban Vacation Reminder (H-Urban: 29 May 2003)
How to set subscriptions for vacations or sabbaticals.
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