Research Opportunities for Faculty
Call for Papers: Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- Deadline: December 1, 2010
Description: Jeff Davis, Associate Editor of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, is currently looking for paper submissions for a summer 2010 special issue on Slavery, Freedom, and Equality in Pennsylvania. While articles specifically concentrating on Pennsylvania History are preferred, papers on issues from the region that are directly relevant to the Keystone State are also acceptable. For this project, the Mid-Atlantic region constitutes all states bordering Pennsylvania and includes the District of Columbia, greater Appalachia, and the Upper Ohio River Valley. Articles are to be approximately 9,000-15,000 words in length, use endnotes, and conform to the "Chicago Manual of Style". Please contact Jeff Davis via email if you wish to submit an article and you will be sent a Pennsylvania History Style Sheet. Submissions will include a 100 word abstract, hard-copy of the article double-spaced in triplicate, and an electronic file in Microsoft Word format. Submission deadline is 1 December 2009.
More Information: Web site
Call for Papers: Re-Positioning Race Through Prophetic Research, Teaching, and Service
- Date: December 1, 2009
Description: All interested individuals are invited to submit formal papers, informal discussion topics, open refereed roundtables, open informal discussion roundtables, poster topics, and proposals for an organized session (including: Regular Topical Sessions, Author Meets Critics, Regional Spotlight Sessions, Thematic Sessions, Poster Sessions, Workshops, etc.) for inclusion in the 2010 Annual Conference Program. Those persons interested in submitting papers and/or organizing a session should submit requests via email to Dr. Sandra L. Barnes (sandra.l.barnes@vanderbilt.edu), 2010 Program Chair. Complete details about organizing program sessions and organizer responsibilities will be e-mailed to those whose requests have been granted. ALL Presenters, Discussants, and Session Organizers must be members of ABS and must register by the early registration deadline in order to be included in the final printed program.
More Information: Conference Website
Internal Funding Program (MU Campus) - Summer Research Leave
- Deadline: January 15, 2010
Description: To provide summer salary for original, scholarly research, and creative activities that will result in publications, exhibitions, and other scholarly and creative accomplishments. ELIGIBILITY: Tenured and tenure-track faculty, at the rank of Assistant Professor or above.
More Information: Details or contact Melissa H. Baldwin at Melissa@missouri.edu
CFP: Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop
- Deadline: January 4, 2010
Description: The editorial staff of Words. Beats. Life seeks high quality manuscripts, literature, poetry, book reviews and artwork for a general topic issue to be published in July 2010. We invite innovative submissions that consider hip-hop music and culture from a wide range of critical perspectives. In-depth studies of individual artists and texts are welcome. In particular, works from the fields of ethnomusicology, gender studies, interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, technology and sociology are encouraged. We also accept research on areas that influence our work as academics, including hip-hop pedagogy and curriculum, as well as the place of hip-hop studies in the university. Additionally, Words. Beats. Life welcomes provocative essays that will stimulate thought on the current and future role of hip-hop culture and music in the 21st century.
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Call for Participants and Organizers, 2010 RGC Conference at New Orleans
- Deadline: February 2010
Description: We are thinking of organizing a RGC Conference taking place on February 2010 in New Orleans at the UNO Conference Center. If you are interested to participate as a presenter or organizer, please, get back to me at jbelkhir@suno.edu. The 2010 RGC Conference will address the state of RGC with respect to President Obama’s Government. Our three-day conference will include plenary sessions, concurrent panels, and social events. Consider submitting a proposal or a conference session(s) in either the traditional format of paper presentation, or in the form of a workshop or roundtable. We have a very special interest in sessions that investigate the intersection of RGC issues and Obama’s Government
More Information: Web site
Kwame Nkrumah International Conference: "From Colonization to Globalization: The Intellectual and Political Legacies of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Africa's Future"
- Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010
Conference Date: August 19-21, 2010
Description: The Conference will commemorate the centenary of the birthday of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Africa's Man of the Millennium, and bring scholars and students from Canada and from around the world to share research and ideas on Africa's place in the global community, and to discuss the life, achievements and shortcomings of Africa's foremost Pan-Africanist.
More Information: Web site
Call for Session Organizers, 75th Annual Conference of the Association of Social and Behavioral Sciences, March 1 7-20, 2010 Conference Theme: Embracing the Past, Impacting the Future
- Deadline: March 17-20, 2010
Description: This theme is reflective of the long and rich tradition of the presentation of action-oriented research papers and grassroots civic activity at this conference that have affected public policy and improved the quality of life for many Americans. This theme is also reflective of the Association’s tradition of promoting the growth and development of future academicians and grassroots civic leaders who continue to build upon the foundation established 75 years ago. In addition to sessions featuring faculty, ASBS strongly encourages the submission of sessions featuring and targeting undergraduate and graduate students.
More Information: Web site
Internal Funding Program (MU Campus) - Center for Arts and Humanities research grants
- Deadline: Four deadlines per year
Description: PURPOSE: To provide cost-match monies to promote external research proposals with particular emphasis on infrastructure, equipment or innovative instructional research. ELIGIBILITY: All faculty (regular and non-regular).
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CFP: Economic Strategies During the Long Civil Rights Era
- Deadline: Date
Description: An anthology that considers how organizations employed economic strategies and tactics during the long civil rights era. Special interest (but not exclusively) in work on CORE, SCLC's Operation Breadbasket, the Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam, Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, the NAACP, the War on Poverty, buy black campaigns, SNCC, boycotts, and economic redevelopment in urban areas following riots. If you are doing such work and would like to have it included in the anthology, email me your idea and your vita to.
More Information: Michael.ezra@sanoma.edu