Category Archives: Graduate Work in History

Medici Archive Project Fellowships

Posted on January 19, 2013 by briansandberg

The Medici Granducal Archive (Mediceo del Principato), comprising over four-million letters dating between 1537-1743, provides the most complete record of any princely regime in early modern Italy as well as an extraordinarily rich historical reservoir of European history. This collection … Continue reading →

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Study Abroad in Southern France – Meeting at NIU

Posted on November 18, 2012 by briansandberg

Study Abroad in Southern France in Summer 2013 Meeting on Monday, November 26 from 4-6 pm in Watson 110 Northern Illinois University is launching a Study Abroad Program in Southern France, based in Bordeaux, in Summer 2013. The program in … Continue reading →

Posted in European History, French History, Graduate Work in History, Humanities Education, Northern Illinois University, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Work in History | Leave a comment

Careers for Ph.D.s in History

Posted on November 1, 2012 by briansandberg

Anthony Grafton published an article last year on the need for doctoral programs in History to prepare their Ph.D. candidates for the possibility of careers outside of academic positions. The article went viral, prompting an extended debate online over the … Continue reading →

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Ecole des Chartes Fellowship

Posted on November 1, 2012 by briansandberg

École Nationale des Chartes Fellowship Application deadline: December 1, 2012 This fellowship, which has existed since 1979, provides auditor tuition and a portion of living expenses for an American or Canadian graduate student who has advanced to PhD candidacy to … Continue reading →

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Grant Writing Workshop at NIU

Posted on October 27, 2012 by briansandberg

Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students On Monday, 29 October from 5-5:50 in DuSable 422, the Graduate Office will be holding a workshop on applying for grants that is open to all graduate students. Andrea Buford from the Office of … Continue reading →

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Graduate Programs in the Humanities

Posted on March 12, 2012 by briansandberg

Graduate programs in the humanities across the United States are scaling back considerably by cutting their admissions.  The pattern of humanities departments limiting graduate admissions periodically (especially during economic recessions) is nothing new, but the scale of the cutbacks are … Continue reading →

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Facing History Positions Available

Posted on March 12, 2012 by briansandberg

Facing History, an educational organization preparing teachers to teach history in public schools, has two positions open in its Chicago office. Program Associate (M.A. degree preferred): full-time job Development Assistant (B.A. degree required): full-time job To apply, see the Facing … Continue reading →

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Archivists, Historians, and the “Archival Divide”

Posted on January 12, 2012 by briansandberg

Archivists and historians sometimes seem to be operating across an “archival divide”, with differing understandings of documentary collections and highly divergent agendas for those collections. Historians who have worked in archives in foreign nations will be acutely aware of the … Continue reading →

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New Directions in Graduate Teaching

Posted on January 12, 2012 by briansandberg

One of the issues to emerge from the run-up to this year’s American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, which concluded last weekend in Chicago, is the need for reform in graduate training in history and the humanities. Successive articles by … Continue reading →

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Turning a Dissertation into a Book

Posted on January 10, 2012 by briansandberg

American Historical Association (AHA) conferences usually include practical sessions on professional development issues, which are intended to assist graduate students and junior faculty members in becoming productive historians.  One of the most useful of these sessions is always the panel … Continue reading →

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