The Irene Ledesma Prize is awarded to a Ph.D. graduate student and intended to support research in western women’s and gender history by the Coalition for Western Women’s History (CWWH). The $1,000 Prize supports travel to collections or other research expenses related to the histories of women and gender in the North American West. Applicants […]
Professional Announcements
This CCWH resource provides members with information about professional opportunities: stipends, fellowships, prizes, CFPs and more. Conference or grant announcements may be posted on our website without charge. Please contact us with professional announcements of interest to our members.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation 2019 Women’s Studies Fellows
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation 2019 Women’s Studies Fellows list includes two CCWH members. Congratulations to: Hannah Frydman • Rutgers University-New Brunswick, history Between the Lines: Sex, Work, and Business in the Parisian Classifieds, 1881-1940 and Michaela Kleber • College of William & Mary, history Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: Early French Colonization among the Illinois […]
National Council on Public History 40th Anniversary Celebration
The National Council on Public History is in the midst of celebrating its 40th anniversary, and we are planning on capping the party off with our 2020 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia! Interested in joining in on the fun? Consider submitting a proposal for the conference which will run from March 18-21, 2020. Our theme […]
New Issue of the IFRWH Newsletter
The aim of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History is to encourage and coordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at an international level. The Winter 2018-2029 issue of the IFRWH Newsletter can be read and downloaded here (PDF). Please take note of the deadlines for the Berkshire Conference (in March 2019) and […]
CFP: Feminist Studies Special Issue
Feminism and Capitalism – This is a call for innovative theoretical, empirical, and creative submissions about feminism and twenty-first-century capitalism. Our call is spurred by phenomena such as the millions of people displaced and relegated to invisibility as “surplus populations,” increasing debt and income inequality, rising corporate profits, persistent agrarian crises, planetary urbanization, labor precarity […]
In Memoriam: Anne Firor Scott
A Message from Janet Allured, President of the Southern Association for Women Historians, on behalf of the SAWH: The Southern Association for Women Historians is sad to announce the passing of one of our co-founders, Anne Firor Scott, a native of Georgia and a pioneer of American women’s history. Her first book, The Southern Lady (1970), opened […]