USC History Department Weekly Newsletter 5
Welcome to the History Department Weekly Newsletter! Check your emails weekly for news about events and opportunities in the History department!
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Opportunities and Events:
Thinking of writing an Honors Thesis next year? Applications due between March 25 and April 12.
If you are thinking about wiring an honor’s thesis next year, please drop Prof. O’Neill an email at (ljoneill@usc.edu), so she can make sure that you are on the right track.
If you are ready to apply, here’s a link to the application: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yi8fnvisqQozJevwIZf4Gry7fIe5xh6-/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116173642580629173336&rtpof=true&sd=true.
Please download the application and email it to Prof. O’Neill.
Remember you need to have a GPA of 3.5 or higher in your major courses to be considered.
Roberta Foulke Merit Scholarship: Due March 8th
Roberta Foulke Merit Awards will be given to undergraduate students who demonstrate academic excellence and the ability or desire to further the interests of women in the field of history or historical studies. They must be majors in the History Department. The support can be used for tuition only. You can apply for the Merit Award by completing the general USC Dornsife Continuing Student Scholarship application and submitting an additional essay for the Foulke Merit Award.
Summer Fellowship Opportunity! Due April 1
USC Libraries Summer Primary Source Research Fellowship on Sustainability has just announced the 2024 applications: https://libraries.usc.edu/article/call-applications-summer-2024-sustainability-fellowship.
For this fellowship you would work for 10 weeks on a project in USC Special Collections. You will need to craft a proposal based on one of their collections that is related to sustainability. You would research the collection and at the end of the fellowship present your research in some fashion - a series of blogs, a presentation, an exhibit, a research paper. This would need to be part of your application. If you are interested but don’t know where to start contact Rebecca Corbett (rcorbett@usc.edu), she can help you brainstorm ideas.
Foulke Travel Grant: Due April 12
Established by USC Alumna Roberta Persinger Foulke (BA/MA History 1936). Provides assistance for students who demonstrate the ability or desire to further the interests of women in the field of history or historical studies.
Research and Travel Grants will be given to undergraduate students with the best proposals to use funds for scholarly research, travel, or other departmentally-approved programs. Funds will be applied to items such as travel expenses, conference fees, or research materials and can be used in the summer months.
These fellowships are especially useful to students who plan to write a thesis next year and want to do research over the summer.
Application deadline for the Summer 2024 Foulke Research and Travel Grant: Friday, April 12, 2024
To download application instructions for the Summer 2024 Foulke Research and Travel Grant, CLICK HERE.
To download the application for the Summer 2024 Foulke Research and Travel Grant, CLICK HERE.
Yale Historical Review Call for Submissions
We are thrilled to announce the call for papers for the Yale Historical Review’s Spring 2024 issue. The YHR is a biannual journal of undergraduate historical research published by students at Yale University.
We accept papers between 15 and 80 pages (double-spaced) written for class credit or for longer research projects (e.g., senior theses, independent studies, etc.). We are excited to read writing on any subject, so long as it deals meaningfully with the past. Take a look at our Spring/Summer 2022 issue here.
Please submit your paper by Sunday, March 31st at 11:59 PM ET here.
NB: We review anonymously; please remove your name and all identifying details from both the name of the file and the body of the essay!
If you have any questions/concerns, please reach out to us via email (yalehistoricalreview@gmail.com).
Call for Submissions - Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
The Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2024 issue!
The journal aims to allow undergraduate students the opportunity to engage with the academic publication process and to share original research on a wide variety of historical topics with our readers. We accept and encourage submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives, as long as the focus and approach remain historical. To learn more about our paper guidelines and submission process, visit our website. The link to the submission page on the website is here.
The deadline for submissions is March 25, 2024.
If you have any questions, email swarthmorehistoryjournal@swarthmore.edu. We look forward to reading your submissions!
Tri-College Law Review: Submissions due March 22!
The Tri-Co Law Review is a digital and print student publication that seeks to analyze and evaluate the ways in which law influences our world. Founded in 2016, originally as the Haverford Law Review, we are composed of students within the Tri-Co Consortium and are accepting papers for publication from undergraduate students both in and outside the Consortium. The Law Review provides students with an avenue for exploring fields outside of their regimented curricular work, including but not limited to sociological examinations of the American criminal justice system; discussions of legal codes in the global political sphere; understandings of grammatical rules and their influence on language; the psychological underpinnings that impact social beings; discussions of historical legal codes, etc.
We are currently accepting papers 4-15 pages long through 11:59 PM ET, March 22, 2024. Each paper should deal with law/legislation to some extent. Please submit your paper in a .doc or .docx file. Any citation style is accepted for initial submission but bear in mind that published papers must adhere to the Bluebook (https://www.legalbluebook.com/) format.
Here is the link to our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/tricolaw, where you can find links to the paper submission form (with instructions), past issues of the Haverford Law Review, general interest list-serv sign-up form, and our contact information.
To read our Fall 2023 issue, see https://tricolawreview.wixsite.com/tricolaw/the-law-review.
Please submit papers via this form: Spring 2024 Submission Form
If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, please reach out to tricolaw@gmail.com.
UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History
Call for Papers and submission guidelines
Submission guidelines are as follows:
We welcome undergraduate-authored papers on any and all historical subjects.
All papers submitted to be considered for publication should have been completed as part of a student’s undergraduate course work at an accredited degree-granting institution. Recent graduates may submit their work so long as it is within 12 months of receiving their degree.
Submissions must have received the equivalent of an A- grade or higher.
Submissions shall not be published in any student, professional, or academic publication or under consideration to be published elsewhere.
Submissions must be between 3500 and 7500 words in length, excluding citations. Though lengthier submissions may be accepted, they will be edited to meet the stated requirements.
Submissions must be double-spaced in Microsoft Word format and include a brief abstract, not exceeding 250 words, at the start of the paper.
Submissions must include footnotes formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style and any illustrations (e.g., texts, charts, tables, graphics, images, multimedia, supplementary datasets, etc.) must appear within the text at the appropriate points and with appropriate permissions.
See more on our website:
https://undergradjournal.history.ucsb.edu
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-Lili Grace Adkins and Liam Rafaty