AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS
 
                Week Ending May 18, 1997 (657-714)
 
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Jobs
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657 Am History/Humanities, Franklin Pierce College (non-tenure)
682 Am Litt, Northwestern State U, Louisiana (tenure, due 5/30)
661 Am Studies/Litt, U. Washington-Bothell (non-tenure, due 5/28)
684 Women's Studies/Am Politics, Columbia U (tenure, due 5/31)
685 Women's Studies, Columbia University (tenure, due 5/31)
 
Fellowships & Prizes
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714 Fulbright Senior Scholars Program (due Aug 1)
700 Internships in Chicago-Area Community-Based Orgs
681 Irvine Visiting Fellows Program, Pepperdine University
706 Postdoc, Comparative Studies of Millennialism, Yale U
711 Postdoc, Japan-related Research, SSRC (due Dec 15)
663 Postdoc, Killam Fellowships, Dalhousie U, Canada (due Oct 15)
 
Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books
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687 Essays in Living Differently Gendered (anthology)
703 History News Service (historically informed journalism)
659 National Minority Career Journal
 
Calls for Papers for Conferences
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708 19th Century Body, C19 Studies Assoc, Huntsville AL, Apr 98
668 Cultural Studies Assoc of Australia, Melbourne, Dec 97
680 Documenting the Midwest, St Louis, Oct 97
686 Mexico-US Border Region Historiography, Tijuana, Nov 97
694 Toxic Towers -- Women in Academe, Akron OH, Aug 97
664 Women in Higher Education, San Francisco, Jan 98
688 Women's Voices in Policy & Politics, Kentucky, Mar 98
 
Calls for Conference Panels
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690 Gender in 1950s, Pacific Coast AHA, San Diego, Aug 98
666 Gossip in Academic Life, SCMLA, New Orleans, Nov 97
712 Work in Lives of Academic Women with Children, Conf in Aug 97
 
Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically)
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709 America in Depression & War 1929-1945, Netherlands, Jun 25-27
702 American Library Assoc Preconferences, San Francisco, Jun 27
669 PCA/ACA National & Regional Meetings -- Schedule
 
Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices
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693 Book Arts Members Exhibition, San Francisco, through Jun 28
665 Futures of American Studies Conf, Dartmouth NH, Aug 10-17
710 Japanese Americans in Baseball Exhibit, California, to Aug 8
692 Mexhostel Mexican Cultural Tourism Program, Oct 97-Apr 98
 
Bibliographical & Online Resources
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683 African-American Contributions to Mainstream Art (website)
660 Economists & Regulation in Gilded Age/Progressive Era (essay)
672 Electrical History Review Online Journal
689 French Association for American Studies Database (website)
667 New List, Literata, for discussion of British/Am Litt
696 New List, PGPC, Australian Discission of Postcolonialism
699 Okinawa, The American Years, 1945-1972 (website)
679 Online Bibliography of Women's History in Journals (website)
695 Charles Colson Papers, at Billy Graham Center (archive)
713 Photography Resource & Photography Listservs on Web
678 Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (online org)
691 Webpage for Minerva Center (study of women & war)
670 Website of Archival Management & Historical Editing
671 Website of Rare Books & Special Collections, Tarlton Law
705 Website on Teaching Anthropology in Second-Level Education
 
Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes)
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674 Carlos Fuentes, A New Time for Mexico (Lucy H-LATAM)
704 Eicher, The Civil War in Books (Parrish H-CIVWAR)
698 Jeffries, World War II Home Front in America (Reagan)
675 Kammen, Gilbert Seldes & US Cultural Criticism (Berkeley)
658 Marvel, The Sailor's Civil War (Schneller H-CIVWAR)
707 McGreevy, Catholic Encounter with Race in Am Cities (Pacyga)
697 Mulholland, Pennsylvania Volunteers in Civil War (Sanders)
701 Ogle, American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (Elkind H-URBAN)
662 Winship, Puritan Providentialism (Errington OIEAHCNET)
 
Tables of Contents
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677 Ayaangwaamizin, Journal of Indigenous Philosophy (Spring 97)
676 Role of Critic in Postcolonial Studies, Acolit  (Spring 96)
673 Workers in Racially Stratified Societies, ILWCH (Spring 97)