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Jobs
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1056 Am Litt C20, Univ of Puget Sound WA (2 yrs, due Mar 27)
1061 Am Litt/Am Studies, U Birmingham UK (tenure, due Mar 18)
1054 Am/Multicultural Litt, U Wisc-Barron Co (tenure, due Mar 31)
1055 Art History, Georgia Southwestern State U (tenure)
1053 Asian Am Studies, U Mass Boston (tenure, open till filled)
1059 Composition/Humanities, Nova Southeastern U FL (non-tenure)
1057 Cultural/Litt History, San Francisco Art Inst (due Mar 15)
1026 Latino/Latin Am Studies Program Dir, Syracuse U (assoc prof)
1062 Media/Cultural Studies, Liverpool John Moores U (full prof)
1058 US Studies Inst Asst Director, Univ of London (due Mar 20)
1052 Women's Studies, New York University (1-3 yrs, due Mar 31)
Fellowship Opportunities
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1023 Abe Humanities/Soc Sciences Fellowships in Japan
1030 Balch Inst Resident Research Fellowships (due Mar 16)
1060 Postdoc, Cold War Science & Tech, Carnegie Mellon U (Apr 24)
1063 Social Studies Fellowships, New College, Oxford (due Mar 27)
1073 Summer Internships, Historic Deerfield Museum MA (Apr 1)
Awards & Prizes
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1050 Mellen Poetry Prize (work on African American diaspora)
1028 Mullins Award (best grad essay in Sci/Tech Studies, May 15)
1070 New York University Press Prize for Hyperfiction (June 1)
1029 Oral History Assoc Award (best published essay, Apr 1)
Calls for Papers for Conferences
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1038 After Postmodernism: Critical Realism? Essex UK, Sept 1-3
1068 Conf on Mutiny, Columbus OH, Oct 9-10
1041 Consumption: Fantasy/Success/Desire, Liverpool UK, Nov 21-22
1067 Cultural & Historical Aspects of Food, Oregon, Apr 9-11 1999
1074 Culture Shocks: Future of Culture, New Zealand, Jul 10-12
1033 Globalization & its Discontents, Vancouver, July 23-24
1025 Institutionalizing Popular Music, UCLA, Oct 16-18
1049 Language Conflict/Coexistence, Columbus OH, Nov 13-15
1010 Media History Conf, U Westminster, London UK, July 8-10
1064 Memory & Am Century (SASA), Wilmington NC, Feb 25-28 1999
1040 Sexuality & Marginality, Montreal, Canada, Oct 9-11
1066 Short Story in English, New Orleans, June 27-30
1019 Sport Literature Conf, Montevallo AL, July 23-26
Calls for Contributions to Books/Journals/Media
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1024 Anything but Hollywood, for Cineaction Journal
1072 Deixis Foundation Seeks Proposals for New Journals
1034 Palabras Literary Journal (diversity of human experience)
1042 Pohlem, Swedish History of Technology Journal
1045 Research in Social Sciences & Disability (essays)
1006 Southern Extremism, for Crossroads J of Southern Culture
1043 Women, Poverty, Political Economies (for J Women's History)
Conference Programs
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1008 Architecture of Segregation, Harvard University, Mar 5-6
1048 California's Environments, Santa Cruz CA, July 30-August 2
1020 Corridors & Open Spaces (CASA/RMASA), Albuquerque, Apr 2
1035 First Nations Forum, Univ of Turku, Finland, Feb 27
1009 Histories/Environments of the Body, Rutgers U NJ, Apr 16-18
1051 National Adjunct Faculty Congress, New York NY, April 3-5
Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices
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1032 Af Am Aging Research Workshop, Ann Arbor MI, June 10-12
1075 Am Print Culture Lecture, Am Antiq Soc, Worcester MA, Mar 6
1069 Animal Advocacy Oral History Project
1039 Asian Am Studies Programs, Second National Survey, 1998
1021 Newberry Sem on Technology, Politics & Culture, Spring 1998
1022 Rare Book School, Univ of Virginia, July-August 1998
1036 Slavery Sem for K-12 History Teachers, Virginia, July 19-31
1071 Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1527-1867 -- CDROM Database
1011 Travel & Research Seminar in Cuba, July 5-28
1047 Hudson River School Paintings, University Park PA, April 4
Internet Newsletters
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1012 Reading History/Experience Electronic Newsletter
New Web Resources (with URLs)
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1015 Black History Month Website, from Gale Research
(http://www.gale.com/gale/bhm/blackhm.html)
1013 Class & the Black Community, from PBS Website
(http://www.pbs.org:80/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/readings/)
1007 CongressLink Website
(http://www.fountcom.com/dirksen/)
1016 Database on American Cities & Suburbs, from Rutgers/HUD
(http://policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/SoNC.htm)
1017 MLA Guide to Citing Internet Resources
(http://www.mla.org/main_stl.htm)
1018 Rise of the Electric Guitar, from Nat'l Museum of Am History
(http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/lemel/guitars/)
1031 Robert Wise, Film Director/Producer
(http://www.afionline.org/wise)
1065 Spanish-American War Website at Univ Alcala
(http://www.alcala.es/1898)
1014 US Census Bureau Population Updates -- Website
(http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/uspop.html)
(http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic.html)
1046 US State Dept Historian's Office
(http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/index.html)
1044 Websites for African American Studies Journals
(http://web.indstate.edu/artsci/AAR/)
(http://www.sonances.qc.ca/journals/bmrj.htm)
(http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/brn.html)
(http://jne.law.howard.edu/)
(http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/LHR.html)
(http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/racereason.html)
(http://h-net2.msu.edu/~slavery/)
(http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wjbs/)
Tables of Contents
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1037 International J of Cultural Studies (forthcoming, April)
1027 The Americas Journal, Jan 1998
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