SHA Grad Council

Grad Students! Do you work on the Civil War Era? If so, consider applying for the Society of Civil War Historians' Graduate Student Connection Committee!

Hey y'all! The Southern is next week, and we hope to see some of you there—comment if you'll be in St. Pete!

Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation!

RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch

“Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in St. Pete Beach this November and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our third year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/5!”

The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!

Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.

RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub

Grad students! Consider attending a panel on how to get your work published!

Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST.

RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub

SoEx Spotlight: Summer Perritt is a History PhD candidate at Rice University.

Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.

Madison (@mingsga.bsky.social) TUGSA member. History PhD Candidate at Temple University, studying libraries in the South. UGA alum and Arsenal supporter. Build a Better South.

SoEx Spotlight: Madison Ingram is a History PhD Candidate at Temple University. Follow her at mingsga.bsky.social!

Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.

SoEx Spotlight: Sammie Chomsky is a PhD student in US History at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.

SoEx Spotlight: Leslie Garrote, a third-year PhD student at Baylor University, will be presenting her research on April 9th!

Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.

SoEx Spotlight: Sam Bisno, a Mitchell Scholar and MA student at Queen's University Belfast, will be discussing his thesis at SoEx on April 9!

His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.

SoEx Spotlight: Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.

SoEx Spotlight: Katie Drash Mapes, an MA student at Virginia Commonwealth University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!

She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.

SoEx Spotlight: Morgan Bettin-Coleman, a PhD Candidate at Rice University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9!

Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.

SoEx Spotlight:

Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!

Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!

tinyurl.com/SoEx2025

Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?

If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.

Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com

Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships?

If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives.

Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com

Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!

Sign up for Southern Exchanges!

Historians in the United Kingdom who study the American South! Have YOU heard about the Southern Historical Association's Edinburgh Workshop?

If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk

Call for papers due February 28th!

This is a really great, low pressure, way to practice your research "elevator pitch" and receive feedback from peers. I'd strongly recommend that grad students take advantage of this opportunity.

Thanks, Omari!

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting!

tinyurl.com/SoEx2025

At the SHA Grad Council, we're looking forward to a great New Year!

Stay tuned for updates on our exciting 2025 schedule, especially the Southern Exchanges Forum, where graduate students can connect and share elevator pitches on their research!

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We're here for all things history of the U.S. South, broadly conceived. We are working on Volume 91 (!!) now. You can always find what's current and forthcoming in the JSH at thesha.org/contents and info on submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions.

SHA Graduate Student Luncheon 2024 Registration Link Thank you for your interest in attending the SHA Graduate Council's Graduate Student Luncheon on Friday, October 25 from 12:30-1:30 pm in Washington Park Place II. For more information about the Lunc...

Registration is open for the Annual Graduate Student Luncheon at the Annual Meeting! Come hear from scholars & make connections! This year, the Grad Council is partnering with the WHA Grad Caucus for the largest luncheon yet! Friday, Oct 25 12:30-1:30 pm. bit.ly/shakclunch.