Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in American History (Northumbria University)

The US-UK Fulbright Commission in association with the British Association of American Studies are calling for applicants for the 2017 Study of the US Institutes for Scholars. Six Institutes funded by the US Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs will run in June 2017 at various universities across the US. Study of the US Institutes are six-week fully-funded intensive academic programmes with integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide foreign university faculty and other scholars the opportunity to deepen their understanding of US society, culture, and institutions. The ultimate goal is to strengthen curricula and to improve the quality of teaching about the US in academic institutions abroad. Institute themes for 2017 are: Institute on American Politics and Political Thought Institute on Contemporary American Literature Institute on Journalism and Media Institute on Religious Pluralism in the US Institute on US Culture and Society Institute on US Foreign […]

The 2017 Eccles Centre Fellowship Competition is now open! Eccles Centre Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies 2017 Five awards to be made to doctoral students normally resident in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The Eccles Centre Postgraduate Fellows will be entitled to an award of £600 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies 2017 Two awards to be made to a doctoral student normally resident outside the UK, in a European country that has membership in the European Association for American Studies, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Fellow will be entitled to an award of £800 for travel and other expenses connected […]

The resources available are normally modest. It is envisaged that grants will be supplemented by funds from other sources. The maximum of each grant will be £1000. Although there is no specific time limit for the duration of the awards, and it is recognised that awards under the scheme may need to be supplemented, it is not intended that they should be used to supplement or extend much longer-term awards. The duration of the award would typically be up to c. twelve weeks. Applications are invited from persons normally resident in the UK, and from scholars currently working at, or registered as postgraduates at, UK universities and institutions of higher education. Preference will be given to those who are planning to do reserach in the USA, have had no previous opportunities for research-related visits to the USA, and to young scholars, including postgraduate students. BAAS particularly welcomes applications from postgraduates […]

Named after the founders of BAAS, these awards offer assistance for short-term visits to the United States. The awards are offered to scholars in the UK who need to travel to conduct research, or who have been invited to read papers at conferences on American Studies topics.  It is intended that the grants be awarded for the study of subjects where the principle aim is the study of American history, politics, society, literature, art, culture, etc., and not subjects with other aims, the data for which happen to be located in the USA. Up to four awards of £1000 are available. Although there is no specific time limit for the duration of the awards, and it is recognised that awards under the scheme may need to be supplemented, it is not intended that they should be used to supplement or extend much longer-term awards. The duration of the award would typically […]

Electronic Submission The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture seeks proposals from scholars at all levels, in partnership with special collections libraries and historical societies, for Lapidus Initiative Fellowships for Digital Collections. In concert with other OI projects promoting creative use of digital tools and materials, these fellowships are intended to bring scholars and collections specialists together to make collections available for digital scholarship. The fellowship will award up to $5,000 to the holding library and to the scholar whose research relies on, or will be greatly enhanced by, the digitization of a collection or partial collection of materials related to early America, broadly conceived, before 1820. Scholars must partner with special collections libraries that will digitize the needed materials with the funds from the fellowship. For the purposes of this application, digitization should be considered broadly. It may include (but is not limited to): the photographing of manuscripts, newspapers, […]

The School of Art, Media and American Studies (AMA) at the University of East Anglia is inviting applications to our PhD programme. This year (entrance in Oct 2017) the School intends to offer two fully-funded PhD studentships (Home/EU rates) in the following area of research: American Visual Cultures We see this as a broad and inclusive intellectual area that stresses the cross-disciplinary strengths of the School. Projects here could include aspects of American media, studies in America and the Americas, or issues around the trans-Atlantic. However, these are just indicative examples, and we would urge applicants to define and develop their relationship to American Visual Cultures in their proposals. The University of East Anglia is part of the AHRC consortium CHASE (Consortium for the Arts and Humanities in South East England) which offers around 75 fully funded (tuition and maintenance grant) studentships per year to Home/EU PhD students across the […]

The British Association for American Studies (BAAS), with the support of the United States Embassy, London, is delighted to announce a new Small Grants Programme for cultural, educational and outreach activities that will foster American Studies and otherwise enhance the understanding of the United States in the United Kingdom. Grants may be requested for a range of activities, including (but not limited to): Curriculum development, including schools activities; Student exchanges; US and UK Speaker programs; Film and arts programming; Conferences and symposia; Faculty development and exchange; Public dissemination of academic research. Applications for activities that introduce new audiences to American studies and / or have a focus on children, young people, and disadvantaged communities are welcome. Applicants need to show how they intend to actively promote an understanding of the United States and how they will engage with American studies communities and the wider public. Deadline for the US Embassy […]