​Cynthia A. Kierner
Professor of History
Interim Director, PhD Program in History
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

From: Parker, Nicholas, James <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:02 AM
To: Parker, Nicholas, James <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: BU American Political History Institute's 2022 Graduate Student Conference
 

Good morning,

 

After nearly two years of difficulties and delays, the Boston University American Political History Institute is looking for prospective panelists for our 2022 graduate student conference. Details are below and attached as well. Please forward to any potentially interested students! 

 

Additionally, if there is a better email address to use for future communication with your department, please let me know so that we can update our records.

 

Thank you very much!


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Cole Parker

PhD Student

Department of History, Boston University



CALL FOR PAPERS: 

12th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Political History Conference 

Making the American City 

 

April 8 – 9, 2022 

Boston, MA 

 

Keynote Speaker:  

Robert O. Self,  

Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History and Department Chair, Brown University 

 

We’re back! The Boston University American Political History Institute (APHI) welcomes submissions for its rescheduled twelfth annual graduate student conference. 

Our theme asks panelists to consider the role of cities in U.S. political history. Cities have been laboratories for political movements and social reform, while the exercise of political power has shaped urban spaces and the experiences of people who live in them. 

We invite submissions that examine the political history of cities across a range of themes. Cities have been central to partisan politics, from nineteenth-century party machines to the urban–rural divide which characterizes recent polarization; cities have also formed the arenas in which political contests over race, class, and labor have intersected. Gender and sexualities, as political identities, have been formed by the dynamic experience of city life. Cities are hubs for transnational exchanges in ideas, goods, and people, from diplomacy and immigration to material culture and consumption. The political history of the American city encompasses the growth of bureaucracy and institutions of governance; fierce debates (sometimes violent) over the shape and ownership of the built environment; the political impact of urban sprawl; and fraught wartime experiences in urban home-fronts. We are excited to receive submissions that cover many such themes from a variety of perspectives. 

We ask prospective panelists to please submit a 300-word proposal and a one-page C.V in a single PDF document via email to [log in to unmask]. Submissions should be titled with “LastName_ShortTitle” and submitted by November 26, 2021. Presenters will be notified of their acceptances to the conference by December 13, 2021. 

All presenters must be current graduate students, and distinguished faculty from both BU and the wider Boston area will serve as commentators for each panel. The most outstanding paper will receive the APHI Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize, which includes a $1,000 cash award. If proposals are accepted, full papers must be submitted to [log in to unmask] by February 18, 2022 for prize consideration. Please visit the conference web page at https://www.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conference/ for more information.