CFA: SHAFR Summer Institute on “Strategic Cultures” at The Ohio State University-Mershon Center for International Security Studies (June 20-24, 2026) This week-long summer session is geared towards advanced grad students and newly minted PhDs. App Deadline: Dec. 1st tinyurl.com/2tvfrs8w

Super excited for this future special issue of @ijhs.bsky.social on women’s basketball 🏀 - any #sporthistory scholars working on women’s hoops, submit an abstract for what will be an excellent issue! #skystorians 🗃️

Just after the election let's talk executive authority and the history of how we got to this era of enormous presidential power + party politics ... honored & delighted to be involved, Thurs Nov 6 6pm Center for Presidential History at SMU, with some amazing panelists blog.smu.edu/cph/event/th...

Don't forget the deadline for applications to the June 2026 #SHAFR Summer Institute at The Ohio State University @mershoncenter.bsky.social is Dec. 15. Open to advanced PhD students & early career scholars www.shafr.org/index.php?op...

Now accepting applications: Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Initiative is a unique opportunity for young foreign policy leaders to take action, engage with a strong community, and grow professionally. Learn more: www.fp4america.org/nextgen-init... Apply by Nov. 24: forms.gle/GwTraNgQQqeq...

Great opportunity!! Contact our own Chris Hulshof for more details on how you can get your campus set up for a screening. #SHAFR #skystorians #diplo #intlhist

ATTN: SHAFR grad students and early career scholars Applications for the Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy at the @belfercenter.bsky.social are due 12/1. tinyurl.com/mvj3hckx

Kölner Vorträge, 4.11.2025: Miloš Vec (Univ. Wien), „Nationalsozialistisches Völkerrecht im Kontext, 1920–1950“. Einer der profiliertesten Rechtshistoriker Europas spricht in Köln. #KölnerVorträge #InternationalLaw

This one on Wednesday will be streamed!

It’s alive!

OMG, how amazing can a conference calls for papers be? This looks amazing!

This @shafrhistorians.bsky.social event is TONIGHT (8:30 PM EST). You can still register and join us. Listen to a panel of folks offer travel and funding advice about conducting research abroad. We got plenty to share so just please join us on Zoom. See you there! #history #skystorians #hdiplo

@shafrhistorians.bsky.social will hold a virtual roundtable on How to Conduct Research in International Archives featuring Historians from various Area Studies around the world (including SEA!). Very useful for those leaving their home country for research! Oct 27 @ 8:30p (ET) bit.ly/SHAFR-Archives

This is the first hemispheric history of arguably the closest the world ever got (so far) to nuclear annihilation: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold @uncpress.bsky.social #UNC #InterConnections @shafrhistorians.bsky.social War uncpress.org/978146968943...

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Boston area friends - I'll be in town for book talks at Boston University (Monday, Oct 27), Northeastern (Wednesday, Oct 29), and Dartmouth (Thurs, Oct 30). Come if you can!

I'm thrilled to have an article in the fall volume of International Security on the role of allies in U.S. space power during the Cold War!

Any of the homies tryna put together a @shafrhistorians.bsky.social panel for June? Ideally on MENA and/or 1970s/80s?

An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state: Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27! www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...

REMINDER: Panelists will discuss their approaches to archival research & the challenges of conducting research abroad. Helpful for grad students in the early stages of planning your dissertation research or if you are in the thick of it and looking for new tips! Register here: bit.ly/SHAFR-Archives

Join Harvard’s Weatherhead Center community! We are recruiting social science researchers (postdoctoral fellowships & visiting scholar appointments) to the Weatherhead Scholars Program for the 2026–27 academic year. Apply by Nov 4, 2025. Please spread the word! https://loom.ly/AlcAtvU

Congratulations to @klosem.bsky.social, author of “Why They Gave,” and @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, author of “Selling Weimar,” whose books in our THS book series have been shortlisted for the Richard T. Arndt Prize for Outstanding Work on Cultural Diplomacy! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We're doing another of these annual workshops at #AHA26 with a whole new panel: Keisha Blain, @jamellebouie.net, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, @kathrynbrownell.bsky.social, and @syrussolojin.bsky.social. Not recorded, so sign up today!

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Annual Conference (June 25-27, 2026, Columbus, OH, The Ohio State University) Call for Paper, Panel, & lots of non-traditional panel options, deadline: December 1, 2025🗃️ shafr.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/...

Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Renata Keller (@renatakeller.bsky.social), University of Nevada, Reno This event is in-person and also available via Zoom. Please use this link to register: temple.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

⏰ Submissions open until November 21 ⏰

Everyone go buy Ron’s book! And stay tuned to hear our conversation about it on an upcoming Cornell podcast.

This was so much fun!! Jason is an amazing host and we had a great time geeking out about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the movie Thirteen Days. Huge thanks to Jason for hosting me and for all he does to support the history community! #history 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social

Spent the morning of PUBLICATION DAY talking with @econroykrutz.bsky.social, the best book series editor EVER about *Entangled Alliances*. Proud to be a part of @cornellupress.bsky.social The United States in the World series. Our conversation about the book is coming soon! 📚🎙️

A friendly reminder that applications for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social's William Appleman Williams Emerging Scholar Research Grants are due TOMORROW Oct 15th. For more information: www.shafr.org/junior-facul... To apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

October's newsletter hit inboxes today! mailchi.mp/shafr.org/sh...

Wie formte Kolonialismus das internationale Recht? 🌍 Zum Auftakt der #KölnerVorträge am 4.11. spricht Verena Steller (Frankfurt a. M.) über „Empire of Water. Wasser, Kolonialismus und das Internationale Recht, 1919–2024“. #Völkerrecht #Kolonialismus

🚨 Deadline tomorrow 10/15!! Apply now for SHAFR's Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z #SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-3 Jeffrey Crean’s The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History “argues that fears of China over the past 140 years have been based on racialized stereotypes of the Chinese” –Zach Fredman hdiplo.org/to/RT27-3

H-Diplo Roundtable XXVII-4 Emily Conroy-Krutz’s Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations “important consequences for how we talk about “religion and foreign policy” and Christianity’s relationship to the state today” –Cara Lea Burnidge hdiplo.org/to/RT27-4

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Join the Graduate Student Committee for a virtual session on Conducting Research in International Archives! Monday, October 27 at 5:30pm PT/8:30pm ET

Talking about billionaires in the 1910s and today ... on @cbsnews.com @shgape.bsky.social @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefe...

The AAS Southeast Asia Council invites applications for its #AAS2026 dissertation workshop on "Global Southeast Asias," made possible thanks to support by the Henry Luce Foundation. Apply by October 20 to participate! buff.ly/Q7tSpcm

👏Congratulations to @ausis.bsky.social Professor Sarah Snyder who has been elected vice president and president-elect of @shafrhistorians.bsky.social, an international network of scholars and professionals committed to advancing the study of U.S. foreign relations with over 1,200 members worldwide.

The Bernath Lecture Prize deadline has been pushed to February 1. Williams Emerging Scholar Grants, the Hogan Language Fellowship, and SHAFR's numerous graduate dissertation grants are all due OCTOBER 15.

We're excited to announce the winner of the third annual Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips Essay Prize: @syrussolojin.bsky.social at @nyu.edu with “‘Are You My Kimchi Mother?’ Race, Women, and the U.S. Military’s Study Abroad Training Program in the Early Cold War.”

Today at 1pm eastern! #SHAFR

This just might be the coolest job opportunity ever: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69269/i...

Planning to assemble a panel for an upcoming conference? Don't know where to start? @shafrhistorians.bsky.social is holding a webinar tomorrow on how to successfully prepare a panel for their annual conference, applicable broadly as well Wed. Oct. 8th @ 1:00pm (ET) bit.ly/SHAFR-PANEL-...

Huge thanks to the editors of the @oah.org Process blog for letting me contribute a post that shares a little bit about how I'm trying to broaden the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis in my new book! www.oah.org/process/kell... #History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social

We have so many events happening in October! First up: Advocacy and the National Archives 🗓 Oct 7 | 3pm ET Join us for a panel discussion on the origins of NARA, why it matters, and how YOU can advocate to protect it. Live demo included! 👉 Register today: https://ow.ly/NMBG50X5P8x

OAH Deadlines extended. Of interest to #SHAFR historians: Award for Contributions to Public Policy - Due Nov. 1 Huggins-Quarles Award for grad student research - Due Nov. 1

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with the America in the World Consortium! Applicants from all disciplines whose research bears directly on American grand strategy, broadly defined, are welcome to apply. Deadline: December 1

Less than 2 weeks to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️