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.

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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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.

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!

The SAWH has officially joined Bluesky! Help us get started by following, posting, and commenting with your handles and research!

📘Hi new followers📘 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.

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.

Tomorrow!

The Graduate Council is pleased to welcome Emily Lampert, Roraig Finney & Tim Case as new members on November 1st, and Justin P. Jones & Audrey Sisel as new members in November 2025! Find out more about them here: bit.ly/shagcresults...

The second annual @thesouthernsha.bsky.social History Across the Generations will be held on Tuesday, October 15, from 3 to 4 EST. Register here: bit.ly/4dAryos. See you all there!

The SHA Grad Council is raffling off tickets to the WHA Graduate Student Reception! The WHA Graduate Reception takes place on October 24th at 7:30 pm. To enter, send us a DM with your name & institution. The raffle ends on October 21st & those chosen will be notified on the 22nd.

At SouthxWest Exchanges, you’ll hear from: Samuel Green (Mississippi State University) Jennifer Mills (George Mason University) Tom Seabrook (George Mason University) Muhammad Rafi (UC Irvine) Patrick Sheridan (University of Georgia) Freddy Cabral (UTEP) Emma Wathen (UW-Madison) bit.ly/47EIAR6.

In celebration of the joint 2024 SHA Annual Meeting and WHA Conference, SHA Grad Caucus & SHA Grad Council are collaborating on the 1st SouthxWest Exchanges to highlight research from grad students in Southern and Western history. Tues. 9/24/24, 10am PDT/6pm BST bit.ly/SxW24

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.

Have you seen the September @TheSouthernSHA email newsletter? So many updates from the Grad Council! - SouthxWest Exchanges on 9/24 - Register for the Grad Student Lunch @ The Southern. We are looking for table leads! - SHA Merch & travel grant applications close on 9/27!

The SHA Grad Council & @WHAGrads invite you to share your research in 5 minutes or less & add a line to your CV! All stages welcome. Sign-up @: bit.ly/southwestex24Tuesday Sep 24, 2024 10am PST/1pm EDT/6pm BST #SHAWHA24 #southernhistory #westernhistory @WhaHistory @thesouthernsha.bsky.social

If you will be joining #TheSouthern in Kansas City and want to score some custom SHA/Kansas City merch, place your order here!

Still open for a few more weeks! If you are a grad student or recent grad attending #TheSouthern in Kansas City this year, please apply for a Grad Council Travel Grant!

Support the SHA Grad Council and rep the Southern Historical Association all at once! The Graduate Council is offering new, custom SHA merch for pre-order and pickup in KC. All funds from our merch line support the Graduate Student Travel Fund!

Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in KC this October and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our second year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/23!

We have extended the deadline to apply to join the SHA Graduate Student Council! Applications are now due on July 31, 2024 for terms beginning in November 2024 and November 2025.

Starting July 1, 2024! The Southern Historical Association Membership Drive During the month of July, use the code SHA2024 to get $5 off all membership categories, plus some SHA swag! Applies to new and renewing memberships. @joursouhist.bsky.social #TheSouthern #history #membership #networking

Next up we have @ericaanneprice, another 2nd year council member and a PhD Candidate at ASU studying New Orleans. "I take pride in the organizations that I am a member of, and so it has been such a cool experience to help lead and support others through my time on the council.

Meet Rebekka, a PhD Candidate at UCLA in her second year on the council. "I have enjoyed engaging with fellow graduate students who are passionate about southern history. As I study in California, it has been good to work with others who study the South outside the South.

With just a few weeks until applications are due for our next cohorts of Graduate Council members, we will be posting some shout-outs from our current council members about what serving on the council has meant to them. Stayed tuned!

The SHA Grad council is opening applications for five new members to join us in 2024 and 2025! Applications are due July 1, 2024 and you can find all of the application details at bit.ly/SHAGC24 #networking #professionalservice #historiansintraining #gradstudents

Southern Exchanges is coming up on Monday May 13 at noon eastern! Sign-up to present your work here: bit.ly/SouthEx24 Register to attend the session here: bit.ly/3wmPnk9

Join the Grad Council via Zoom on May 13th at 12pm EDT for our spring session of Southern Exchanges! Registration to attend the event is coming soon, but use the following link to sign-up to present! bit.ly/SouthEx24 #sha #historiansintraining #gradstudents #networking