The wait is over—we are so excited to introduce our newest additions to the Graduate Council! Please read more about each of them, and their interesting research, below:
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If you're interested in getting involved with SHA as a graduate student, now is the time—we are accepting applications for 6 new SHA Grad Council Members! Click here for further information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline is August 1, 2026!
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SoEx Spotlight: Jon Sewell, a PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University, will be discussing “Case Study of the Nashville Underground Music Archive.” Join us today at 12p EST to hear about more exciting new projects—Zoom link below!
SoEx Spotlight: Connall MacLennan, a PhD student at University College London, will be discussing “The Church and the Formation of Queer Identity, Community, and Politics in the State of Georgia, 1945-2015” Join us this Wednesday 12p EST to hear about more exciting new projects—Zoom link below!
SoEx Spotlight: Charles Miller, an MA student at LSU, will be discussing "'The Prevailing Attitude': Reconstruction Memory and the Ku-Klux Klan in Early 20th Century Literature" Join us this Wednesday 12p EST to hear about several exciting new projects—Zoom link below!
SoEx Spotlight: Rickey Baisley, a PhD student at LSU, will be discussing his piece, “Brother Watson’s Familiar Ghosts: Spiritualism in the Post-Civil War South” Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about several exciting new projects in southern history—Zoom link below!
SoEx Spotlight: Hannah Kornblut, an MA student at Kent State, will be discussing her project, “To Protect and Serve: The New Orleans Police and the Making of Race during the 19th Century” Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about exciting new projects in southern history!
SoEx Spotlight: Caleb Roark, a PhD student at LSU, will be discussing his project, "Artisans in the Southern Metropolis: The New Orleans Mechanics' Society." Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about several exciting new projects in southern history! Zoom link below!
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! forms.gle/9v3jAsdwrn4Q...
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! forms.gle/9v3jAsdwrn4Q...
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!
SHA Grad Council@shagradcouncil.bsky.social · last yr.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
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.
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TUGSA member. History PhD Candidate at Temple University, studying libraries in the South. UGA alum and Arsenal supporter. Build a Better South.
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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!
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