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Consortium of Western Centers in California
Since 2005, the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center have formed a unique collaborative consortium to sponsor programs for scholars, students, and the public. The consortium's work builds upon the distinct programmatic missions of each of these three California-based academic centers on the West, and supports their shared goal of broadening public understanding of the region's past, present, and future.
Dissertation Workshop
To support new academic scholarship on the history of California and the West, and to bring this work to a public audience, the consortium jointly sponsors an annual workshop for advanced graduate students in the humanities to present their dissertations before a public audience and receive feedback from distinguished experts in the field.
Western History Dissertation Workshop 2009
The Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University, in partnership with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, the Research Division of the Huntington Library, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center, and the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for the fourth annual "Western History Dissertation Workshop."
Held on May 15th 2009 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.
Five dissertators, had the opportunity to present a chapter at the workshop and received feedback from other participants as well as from scholars from the sponsoring institutions.
Past Dissertation Workshops
2006 - The inaugural dissertation workshop was held in June 2006 at the Huntington Library, and featured presentations by Alicia Chavez (Stanford), Allison Tirres (Harvard), Lauren Cole (UC San Diego), Steven Rosales (UC Irvine), and Stacey Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
2007 - The second Western History Dissertation Workshop was held at the Griffith Park Campus of the Autry National Center in Los Angeles on June 18, 2007. Workshop participants were selected through a competitive application process.
Adam Arenson, Yale University
City of Manifest Destiny: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War, 1848-1877Joshua Paddison, UCLA
American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in CaliforniaMelissa Stuckey, Yale University
"All Men Up" Race, Rights, and Power in the Black Town of Boley, Oklahoma, 1903-1939Manu Vimalassery, New York University
Skew Tracks: Chinese and Native Americans and the First Transcontinental RailroadMary Beth Zundo, University of Illinois
Mapping Destiny: Cartography and 19th-Century American Art of the Frontier
The five dissertators had the opportunity to present a chapter of their research at the workshop and to receive feedback from other participants and from scholars affiliated with the sponsoring institutions.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
All consortium members offer further opportunities for research support through postdoctoral fellowships as well as visiting fellowships for scholars, writers, and graduate students. Fellows at each of the centers have access to resources and colleagues at the partner institutions. In the future, the consortium intends to strengthen this partnership through co-resident postdoctoral positions, whose holders will move among the partner institutions during their fellowship term.
For more about postdoctoral fellowship opportunities, see:
- Postdoctoral Fellowships , Bill Lane Center for the American West
- Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships , Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
- Visiting Scholars Program , Institute for the Study of the American West
See also:
Additional links to the consortium partners and some of their other programs:
Institute for the Study of the American West
- Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship
- Events
USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West
- Fellowship Support
- Working Groups for Professionals and Educators
- Events
