Joseph J. Kwiat award for the best grad student conference paper presented at ASA. Application deadline: October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.

The American Studies Department's Joseph J. Kwiat award is for up to $500 towards travel expenses to attend the ASA annual meeting, awarded to the best University of Minnesota American Studies graduate student conference paper presented at ASA. Application deadline:  October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.
This award was established to recognize Joseph J. Kwiat who was one of the three major figures in shaping and teaching in the Department of American Studies.
Students who have had papers accepted for the 2015 annual meeting may apply. This award is for up to $500 for travel expenses used to attend the ASA annual meeting. The funds will be distributed in the form of a travel expense reimbursement. To apply, submit a copy of your ASA conference paper to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.

Brian Edwards Talk

THE INSTITUTE for GLOBAL STUDIES and THE AFRICAN STUDIES INITIATIVE present a talk by Brian Edwards (Northwestern U.) titled “After the American Centruy: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East.” The talk will be held on Monday, October 5^th at 2:30pm in Nolte 125. 

UofM Press Undergrad Student Editorial Assistant Position

THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS is pleased to announce an open Student Editorial Assistant Position. The position duties include preparing manuscripts, assisting with the peer review process, ordering book copies, and conducting research as needed. The position is 10-15 hours a week. Applications are due October 13^th, 2015. Click here for more information and to apply.

Student Editorial Assistant
Gain valuable exposure to book development and the publishing industry. As a Student Editorial Assistant at the University of Minnesota Press you will work on a wide range of editorial and administrative projects including text and image preparation, researching and cataloguing copyright issues, and corresponding with authors and peer reviewers. To be considered for the position, please submit a cover letter and resume to acq@umn.edu by October 13, 2015.

Required Qualifications:

- Ability to work independently, stay on task, and manage multiple projects at once
- Detail-oriented with excellent written and verbal skills
- Computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Office and Mac OS X
- Currently enrolled undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota

Preferred Qualifications:

- A genuine interest in publishing, literature, and groundbreaking scholarship
- Experience with Photoshop and FileMaker Pro
- Sophomore or junior preferred

Duties:

- Preparing manuscripts according to press guidelines using Microsoft Office and XML tagging programs
- Evaluating images for proper specifications and permissions documentation to ensure compliance with copyright laws
- Assembling and collating manuscript packets for departmental review
- Creating and maintaining departmental records and filing, including data entry in press-wide database
- Assisting department with peer review process by writing project descriptions and soliciting peer reviewers
- Communicating directly with authors and peer reviewers via email
- Ordering book copies for authors and peer reviewers
- Performing FedEx and UPS package mailings to authors and peer reviewers
- Researching, as needed, for an editor or editorial assistant
- Other miscellaneous clerical duties as assigned

Work Hours:

10-15 hours per week during regular business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:30a-5p)
The University of Minnesota Press is located off-campus at 111 3rd Avenue South, Minneapolis,
MN 55401. We are easily accessible by bus and light rail from campus.

Postdocs in Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University.

THE SEXUALITIES PROJECT at NORTHWESTERN (SPAN) is pleased to announce applications are open for two-year postdoctoral fellowships in sexuality studies (social scientific approaches). Applications are due January 4^th, 2016. Click here to learn more about the positions and to apply.

The Graduate School's Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study. Application deadline: 12:00 Noon on November 3, 2015.

The Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study, administered by the Graduate School, includes a stipend of $23,000 plus tuition and subsidized health insurance and is open to graduate students pursuing research or study in which film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics is the major focus of the research. Up to two fellowships awarded.  Applications for this fellowship do not require departmental nomination and are due directly to the Graduate School Fellowship Office by 12:00 Noon, November 3, 2015.  Please refer to the Graduate School's website for complete information: http://www.grad.umn.edu/funding-tuition-fellowships-grants/leonard

USC Native North American Studies Position

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is pleased to announce an open Assistant Professor position in Native North American Studies in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. Click here for more information and to apply.

The Graduate School's Mark & Judy Yudof Fellowship in Science Policy & Ethics. Application deadline: 12:00 Noon on November 3, 2015.

The Mark & Judy Yudof Fellowship in Science Policy & Ethics, administered by the Graduate School, includes a stipend of $23,000 plus tuition and subsidized health insurance and is open to graduate students pursuing interdisciplinary work, with content focused in the areas of science policy and ethics.  Up to two fellowships awarded. Applications for this fellowship do not require departmental nomination and are due directly to the Graduate School Fellowship Office by 12:00 Noon, November 3, 2015.  Please refer to the Graduate School's website for complete information: http://www.grad.umn.edu/funding-tuition-fellowships-grants/yudof

UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED RIGS Logo Design Contest

THE RACE, INDIGENEITY, GENDER, & SEXUALITY STUDIES (RIGS) Initiative begins this year. As part  of their launch, they are opening a competition for student designers to create the logo for RIGS. If you have an idea for how to express the spirit of the RIGS initiative in graphic design submit your ideas by October 30^th. See below to learn more about RIGS, submission details, and to submit a logo.

The Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative (RIGS) begins this year.  The RIGS Initiative was founded by the chairs of the departments of African American & African Studies, GWSS, American Indian Studies, American Studies, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies, and Asian American Studies. Their goals, which align with the long-running traditions of student activism and social justice research in these units, are to highlight, support, and grow the important work on diversity, inequality, and social justice currently happening across the University in meaningful and generative ways.  Working collaboratively across academic disciplines and in tandem with student-led actions, RIGS was created to support a vision for diversity that is long-term and goes beyond a single faculty hire or student recruitment program.

As part of our launch, we are opening a competition for student designers to create the logo for RIGS. If you have an idea for how to express the spirit of the RIGS initiative in graphic design, submit your ideas by September 30th using the form linked here:

http://form.jotform.us/form/52431239004141

The deadline for submissions is Friday, 10/30/2015.  Submissions recorded after 10/30 will not be accepted.  Please upload your idea as a PDF or JPG file.  Entries will be judged by the RIGS Director and Chairs of the RIGS departments.  Winner will receive a $100.00 gift card to the UMN Bookstore.

Please share this opportunity with students, department news or e-mail list, and on any UMN social media platforms.  Questions? Contact rigs@umn.edu.  Thank you! 

CFP: Queer Publics, Queer Praxis (QP^2)

QUEER PUBLICS, QUEER PRAXIS (QP^2), a symposium hosted by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies at the UofM is putting out a call for papers, panels, workshops, digital projects, and more addressing the role of publics and praxis in queer studies and social justice work. The symposium will be held on Friday April 1^st, 2016 here at the UofM. Abstracts are due November 30^th. See below for more information and to submit an abstract.

Queer Publics, Queer Praxis [QP^2]

Friday, April 1, 2016

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Hosted by the Steven J. Schochet Endowment for GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota

Keynote Address by: Lena Palacios, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Chicano/a & Latino/a Studies, University of Minnesota

 “Queer Publics, Queer Praxis [QP^2]” is a graduate student symposium attending to the relationships between community engagement, social justice and academic work.

“Community,” or as Miranda Joseph puts it, “the romance of community,” is often a loaded signifier at the University. Community work is extracurricular, or imagined to be untouched by the work that goes on at the University (or by academics who work with/in “communities”).

What then does it mean to engage in queer praxis? To build and work within queer publics? How is community work co-constitutive with queer studies?

Who is being engaged and produced through different forms of engagement? What are the politics of doing so?

To pose the question in a different way: How can and do we work queerly for justice? What even is queer work? Can we queer work? What are the processes?

This symposium pays special attention to the relationship between queer studies (and other modes of critical inquiry) and social justice work. Queer and social justice work can be: small acts of resistance; direct action; movements with big bases; movements that fall apart; collectives; cooperatives; public lectures; program development; making something out of nothing; working together on something that was forgotten or done wrong. It can be done by: agitators, reformers, radicals, participatory action researchers, (auto-)ethnographers, public historians, workshop facilitators, volunteer grant writers, artists, hustlers, health practitioners, or just about anyone.

We invite papers, panels, workshops, presentations, and digital projects addressing the role of publics and praxis in queer studies and social justice work, with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Tell us about a project you are working on, an idea you are wrestling with, a group you are working with/for, a problem you cannot seem to solve, or a set of practices that have really worked out. Tell us history about those who have come before us, those among us who are working it out, or who’s coming next down the line.

Topics include but are not limited to:

•       Transmisogyny, violence, visibility
•       Slow death, biopolitics, necropolitics
•       Surveillance, policing, militarization
•       Transnational sexualities, feminisms, organizing
•       HIV/AIDS justice and public health
•       Engagement with the many industrial-complexes: medical, prison, nonprofit, academic…
•       Citizenship, immigration, refugeeism
•       Indigeneity, sovereignty, representation, determination
•       Kinship, family, coalition
•       Race & racism within fields & movements, separatism, multi-racial movement building
•       Labor: manual, emotional, activist, sexual, academic, etc.
•       Sex work, survival economies, pleasure economies
•       Reproductive justice
•       Queer and trans youth
•       Disability justice
•       Housing and homelessness
•       Resilience and resistance
•       Public history, public memory, archives
•       Digital and social media, rhetoric, connectivity, strategy

Please send a 250 word abstract describing your proposed presentation, along with a short bio, to Lars Mackenzie at macke157@umn.edu by November 30, 2015.

For those proposing a panel: please send a 250 word abstract and short bio for each presenter, along with a panel title and brief (>100 word) description of your panel theme.

Cal State Polytech, Pomona Tenure-track Native American Studies Position

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA is pleased to announce an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Native American Studies. Click here for more information and to apply.

Judge LaDoris H. Cordell Talk

THE BLACK GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION is hosting a talk by Judge LaDoris H Cordell (Ret) titled “Risky Business: Confronting Racism in ‘Post-racial’ America.” The talk will he held on Wednesday, October 28^th from 1:00 – 2:30pm in Coffman Memorial Union Theater.

Indiana University School of Global & International Studies 9 Tenure Track Positions

INDIANA UNIVERSITY School of Global and International Studies (SGIS) is pleased to announce nine open tenure-track positions in various fields such as Global Climate Change, Chinese Politics, and International Governance. Click here to see all the open positions and to apply.

SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL is pleased to announce applications are open for their Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program. The program is for pre-ABD students who are still figuring how to strengthen their proposals. Applications are due October, 15^th at 5:00pm EST. Click here for more information and to apply.

Northwestern African American Studies Postdoc

NORTHWESTERN UNVERSITY is pleased to announce a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of African American Studies. Applications are due December 15^th, 2015. See below for the full announcement and for the link to apply.

Postdoctoral Job Search 2015-2016

 The Department of African American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University invites applications for a two year Postdoctoral Fellowship.  PhD must be completed by September 1, 2016.  Recent Ph.D.s (degree granted during or after 2014) with a commitment to the field of African American and/or African Diaspora studies are encouraged to apply.

 This two year fellowship is residential and provides a competitive stipend and benefits, a visiting appointment in the Department of African American Studies (including teaching two classes in the Department), and participation in the intellectual life of the Department and University.

 Applicants should submit electronically via this link https://facultysearch.weinberg.northwestern.edu/apply/index/MTU5 by December 15, 2015:

1) a current curriculum vitae,

2) a letter of application detailing the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship years,

3) a sample of scholarly writing,

4) evidence relating to the quality of teaching (syllabi and teaching evaluations),

5) three letters of recommendation (including one letter from the dissertation advisor) to: Post Doctoral Search Committee Chair

 All inquiries should be addressed to Suzette Denose at 847-491-5122 or s-denose@northwestern.edu.  AA/EOE.  Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities.  Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.  Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.

The Graduate School's Norman Johnston Dewitt Fellowship: Internal Department application deadline: October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.

The Graduate School's Norman Johnston DeWitt Fellowship includes a stipend of $23,000 plus tuition and is open to advanced graduate students in the humanities.  NOTE: Application materials, including letters of recommendation, are due to the Department, attention Melanie, by the internal Department deadline of October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.  Please refer to the Graduate School's website for complete information: https://www.grad.umn.edu/funding-tuition-fellowships-grants/dewitt

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships (IDF) internal deadline: October 21st, 2015, 12pm, noon

The Graduate School is offering the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships (IDF), which includes $23,000 and full tuition. The American Studies internal deadline is based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) deadline. If you intend to apply and partner with a different center/institute, please inform Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Monday, September 28th, so we can review those center/institute requirements.  

All materials required by the center/institute that you are applying to (with the exception of the letter of endorsement from the director of the center/institute) are due to Melanie by the Department's internal deadline of October 21st, 2015 at 12pm, noon.
The instructions for applying to the IAS for an IDF can be found here:
http://ias.umn.edu/programs/idf/application-instructions/

For Graduate School (general) information about the IDF and the centers/institutes that will house IDF fellows, please click here:
http://www.grad.umn.edu/projects-priorities-interdisciplinary-initiatives-funding-opportunities/idf-16-17

The Graduate School's Stout & Wallace Fellowships. Internal Department application deadline: October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.

The Graduate School's William W. Stout and Thomas F. Wallace Fellowships include a stipend of $23,000 plus tuition and is open to graduate students in the humanities or social sciences who are in the intermediate years of the Ph.D., normally students currently in their
2nd and 3rd years.  1 Stout award and 1 Wallace award total.
NOTE: Application materials, including letters of recommendation, are due to the Department, attention Melanie, by the internal Department deadline of October 21, 2015 at 12:00pm Noon.  Please refer to the Graduate School's website for complete information: https://www.grad.umn.edu/funding-tuition-fellowships-grants-stout-wallace/stoutwallacesummary

U of Mary Washington Assitant Professor in History and American Studies Position

UNIVERSITY of MARY WASHINGTON is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) position in History and American Studies. The position is specifically in American Studies of US History with a focus in Public History. Click here for more information and to apply.

Paul Shackel Talk

THE INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY is sponsoring a talk by Professor Paul Shackel titled “Engaging Communitites in the Heartland: An Archaeology of a Mutli-racial Community.” The talk will be held on October 8^th at 4:00pm in 240 Northrop. Click here for more details.

Ari Kelman Talk

THE INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY is sponsoring a talk by Professor Ari Kelman titled “A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek.” The talk will be held on October 1^st at 4:00pm in 240 Northrop. Click here for more details.

Occidental Associate Professor in American Studies Position

OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for an Associate Professor (tenure-track) position in American Studies. The position is specifically in African American Studies. See below for more information and to apply.

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES – AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT, OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE

The Department of American Studies at Occidental College invites applications for a regular tenure-track position in African American studies, appointment to be made at the Associate Professor rank.  Specific areas of research and methodological approach are open, although the successful candidate will have a broad, deeply historical understanding of the African American experience and its significance.  S/he should be an emerging or established national scholar and a committed undergraduate teacher, able to energize and lead African American studies in the American Studies program and to contribute to Occidental’s broad institutional goals of “excellence and equity” and the nurture of a diverse community. The teaching load is five courses annually, ranging from introductory first-year seminars to research experiences for advanced majors.  

Occidental College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California.  Its institutional mission is “to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality, one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex, interdependent, and pluralistic world.”  Occidental encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, the mentoring of significant undergraduate research, and pedagogical innovation, with a strong emphasis on community engagement.  Occidental is an equal opportunity employer, and women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply.

Please submit: (1) a cover letter detailing your interest in teaching in a liberal arts environment; (2) a statement of teaching philosophy including how you will support and enhance the College’s goal of building a strong educational environment in classrooms that are ethnically, socio-economically, and culturally diverse; (3) a statement of your scholarly/professional activity, including how students may participate in or benefit from your research; (4) three letters of recommendation, at least one attesting to teaching ability; (5) evidence of teaching effectiveness (evaluations or other data if available); (6) a sample of your scholarly work; and (7) a current curriculum vitae.

All materials are due by November 2, 2015.  They should be sent as Word or PDF files to Professor John Swift, Search Committee Chair, at americanstudiessearch@oxy.edu.  Inquiries concerning the position may also be directed to Professor Swift at this address.

Department Officer Office Hours

The American Studies Officers office hours for Fall 2015 are as follows

            Kevin Murphy, Chair: Wed. 12:00 – 1:00pm in Scott Hall 104A

            Bianet Castellanos, DGS: Mon. 12:00 – 1:00pm & Tues. 1:00 – 2:00pm in Scott Hall 102

            David Karjanen, DUS: Tues/Thurs 10:00 – 11:00am in Scott Hall 304/305

If need to schedule a meeting with either the Chair or DGS please email amstdy@umn.edu

Karla Padrón received PhD

KARLA PADRÓN, has received her PhD with her dissertation entitled, "Legal Injuries: Deportability and U.S. Immigration Policy in the Lives of Trans Latina Immigrants."   Bianet Castellanos and Eden Torres, advisers.

GWSS Fall Colloquium Series

GENDER, WOMEN, & SEXUALITY STUDIES is pleased to announce their Fall Colloquium Series, which will take place on designated Fridays from 1:30-3:00pm in 400 Ford Hall. Assistant Professor Elliott Powell will be delivering one of the talks on October 23^rd. See below for the full schedule.

Policy governing faculty assigning self-authored materials in courses they teach.

All faculty members who assign educational materials that they themselves have created in courses they will also teach are required by University policy to obtain both departmental and collegiate
approval.

The University Policy on the Use of Educational Materials serves as a guideline for the sale of educational materials which personally benefits a faculty or staff member.  This policy can be found at:http://ugp.cla.umn.edu/curriculum/

For each semester which this is applicable, please submit your completed form to Melanie Steinman Kelly (stein196@umn.edu).  Requests will then be forwarded to the Office of Undergraduate Education. The Self Authored Materials Permission Form can be found here.

Deadlines:
For materials used during the fall 2015 semester, please submit forms by 12:00pm NOON on Friday, September 25, 2015. For spring 2016 please submit by 12:00pm NOON on Friday, February 5, 2016.

Dartmouth Postdocs

DARTMOUTH is currently accepting applications for two multi-disciplinary postdoctoral fellowships. The Mellon is in the humanities and humanistic social sciences and the Society of Fellows is in various fields from the humanities, to engineering, to medicine. Click the above links to learn more and apply.

CFP: "Outside the Gender Box" Anthology

CALL FOR ARTICLES for a new anthology, Outside the Gender Box: Trans and Non-Binary Gender People in U.S. Higher Education. Genny Beemyn is editing this first anthology on the experiences of trans and non-binary gender students, staff, and faculty. See below to learn more about the anthology and to submit an article.

  

Call for Articles:

Outside the Gender Box: Trans and Non-Binary Gender People in U.S. Higher Education

To be published by SUNY Press

Edited by Genny Beemyn, Ph.D.

Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2016

Students applying to college and new campus employees are immediately confronted by the lack of trans inclusiveness at most institutions when they fill out a form that asks them whether they are male or female.  And this is just the start of negative experiences in higher education for many trans and non-binary gender people.  Outside the Gender Box will be the first anthology to focus on the experiences of trans and non-binary gender students, staff, and faculty.  The book will be divided into four sections:

• research on trans college students and first-person narratives of being a trans student.
• research on trans college staff and faculty and first-person narratives of being a trans staff or faculty member.
• case studies of how individual campuses have changed policies and practices to become  more welcoming to and inclusive of trans people. 
• intersectional analyses of the experiences of trans students, staff, and faculty who also experience marginalization in other ways, such as by being people of color, people with disabilities, and people of non-Christian faiths.

Completed articles of approximately 15-20 pages (5,000-7,500 words) should be submitted by January 1, 2016 to genny@umass.edu.  Contributors are welcomed to submit an abstract for review sooner, if desired.

For information about formatting and other manuscript guidelines, including copyright requirements and the preparation of tables, figures, and images, please see http://www.sunypress.edu/l-47-final-manuscript-preparation.aspx.

Genny Beemyn, Ph.D., is the director of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst and the coordinator of Campus Pride’s Trans Policy Clearinghouse.  Dr. Beemyn has written/edited many works in LGBTQ+ Studies.  They are the author of The Lives of Transgender People (with Sue Rankin; Columbia University Press, 2011); A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C. (Routledge, 2014); and Campus Queer: The Experiences and Needs of LGBTQ+ College Students (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming).

CFP: Moving Trans* History Forward 2016

THE MOVING TRANS* HISTORY FORWARD CONFERENCE is pleased to announce a call for proposals for their 2016 conference “Building Communities * Sharing Connections.” Abstracts are due on November 16^th, 2015. See below for more information and to submit a proposal.

Moving Trans* History Forward 2016
Building Communities * Sharing Connections

March 17-20, 2016

Call for Proposals

Trans* and gender non-conforming (GNC) community-based scholars and activists, academics, family members, and allies of trans* and GNC people are invited to submit proposals for presentations, panels, posters, grass-roots projects, and workshops for the 2016 Moving Trans* History Forward (MTHF16) conference sponsored by the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria. We welcome proposals concerning any aspect of preserving and recounting the history of trans* and GNC people and communities. Submissions from all perspectives and pertaining to all eras and regions of the world are welcome. The language of the conference will be English. Proposals that expand the horizons of trans* and GNC history, and engage related fields, are particularly encouraged. Please limit your proposals to material not yet published, or in press.

Some questions to prompt your thinking:

·       Where and how do we find and record the histories of trans* and GNC communities and people?

·       What are the stories of trans* and GNC people’s courage and bravery?

·       How can activism and history meet and lead to more inclusive histories?

·       How do we avoid obscuring important counter narratives in the histories of trans* and GNC people?

·       How have trans* and GNC people’s failures and difficulties led to alternative models of success?

·       How has the language to describe trans* and GNC people evolved?

·       What are the histories of ideological and strategy debates within trans* and GNC communities?

·       How are successful collaborations among trans* and GNC activist communities built?

·       What are the stories of trans* and GNC people’s allies?

·       How do mainstream historians work with trans* and GNC communities who have had traumatic histories with gatekeepers and others in positions of power?

·       How do trans* and GNC historians experience and navigate their work?

·       What are the challenges specific to the preservation of trans* and GNC archives?

·       What do we learn from our histories that can help us to build better futures?

Please submit your abstract as a pdf attachment to transarc@uvic.ca by Nov 16, 2015.

Please use a subject line in your email of “MTHF16 Proposal <your last name>.”

Include in your proposal:

·       Your name(s)

·       A title for your proposal

·       The format you would like to use (e.g. academic paper, poster, panel, workshop, slide show)

·       Your community group or institution, if you are representing one.

·       Your AV and IT requirements

·       An abstract or description (max. 200 words) that includes:

·       an overview, including a historical time frame;

·       a contextualization of your proposal within scholarly literature or activism;

·       a short discussion of your methods;

·       your conclusions and their importance.

·       Three key words­­­­­­­­­