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We have PhD fellowships available in Area Studies at the University of Oslo. (American Studies comes under this umbrella.) In Norway, these fellowships are treated as jobs with benefits: healthcare, pensions, maternity/paternity leave, ample research funding, and paid vacations. Yearly salary: (NOK 532,200-575,400, or approx. £37.4k-£40.4k). Deadline: February 28, 2025. Start date: September 1, 2025. See more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271067/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-area-studies

"Through rich historical detail and theoretical sophistication, this book shows how queer struggles have engaged the question of the national and the transnational as a major site of disagreement, contestation, and emergence. Attending to the histories of gay liberation, black lesbian feminism, and HIV/AIDS activism, Stoffel argues that we cannot fully appreciate those movements without understanding their deep engagements with radical internationalism. The argument is one that should never be retired." —Roderick Ferguson, Yale University

An ambitious study, deftly grounded in a generous sampling of popular culture, influential figures of the era, historical scholarship, and his own experience, Henry Jenkins' magisterial Were the Wild Things Were invites us on a journey through the many permutations of the permissive imagination. What are you waiting for? Accept his invitation! ~Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

SHAW invites expressions of interest to join its steering committee: ECR Representative, Treasurer and Membership Secretary

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, co-hosted by Leeds Beckett University and the University of Leeds.

The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the image of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility.