Grants and Awards

Montana The Magazine of Western History invites applications for the 2005 Burlingame-Toole Award, which recognizes the best article-length manuscript written by an undergraduate or graduate student on any western history topic. The awarded individuals will receive $150, a plaque, and consideration for publication in Montana. Submission deadline is May 31, 2005. Send all manuscripts to Burlingame-Toole Award, Montana The Magazine of Western History, Montana Historical Society, P.O. Box 201201, Helena, Montana 59620. For further information and detailed submission instructions please visit the website at www.montanahistoricalsociety.org/pub/magazine/default.asp. 

Grants up to $2,000 will be awarded to support the research of the James J. Hill, Louis W. Hill, and Reed/Hyde papers, which are located in the James J. Hill Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. These papers are rich in sources for studies of transportation, politics, finance, Native American relations, art collecting, philanthropy, urbanization, immigration, and economic development in the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and the Upper Midwest. Other subjects include Minnesota’s iron mining industry, Glacier National Park, and related tourist industries. The deadline for applications is November 1, 2005. For more information contact W. Thomas White, Curator, James J. Hill Library, 80 West Fourth Street, St. Paul, MN 55102, call (651) 265-5441, email twhite@jjhill.org, or visit the library’s website (www.jjhill.org/History/manuscript_program.html). 

The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program. The purpose of this program is to assist researchers by providing financial awards for on-campus work in the Center’s archives. Awards are normally from $500 to $1,000. The Visiting Scholars Program is open to any applicant and applications are accepted throughout the year. For more information call (405) 325-6419 or email channeman@ou.edu, or by mail Archivist, Carl Albert Center, 630 Parrington Oval, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019.

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies offers $500 a week research-travel grants for up to four weeks to applicants who live outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to encourage a broader and more intensive use of the special collections at the DeGolyer Library (www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer). Grant applications are accepted throughout the year. For more information email swcenter@smu.edu or check their website at www.smu.edu/swcenter. 
 

Conferences

The Mormon History Association 40th annual conference will be held May 26–29, 2005, at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel in Killington, Vermont. They look forward to a large attendance of over 500 people to learn the latest in Mormon history scholarship and to tour selected historic sites in Vermont and Massachusetts. For more information about this conference, visit the Mormon History Association website at www.mhahome.org.

The graduate students of the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder announce the 2005 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, September 16–17, 2005. This conference is designed for graduate students in all disciplines, and allows graduate students to gain experience in public speaking in a congenial atmosphere. First-time presenters are especially encouraged to participate. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2005. For further information and submission details, please visit the website at www.colorado.edu/Conferences/RMIHC/.

Abstracts are invited for the Sixth Native American Symposium to be held November 10–12, 2005 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. Featured speakers this year will be Buffy Sainte-Marie and Winona LaDuke. The symposium’s theme is Native Women in the Arts, Education, and Leadership, but papers and presentations welcomed on all Native American topics and issues, including history, literature, autobiography, mythology, film, cultural studies, education, politics, the social sciences, and the fine arts. Send one-page abstracts by July 15, 2005 in either hard-copy or electronic form to Dr. Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, mspencer@sosu.edu.

The Western Writers of America 2005 Convention will be held June 14–18, at the Mirabeau Park Hotel in Spokane Valley, Washington. For more information visit www.westernwriters.org. 

The International Water History Association (IWHA) 4th biennial conference will be held December 1–4, 2005 in Paris, France in cooperation with UNESCO IHP. The program, “Water and Civilization,” which will address diverse topics related to water and history, will bring together scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and different parts of the world. For more information check their website at www.iwha.net.

The Center for Great Plains Studies announces its annual symposium titled “Changing Natural Landscapes: Ecological and Human Dimensions,” which will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, September 21–24, 2005. For detailed information and submission instructions, please visit the symposium website at: www.unl.edu/plains/seminars/2005/sympindex.html.

The American Society for Legal History conference will be held November 10-12, 2005, at the Hilton Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information visit www.h-net.msu.edu/~law/ASLH/aslh.htm.

The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis will host a combined meeting of the 9th North American Fur Trade Conference and the 12th Rupert’s Land Colloquium to commemorate Lewis and Clark’s return from the Pacific in 1806 and the Mercantile’s 160th anniversary as the oldest American library in the trans-Mississippi West, on May 24–28, 2006. For more information contact Dr. Fred Fausz at (314) 921-4637 or fredfausz@aol.com.