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The William Benton Museum of Art featured in the Boston Globe

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It’s streets lined with shops, galleries, boutiques, and eateries, the quaint old whaling village of Mystic has long been a Bostonian’s go-to day trip. If you did the aquarium last time, try the Mystic Museum of Art. By the banks of the Mystic River, the community art hub houses a permanent collection, rotating exhibits, and, through Dec. 22, a Holiday Gift Market. Shop sailor knot bracelets, ornaments, wine stoppers, pottery, handcrafted soaps, handcrafted jewelry, prints, and the like. Free admission. 9 Water St., Mystic, 860-536-7601. www.mysticmuseumofart.org.

Lauren Daley can be reached at ldaley33@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter @laurendaley1.

Upcoming Events: Talk by Professor James Rice, “‘Early Modern’ and ‘Indigenous’ Histories”

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The Early Modern Studies Working Group has a few exciting events in the next few weeks.

On March 7th, we are please to announce that Professor James Rice will be giving a talk titled “‘Early Modern’ and ‘Indigenous’ Histories.” The talk begins at 1pm and will be preceded by a lunch at 12:15. The talk will explore the intertwining questions of periodization, theories of historical causation, and identity. The ways in which scholars have traditionally periodized the ‘Early Modern’ match up with certain important turning points in Native American history, and that’s not a coincidence. Yet any attempt at marking the beginning and end dates of the Early Modern also serves to elide important continuities in Indigenous histories – elisions with significant consequences for the politics of today.

Professor Rice is the chair at the Tufts History Department and the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History. His major publications are Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America (2012) and Nature and History in Potomac (2009). Currently, the Early Modern Cross Cultural Interactions Reading Group is reading Tales from a Revolution on Tuesday’s between 12-1 in the UCHI conference room. All are welcome to join.

On February 21st we will be holding our first transcribathon meeting in the UCHI conference room at 11am. As always, we will be transcribing John Ward’s diary along with a guest transcription. All are welcome.

 

Announcing the 2019 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition

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Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program – 2019 Fellowship Competition

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the ninth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. This initiative places humanities PhDs in substantive roles in diverse nonprofit and government organizations, demonstrating that the capacities developed in the course of earning a doctoral degree in the humanities have wide application beyond the academy. The two-year fellowships carry an annual stipend of $68,000, health insurance, a relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds for the fellow.

In 2019, ACLS will place up to 21 PhDs as Public Fellows in the following organizations and roles:

• Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA) – Community Engagement & Audience Development Manager

• American Public Media (St. Paul, MN) – Senior Research Analyst

• Center for Court Innovation (New York, NY) – Communications Project Manager

• Chicago Humanities Festival (Chicago, IL) – Program Manager

• Citizens’ Committee for the Children of New York (New York, NY) – Policy & Budget Analyst

• Committee to Protect Journalists (New York, NY) – Research Manager

• Community Change (Washington, DC) – Policy Advisor

• Data & Society Research Institute (New York, NY) – Editor

• The German Marshall Fund of the United States (Washington, DC) – Program Officer

• Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT) – Grants Manager

• Library of America (New York, NY) – Outreach Programs Manager

• National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver, CO) – Legislative Policy Specialist

• National Low Income Housing Coalition (Washington, DC) – Research Analyst

• Natural Resources Defense Council (Washington, DC) – Campaign Advocate, Latin America Project

• PEN America (New York, NY) – Festival Programs Manager

• Public Books (New York, NY) – Associate Editor

• Rare (Arlington, VA) – Community Engagement Manager

• Reinvestment Fund (Philadelphia, PA) – Policy Analyst

• San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco, CA) – Community Impact Analyst

• Seattle Office for Civil Rights (Seattle, WA) – Senior Researcher

• World Justice Project (Washington, DC) – Program Manager

Applicants must have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2015, and June 21, 2019, and must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 5, 2019. US citizenship or permanent resident status is required. The deadline is March 13, 2019, 9 pm EDT.

Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS online application system.

Applicants should not contact any of the organizations directly. Please visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/ for complete position descriptions, eligibility criteria, and application information. This program is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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New Site Launched

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We are proud to announce the launch of our new website. Built on the the university Aurora service, this new version of our site sports a modern look, faster loading times, and works on all mobile and tablet devices.