President
David Hudson
Department of History
Texas A&M University
Glasscock (History) Building, Rm. 102C
College Station, TX  77843-4236
(979) 845-7101
david-hudson@tamu.edu

President-Elect
Jamie Bronstein
History Department
Box 30001 Dept 3H
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-4200
jbronste@nmsu.edu

Immediate Past President
Marjorie Levine-Clark
Department of History
University of Colorado-Denver
Denver, CO 80217-3364
(303) 556-2896 phone
marjorie.levine-clark@cudenver.edu

Treasurer
Andrew Muldoon
Department of History
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Denver, CO   80217-3362
(303) 352-4422
amuldoo1@mscd.edu

Publicity
Derek Blakeley
Department of History
PO Box 92860
McNeese State University
Lake Charles, LA 70601
(337) 475-5593
dblakeley@mcneese.edu

Webmaster
Greg T. Smith
Department of History
University of Manitoba
411 Fletcher Argue Bldg.
Winnipeg, MB   R3T 5V5
Canada
(204) 474-7216
gsmith@cc.umanitoba.ca

2010 Program Co-Chairs
Jamie Bronstein
History Department
Box 30001 Dept 3H
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-4200
jbronste@nmsu.edu

Laura Tabili
Department of History
University of Arizona
1145 E. South Campus Dr.
PO Box 210027
Social Sciences Room 215
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027
tabili@u.arizona.edu

2008 Chair, Graduate Essay Prize Committee
Padraic Kennedy
Department of History & Political Science
York College
York, PA 17405
(717) 815-1405 phone
pkennedy@ycp.edu

2010 Local Arrangements
TBA

WCBS in Austin, TX, 24-25 September

The fall 2010 meeting of the WCBS will take us to Austin, Texas over 24-25 September where we will convene at the downtown Marriott Residence Inn Austin Downtown, 300 E. 4th Street, Austin. The room rate is $129.

Our plenary speaker will be Professor Brian Levack of the University of Texas.

§ CALL FOR PAPERS:

The WCBS welcomes proposals from faculty and graduate students, for individual papers and complete sessions on all aspects of British Studies and the British experience, including: History, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Literature, Arts, and Culture. In addition, the WCBS seeks proposals addressing Comparative History, the British Empire, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Historiography, the teaching of British History/Studies and the conditions of British Studies in North American colleges and universities.

Papers and Presenters: For each proposed paper please provide a brief abstract (200 words), and for each participant please provide a brief CV (1-2 pages). Complete sessions should have three papers, a chair and a commentator. A c.v. should also be provided for the chair and commentator.

Complete Sessions: For complete session proposals, please identify the individual who will serve as the contact between the program chair and the session participants. Further, please provide a full address, including e-mail, for the contact persons.

Chairs and Commentators: If you are interested in serving as a session chair or commentator, please submit a notice, a brief c.v., and an indication of areas/topics in which you would interested in providing a comment.

All proposals for papers and sessions should be submitted either as Microsoft word, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF documents, by May 1, 2010, to BOTH of the program co-chairs: tabili@u.arizona.edu (Professor Laura Tabili, University of Arizona) jbronste@nmsu.edu (Professor Jamie Bronstein, New Mexico State University).

If you have any questions, please contact either program co-chair by email, or call Jamie Bronstein at 575-646-4200.

§ NACBS 2010 Annual Meeting: Baltimore, MD
The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS) in Baltimore, Maryland from November 12-14.

North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to attend.

For information on how to register for the NACBS meeting, and to view the conference program on line, click here >>.

§ NACBS 2010 Membership Renewal
Please remember to renew your NACBS membership for 2010. If you have forgotten to renew your NACBS membership (which includes your subscription to JBS), please take a moment to do so.

Click here to take you to the NACBS/JBS renewal website to renew online.

Also, when renewing, remember to check the box that directs $2.00 of your NACBS dues to the WCBS. These funds help to support the activities of our regional affiliation, including the Annual Meeting.

§ National Sporting Library Reserach Fellowships

John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia

The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum and library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies. Past projects include the development of foxhounds in 18th-century Britain, women in horse sports, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals.

Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection is especially strong in British sporting books and periodicals. The collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, including foxhunting, horse racing, dressage, polo, eventing, coaching, shooting, fly fishing and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The Library has a permanent art collection of European and American sporting art, and will open the National Sporting Art Museum next door in 2011.

The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010.

For more information, visit our website at www.nsl.org/fellowship.html or contact the Director of Communications and Research at 540-687-6542 x 11 or fellowship@nsl.org. Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications & Research, National Sporting Library, P.O. Box 1335 (102 The Plains Rd.) Middleburg, VA 20118-1335

§ NACBS on Facebook
The NACBS now has a presence on the social networking website, Facebook. Anyone with an interest in our organization is encouraged to become a 'fan' of the 'group'.

§ Finding Guides to British Studies Research Collections at the University of Colorado
The Center for British and Irish Studies and the University Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder are pleased to announce the updated version of the Finding Guides to the Library's holdings of primary source research collections.

The Finding Guides list all sets of primary materials at CU Boulder, many in microformat, together with 2,000 books and pamphlets published in the British Isles prior to 1701 held in the Special Collections Department. Also included are the regional collections of early modern sources that are available nowhere else in North America and extensive sets dealing with colonial and post-colonial topics in Africa and Asia. A combined index provides access to all sections of the guides. The holdings include substantial collections in English literature and theatre; history; music; government, law, and international relations; and women/gender studies.

The Finding Guides may be consulted and downloaded online:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/british/title.htm

§ Christopher Frank (University of Manitoba) will see his monograph Master and Servant Law Chartists, Trade Unions, Radical Lawyers and the Magistracy in England, 1840–1865 appear with Ashgate in March 2010.

§ The collection, City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City, edited by Glenn Clark, Judith Owens and Greg T. Smith (Univeristy of Manitoba) has just been published by McGill-Queen's University Pres (2010).

§ Congratulations to Andrew Muldoon (Metropolitan State College of Denver) on the publication of his book, Empire, Politics and the Creation of the 1935 India Act: Lat Act of the Raj by Ashgate (2009).

§ A number of WCBS members contributed to the special issue of Parlimentary Historywhich appeared in honour of Richard W. Davis and was subsequently published as Public life and public lives : politics and religion in modern British history : essays in honour of Richard W. Davis, ed. Nancy LoPatin-Lummis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

¤ Please forward any news you would like posted here to Greg Smith.

The WCBS sponsors one award at its annual conference: a cash prize (US$ 500) for the best graduate student paper presented at the conference. The deadline for receipt of papers is announced annualy, following the conference.

Hanft Travel Award for British Studies Research
Graduate Students enrolled at institutions in some WCBS 'home' states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas are eligible to apply for a $1000 travel grant offered through the Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS). The award is to assist in defraying the cost of resrearch travel. For more details, visit the Southern CBS link below.