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The WCBS is the 'Western' affiliate to the North American Conference on British Studies representing scholars of British history, literature, art, culture and society.

President Marjorie Levine-Clark Department of History University of Colorado-Denver Denver, CO 80217-3364 (303) 556-2896 phone (303) 556-6037 fax marjorie.levine-clark@cudenver.edu President-Elect David Hudson Department of History Texas A&M University Glasscock (History) Building, Rm. 102C College Station, TX 77843-4236 david-hudson@tamu.edu Immediate Past President Lee Thompson Department of History Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77710 (409) 880-8044 jlthompson1@my.lamar.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, Manitoba R3T 5V5 Canada (204) 474-7216 gsmith@cc.umanitoba.ca 2008 Program Co-Chairs Derek Blakeley Department of History PO Box 92860 McNeese State University Lake Charles, LA 70601 (337) 475-5593 phone (337) 475-5165 fax dblakeley@mcneese.edu Padraic Kennedy Department of History & Political Science York College York, PA 17405 (717) 815-1405 phone pkennedy@ycp.edu 2007 Chair, Graduate Essay Prize Committee Jamie L. Bronstein Department of History New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003 (505) 646-4200 jbronste@nmsu.edu 2008 Local Arrangements Anne Hardgrove Department of History University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX 78249-0652 (210) 458-7402 anne.hardgrove@utsa.edu	Founded in 1973, the WCBS provides a forum for the exchange and discussion of all aspects of British Studies and the British experience, including History, Politics, Literature, and the Arts. Membership is open to anyone though most members are drawn from colleges and universities in U.S. states west of the Mississippi, the Canadian Prairies and Rockies. Announcements & Events § Graduate Dissertation Fellowship in British History at Texas A&M University PETERS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP The Department of History of Texas A&M University is offering the Peters Dissertation Fellowship of $5000 for a graduate student entering the Ph.D. program in the autumn term of 2008. The Fellowship will be made available to help defray costs of dissertation research in modern British history. Contact Professor R.J.Q. Adams, Patricia and Bookman Peters Professor of History, Department of History, Texas A&M University, TAMU 4236, College Station, TX 77843-4236 or RJQA@TAMU.EDU § WCBS 2008 Annual Conference: September 18-20, San Antonio, TX The 2008 meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies will be held in San Antonio, TX from Thursday September 18th through Saturday September 20th at the Sheraton Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio, just up the street from the River Walk. The WCBS invites scholars in all fields of British studies to submit proposals for papers and panels for the 2008 conference. The plenary speaker will be Chris Waters (Chair, and Hans W. Gatzke '38 Professor of Modern European History, Williams College). Paper and panel proposals will be accepted until 1 April, 2008. An offcial call for papers may be found here. § British Studies Journals Exchange Do you have hard copies of academic journals you no longer need? Before discarding them, click here to see if you can help fill someone else's gaps. § NACBS 2008 Annual Meeting: 3-5 October 2008, Cincinnati, OH The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Mid West Conference on British Studies (MWCBS) in Cincinnati, Ohio from Friday, October 3 to Sunday, October 5, 2008. 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 2008 Membership Renewal Please remember to check the box that directs $2.00 of your NACBS dues to the WCBS when your annual subscription comes due. These funds help to support the activities of our regional affiliation, including the Annual Meeting. § 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 News from Members § WCBS 2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize Awarded We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize. The winner is Mr Isaac Stephens, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside for his paper entitled "'My Owne Bookes': Reading as an Active Agent in the Never-Married Life of Elizabeth Isham". His paper was presented at the 2007 Albuquerque NM meeting. § Robert Ellison (English, East Texas Baptist Univerisy) who moderated a roundtable session on the question "Will Religion Become the Intellectual Center of the Academy?" at last year's WCBS in Dallas has published a synopsis of the discussions in the journal Religion and the Arts 11:2 (June 2007). § A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007) by Lee Thompson (Lamar University) has just been published. Lee has also recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. § Anthony Brundage (Cal Poly, Pomona) and Richard Cosgrove (University of Arizona) announce the publication of their book The Great Tradition: Constitutional History and National Identity in Britain and the United States, 1870-1960 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). § Marjorie Levine-Clark (University of Colorado-Denver) has been awarded an an American Council of Learned Society Fellowship to support sabbatical research on her project “’So Much Honest Poverty’: Gender, Work, and Welfare in England, 1870-1930.” § The paperback edition of Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940, edited by Lou Knafla (University of Calgary) was published by UBC Press in 2006. ¤ Please forward any news you would like posted here to Greg Smith.
Awards	The WCBS sponsors one award at its annual conference: a cash prize (US$ 500) for the best graduate student paper presented at the conference. Hanft Travel Award for Graduate Student Research Graduate Students 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 available to graduate students in odd-numberd years, thus the next competition will be in 2008 for an award in 2009. For more details, visit the SCBS link below.
Future Meetings	2009: T.B.A. 2008: San Antionio, TX (Sept 18-20)
Past Meetings Click location to view program	2007: Albuquerque, NM 2006: Dallas, TX 2005: Denver, CO (with NACBS) 2004: San Antonio, TX 2003: Tucson, AZ 2002: Little Rock, AR 2001: Houston, TX 1998: Colorado Springs, CO (with NACBS)
Join the WCBS	To join the WCBS, please contact Derek Blakeley, Publicity Officer.
Links	North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Mid-Atlantic CBS (MACBS) Midwest CBS (MWCBS) North East CBS (NECBS) Pacific Coast CBS (PCCBS) Southern CBS (SCBS)

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