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

President-Elect
T.B.A.

Immediate Past 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

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

2009 Program Chair
Jamie Bronstein
History Department
Box 30001 Dept 3H
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-4200
jbronste@nmsu.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

2009 Local Arrangements
Dr. Mark Klobas (Honors Coordinator)
Social and Behavioral Science Division - History
Scottsdale Community College
9000 East Chaparral Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626
tel: 480-423-6420
mark.klobas@sccmail.maricopa.edu

§ NOTE: amended date for WCBS 2009 Proposals
Please note that the deadline for receipt of papers and panel proposals for the 2009 WCBS Annual Meeting in Tempe, AZ has been amended to 1 June 2009.

§ WCBS 2008 Graduate Student Essay Prize Awarded
After a lengthy review of the many excellent papers submitted, the members of the Graduate Essay Prize committee have chosen Clarissa Hinojosa’s, “Justice Overdue: An Historically-Based Critical Reinterpretation of Alice Overdo in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair” as the winner of the 2008 prize. Hinojosa (University of Houston) presented her paper at the 2008 meeting in San Antonio. Committee members praised Ms. Hinojosa’s examination of class and gender in Johnson’s play not only for reinterpreting the character of Alice Overdo, but for shedding considerable light on Early Modern theater and society more generally. Individual comments included: “thoroughly enjoyable,” “delightful,” and, “a very clever paper indeed.” The committee thanks all those who submitted papers. The winner receives a $500 cash prize.

§ NACBS 2009 Membership Renewal --URGENT APPEAL
(24 February 2009): The NACBS reports an alarming drop in the number of member renewals for 2009. 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.

§ Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, Research Affiliates
Each year the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Manitoba appoints two research affiliates. Applications are welcome from post-doctoral fellows, independent scholars, doctoral candidates enrolled at other institutions, and individuals in full-time university appointments who wish to spend all or part of a sabbatical leave in Manitoba. Applicants must have a clearly defined project in some field of humanities scholarship. Doctoral candidates will be considered only if they have completed all course requirements and expect to be engaged in full-time research.

The tenure of the affiliateships is normally for 12 months, from 1 July to 30 June. However, applications for six months (i.e. 1 July to 31 December, or 1 January to 30 June) will also be considered.

There is no stipend, but a private office, a computer, a telephone, library privileges and some secretarial assistance will be provided. Affiliates may also apply to the Director for a limited subsidy of research expenses. Affiliates will be expected to participate in Institute activities, and to use their offices, except when they are away researching, on a regular basis. The maximum teaching load during the tenure of the affiliateship will normally be six credit hours.

A letter of application stating the period for which the Affiliateship is desired, together with a short research proposal, a recent curriculum vitae and letters from two referees should be addressed to:

Dr David S. Churchill
Director, Institute for the Humanities
407 Tier Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Canada

If you have questions about the affiliateships or about the application procedures, please contact Natalie Johnson at (204) 474-9599 or at: umih@cc.umanitoba.ca or by mail at the address above. The closing date for affiliateship applications for 2009-2010 is April 30th, 2009.

§ Call for Papers: WCBS 2009 in Tempe, AZ
The 2009 annual meeting of the WCBS will take place at the Sheraton Four Points in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24.

We solicit proposals for panels on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the British Empire broadly defined. Our interests range from the medieval to the modern, and we welcome participation by historians, literary critics, economists, sociologists, art historians, and scholars in other allied disciplines. We invite panel proposals treating selected themes, methodology and pedagogy, as well as roundtable discussion of topical work or teaching issues. North American scholars, international scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to submit proposals to the program chair of the WCBS.

The Phoenix/Tempe airport is served by most major carriers including direct flights from London, Heathrow.

NOTE: The deadline for receipt of proposals is 1 June 2009.

For a printable version of the CFP, click here.

§ Another Successful WCBS 2008 Annual Conference
The 2008 meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies in sunny San Antonio Texas was a fine event with many excellent papers, discussions and exchanges. Thanks to Ann Hardgrove for her assistance with the local arrangements.

§ 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'.

§ NACBS 2009 Annual Meeting: Louisville, KY
The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its 2009 Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS) in Louisville, Kentucky.

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 >>.

§ 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

§ Robert Cole (Utah State University) the first president of the WCBS (back when it was the Rocky Mountain CBS) reports that his recent book Propaganda, Censorship and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) will soon be followed by his forthcoming book, also with the same press: Propaganda and War, 1939-1945.

§ The revised and expanded edition of Harold L. Smith's (University of Houston-Victoria) book, The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928 has been published by Longman (2007).

§ Robert Ellison (English, East Texas Baptist University) 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).

¤ 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 (email to Padraic Kennedy) is November 1, 2008. Winners will be announced in December.

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.