Announcements & Queries


The American Geographical Society Collection, Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee welcomes applicants for Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships. Stipends of  $375 per week, for periods up to 4 weeks, will be awarded to support residencies for the purpose of conducting research which makes direct use of the Collection. The Fellowships will be tenable between December 4, 2000, and November 30, 2001. Applications are due by September 16, 2000. For further information, write, call, or e-mail the AGS Collection, P.O. Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399, Tel. (414) 229-6282; e-mail <agsc@leardo.lib.uwm.edu>; web site <http://www.uwm.edu/Library/AGSC/index.html>.

The Encyclopedia of Colonialism (EoC), which is being produced by East River Books and will be published by ABC-CLIO in 2001, is soliciting entry writers. The EoC will cover the subject of colonialism and imperialism in the modern (post-1400) period. Contributing authors for approximately eighty major entries as well as over 500 additional general indexed entries are presently being solicited. For more information, including a list of entries, please contact Melvin E. Page, General Editor, Encyclopedia of Colonialism, Department of History, East Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 70672, Johnson City, TN, 37614, USA; e-mail <colonial@etsu.edu>.

The British Association for American Studies will hold a conference on April 6-9, 2001, at Keele University, Staffordshire, England. Presentation proposals are welcome on any topic in American Studies. Proposals should be no longer than one page and should include a provisional title. Individual paper proposals will be organized into appropriate panels. Panel proposals by two or more paper givers, sharing a common theme, are also invited. Proposals should be submitted by October 31, 2000, to Dr. John Dumbrell, BAAS Conference Secretary, Department of American Studies, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK; fax +44 1782 583460; e-mail <asa09@ams.keele.ac.uk>.

The Society of Early Americanists will hold its second biennial conference in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 8-10, 2001. The SEA program committee has posted a list of panels and chairs for the conference and invites scholars of all disciplines with interests in early America to contribute. Please consult the list at the SEA home page <www.hnet.uci. edu/mclark/seapage.htm> and note other information about the conference. Graduate students and independent scholars are welcome to submit. If you have any questions, please contact Jeffrey H. Richards, SEA 2001 Program Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529; telephone (757) 683-3991; fax (757) 683-3241; e-mail <jhrichar@odu.edu>. The deadline for paper proposals is September 15, 2000.

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