Event Details

End: May 20, 2016
Contact: ballison@suffolk.edu
More Info: http://www.colonialsociety.org

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts invites graduate students preparing dissertations in early American history (up to 1815) todiscuss their work with peers at our 16th annual Graduate Student Forum, Friday, May 20, 2016, 87 Mount Vernon Street, Boston. 

Each participant will present a primary source encountered in the course of research, and all will share research and interpretive dilemmas and questions. This year's moderator will be Joyce Chaplin, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University.

How to Submit Your Proposal: Your proposal, not to exceed five double-spaced pages, should give a vivid sense of your dissertation project and highlight a particular dilemma—methodological, conceptual, source-based, etc.—encountered in the course of research or writing. You will bring to the Forum a primary document you have encountered in your research. Preference will be given to New England topics, but the committee will attempt to achieve a balance in subjects covered. The Colonial Society will pay travel expenses and provide lodging for participating students.

Submit proposals electronically to: Committee Chair Robert J. Allison, Suffolk University, Boston; email: rallison@suffolk.edu; fax: 617-723-7255.

**DEADLINE for Proposals: 31 January 2016**