LAWCHA Awards

For graduate research and travel

LAWCHA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS 2003

1 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) Graduate Research Paper Award

The Labor and Working Class History Association is delighted to announce its third annual graduate research paper award competition. The award's purpose is to stimulate research in working class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the field. The award includes a check for $500, a certificate, inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, October 2003.

The award committee, (James Barrett of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Cecelia Bucki of Fairfield University, and Mike Honey of the University of Washington, Tacoma), solicits either direct submissions or faculty nominations of substantial original research papers of approximately 35 pages in length (not MA theses or dissertation chapters) regardless of geographic or chronological field. The candidate for the award must be a graduate student at the time of the application or nomination. Four hard copies of each paper should be mailed to:

Robin Dearmon Jenkins
Executive Secretary
LAWCHA
Department of History
Baker Hall 240
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: (412) 268-6788
Fax: (412) 268-1019

Deadline: January 17, 2003 (Papers received after this date cannot be considered.)
Announcement: On or about March 1, 2003.

2 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) / Wayne State University Conference Travel Awards for Graduate Students

The Labor and Working Class History Association and the Department of History at Wayne State University are delighted to announce another round of travel grants designed to facilitate graduate student participation in the annual North American Labor History Conference. The NALHC is held each year on Wayne State's Detroit campus with the cooperation and support of the Department of History, the Walter Reuther Library, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at Wayne State. Proposals including 1-2 page abstracts and a brief vita must reach conference coordinator Elizabeth Faue at the address below no later than March 1, 2003. Grants will be in the range of $250 and will be judged by the LAWCHA Graduate Prize Committee. The award committee consists of James Barrett of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Cecelia Bucki of Fairfield University, and Mike Honey of the University of Washington, Tacoma. All graduate student proposals chosen for inclusion in the conference program will be considered by the committee for travel grant support, but funds will only allow support for three or four graduate student participants. Recipients should be graduate students at the time of the 2004 North American Labor History Conference. Consideration shall be on the basis of the paper proposal and vita.

Graduate students should send the proposals and vitae to the following address for consideration:

Elizabeth Faue, coordinator,
North American Labor History Conference
Department of History
3094 Faculty/Admin Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-2525 or Fax: 313-577-6987

Deadline: March 1, 2003
Announcement: On or about May 1, 2003

3 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) Minority Graduate Student Conference Travel Award

The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) will offer at least one travel award to support the participation of a minority graduate student in the North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University, Detroit in October 2003. Proposals including 1-2 page abstracts and a brief vita must reach conference coordinator Elizabeth Faue at the address below no later than March 1, 2003. Grants will be in the range of $250 and will be judged by the LAWCHA Graduate Prize Committee. The award committee consists of James Barrett of the University of Illinois at Urbana, Cecelia Bucki of Fairfield University, and Mike Honey of the University of Washington, Tacoma. All minority graduate student proposals chosen for inclusion in the conference program will be considered by the committee for travel grant support, but funds may not allow for support of all minority graduate student participants. Recipients should be graduate students at the time of the 2004 North American Labor History Conference. Consideration shall be on the basis of the paper proposal and vita. The committee requests that candidates indicate minority status at their own discretion.

Minority graduate students should send their proposals and vitae to the following address for consideration:

Elizabeth Faue, coordinator,
North American Labor History Conference
Department of History
3094 Faculty/Admin Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-2525 or Fax: 313-577-6987

Deadline: March 1, 2003
Announcement: On or about May 15, 2003