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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The wait is over—we are so excited to introduce our newest additions to the Graduate Council! Please read more about each of them, and their interesting research, below:

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you're interested in getting involved with SHA as a graduate student, now is the time—we are accepting applications for 6 new SHA Grad Council Members! Click here for further information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline is August 1, 2026!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Jon Sewell, a PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University, will be discussing “Case Study of the Nashville Underground Music Archive.” Join us today at 12p EST to hear about more exciting new projects—Zoom link below!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Connall MacLennan, a PhD student at University College London, will be discussing “The Church and the Formation of Queer Identity, Community, and Politics in the State of Georgia, 1945-2015” Join us this Wednesday 12p EST to hear about more exciting new projects—Zoom link below!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Charles Miller, an MA student at LSU, will be discussing "'The Prevailing Attitude': Reconstruction Memory and the Ku-Klux Klan in Early 20th Century Literature" Join us this Wednesday 12p EST to hear about several exciting new projects—Zoom link below!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Rickey Baisley, a PhD student at LSU, will be discussing his piece, “Brother Watson’s Familiar Ghosts: Spiritualism in the Post-Civil War South” Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about several exciting new projects in southern history—Zoom link below!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Hannah Kornblut, an MA student at Kent State, will be discussing her project, “To Protect and Serve: The New Orleans Police and the Making of Race during the 19th Century” Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about exciting new projects in southern history!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SoEx Spotlight: Caleb Roark, a PhD student at LSU, will be discussing his project, "Artisans in the Southern Metropolis: The New Orleans Mechanics' Society." Join us this Wednesday 12pm EST to hear about several exciting new projects in southern history! Zoom link below!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! forms.gle/9v3jAsdwrn4Q...

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! forms.gle/9v3jAsdwrn4Q...

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Grad Students! Do you work on the Civil War Era? If so, consider applying for the Society of Civil War Historians' Graduate Student Connection Committee!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey y'all! The Southern is next week, and we hope to see some of you there—comment if you'll be in St. Pete! Please come by the Grad Luncheon on Thursday, Nov 6, from 12:30-1:30pm in the Blue Heron room—there will be free food and good conversation! RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHALunch

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“Hey Graduate Students! Are you headed to The Southern in St. Pete Beach this November and looking for some additional funding? The SHA Grad Council is opening up applications for our third year of travel grants! Apply with the info below by 9/5!”

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The SHA's Annual Membership Drive begins this month, so take advantage of this deal!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST. RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Grad students! Consider attending a panel on how to get your work published!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Curious about the mysterious world of academic publishing? Join us via Zoom at "Deciphering Reader 2: Academic Publishing for Grad Students," June 25 11am EST. RSVP: tinyurl.com/SHAPub

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Summer Perritt is a History PhD candidate at Rice University. Her dissertation looks to explain the impetus for the return migration of Black Americans to the U.S. South in the post-civil rights period, and its implications in the lives of migrants today.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Madison Ingram is a History PhD Candidate at Temple University. Follow her at mingsga.bsky.social! Her dissertation explores the gap between northern philanthropists' perceptions of Black libraries in the Jim Crow South, and those libraries' actual programming and practice.

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TUGSA member. History PhD Candidate at Temple University, studying libraries in the South. UGA alum and Arsenal supporter. Build a Better South.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Sammie Chomsky is a PhD student in US History at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is researching GROW (Grass Roots Organizing Work), a project aimed at organizing poor and working-class white people into interracial coalitions in the Deep South in the 1960s.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Leslie Garrote, a third-year PhD student at Baylor University, will be presenting her research on April 9th! Her work focuses on issues of race and gender in American Evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st c, specifically in the racial reconciliation movement.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Sam Bisno, a Mitchell Scholar and MA student at Queen's University Belfast, will be discussing his thesis at SoEx on April 9! His work lies at the intersection of labor, technology, slavery and emancipation, and capitalism.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her dissertation, ‘With Blood on Their Stockings,’ investigates women's involvement in racial terror across Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Katie Drash Mapes, an MA student at Virginia Commonwealth University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9! She traces how the Marshall family’s involvement in the domestic slave trade reflected and influenced shifts in slavery and masculinity.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Morgan Bettin-Coleman, a PhD Candidate at Rice University, will be discussing her dissertation at Southern Exchanges on April 9! Her work challenges the centrality of whiteness in discussions of race, focusing on interactions between Black and Indian peoples.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

SoEx Spotlight: Young-in Jang, a PhD Candidate at Binghamton University, will be discussing her dissertation, ""Useless or Depraved Members of Society": Working-Class Children and Childhood in Antebellum Baltimore," at SHAGC's Southern Exchanges on April 9th!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! tinyurl.com/SoEx2025

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Do you run an archive in the South or with southern collections? Do you offer grants or fellowships? If you do, the SHA Grad Council wants to hear from you! We're developing a living list to help grad students learn about opportunities at your archives. Contact us at shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Grad students! Sign up for Southern Exchanges!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Historians in the United Kingdom who study the American South! Have YOU heard about the Southern Historical Association's Edinburgh Workshop? If not, read all about it at edinburghsouthernhistoryworkshop.co.uk Call for papers due February 28th!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Are you a history graduate student working on or in the South? Sign up to share your research with peers in a low-pressure setting! tinyurl.com/SoEx2025

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

At the SHA Grad Council, we're looking forward to a great New Year! Stay tuned for updates on our exciting 2025 schedule, especially the Southern Exchanges Forum, where graduate students can connect and share elevator pitches on their research!

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SAWH @sawh1970.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The SAWH has officially joined Bluesky! Help us get started by following, posting, and commenting with your handles and research!

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Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

📘Hi new followers📘 We're here for all things history of the U.S. South, broadly conceived. We are working on Volume 91 (!!) now. You can always find what's current and forthcoming in the JSH at thesha.org/contents and info on submissions and reviews at thesha.org/submissions.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Registration is open for the Annual Graduate Student Luncheon at the Annual Meeting! Come hear from scholars & make connections! This year, the Grad Council is partnering with the WHA Grad Caucus for the largest luncheon yet! Friday, Oct 25 12:30-1:30 pm. bit.ly/shakclunch.

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SHA Graduate Student Luncheon 2024 Registration Link

Thank you for your interest in attending the SHA Graduate Council's Graduate Student Luncheon on Friday, October 25 from 12:30-1:30 pm in Washington Park Place II. For more information about the Lunc...

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

The Graduate Council is pleased to welcome Emily Lampert, Roraig Finney & Tim Case as new members on November 1st, and Justin P. Jones & Audrey Sisel as new members in November 2025! Find out more about them here: bit.ly/shagcresults...

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

The second annual @thesouthernsha.bsky.social History Across the Generations will be held on Tuesday, October 15, from 3 to 4 EST. Register here: bit.ly/4dAryos. See you all there!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

The SHA Grad Council is raffling off tickets to the WHA Graduate Student Reception! The WHA Graduate Reception takes place on October 24th at 7:30 pm. To enter, send us a DM with your name & institution. The raffle ends on October 21st & those chosen will be notified on the 22nd.

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

At SouthxWest Exchanges, you’ll hear from: Samuel Green (Mississippi State University) Jennifer Mills (George Mason University) Tom Seabrook (George Mason University) Muhammad Rafi (UC Irvine) Patrick Sheridan (University of Georgia) Freddy Cabral (UTEP) Emma Wathen (UW-Madison) bit.ly/47EIAR6.

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SouthxWest Exchanges Presenters

Samuel Green (Mississippi State University): “Ulysses in the Land of Dragons: U.S.-China Diplomacy During the Grant Era” My research explores the foreign policy of the Grant Administration towards Qin...

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

In celebration of the joint 2024 SHA Annual Meeting and WHA Conference, SHA Grad Caucus & SHA Grad Council are collaborating on the 1st SouthxWest Exchanges to highlight research from grad students in Southern and Western history. Tues. 9/24/24, 10am PDT/6pm BST bit.ly/SxW24

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

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SHA Graduate Student Luncheon 2024 Registration Link

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Have you seen the September @TheSouthernSHA email newsletter? So many updates from the Grad Council! - SouthxWest Exchanges on 9/24 - Register for the Grad Student Lunch @ The Southern. We are looking for table leads! - SHA Merch & travel grant applications close on 9/27!

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The SHA Grad Council & @WHAGrads invite you to share your research in 5 minutes or less & add a line to your CV! All stages welcome. Sign-up @: bit.ly/southwestex24Tuesday Sep 24, 2024 10am PST/1pm EDT/6pm BST #SHAWHA24 #southernhistory #westernhistory @WhaHistory @thesouthernsha.bsky.social

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SHA Grad Council @shagradcouncil.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

If you will be joining #TheSouthern in Kansas City and want to score some custom SHA/Kansas City merch, place your order here!

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