Graduate Colloquium
A "brown bag" forum for students & faculty to discuss grad student projects.
All sessions take place on Thursdays from 12 pm – 1 pm.
Current Schedule: 2006-2007
Fall 2006
October 11 “A People’s University: Higher Education in the New Deal,” by Christopher Loss, Ph.D Candidate, University of Virginia and Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution (Advisor: Brian Balogh)
Commentary by: Jeremy Sullivan, Department of History, UMD (Advisor: Gary Gerstle)
October 25 “‘What is called the Enlightening of the Age’: Evangelical Resistance to Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Culture,” by Jonathan Yonan, Ph.D Candidate, Oxford University
Commentary by: Trisha Posey
November 9, TLF 2100 “The Cult of the Delta Blues Singer: Robert Johnson as British Cultural Talisman,” by Andrew Kellett, Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland (Advisor: Jeffrey Herf)
December 7, TLF 2100 “The Miller Test: The Supreme Court’s Continuing Struggle With the Obscenity Problem,” by Stephen Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland (Advisor: James Gilbert)
Commentary by: Erik Ruark
Call for Papers
We are currently accepting research or conference papers, review essays, dissertation chapters, and thesis chapters for our 2006-2007 sessions.
- The HGSA Graduate Colloquium is designed to be a forum where students and faculty can come together to discuss current projects being worked on by graduate students in History and HiLS at Maryland.
- The environment is relaxed yet professional, providing students with feedback from fellow students and faculty on their work.
- The Colloquium also holds several workshops designed to acquaint students with issues of importance in the academic world, such as the hiring process, the curriculum vitae, research, teaching and publishing.
- If you have recently completed a research paper, review essay, or have a chapter ready from your dissertation or thesis, and you would like to present this work in a collegial environment, please contact Andrew Kellett or Jessica Wagner, the Colloquium directors, at gradcolloq@gmail.com