Southern Connecticut State University History Department Graduate Program

Nominations Sought for Outstanding Teaching and Advisor Awards

The Office of Faculty Development invites you to nominate SCSU’s outstanding professors for two exclusive awards, the J. Philip Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor Award.

To nominate your choice for each award, read the brief award descriptions, click on the links provided, and give the name, department, and reason (limit of 1000 characters) that you believe your professor deserves the award. Both the quantity and the quality of overall nominations for outstanding professors will be considered by the review committee. Be sure to place your own vote and encourage your peers to place their nominations for their outstanding professors, as well. Awardees will be announced by April 1.

The last day to nominate your outstanding professors for these awards is Monday, February 6, 2017, at 12:00pm.


J. Philip Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching

Have you been taught by an outstanding professor? Maybe they made you think in a new way, touched your life in a positive way, or motivated you to a higher level of performance based on their knowledge, teaching style, and interactions.

The J. Philip Smith Outstanding Teaching Award is presented each year to one full-time professor and one-part time professor. Awardees receive $2,500 and a personalized plaque and are recognized at undergraduate commencement.

Click HERE to nominate your Outstanding Teacher.


Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award

Nominations are also sought for the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award. This award recognizes and rewards faculty who provide exceptional academic advising and mentoring to undergraduate or graduate students. The recipient will receive a $1,000 award, a personalized plaque, and public recognition for their outstanding effort.

Full-time faculty at all ranks who are currently employed at SCSU are eligible for nomination. Faculty who work collaboratively with students in charting their academic direction, display knowledge of academic programs, degree requirements, and university resources supporting student success, and who provide exemplary guidance to students are especially qualified for nomination.

Click HERE to nominate your Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor.

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Byron Nakamura, PhD
Associate Prof of Ancient History
Graduate Coordinator
GCCC Chair
Department of History
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, CT 06515
Phone: 203-393-7039

Society for Military History Conference Travel Grants

The organizing committee for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History just wants to remind graduate students presenting papers at this year’s gathering that the deadline for travel grants is fast approaching. The Society sponsors two awards that have a deadline of January 15, 2017:

“The Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant”
The Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant Awards honors one of the great American military historians of the 20th century and supports conference participation by gifting funding to promising graduate students. For more information, please use the following link: http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/awards/weigleyapp.html

“Jeffrey Grey Memorial Travel Grant”
This travel grant honors the late Dr. Jeffrey Grey, past president of the Society, and is awarded to an outstanding graduate student who is enrolled in a graduate program located outside of North America. Funds are intended to defray costs associated with presenting a paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. Those interested in learning more about the award and the application process can find the information by using the link: http://www.smh-hq.org/awards/awards/greyapp.html

Graduate advisors, please encourage your students to apply, and thank you for your letters of support.

Thank you for your interest in the 2017 Annual Meeting!

Sincerely,

Eleanor Clark
SMH 2017 Coordinating Team

Application Info | The Society for Military History The Russell F. Weigley Awards are given to outstanding graduate students to help defray costs associated with presenting a paper or poster at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The award provides $1,000 to each recipient.Only students whose proposal for a paper or poster has bee...

Connecticut State University “Making History” Conference
March 24, 2017
To be held at
Eastern Connecticut State University
Call for Papers

The four Chairs of the CSU History Departments (Professors Katherine Hermes, Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Troy Paddock and Kevin Gutzman) would like to invite undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from the CSU History Departments to submit proposals for a conference to be held Friday, March 24, 2017 at Eastern Connecticut State University. Our goal is to establish academic ties and networks among our four departments, and we encourage submissions made up of participants from more than one campus.
This conference will bring together history undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty from our four CSU campuses in a day-long exploration of historical questions. The subject matter and themes are open to encourage the widest possible participation. We welcome complete panels, poster sessions, roundtables, workshops, and special projects, as well as individual papers that can be combined into inter-campus panels.

To submit a presentation, please send 250-word proposals for individual papers, poster sessions, panels, roundtables, workshops or special projects between Dec. 15 and Feb. 15 to Dr. Anna Kirchmann, Chair, Department of History, ECSU at [email protected].