Thanks to all of the participants in the 2016 SHAFR Annual Meeting.
Taking (an early) look ahead, the 2017 annual meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area (Arlington, VA) from June 21-24, 2017. The Call for Papers (CFP) will be going out in the Fall, with an early December deadline for proposals. More details will be available once the CFP is released.
We are pleased to announce that SHAFR member Carly Goodman has been selected as a 2016 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and will begin a position at the American Friends Service Committee in the fall. (More info at http://www.acls.org/news/06-08-2016/) Thanks to receiving SHAFR's Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2015-2016, Goodman successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in History from Temple University this spring.
Thomas W. Zeiler is a professor of history and international affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he directs the Global Studies Academic Program. He received is B.A. from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he studied with Stephen Pelz. He has lived in Buenos Aires and Tokyo as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Among his six books is Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire.
