The Hyatt Regency Phoenix has a limited number of rooms set aside under a Student Subsidy block that will be $89/night (rather than the standard $129/night rate). Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible to take advantage of this limited availability.

Click here to make online reservations. Please note that the pull-down menu will allow you to switch between the general and student hotel blocks.

The GECC would like to announce the following two panels and film screening that have been accepted for the upcoming annual meeting:

I’ve Got a Ph.D. in the History of Science, Now What? Historians at work in a down economy on Saturday, 11/21 at 9-11:45am.

Digital Media in the History of Science on Saturday, 11/21 at 1:30-3:10pm (co-sponsored by the Committee on Research and the Profession)

History of Science in Film: A Screening of Proteus and a Conversation with Director David Lebrun on Saturday, 11/21 at 3:30-5:30pm.

Please check back for additional information and rooms.

Need a little encouragement to chat with senior scholars at the annual HSS Meeting? Want to help younger scholars feel at home at the conference? Participate in the HSS Mentorship program at Phoenix, November 19-22, 2009.

The Mentorship program is designed to bring first-time attendees at the HSS Meeting together with a more experienced colleague together in a collegial spirit – communicating one’s ideas and interests in the conference atmosphere can be quite exciting for the first-timer, while a more seasoned colleague may find sharing their knowledge very satisfying.

Participation in this program requires some preparation. The first-time attendees and mentors’ first point of contact is the program officer at HSSmentorship@gmail.com by September 7, 2009. Please consult the Mentorship program guidelines at http://hssgecc.wordpress.com/mentorship-program/ for further directions.

The participants are paired on the grounds of shared scholarly interest by Joan Cadden (HSS Women’s Caucus) in October. The junior scholars are expected to contact their mentors by the beginning of November in order to “touch base,” to communicate their interests and goals for the Meeting, as well as to schedule a meeting time during the conference.

Thank you for your participation!

Travel Grants are only available to those persons participating in the 2009 conference (e.g. presenting a paper, chairing a session, commentator for a session, society governance).

Travel Grants are for transportation to and from the conference hotel, including shuttle services, but do not cover lodging and food. You may also request registration reimbursement. Travel Grants are reimbursed after the conference. Deadline for receipt of application is 31 July. Click here to go to the application form.

For more information about the travel grants, click here to read the FAQs.

A four-university consortium based out of Florida State University recently received funding from the National Science Foundation to support one graduate student who will participate in a 30-month research project on the ways in which historic and contemporary conceptualizations of the Arctic are impacting state and non-state actors’ proposals for exercising sovereignty in the region. The project, titled “Territorial Imaginaries and Arctic Sovereignty Claims,” incorporates the following conceptual foci:

- international relations theory (including but not limited to post-structuralist IR theory)
- political geography (especially work on critical geopolitics, constructions of territory/territoriality, and nation-building)
- anthropology of northern peoples
- international law (especially with reference to the Arctic and the Law of the Sea)
- global governance institutions
- political economy of resource extraction
- political economy of transportation
- social theories of materiality and virtuality
- history of science and exploration
- Arctic studies

Potential graduate students should have previous training in at least one of these research areas and an interest in pursuing further knowledge in several of these areas. Experience with qualitative research software (or a desire to learn this software) also would be desirable.

Senior investigators on the project are Lead PI Phil Steinberg (Geography @ Florida State), PIs Hannes Gerhardt (Geosciences @ West Georgia) and Jeremy Tasch (Geography & Environmental Planning @ Towson), and Faculty Associates Ron Doel (History @ Florida State) and Rob Shields (Sociology @ Alberta).

The student would be enrolled in the Department of Geography at Florida State under the direction of Dr. Steinberg. The graduate student could begin studies as early as Autumn 2009 or as late as Autumn 2010.

Please contact Phil Steinberg at psteinbe@fsu.edu or +1 850 644 8378 if you’re interested or if you have a graduating student whom you think might be interested.

Thank you,

Phil Steinberg

Phil Steinberg
Professor, Department of Geography
Director, Social Science & Public Affairs Living-Learning Community
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2190 USA
Phone: +1 850 644 8378
Fax: +1 850 644 5913
Personal website: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~psteinbe