Emerging from a collective consensus that the creation of a graduate student/early career group within HSS would greatly benefit the next generation of scholars, the GECC is working to develop our mission statement and resource offerings for its members in the coming year.

The chairs and officers are graduate students and early career members of HSS, who act as liaisons between the standing committees of the HSS and the student/early career constituency. The objective of the group is to facilitate communication between caucus members and HSS regarding their concerns, issues, and ideas, as well as potentially having representation on HSS committees in the future.  Current projects include a mentoring program, partnering with the Women’s Caucus to produce the HSS Employment Survey, as well as sponsoring a session at the annual meeting.

In 2007, we had our inaugural meeting as a group at the HSS annual meeting in Washington D.C., where we discussed the group’s mission statement, goals, and discuss future plans.

In 2008, we kicked off the mentoring program, sponsored our first session on turning dissertations into a books, and began a new tradition of a GECC happy hour event.  In the business meeting, members elected new officers and discussed session possibilities and resources to make available in 2009.

We expect HSS to vote on the GECC’s official status at HSS 2009 in Phoenix, Az.

Current Officers

Co-chairs:

Jacqueline Wernimont 2008-2010 (Brown University)
Lynnette Regouby 2009-2011 (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ex-Officio:

Dawn Digrius (Drew University)

Information Officer:

Gina Rumore (University of Minnesota)

Communications Officer:

Giny Cheong (George Mason University)

Mentorship Program Officer:

Taika Dahlbom (University of Turku, Finland)

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