Coffee Break: April 2021

Member Updates

After five years of being a contract instructor, as of July 2021 Rachel Mason Dentinger will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah. She has also been named the 2021-2022 Environmental Humanities Research Professor by the University of Utah's Environmental Humanities Graduate Program.

Publications

Melanie A. Kiechle (Virginia Tech) published "'Health is Wealth': Valuing Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States," in The Journal of Social History 54, no. 3 (Spring 2020): 775-798. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz10

Events

Archival Kismet: A Conference for Historical Exploration
This non-traditional virtual conference will be a forum for history researchers and those in allied disciplines to share early research findings, focusing on the objects, artifacts, and ephemera of the archive. 

This is a space for scholars to share new archival finds and what is exciting about them, without worrying about what conclusions we will reach. Ample time will also be given for group feedback and suggestions, and there may be opportunities to share your work in other formats post-conference. 

The conference will take place April 8-11, 2021, hosted virtually at Mississippi State University. Please contact Courtney Thompson (cthompson@history.msstate.edu) with any questions or concerns.