The 2025 HOTCUS Doctoral and Early Career Research Awards are now being accepted until April 4, 2025.

The application form, which includes further information about the award, including judging criteria, is attached to this email and is also available on our website.

HOTCUS welcomes applications from doctoral students and recent PhD graduates not yet in academic employment, as well as those on short-term (less than three years), fractional, or hourly paid contracts for its 2025 Research Award competition. 

HOTCUS Research Awards support research in any area of twentieth-century United States history. Applications may be made for up to £500 for research expenses (including the cost of hiring a research assistant) and/or research travel to take place within 12 months after the date of application. There are no residency restrictions and travel may be to, or within, any country. 

To address current patterns of under-representation in the makeup of our scholarly community and the wider discipline of History, HOTCUS especially welcomes applications from scholars with an ethnic minority background. Applicants must be members of HOTCUS at the time of application.

Successful applicants for a HOTCUS Research Award agree to submit a short report within two months of the research activity for publication on the HOTCUS website and to acknowledge the award in future publications.  We also warmly encourage award recipients to present their research findings at a future HOTCUS Annual Conference.

The deadline for applications is April 4, 2025.

Applications should be submitted to [email protected].  Please direct queries tothe same address.

Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the competition in May 2025.

The convenors of the North American History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research are now accepting applications for the 2025 Iwan Morgan Prize.

This prize is awarded to a current or recently-completed doctoral student working on any aspect of North American History. Previous unsuccessful applicants for the award may apply again. 

The winner will receive a small prize and deliver the Iwan Morgan Lecture, which will be delivered to the IHR North American History Seminar community on Thursday 15 May at 17:30.

The competition is open to doctoral students and early career researchers at all UK institutions, but preference may be given to regular attendees of the seminar. Travel expenses will be covered by the IHR.

To apply, please send a brief C.V. and a one-page lecture proposal to the Chair of Convenors, Dr. Elizabeth Ingleson ([email protected]), by Friday 28 March 2025. The lecture proposal should outline the content of the lecture, indicating historiographical context, elements of originality, and methodology/source base.

The 2025 HOTCUS annual conference will be held at the University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025. We are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) will be our keynote speaker, and his talk is titled titled “Defending the American Way: The Liberalism of War and FDR’s National Security Revolution.”

Proposals for the Conference and our PG/ECR Workshop led by Professor Preston are currently being considered and a full schedule will be released in due course.

HOTCUS is actively seeking hosts for our 2026 events, including the Winter Symposium (usually held in February) and the Annual Conference (mid-June). We can only run our events with member support and input, so please do consider if this is something that you can support at your institution. 

If you are interested in hosting a HOTCUS event in 2026 or beyond, or have questions about what this might entail, please reach out to our Events Secretary, Dr Megan Hunt ([email protected]). 

Winter Symposia are usually organised around a particular research theme, sub-discipline, or anniversary. Previous recent themes have included the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the concept of neoliberalism in modern US history, and 1963 as a watershed year. Some have led to the publication of edited collections or journal special issues. 

The History subject area within the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Modern US and Global History (Learning, Teaching & Scholarship Track).

The successful candidate will help deliver an excellent student experience by contributing to teaching, assessment and administration in Glasgow’s large and dynamic History subject within the School of Humanities, which has particular areas of strength including American Studies, Global History, Gender History, Scottish and Celtic Studies, Slavery Studies, and War Studies. The University of Glasgow will host the annual conference of the British Association for American Studies in April 2026, and the post-holder will be able to assist in conference organisation and delivery.  The successful candidate will have expertise in modern or US History in a global context, and their core duty will be to teach the following course, adapted to their own areas of teaching expertise (the date range is indicative):

HIST4279  Imperial States:  Race, War, and Expansion in American History, 1860s-1920s

The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute teaching to one or more our pre-honours courses featuring US and/or Global History, supervise dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and may be asked to contribute (depending on expertise) seminar teaching to our postgraduate courses in Global History, Slavery Studies, and/or War Studies.

To apply and for more information, please see:

https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-in-modern-us-and-global-history-lts-track?source=google.com