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Feb. 1 | CFP 2012 Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association
Deadline February 1, 2012

Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due

Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due

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FROM THE EDITORS

Vote in the 2012 ASA Election

We invite current members of the American Studies Association to vote in the 2012 ASA Election.

http://asa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/2012_asa_vote.cgi

All voting must be completed by March 1, 2012. All electronic voting is confidential.

Enroll as a Lifetime ASA Member

Published on January 26, 2012 by John F Stephens.

Call for Nominations: Standing and Prize Committees

The Executive Committee of the American Studies Association invites applications and nominations for the committee positions listed here. Candidates must be association members and should possess expertise appropriate to the committee’s work.

Applications should include a brief statement outlining one’s qualifications and experience, letter(s) of reference relating the candidate’s experience to the committee’s work , and a maximum two-page vita.
Nominations should relate the candidate’s experience to the committee’s work and include each nominee’s brief statement outlining his or her qualifications and experience and a maximum two-page vita.

Materials should be assembled by the applicant or nominator and submitted electronically to the ASA Executive Committee in the form of a single PDF before April 1, 2012. The materials should not exceed six pages in length.

Submit an application via our online PDF Submission form

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Published on January 26, 2012 by ASASTAFF.

More From the Editors

WHAT'S NEW IN THE COMMUNITY

Call for Commentors/Moderators

The Religion and American Culture Caucus was highly successful in increasing the number of panels on religion at the Annual Meeting of ASA in 2011, and we hope to repeat the experience in 2012. To that end, the Caucus has organized several panels for submission to the ASA program committee, but some of them are still in need of moderators/commentators. As a moderator/commentator, you would provide brief introductory comments for the panel, manage time, provide comments on each presentation as well as comments that unite the presentations, and manage Q and A. Moderators/commentators can appear on the ASA program only once, so please do not volunteer for this position if you already have a commitment to the ASA program.

Moderators/commentators are needed for panels on the following topics:
Animals and spirituality
American atheism
Catholicism, violence, and nationalism
Celebrity and religion
Liberation theology
Missionaries and empire
Religion and empire in the New World
Religion and Empire in Asia
Mormonism and race
Mormonism and violence
Presidential religion
Religion in early America
Slavery and abolition
Religion and tourism
Religion and war

If you can volunteer to moderate/comment upon one of these panels, please contact Rebecca Barrett-Fox promptly at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). As a reminder, panels cannot be submitted without moderators/commentators, so your generosity here might be the difference between a panel being submitted or not.

These are just some of the great topics that panelists are proposing. This year’s Annual Meeting promises to be a great one for scholars of religion. Thanks for your help in making that happen!

Published in Religion and American Culture Caucus on 1/17/12 by Kelly J. Baker.

2012 Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association

The Program Committee for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association invites proposals for presentations to the annual meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21, hosted by the Claremont Colleges.

Published in California American Studies Association on 1/16/12 by Adam Golub.