The American Studies Consortium sponsors workshops that bring graduate students together for two to three day workshops, which focus on specific topics, and often reflect a faculty member’s research interests. Over the course of the workshop, graduate students formulate individual research topics and discuss readings that are relevant to the topic determined by the workshop instructor. We encourage the location of workshops at member campuses or at research archives. This allows students to become familiar with the resources available at specific archives, before they begin their dissertation research. Faculty members who direct these workshops are provided with stipends, as are the students who participate in these workshops. Participation is open to all graduate students from the consortium membership and each institution is entitled to one seat in the workshop.
Faculty members who are interested in sponsoring a workshop should provide a brief abstract that describes the workshop topic and a tentative date, a syllabus for the course, and a curriculum vitae. Applications from the faculty for the spring semester should be filed by December 1 and for the fall semester should be forwarded to the AIS Consortium office by May 1. Faculty members should make the readings available to students at least two weeks in advance of the workshop. The AIS Consortium Office provides support services for the distribution of reading materials.
Graduate student applications should be sent directly to the AIS Consortium Office and the selection will be made in consultation with the American Indian Studies program director at each campus. Spaces not filled by one campus will then become available to the other institutions.
Past Workshops
Fall 2008 Graduate Student Workshop was “Ethnohistorical Methods,” with Raymond J. DeMallie
