Announcements

The Journal of Women's History is now officially in its new home at the University of Illinois, under the co-editorship of Professors Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton, with Professor Marilyn Booth as book review editor. All manuscripts and queries should be sent to the addresses below. To access guidelines for submissions see <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/guidelines.html>.

The Journal of Women's History is inaugurating a new special section of the journal that will be devoted to the practice of women's history. We are interested in short individual pieces (1,000-2000 words), as well as full roundtable forums of four to five contributors (5-10,000 words total) that explore cutting edge questions in history practice—from the archive to personal narrative work, from grant-writing and publishing to teaching, from activism and community service to campus and department politics. We are currently soliciting short papers for our first roundtable forum: "Teaching gender and women's history in times of war." We would like to assemble a range of perspectives from across the globe. If you would like to contribute to this first forum or have ideas about future history practice sections (either individual or roundtable), please contact the editors at <womenshistory@uiuc.edu> or write to Editors, Journal of Women's History, The University of Illinois, 810 South Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

The Journal of Women's History is soliciting articles for a special issue on women, material culture and consumption, guest edited by Clare Haru Crowston. We seek manuscripts from the broadest chronological, geographical, and methodological range, and from individuals residing around the world. Potential topics include comparative "consumer revolutions;" the gendering of consumption and material culture; fashion, luxury, and the exotic; family and the law in consumption; the relationship between production and consumption; and women's role in credit systems and market culture. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2005. Please send four one-sided, double-spaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to: Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 309 Gregory Hall, MC-466, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL, 61801. Mark the envelope "Attention: Clare Crowston." For more details on our submission policy see <http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/guidelines.html> (and please note that the website is still under revision; the correct address for submitting manuscripts is above).

Beginning in 2005, the Journal of Women's History will regularly feature "The Book Forum," a new special section of short essays (1000-1500 words) that will engage a major scholarly monograph or collection in the field of women's and/or gender history. We will invite reviewers who work outside the temporal or spatial frames of the book in question to assess its importance—in terms of methodological innovation, theoretical significance and empirical discovery—to their own fields of research and teaching. We plan to spotlight books that have had a significant impact on women's history within the past decade, as well as new titles whose thematic concerns, method, and theoretical groundwork speak to a broad and diverse women's history audience. If you have suggestions of titles or are interested in participating in a Book Forum, please email the Journal's book review editor, Marilyn Booth. <womenshistory@uiuc.edu>

Beginning in early 2005 the online journal/website/database, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, will begin publishing book and website reviews of likely interest to our readers. We are developing lists of potential reviewers and would appreciate hearing from you if you are interested in writing a review. For book reviews, please contact Professor Victoria Brown at Grinnell College at <brownv@grinnell.edu> and for website reviews, write to Dr. Melanie Shell-Weiss at Johns Hopkins University (<shellweiss@jhu.edu>).

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission invites applications for its 2005-2006 Scholars in Residence Program, including applications for collaborative residencies. The Scholars in Residence Program provides support for up to eight weeks of full-time research and study in manuscript and artifact collections maintained by...