Announcements

Announœments The foUowing are announcements and caUs for papers received at our office. In the future, such requests should be limited to 100 words and sent to: Managing Editor, JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY, c/o Department of History, BaUantine HaU, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. Announcements wül appear in only two issues. The CoaUtion for Western Women7s History announces the second annual Joan Jensen—Darlis MiUer Prize for the best article published in 1991 on the history of women in the Trans-Mississippi West. Contact: Maria E. Montoya, Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Campus Box 401, Boulder, CO 80309. A group from the Ausfratian Committee of the International Federation for Research in Women7s History proposes to hold a one-day Conference on Women's History on September 30, 1992, in Canberra. The theme is "Women and the State." For further information, contact: Marilyn Lake, Women's Studies, LaTrobe University, Bundoora Vic. 3083. The Women's Studies Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has established WMST-L, a free electronic forum for women's studies. Anyone with computer access to Bitnet or the Internet can subscribe at no cost. Send the foUowing command via E-maü or interactive message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): Subscribe WMST-L your fuU name. For example: Subscribe WMST-L Jane Doe. Messages for distribution should be sent to WMSTL @UMDD (Bitnet) or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). For information , contact: Joan Korenman, Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398. Phone: (301) 455-2040. E-mail: KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN @UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). Women to Women Communications wül begin pubUcation of Women Fight Back in 1992. Each issue wül contain women's personal experiences in primary areas of our society. Subscriptions are $36 for 12 issues. Write: Women Fight Back, P. O. Box 161775, Cupertino, CA 95016. Patricia BeU-Scott and Saundra Murray Nettles announce a call for submissions for An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women's Journals. Journal excerpts from women of aU ages, backgrounds, and world views are sought. Of particular interest are submissions from African-American girls 226 Journal of Women's History Spring or entries written during girlhood. Interested journalists should submit 10 to 30 pages in tripUcate by July 1, 1992, with a stamped, seh-addressed envelope. Submissions need not be typed. Photocopies are acceptable. Send materials to: Patricia BeU-Scott, Department of Quid and Famüy Development, Dawson HaU, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. The Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 'Transformations : Women, Gender, Power," wül be June 11-13,1993, at Vassar CoUege in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Organization of American Historians announces the Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history. The deadline for submission is October 1 for a dissertation completed during the previous academic year. For information, contact: Committee Coordinator, Organization of American Historians, 112 N. Bryan St., BIoomington, IN 474084199 . The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is accepting appUcations for the Myrna F. Bernath Research FeUowship through September 15, 1992. The prize wül be awarded to a woman working in the areas of United States foreign relations, transnational history, international history, peace studies, cultural interchange, and defense or strategic studies. For information, contact: Joan Hoff, Department of History, BaUantine HaU 742, Indiana University, BIoomington, IN 47405. ...