Announcements

Announcements The Journal would like to extend our call for papers for an upcoming special issue and has received the following announcement. Requests for inclusion of future announcements should reach us nine months prior to the deadline of the event (to ensure timely publication of posting and allow adequate time for applicants to respond). Send all announcements to: Managing Editors, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History , The Ohio State University, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367 U.S.A., or e-mail . The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a special issue on age as a category of analysis in women's history. We seek manuscripts on any part of the world in any historical period that deal with age cohorts of women (young women, middle-aged women, and old women), generational interactions, or women's life cycles. We particularly are interested in conceptualizing what it means to take age into account, along with gender , class, ethnicity, and sexuality, in analyzing women's lives. The issue will be guest edited by Birgitte Seland and will appear in early 2001. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 1999. Send four one-sided, doublespaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to: Ages of Women Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 230 W. 17th Avenue, Columbus , OH 43210-1367. For more details on submission policy, e-mail or see the Notice to Contributors page in any recent issue of the Journal of Women's History. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) invites applications for its 1999-2000 Scholars in Residence Program and its newly inaugurated Collaborative Residency Program. The Scholars in Residence Program provides support for full-time research and study at any Commission fadlity, including the state archives, the State Museum, and twentysix historical sites and museums. The Collaborative Residency Program will fund original research that relates to the interpretive mission of PHMC sites and museums and advances a specific programmatic goal of the host site or museum. Proposals for a Collaborative Residency are to be filed jointly by the applicant institution and interested scholar. Both programs are open to all who are conducting research on Pennsylvania history, including academic scholars, public sector professionals, independent scholars , graduate students, writers, filmmakers, and others. Residencies are available for four to twelve weeks between 1 May 1999 and 30 April 2000, © 1998 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 10 No. 3 (Autumn) 240 Journal of Women's History Autumn at the rate of $1200 per month. For further information and appUcation materials for the Scholars in Residence Program, including the Collaborative Residency Program, contact: Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108; (tel.) 717-787-3034; (e-mail) ; or consult the world wide web at: http://www.state.pa.us/PA_EXEC/Historical_Museum . Deadline is 15 January 1999. ...