PCCBS will hold its 2010 conference at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, March 19-21, 2010. More information will be forthcoming. Rooms will be reserved for registrants at the Doubletree Hotel.
June 22nd, 2009
2009 Article Prize
Winner: Amy Woodson-Boulton, “’Industry without Art is Brutality’: Aesthetic Ideology and Social Practice in Victorian Art Museums” 46, no. 1 Journal of British Studies (2007)
Honorable mention: Molly McClain, “Love, Friendship and Power: Queen Mary II’s Letters to Frances Apsley” 47, no. 3 Journal of British Studies (2008)
2009 Article Prize description
2009 Graduate Prize
Noah Millstone (Stanford), “Evil Counsel: The ‘Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament’ and the Crisis of 1629”
2009 Graduate Prize description
March 17th, 2009
The PCCBS held a very successful conference at the University of San Diego, March 13-15, 2009, with 100 registered participants. Plenary speakers included:
Jacqueline Winspear (Novelist and Author of the Maisie Dobbs’ mysteries), “A Heroine of the Great War, A Woman of Her Time: History (or Her-story) in the Crafting of Story”
Patrick Joyce (Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics), “What’s Left of the Social after Cultural History?”
and
Andree M. Hayum (Professor Emeritus of Art History, Fordham University), “Collecting and Exhibiting for the Public: the Early Art Museum in 19th-Century England”
Special thanks to:
PCCBS President: Constance Jordan, Claremont Graduate University
Vice President: George Behlmer, University of Washington
Treasurer: David Como, Stanford University
Secretary: Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria
Program Committee: Patty Seleski (Chair), Cal State San Marcos; James Gump, University of San Diego; Peter Kanelos, University of San Diego; Belinda Peters, Cal State San Marcos; Martha Stoddard-Holmes, Cal State San Marcos.
Local Arrangements: Molly McClain, University of San Diego
Chair, Article Prize Committee: Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington
Chair, Graduate Prize Committee: Jennifer Andersen, Cal State San Bernardino
March 16th, 2009
You may download a copy of the Fall 2008 Newsletter here:
2008 Newsletter
September 24th, 2008