Here is 2025 Cohort Edward DuBois Ragan explaining how the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship bridged his funding gap allowing him to work with tribal citizens. The call for applications is open and the deadline for submissions is May 1. To apply, click here: shear.org/about-us/she...
Join us on Thursday 4/23 at 1:00pm EST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to discuss how to communicate our work to a non-academic audience and advocate our value! Registration below: butleru.zoom.us/j/4161145554.
Call for Participants: SHEAR Biography Workshop
SHEAR invites applications for the SHEAR Biography Workshop to be held in-person from 9am-4pm Thursday, July 16, at #SHEAR2026 in Philadelphia.
Registration deadline is May 17. Click the link to apply: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/08/s...
Here is 2024 Cohort Jamey Jesperson explaining how the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship supported her research into Indigenous trans women’s history. The call for applications is open and the deadline for submissions is May 1. To apply, click here: shear.org/about-us/she...
Call for Participants: SHEAR Second-Book Writers' Workshop.
SHEAR invites applications for the #2BWW to be held in-person on July 16th at #SHEAR2026 in Philadelphia. One virtual discussion panel will be offered.
Click the link to learn more and apply: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/08/s...
Here is 2024 Cohort Anthony Trujillo explaining how the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship helped address the resource gap for conducting research. The call for applications is open and the deadline for submissions is May 1. For more information and to apply, click here: shear.org/about-us/she....
Happy to see my @shearites.bsky.social Presidential Address "The First American Republic: An Alternative Genealogy" (expanded version) out in print in the Journal of the Early Republic Spring issue. Get your copies folks! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56474?...
Here is 2023 Cohort Erica Duncan explaining how the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship helped her conduct research in the Caribbean. The call for applications is open and the deadline for submissions is May 1. For more information and to apply, click here: shear.org/about-us/she....
In this clip for our first SHEAR Book Prize Talk with Sarah L.H. Gronningsater, 2024 Broussard First Book Prize winner, she explains that slavery wasn’t an incidental labor institution but was a key aspect of colonial New York. To hear the full interview click on this link: youtu.be/1DKyDiSiOWU?...
Thanks to a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, SHEAR is launching the SHEAR Civics Exchange initiative and seeking an outreach coordinator to serve as the point person for the project. Applications are due April 24. More information here: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/23/s....
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Here is 2022 Cohort Alexander Chaparro-Silva explaining how helpful the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship was in supporting his early-stage research. The call for applications is open and the deadline for submissions is May 1. For more information and to apply, click here: shear.org/about-us/she....
Over the next few weeks, we are sharing testimonials from past recipients of the SHEAR DEI Research Fellowship. Here is 2022 Cohort Alison McCann speaking about how the fellowship and SHEAR helped support her research. The deadline for applications is May 1. Apply here: shear.org/about-us/she....
👏 Join us in celebrating Kate Tyler Wall on her 20th anniversary with the Journal of the Early Republic! 👏
Read her interview on the #JERPano, reflecting on her experience, scholarly publishing, and the future of academic journals:
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Opportunity: Live and Study in Lord North’s Historic Home! Wroxton College is hosting a program, “Lord North, the American Revolution & Wroxton Abbey,” from June 21-26th with lectures and excursions. If interested, apply below before April 2nd: wroxton.college/lord-north.
Join us Wednesday March 25 at 11:00am EST on Zoom for the SHEAR Community Building Committee’s first Book Talk. This talk will feature Madelaine Drohan speaking about her new book: He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Also, tune into this space weekly for testimonials from past fellows!
Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....
Nominations Due Tomorrow!
Deadline Extended! SHEAR’s Nominations Committee is accepting nominations for officers. The extended deadline is next Friday (2/27). If you’re interested in nominating yourself or someone else, click the link below for more information: shear.org/about-us/off...
Today! Join us on at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to brainstorm assignment ideas, crowdsource readings, brag about discussions/assignments or share horror stories! Registration below: butleru.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Are you the author of a 2025 book on the Early American Republic? Please nominate those titles for our SHEAR book prizes. The nominations deadline is March 1. For more information about our prizes and where to send the books, click here: shear.org/shear-book-p....
Call for Nominations: SHEAR’s Nominations Committee is now accepting nominations for officers. The deadline is next Friday February 20th. If you’re interested in nominating yourself or someone else, click the link below for more information: shear.org/about-us/off...
Join us on Thursday 2/19 at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to brainstorm assignment ideas, crowdsource readings, brag about discussions/assignments or share horror stories! Registration below: butleru.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Did you miss our January 23rd webinar titled "Resumes for Historians," where panelists provided advice on how to translate academic skills into language employers will understand and maximize career opportunities? You can now view that conversation on our YouTube channel!
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Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize
Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000!
For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.
The JER is pleased to welcome Lindsay Schakenbach Regele as co-editor. Schakenbach Regele is Professor of History at Miami University, where she also directs the History combined BA/MA program. Her scholarship examines the confluence of economic interests, diplomacy, domestic politics, and military power in the early republic. She is the author of Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). Her article, ”’Confidence’: Private Correspondence in Daniel Parkers War Department, 1811-1846," appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. In addition to her work with the JER, she has published widely in venues including the Journal of Southern History, Business History Review, Technology & Culture, and Studies in American Political Development, and currently serves as co–book reviews editor for the journal alongside Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan. Lindsay - “I feel incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to serve as co-editor of the Journal with Mark Boonshoft, whose skills and generosity as a scholar I have long admired. It is daunting to be following in the footsteps of such great editors and role models—Johann Neem, Ron Johnson, Andy Shankman, David Waldstreicher, Cathy Kelly, and other members of the masthead. JER scholarship has been instrumental to my development as a historian as I first encountered my PhD adviser—Seth Rockman—in an article he wrote for the JER in the early 2000s! I will be forever grateful for Cathy Kelly’s guidance bringing my article into publishable shape when she served as editor. I hope to serve that role for the Journal’s authors, while encouraging emerging scholars to submit their work to the JER. Mark and I intend to continue the academic rigor and spirit of comradery established by our predecessors.”
👏 We are delighted to welcome Lindsay Schakenbach Regele as the second of our two new co-editors for the #JERPano! 👏
Lindsay will step into the position alongside Mark Boonshoft, beginning July 2026. Read about her perspective on the role and the journal's place in her career below.
The Journal of the Early Republic (JER) seeks applicants for a three-year term co-editing its book reviews section alongside the current co-editor. Appointment will be effective July 2026 at the end of the 2026 SHEAR Annual Meeting. Editors of Reviews manage the solicitation, review, and acceptance process for book reviews and longer review essays published by the JER. Duties include identifying appropriate titles for review and corresponding with presses to ensure that JER receives review copies; identifying potential reviewers and assigning books to scholars with particular expertise in the subject matter; sending books to reviewers and following up with them until submission; providing editing for style and form for submitted reviews; and collaborating with the Managing Editor to allot received reviews to particular issues. In its book reviews, the JER is committed to representing the entire field and to encouraging the field’s diversity. This position is uncompensated, but book reviews editors receive up to $1000 to support attendance at the Annual Meeting of SHEAR. Attending the Annual Meeting and the yearly Editorial Board Meeting held during the Annual Meeting is a requirement for the position. Please submit letter of application and c.v. to journaloftheearlyrepublic@wwu.edu. The letter of application should explain the applicant’s interest in the position, relevant skills and experience, vision for the position, and any institutional support for the position. Questions may be addressed to the Editors at the above email address. Review of applications will begin March 10, 2026.
The Journal of the Early Republic is currently accepting applications for a Book Reviews Co-Editor!
Serve a three-year term beginning July 2026. Review of applications begins March 10, 2026.
View the #JERPano CFA on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/13/c...
This webinar is designed to help humanities Ph.D.s in their search for non-academic positions in a tough market. Dr. Brooke Lansing Mai will share strategies she learned the hard way -- lessons that few of our graduate programs teach us. Join us, and pose questions you have on the registration page!
