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Welcome to the first entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest! Our theme this year is “Stumble.” Aimée Plukker studies the history of tourism, and in this essay considers what tourists are and are not supposed to stumble across, and how cities treat welcome and unwelcome visitors. To see all entries from this year’s […]
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We had an amazing response to our call for submissions to the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest. Our theme this year, Stumble, resonated with nine scholars, who embraced our challenge to write about efforts in urbanism that have stumbled and fallen; times when a stumbling block was overcome to implement a project or initiative; […]
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Just a reminder to graduate students to submit a piece to the UHA/The Metropole Graduate Student Blogging Contest, one of our favorite annual features. Where else can you reach a wide audience of urban historians eager to read about the innovative new directions current students are pushing urban history? Submission deadline is July 15, 2023. […]
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The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest exists to encourage and train graduate students to blog about history—as a way to teach beyond the classroom, market their scholarship, and promote the enduring value of the humanities. This year’s theme is Stumble. We are looking for blog posts about: efforts in urbanism that have stumbled […]
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