News from the Director of Research - August 2024
In This Issue:
- Conferences and Lectures
- Welcoming Brett Rushforth to the HLQ
August 2024 - The Research Division is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 2024-25 cohort of Long-Term Fellows and the launch of our new season of academic programming. You can see the full schedule of academic programs on our Academic Conferences and Lectures page. As always, these events are open to the public with advance registration for a nominal fee of $35, an increase over the $25 fee the Research Division has charged since the 1990s. (Inflation catches up with all of us.)
Richard Bull (1721–1805), extra-illustrated copy of A Collection of the Loose Pieces Printed at Strawberry-Hill [between 1769 and 1801]. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
We have an exciting line-up of conferences and lectures in store, kicking off in September with “Extra Extra! The Material History of the Visually Altered Book.” Join scholars in the field as they discuss extra-illustration, a once-popular practice in which readers altered their books by adding visual elements such as engravings.
The Huntington Library is the leading repository for extra-illustrated books in the United States, if not the world. There are over 1,000 examples in its collections, including Richard Bull’s iconic 36-volume extra-illustrated copy of James Granger’s A Biographical History of England.or subscribe.
Brett Rushforth, Editor in Chief of the Huntington Library Quarterly.
I am thrilled to introduce Brett Rushforth, our new Editor-in-Chief of the Huntington Library Quarterly, the flagship publication of the institution.
The HLQ is a peer-reviewed academic journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period and has been in continuous production since 1937.
Brett joins us from the University of Oregon where he was an Associate Professor of History. In 2022-23, he was an NEH Long-Term Fellow at The Huntington.
He is a renowned scholar of the early modern Atlantic world who has written widely on Indigenous America, French colonialism and empire, and the African Diaspora. He is the author of the award-winning Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (2012) and the forthcoming Beyond the Ocean: A New History of France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, co-authored with Christopher Hodson.
With Brett’s arrival, the journal is poised for the next chapter in its storied history, as we expand the scope and audience beyond its traditional strengths in early modern British literature and history to encompass a more global approach to early modern studies. The journal also has a new institutional partner, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Learn more about the journal or subscribe.
Susan Juster
W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research
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April 2024 - Awarded Fellowships
Jan. 2024 - Fellowship Competition
Sept. 2023 - It's a New Year!
May 2023 - Getting to Know The Huntington