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PhAt Goodbyes

Our original plans for this coming Thursday have fallen through a bit, so we decided it’s the perfect time to say some goodbyes. Even if we haven’t met you yet, the graduating officers of Phi Alpha Theta (like half of us!) want to get to know all the new wonderful history majors Berkeley has taken in. If you’re interested in talking about Phi Alpha Theta, the honors thesis, grad school, or literally anything else, we’ve been through it all at this point and are more than willing to give you our two cents. PhAT President Dorian Cole will be present for the whole event with other members of Phi Alpha Theta dropping by throughout. We’d love to see you there!


P.S. If you’ve been promised a PhAT certificate or are looking to pay your dues, we’ll be both delivering and collecting at this event! 😛

History 101 Circus

Come one, come all to the annual History 101 Circus, where graduating students can showcase their final projects in snappy 10-minute presentations!

Whether you’d like to present or just come and watch, please RSVP at https://forms.gle/AdWd4B7JL2o3js6GA

We really recommend all seniors take part in this wonderful capstone event! I promise you won’t regret it!

SURF-SMART

Reminder that SURF-SMART applications are due soon! We’ve had a student reach out with interest in a Phi Alpha Theta student.

The SURF-SMART program provides a $5,000 stipend for undergraduates selected to assist graduate students with summer research projects. Applications are due on March 1, 2022. https://surf.berkeley.edu/applying-surf-smart/Michael Banerjee is a PhD student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and a mentor with the SURF-SMART research program. His project is an opportunity for a student interested in graduate study in law and/or history to gain interdisciplinary research skills and subject-matter expertise through work on a legal history of the University of California (UC). Under the on-site supervision of the mentor—a rising fourth-year doctoral student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and a graduate of Harvard Law School—the student will conduct original legal and historical research essential to a dissertation on constitutional universities—heretofore unrecognized, world-historic universities chartered by state constitutions and peculiar to the American west—of which UC is one. Specifically, the student will analyze UC Regents’ Reports and relevant appellate cases from 1868–1900. The student will produce a weekly two-page memorandum of findings and a final ten-page synthesis, which can serve as a writing sample for graduate applications. The student is expected to commit three days (of their choosing) per week to the project: two days on-site at UC’s Bancroft Library and one day remote. The student will (1) develop interdisciplinary research skills; (2) acquire subject-matter expertise, including in legal history and constitutional law; (3) produce a writing sample for graduate applications; and (4) gain a lifelong academic and professional mentor. All necessary training will be provided.

American Conservation Experience

We want YOU to get a paid internship!

Come meet with Deanna Stark and Jen Wells, program managers for the American Conservation Experience. They will be discussing paid positions with their program and will be focusing on: a Museum Management Member position with Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site and their Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program.

This event has been rescheduled to February 17th at 7pm! The zoom link is still https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95776946698