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>CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: NEW BOOK SERIES ON
PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN HISTORY AND
>CULTURE
>
>The Pennsylvania-German Society invites book-length
manuscripts on
>Pennsylvania-German History and Culture to be
published by Penn State
>Press. The Society, founded in 1891, has published
award-winning annual
>books with various publishers, and beginning with
its 2000 volume, will be
>exclusively published by Penn State Press. The new
series will be entitled
>Pennsylvania-German History and Culture. An
international editorial board
>has been appointed and Simon J. Bronner,
Distinguished Professor of
>Folklore and American Studies at Penn State
Harrisburg, has been selected
>as editor of the series and chair of the editorial
board. The spread of the
>Pennsylvania-German culture covers areas in Canada,
South America, Europe,
>and western and southern United States in addition
to a core region in the
>Middle Atlantic and Midwest of the United States.
Topics, geographic
>locations, and disciplinary approaches sought are
open, but
>interdisciplinary studies of material culture and
folk arts, ethnographies
>and oral histories, social and cultural histories,
and comparative cultural
>studies are especially desirable. For more
information, contact Professor
>Simon J. Bronner, American Studies Program, Penn
State Harrisburg, 777 West
>Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898,
717-948-6039, 717-948-6724
>(fax), sjb2@psu.edu.
Simon Bronner
<sjb2@psu.edu>
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