The SHAFR Summer Institute is an intensive professional development program bringing together graduate students and early-career scholars. The Institute fosters a collaborative learning community and equips participants with content knowledge, pedagogical tools, and career advice.
"My time at the SHAFR Summer Institute in 2025 was incredibly energizing, encouraging, and productive. The 2025 Summer Institute was an incredible five days of learning and thinking with some fantastic people, and the program as a whole is a rich opportunity for fostering community and supporting the next generation of scholars of the US in the world."
— Benjamin Allison | University of Texas at Austin
"The SHAFR 2025 Summer Institute was an unforgettable experience. The institute offered incredibly useful in-depth discussions of our dissertation chapters/papers, while also building a strong and supportive cohort of graduate students working in the field of diplomatic history."
"The SHAFR Summer Institute was a welcoming, intellectually supportive environment that helped me feel like I was part of a broader community of historians. Between the feedback and conversations, we made lifelong scholarly connections that showed the potential of each of our projects."
— Jack Werner | University of Maryland, College Park
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Upcoming Institute
2027 Summer Institute
The Afterlives of Empire and Decolonization
Date & Location June 20–24, 2027 Texas A&M’s Bush School DC Campus
Submission Destination Please submit applications to Jason Parker and Aileen Teague
Application Deadline Please submit all application materials by December 15, 2026
