130th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2016)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, January 8, 2016

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


Journal Editor's Breakfast (invitation only)

ASCH Women's Breakfast
American Society of Church History

7:00 AM-5:00 PM


ASCH Information Table
American Society of Church History

8:00 AM-11:00 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-12:00 PM


SHAFR Council Meeting
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office open

AHA Information Desk at the Marriott

AHA Meeting Registration open

Hilton Info Desk

Nursing Mothers’ Room open

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Tuning Project Meeting

Students on the Front Lines: The Fight to Desegregate Public Higher Education in Georgia from the 1960s Atlanta Student Movement to the Undocumented Student Movement Today
AHA Session 55

Digital Projects Lightning Round
AHA Session 56

The Many Careers of the History PhD
AHA Session 57

Reading Sources: Strategies for Teaching In-Depth Document Analysis
AHA Session 58

Model and Mirror: Civil-Military Relations in the Late Austro-Hungarian Empire
AHA Session 59

The Contested Politics of Resource Nationalism in Inter-American Relations
AHA Session 60

Linking the Atlantic with the Heart of Europe: German Transnational Networks in the 18th Century
AHA Session 61

Reproducing Gossip: Gender, Rumor, and Fertility Control
AHA Session 62

Indigenous Counter-Mapping: The Use of GIS, Geovisualizations, and Historical Maps to Reconstruct Indigenous Perspectives and Histories
AHA Session 63

Transnational Narratives of the Healthy Body: Medicine, Disability, and the Law in Modern Mexico and the United States
AHA Session 64

Contesting US-Centric Approaches to Inter-American Affairs: Latin American Responses to US Hegemony, 1880–1955
AHA Session 65

Negotiating with the Neighbors: Native and Euro-Americans on the Edge of Empires
AHA Session 66

Marijuana and Migration: Troubling Transplants in the Atlantic World, 1500–1940
AHA Session 67

Puerto Rican Civil Rights, Citizenship, and Culture in Postwar Urban America
AHA Session 68

Making Learning Outcomes Work: Decoding Tuning Assessments and Course Designs with Tools from the History Learning Project
AHA Session 69

“Exceptional” Figures in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Suggestive Protagonists and New Directions for Future Scholarship
AHA Session 70

Exploring Empires from Below: New Perspectives on the Early Modern Mediterranean (A Panel in Honor of John Marino)
AHA Session 71

Catholicism in Motion: Constructing a Global Church, 1600s–1900s
AHA Session 72

The Economics of Urban Life in 19th-Century Mexico and Brazil
AHA Session 73

Transnational Labor Migration, Globalization, and Ecological Integration in the Pacific World, 1800s-2000s
AHA Session 74

Disorderly City: Race, Gender, and Social Transformation in Civil War-Era New Orleans
AHA Session 75

Monks, Artists, and Merchants: Migrant Networks and Empire in Early Modern Asia
AHA Session 76

African Emigrants, Immigrants, and Refugees: America to Zambia and Mexico between 1605 and 2001
AHA Session 77

Genealogies of US-Middle East Entanglements
AHA Session 78

Roundtable on Rewriting Reconstruction
AHA Session 79

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-22, Part 1: The Russian Empire and Nationalism at War, 1914–22
AHA Session 80

Early Modern European Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 6

European Catholic Thought in Modern Europe
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Franciscans and Race in the United States
American Catholic Historical Association 8

The Confluence of Race, Religion, and Society: The Subversive Politics of Racial and Religious Minorities in the Progressive Era
American Society of Church History 11

Converts, Nuns, and Daughters: Gender and Religious Identity in the Long 19th Century
American Society of Church History 12

Religious Change and Local Context: Calvin and Calvinism in the Swiss Cantons
American Society of Church History 13

The Politics of Reform in the Ancient and Medieval World
American Society of Church History 14

Ancient Neighbors: The Eastern World under the Bactrians and Parthians
Association of Ancient Historians 2

Voices of the Warriors and Survivors: The Social Impact of the Cold War on China and America
Chinese Historians in the United States 2

Before/Outside/Beyond Gay Marriage: New Directions in the History of Marriage in the United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 3

Buenos Aires: Consumption, Politics, and Foreigners
Conference on Latin American History 14

The Nation/State: Order and Authority in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 15

Pressing Issues: History Meets Public Policy Roundtable
National History Center of the American Historical Association 3

Polish Immigrant Adaptation and Cultural Transition
Polish American Historical Association 1

8:30 AM-12:00 PM


Tour of Religious Sites of Atlanta
American Society of Church History

9:00 AM-12:30 PM


Tour 4: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Exhibit Hall open

Internet Center open

Job Center open

Quiet Room open

Quiet Room open

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Oral History on the Borders: Migration and Memory
AHA Session 81

Job Workshop for Historians
AHA Session 82

Digital Pedagogy in and out of the Classroom: Lightning Round
AHA Session 83

Reconstruction Revisited: The Impact of Reconstruction on African Americans in the South
AHA Session 84

Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
AHA Session 85

Freemasonry: The World’s First Global Social Network
AHA Session 86

City Food: Mobile People in the Urban Foodscapes of Brazil, Canada, and Mozambique
AHA Session 87

Identities, Lives, and Memories of Navajo Code Talkers
AHA Session 88

Brutality, Due Process, and Peace Accords: Criminal Justice in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
AHA Session 89

Modernizing Capitalism in the Antebellum American South
AHA Session 90

War in the Western World: New Economic and Social Perspectives
AHA Session 91

Women and Cold War Border Crossings
AHA Session 92

Women and Families sin Fronteras: New Directions in Gender in the United States/Mexico Borderlands
AHA Session 93

Indenture and Beyond: Comparative Perspectives on South Asian Migration
AHA Session 94

“Chaos” in Middle Eastern Thought, Society, and History
AHA Session 95

Journals as Intellectual History: A New Historiography through Digital Mapping
AHA Session 96

Expertise on the Move: Technologies of Rule across the British Empire
AHA Session 97

Epidemics, Medicine, and Society in Modern Latin America
AHA Session 98

Migration, Space, and World War II in Latin America
AHA Session 99

Matrimony on the Margins: Migrants, Marriage, and the Making of the Atlantic World
AHA Session 100

Zionism and Jewish DP Politics in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
AHA Session 101

Beyond Koselleck: Conceptual History Today
AHA Session 102

New Perspectives on Migrations, Radicalism, and Transformations in 20th-Century North America
AHA Session 103

Testing the Frontiers of Empire: League of Nations Mandates in Africa and the Middle East
AHA Session 104

Migration and Ethnogenesis
AHA Session 105

The Politics of Invisible Wounds from the Civil War to the War on Terror
AHA Session 106

Balancing History and Legacy: Working on the Vietnam War Commemoration 
AHA Session 107

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-22, Part 2: The Central Powers’ Perspective
AHA Session 108

Alcohol and Drugs History: Accomplishments and Prospects
Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, or Discard? Creative Uses of the Past in Medieval and Contemporary Spain
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain 1

Gender, Faith, and Ethnicity in 20th-Century US Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 9

The Politics of Ecumenism: Catholic-Anglican Relations in 20th-Century East Africa
American Catholic Historical Association 10

German Catholics and the Challenges of Modern Society
American Catholic Historical Association 11

American Women Missionaries, Personal Relationships, and Social Reform in China, Turkey, and Japan
American Society of Church History 15

The Uses of Propaganda in American Religious History: Catholicism, Mormonism, Protestantism
American Society of Church History 16

Language and Rhetoric in the Work of Martin Luther
American Society of Church History 17

When Empires Collide: Reform and Conflict on the Frontiers of the Catholic World, 1450–1650
American Society of Church History 18

Central European History Society President’s Panel: German Democracy: A 20th-Century History?
Central European History Society 6

Law and War Societies: A Turbulent and Defining Period in Modern China and East Asia, 1895–1945
Chinese Historians in the United States 3

Publishing in Queer History: A Roundtable with Editors
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 4

Transnational Activism in the Western Hemisphere in the 20th Century
Conference on Latin American History 18

Markets and Consumerism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 19

Writing Greek History in the 21st Century
Modern Greek Studies Association 1

Polish Americans: Family, Home, Career
Polish American Historical Association 2

10:30 AM-4:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

11:30 AM-2:30 PM


Affiliated Societies Display

12:00 PM-2:30 PM


Tour 6: Georgia State Capitol

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


Business History Conference Luncheon: Business and Borders: Capitalism
Business History Conference

CAH/SAHSA Luncheon
Conference on Asian History

CLAH Luncheon
Conference on Latin American History

SAHSA/CAH Luncheon
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

12:15 PM-2:15 PM


Lunch Honoring the Career and Contributions of Mark Noll
American Society of Church History

NCH Board Meeting
National Coalition for History

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Meet the Editors and Staff of the American Historical Review

CLGBTH Business Meeting
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


Department Chairs’ Luncheon

12:30 PM-4:30 PM


Workshop on Undergraduate Teaching: Assignments

1:00 PM-2:20 PM


Documentary Film Screening: Stephen Douglas and the Fate of American Democracy

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Tour 5: Sweet Auburn

2:30 PM-3:30 PM


Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Career Diversity

2:30 PM-4:30 PM


Forced Migrations in Comparative Context
AHA Session 109

A Q & A with Publishers
AHA Session 110

Redefining History: Paradigm Shift in the Historical Profession
AHA Session 111

Forward Atlanta: Self-Portrait as  the Ever-Rising City
AHA Session 112

The New Tools of the Trade: How You Can and Why You Should Become a Documentary Filmmaker or Digital Historian
AHA Session 113

“Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” Black American and Haitian Migrations within the Atlantic World
AHA Session 114

Centering African American and Caribbean Women’s Activism and Travels within Global Freedom Struggles, 1940–90
AHA Session 115

Wealth and Social Welfare: Market-Based Reform and Anti-poverty Policies
AHA Session 116

Rethinking Political Economy and Nationalism in South Asia: Alternative Histories and Methodological Possibilities
AHA Session 117

Everyday Economics: Food, Consumption, and Natural Resource Struggles in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 118

Labor Migration from and to Europe: Migrants as Job Seekers and Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs
AHA Session 119

“Bárbaros” in the Archive: Sources and Methods for the Study of Autonomous Indigenous Peoples in South America
AHA Session 120

Writing the Perilously Recent Past: Prisoner Rights Movement History, Problems and Possibilities
AHA Session 121

Redeemed, Indentured, Fostered: Children in 19th-Century Sierra Leone
AHA Session 122

Turning Point 1916? US Foreign Relations before and after the “Kept Us out of War” Election
AHA Session 123

Local People, Thinking Globally: Race, Migration, and the Black Freedom Struggle
AHA Session 124

Medical Ethics in 20th-Century Latin America: Human Subject Experimentation, Forced Sterilization, and Cold War Torture
AHA Session 125

Historia Ludens: Games and Play in the Practice of History
AHA Session 126

Blurring the Color Line: Black Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa during the Early Cold War
AHA Session 127

Reconceptualizing the US South through the Stories of Free People of Color
AHA Session 128

Empire City: Intersecting Diasporas and Migrant Neighbors in 20th-Century New York
AHA Session 129

Forceful Politics: Performative Violence as Indigenous Discourse across North American Borderlands
AHA Session 130

Teaching the History of Money
AHA Session 131

From “ConcernedStudent1950” to Diversifying the Profession: Responding to Student Demands for Change
AHA Session 132-A

Landscapes of Power: Rationalizing Nature and Envisioning Resources in the 20th-Century World
AHA Session 133

Beyond Zomia: Merchants, Migrants, and States in the Highlands of Southwest China, 1600–1900
AHA Session 134

Migrations, Databases, and Big Data
AHA Session 135

Queer Migrations, Part 2: Coming and Going: Traversing Borders and Crossing Boundaries of Sexuality, Race, and Class in the 20th-Century United States and Germany
AHA Session 136

Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-22, Part 3: The “Wider Arc” of the Russian Revolution: Global Reverberations
AHA Session 137

Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control—ťRoundtable on Federalism, Regulation, Bureaucracy, Food Safety, and Public Health
Agricultural History Society

Presidential Round Table: Pious Visions: Depicting Catholicism on the Silver Screen
American Catholic Historical Association 12

The Intellectual Legacy of Mark Noll
American Society of Church History 19

Discussion of Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton, 2013)
American Society of Church History 20

Women and Religious Change: From Early Modern England to Modern America
American Society of Church History 21

From Missionization to Indigenization: Seventh-Day Adventists and Religious Print in China
American Society of Church History 22

How to Consume Spain: Identity, Culture, and Product in the 20th Century
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1

Military Occupation in Central and Eastern Europe, 1915–48
Central European History Society 7

The Etruscans: History and Identity in the Ancient World
Community College Humanities Association

Commemoration and Memorialization: Informal, Popular, and Vernacular Memory in 20th-Century Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 23

Culture, Politics, and the State during Colombia’s República Liberal, 1930–46
Conference on Latin American History 24

Contingent Faculty and the Historical Profession
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

“Sisters Unite!” Transnational Women’s Rights and Social Justice Activism in the Long 19th Century
German Historical Institute

Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching 1

Defining Social Needs: A Conversation among Historians and Foundation Officials about Philanthropy Past and Present
National History Center of the American Historical Association 5

Foreigners’ View on the American Civil War
Polish American Historical Association 3

Émigré Political Activism during the Cold War
Polish American Historical Association 4

Political Responses to Change in Cold War Italy:  Public Opinion, Elite Contributions, and Foreign Perceptions
Society for Italian Historical Studies 5

Exploring Race and Ethnicity through Book History
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

African American Girls and Global Citizenship in the 20th Century
Society for the History of Children and Youth

The Origins of Global History: A Reappraisal
Toynbee Prize Foundation 1

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


ACHA General Membership Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

Slicing the Bread, Children’s Survival Manual in 25 Poems
Polish American Historical Association 5

SAHSA Business Meeting
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

5:00 PM-6:30 PM


American Historical Association Presidential Address

Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Expanded Andes
Conference on Latin American History 25

Inaugural Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting: Making Connections: Latin America and the Atlantic World
Conference on Latin American History 26

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: New Perspectives on the Study of Indigenous Intellectuals in Mexico: Colonial Period to the Present 
Conference on Latin American History 27

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee Meeting: Frontiers of Borderlands History: Gender, Nation, and Empire
Conference on Latin American History 28

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


Lars Maischak’s German Merchants in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
Central European History Society 8

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


ASCH Graduate Student Reception
American Society of Church History

6:30 PM-8:00 PM


Reception hosted by the American Historical Association for 2015 President Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine

CLGBTH Annual Reception
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

CCWH Annual Reception
Coordinating Council for Women in History

SHAFR Reception (cash bar)
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

7:00 PM-8:30 PM


Reception for Two-Year Faculty

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: Colonialism and Its Legacies in Central America
Conference on Latin American History 29

Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Teaching and the Idea of Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 30

Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: New Research on the Early Spanish Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 31

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Global Ports: Mobilities, Information, and Local Exchanges in the Spanish Caribbean, 1700–1898
Conference on Latin American History 32

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


2015 John O'Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary: Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


Public Historians’ Reception

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


ASCH Extraordinary Business Meeting
American Society of Church History