AHA Sessions

Thursday, January 6, 2022

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


New Orleans History Now
AHA Session 5

Choreographic Crises: Race, Religion, and Colonization in Medieval and Early Modern Dance
AHA Session 9

Scandal, Schism, and Enslavement: Women Religious Negotiating Race, Gender, and Authority in 19th-Century American Catholicism
AHA Session 10

Queering the Presidency: Case Studies of LGBTQ+ People and Politics in the Oval Office
AHA Session 16

“I Want to Learn More about My History!” Innovative Approaches to Engaging and Retaining Borderlands College History Students
AHA Session 19

Hygiene in Modern East Asia: How Local Advocates Helped Shape Global Discourses
AHA Session 20

Teaching Indigenous History and Literacy with Primary Sources
AHA Session 21

Historians Take(s) on QAnon, Part 1: Historians Take(s) on QAnon, Part I: Religious History and the Roots of QAnon
AHA Session 24

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Beyond Collaboration
AHA Session 26

CANCELLED A Conversation on Racial Justice from Louisiana’s Civil Rights Veterans in a New Age of Activism
AHA Session 28

Commodity Extraction and Indigenous Mobilization in Colonial to 21st-Century Latin America
AHA Session 36

Beyond the Union Rolls: Interconnectedness of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
AHA Session 38

Fashion Fracas: Gender and Clothing in Modern Transnational Southeast Asian Colonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution
AHA Session 43

Identity Construction and Social Hierarchies in Argentina and Chile from the 19th to 20th Centuries
AHA Session 45

Historians Take(s) on QAnon, Part 2: That Old Devil Rumor: Save the Children, Satanic Panic, and QAnon
AHA Session 48

Friday, January 7, 2022

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Pipeline Programs between HBCUs and R1s: Why They Matter
AHA Session 50

CANCELLED AHR History Lab: Knowing By Sensing—Developing “Nose First” Methods for Research and Education of Olfactory Heritage and History
AHA Session 51

CANCELLED Black Radical Biography
AHA Session 55

Course Redesign for the Introductory History Course
AHA Session 57

Transnational Queer Markets of Pornography, 1947–77
AHA Session 58

Pathways to Revolution: Religion, Gender, and Philosophy in Early Revolutionary France
AHA Session 68

Confronting the Ghosts of Our Institutions Past, Present, and Future: Building Names and Race at Two Deep South Campuses
AHA Session 70

Auschwitz: Prisoner Masculinities and Femininities Reconsidered
AHA Session 71

The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part 1: CANCELLED The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part I: Deep History, Current History
AHA Session 72

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Telling Our Own Stories—Black/Indigenous Louisiana in the 21st Century
AHA Session 73

Examples of Pipeline Programs between HBCUs and R1s
AHA Session 74

The Association of University Presses’ Roundtable on Getting Your Book Published
AHA Session 75

Beyond Zoom: Research and Audience in the Digital Age
AHA Session 76

Equal Access: Teaching World History in Community College Survey Courses using Open Education Resources (OER)
AHA Session 79

New Directions in the Study of Anti-Black Violence: Region, Resistance, Gender, and Historical Memory
AHA Session 82

Reproducing the Nation: Midwives, Mothers, and Citizenship across the Americas
AHA Session 83

CANCELLED Petroleum Nationalism in Latin American History
AHA Session 85

CANCELLED Poder y Dolor: Latina Lesbian Community Networks in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago
AHA Session 87

Innovation and Intersections in the 21st-Century History Discipline and Classroom
AHA Session 89

Playing the Past: Digital Games in the History Classroom
AHA Session 90

Inside the AHA: Investigating Institutional Histories of Racism and Exclusion in Client-Based Scholarly Practice
AHA Session 91

Built-in Segregation in the Modern City: Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo
AHA Session 92

Medieval Perspectives on Modern Crises, Part 1: Teaching Medieval Crises in the Modern Classroom
AHA Session 95

The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part 2: CANCELLED The Anthropocene versus Climate Change as Historical Frameworks, Part II: Energizing Histories
AHA Session 96

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


CANCELLED How Do You Conceptualize a Second Book?
AHA Session 98

Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum: Looking for Work in a Pandemic—Reports from Recent History Job Seekers
AHA Session 99

CANCELLED From 1619–1776, the Histories of Slavery and the Enslaved in Early America
AHA Session 100

Capturing Transgender Histories through Archives, Representation, and Activism
AHA Session 104

Abolition, Emancipation, and Slavery Debates across the Mediterranean World: Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil
AHA Session 105

Reading Race and Racial Hierarchies in Visual Sources from Latin America
AHA Session 107

Americans’ Perceptions of History: New Research and Next Steps
AHA Session 112

CANCELLED The Transmission and Circulation of Colonial Knowledge
AHA Session 113

Blackness in Early Latin American Archives, Part 1: CANCELLED/COMBINED WITH SESSION 142 Blackness in Early Latin American Archives I
AHA Session 117

Late Breaking: Afrofuturistic History: Sci-Fi, Public History, and (Re)Imagining Race
AHA Session 119A

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


CANCELLED Teaching and the American Historical Review
AHA Session 122

Making the Case for History: Curriculum, Enrollments, Advocacy, and Equity
AHA Session 124

Life and Legacy in Ancient North Africa and the Middle East: Reimagining the Influence and Role of Subjects and Rivals
AHA Session 127

Networks of Health and Biomedical Knowledge in Modern Times: Scientists, Lay Experts, and the State in Latin America
AHA Session 129

American Empire on the Pacific: Whaling, Militarism, Addiction, and Tourism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
AHA Session 130

Triscornia and the Construction of a Modern Cuba: Liberalism, Race, and Public Health in Early 20th-Century Cuba
AHA Session 131

Early Modern Empires, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
AHA Session 138

Narrative Podcasting as Scholarship
AHA Session 139

Atlantic Urban Households and the Materiality of Power, Status, and Identity
AHA Session 140

Blackness in Early Latin American Archives, Part 2: Blackness in Early Latin American Archives II
AHA Session 142

Medieval Perspectives on Modern Crises, Part 3: Teaching the Middle Ages in a Time of White Nationalism
AHA Session 143

Saturday, January 8, 2022

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


From the Front Line: Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New Orleans
AHA Session 146

Case Studies in Book History: Early Modern Scientific Books
AHA Session 149

Borderland Locales: A Global Perspective
AHA Session 150

Doing History Online: Podcasts, Twitter, and the Digital Archive
AHA Session 151

Survey of Historical Costume in Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, and Intercontinental Perspective
AHA Session 154

Challenging Slavery in the 19th-Century Americas
AHA Session 159

Histories of Erotica, Censorship, and the “Obscene” in Latin America
AHA Session 162

Film Screening: Lincoln and Douglas: Touring Illinois in Turbulent Times
AHA Session 164

Decolonizing and Recentering Indigenous Specialists: Knowledge and Practitioners in the Americas and the Indian Ocean
AHA Session 166

Advocating for History Education: Insights for Historians
AHA Session 166A

Undergraduate Lightning Round
AHA Session

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 167

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Modes of Historical Story-Telling: Children’s Literature
AHA Session 168

Improving the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: Building on the AHA Statement
AHA Session 169

Digital Pedagogy Drop-In Session
AHA Session 170

Hindutva and Historiography: Narrating South Asian Pasts in the US Academy
AHA Session 173

Keywords for Black Louisiana: Digital Histories of the Gulf Coast
AHA Session 174

Integrating Comics in the World History Classroom: A Practical Workshop
AHA Session 175

Beyond 1918: German Imaginaries in the Wake of Defeat
AHA Session 176

Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Culture and the Arts
AHA Session 178

The Use and Abuse of Historical Analogies in Russia and the Soviet Union
AHA Session 179

“Not Like Us”: Blackness, Racism, and Slaveholding in the Hispanic Atlantic
AHA Session 180

The Ambiguities of Allegiance in the American Revolution
AHA Session 182

Land, Labor, and Violence: Black Life in the West
AHA Session 183

Critical Regions in Latinx History: Race, Placemaking, and Mobility in the US Midwest and South
AHA Session 187

Revisiting the Bargain of Collaboration in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Part 1: Mediation, Bargaining, and Self-Fashioning—Africans Asserting Agency over the Colonial Enterprise
AHA Session 190

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 191

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Poster Session #3
AHA Session 192

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Modes of Historical Story-Telling: Gathering Stories to Preserve and Create Histories of People and Places in and around New Orleans
AHA Session 193

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 194

More Than a CV Line: Collaborative Research in Practice
AHA Session 195

Advocating for History and the Liberal Arts in the Deep South
AHA Session 197

The Future of Intellectual History: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 198

China’s Cultural Revolution from the Margins: Tensions between Socialist Universalism and Ethnocentrism in Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Yanbian
AHA Session 200

Charting the Past: Maps as Evidence, Argument, and Narrative, 1600–2000
AHA Session 201

Love, Sex, and Marriage in the 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 204

Water-Lands: The Indian Ocean as Borderlands
AHA Session 205

Global Entanglements: Reframing American Imperialism in the Philippines, 1898–1946
AHA Session 207

The Boundaries of Southern Industrialization: Labor and the Making of an Industrial Slave Society
AHA Session 208

Cartographies of Slavery, Languages of Mobility: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations on 19th-Century Cuba
AHA Session 209

Carceral Chicago: Case Studies in Conforming with and Resisting the Carceral Apparatus in the Second Half of the 20th Century
AHA Session 210

Queer Southern Diaspora: Challenging Metronormativity in the Late 20th-Century United States
AHA Session 211

Forging Communities: Knowledge, Culture, and Race in Colonial Latin American Mining Centers
AHA Session 212

The Atlantic Amazon in the Age of Indigenous and African Enslavement
AHA Session 214

Revisiting the Bargain of Collaboration in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Part 2: Custom, Bargaining, and Law—African Intermediaries, European Collaborators, and the Molding of Colonial Authority
AHA Session 216

Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, Part 2: Networks and Comparisons
AHA Session 217

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


CANCELLED Modes of Historical Story-Telling: Community Collaborations and Multiple Publics
AHA Session 218

Late Breaking: From Plessy v. Ferguson to Plessy & Ferguson
AHA Session 218A

A State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Reconstruction
AHA Session 220

Up Close and Personal: Biography as Method and “Hook”
AHA Session 222

Harnessing the Power of Energy History: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 224

Is Podcasting the New Punk Rock? History, Historians, and Podcasts
AHA Session 225

Narratives and Historiography in Global Early Modernity
AHA Session 227

Women’s Work, Clothing, and Contestations of Power in America and Africa
AHA Session 228

Integrative Narratives of Historical Costume in Multifaceted Contexts
AHA Session 229

Revolutionary Nationalisms: Views from the South
AHA Session 232

The Queer South
AHA Session 236

Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy
AHA Session 237

Making Space, Claiming Place: Reframing Black and Latinx Political Memories
AHA Session 239

Spaces of Enslavement: Ships, Slavery, and Spatial Histories of the Atlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 240

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session
AHA Session 243

Sunday, January 9, 2022

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


CANCELLED New Orleans 1776
AHA Session 246

Strategies for Redesigning Introductory Courses in History: Innovative Ideas from the History Gateways Project
AHA Session 247

Comparative Diasporas: Europeans in China and Chinese Abroad, 1870–1940
AHA Session 249

CANCELLED Merging “New Military History,” Global History, and “New Imperial History”: Perspectives from Asia, 1850–1950
AHA Session 250

The Revolutionary Politics of Education Reform in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 259

Gender and the Mexican Middle Class in 1940–70
AHA Session 262

Harnessing Local History for Community Engagement and Identity: Examples from South Louisiana
AHA Session 267

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Baking It In: Curricular Change and Career Diversity
AHA Session 269

Lost Traditions of Economic Equality in the Critical Period of the Mid-19th Century
AHA Session 274

War Transforming Society, Society Transforming War: Military Service, Gender, and Race in Oceania, the US, and Europe
AHA Session 275

Medieval Iberian Perspectives on Political Sovereignty and Legitimacy
AHA Session 277

Medical History and Departmental Outreach
AHA Session 278

CANCELLED Teaching Creatively with Digital Tools: Lessons from the Pandemic Pivot
AHA Session 279

Labor and Land Reform across Borders in the 20th-Century Andes
AHA Session 282

CANCELLED The Making of Modernity: Advertising Beverages, Race, and National Identity in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 283

Women, Culture, Power: New Views on Archival Evidence from 20th-Century El Salvador
AHA Session 284

“Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century
AHA Session 286

The Challenges of Students Researching Slavery at Southern Universities
AHA Session 287

Contested Memories of World War II: 75 Years and Beyond
AHA Session 290