136th Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2023)

Affiliated Society Sessions

AHA Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession

AHA Session 91: LGBTQ+ History Research Lightning Session

AHA Session 114: Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Open Forum

AHA Session 114A: Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities

AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee

AHA Session 68: Graduate and Early Career Committee Open Forum:

AHA Professional Division

AHA Session 4: How to Identify and Leverage the Transferable Skills of a History PhD

AHA Session 45: Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion

AHA Session 90: Gateway Courses in History: Case Studies in Redesign

AHA Session 135: DEI Admissions in PhD Programs after the Summer of Social Justice

AHA Session 158: Improving the Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: Building on the AHA Statement

AHA Session 204: How Do You Conceptualize a Second Book?

AHA Session 246: Tag Team! Creating a Network of Support between Faculty and Professional Educators to Support Graduate Student Career Development

AHA Research Division

AHA Session 46: Curating Community: Remaking History in Philadelphia

AHA Session 112: Planting a Seed: History for Young Readers

AHA Session 136: Historians Engaging Publics: Graphic Histories

AHA Session 183: American Historical Review History Lab: Knowing by Sensing—“Nose First” Methods for Research and Education of Olfactory Heritage and History

AHA Session : Op-Ed Workshop

AHA Session : Writing Beyond the Academy: How to Secure a Commercial Book Deal

AHA Teaching Division

AHA Session 1: Turning the Page: Improving Reading Skills in the History Classroom

AHA Session 24: Teaching History in STEM Institutions: Finding Common Ground

AHA Session 27: Curricular Change and Career Diversity

AHA Session : Grading Writing Charrette

AHA Session 113: Building an Equity Bridge from High School to College: K–12 Teachers Respond to the AHA’s History Gateways Project

AHA Session 137: Big Data: Can Institutional Research Offices Help Transform Introductory History Courses?

AHA Session 155: Teaching with Historiography: A Workshop on Facilitating Discussions about Historical Arguments

AHA Session 179: Teaching with Historiography: Join the Project to Bring Historical Research and Teaching Together

AHA Session 206: State of the Field for Busy Teachers: World History

African American Intellectual History Society

AHA Session 101: Philadelphia and the Black Intellectual Tradition

Agricultural History Society

AHA Session 199: Environment, Empire, Knowledge, and Power in Comparative Perspective

AHA Session 223: Conflict, Activism, and Globalization in Farm Politics since the 1980s

Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Author Meets Critics: Brewing Resistance

Psychedelic Substances: Historical Reflections and New Directions

American Catholic Historical Association

Exploring and Reflecting on the Legacy of 20th-Century Catholic Laywomen: A Roundtable Discussion

Catholic Communities of Color in the Upper Midwest, 1915–65

Catholics, Nativists, and Historical Memory in 19th-Century America

Marian Politics

ACHA Executive Council Meeting

The French Catholic Revival

Interrogating Traditional Sources: Searching for the Lived Experiences of Catholic Laywomen

Catholics and Slavery

Disciplining the Church across Time and Space

Church and Politics in the 14th Century

Catholics and the Enemy

Growing Up, Graduating, and Going Beyond: Global Perspectives on the Disaffiliation of 20th-Century Catholic Women

Telling US Catholic History: Archives and Narratives

AHA Session 74: Material Religion on Catholic eBay: A Roundtable Discussion

Communism and Labor

Forming US Catholic Identities

The Catholic Church in the Holocaust Era: First Findings from the Vatican Archives

ACHA Presidential Luncheon

Presidential Roundtable: Why Catholic History? Why Now?

Historicizing the Parish

In Transit: Catholic Mobilities into and out of Greater New York, 1850–80

Lay Catholic Women Reinterpreting Transatlantic Catholicism in 19th- and 20th-Century Latin America

ACHA Business Meeting

Dry Bones: Catholic Horror

Disability and the Catholic Imagination

Catholics and the Second World War

Historical Misogyny: Women Deacons and the Catholic Church—A Book Panel on Phyllis Zagano's Women: Icons of Christ

Church and Society in Iberia and Latin America

Archivists and Historians: Documenting and Telling the Story of Diversity at Saint John’s University

Language, Church, Nation: The Politics of Multilingual Catholicism in the United States

Sainthood and the Body

John Gilmary Shea Prize Book Panel

American Catholics, Sex Abuse, the Body, and Modern Sexualities

Orders and Jurisdictions

Missionary Fervor

Reproductive Health, Power, and American Catholicism

Anti-Catholic Politics

American Conference for Irish Studies

AHA Session 125: Support and Survival: Reconsidering Irish Women’s Networks and Activism in the 20th Century

AHA Session 237: Unfinished Revolutions, Uncommon Solidarities: Irish Rebels in the American Left

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

AHA Session 222: The Role of Gender in Biography in Early Modern East Asia, 1400–1800

Association for Computers and the Humanities

AHA Session 194: Decolonizing Historical Data in the Context of Colonization and Empire

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (History Division)

AHA Session 239: The Ethics of Teaching History in Today’s K–12 Classrooms

Association for Israel Studies

The International Context of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

Recruiting and Retaining Women and Students of Color: The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ AHA–NEH-Funded Pilot

Reception: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and Coordinating Council for Women in History

AHA Session 186: Trouble in Empire: Colonialism and Subaltern Appropriations in South and Southeast Asia

Business History Conference

Writing US Business History in the Neoliberal Era

Central European History Society

AHA Session 13: Teaching European Migration History with Open Access Sources

AHA Session 30: In Global Transit: Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Coping with Contingency on the Move

CEHS Board Meeting

AHA Session 108: New Perspectives on Refugees from Nazi Europe in the Americas

Transatlantic Hate

AHA Session 210: Histories of Climate Change: Place-Based Approaches from European History

CEHS Business Meeting

Chinese Historians in the United States

Engaging the Studies of Blackness in China: Scholarship and Curriculum Development

Xinjiang and Central Asia: China’s Strategic Shift

Transnational Gender and Women in Modern China

In the Realm of Modernization and Revolution: Exploring James Gao’s World of History

CHUS Book Launch

CHUS Business Meeting

Snapshots: Perceptions and China–US Encounters on the Diplomatic, Commercial, Cultural, and Educational Fronts from the Early 19th Century to the Present

China in the Socialist World: Translation, Adaptation, and Appropriation

Mapping the Important Changes of 20th-Century China: Writing History, Political Maneuvers, and National Transformation

Chinese Women’s Lives in Their Own Voices, 1949 to the Present

AHA Session 240: Bridging Cultural and Political Divides: Unique Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Modern China as CHUS Historians in the Postpandemic World

Teaching Contentious China in Polarized American Universities

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

AHA Session 12: The Shape of Sex

AHA Session 34: Troubling Sexual Norms: Exploring Gay Moderate Politics and “Stealth” Trans Subjects in Late 20th-Century Queer US History

AHA Session 71: Queer Exile: Sexuality, Status, and Dislocation between Global North and South

AHA Session 114A: Out on Campus: A History of LGBTQ+ Activism at Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities

AHA Session 142: Education Institutions and the Intellectual History of Gender and Sexuality

AHA Session 167: Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks, Activism, and Publications in Europe and the Americas, 1940s–2000s: Collaborations, Interventions, Language, and Desire

AHA Session 214: New(er) Directions in Queer Religious History

AHA Session 249: Social Movements and Queer Legal Histories in the Late 20th-Century United States

Conference on Faith and History

Free Breakfast Reception

COVID-19 in Context

Conference on Latin American History

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 17: Rumors, Satire, and Politics in the Spanish Empire

AHA Session 19: What’s Special about Maps? Teaching Border Regions History with Digital and Physical Materials

AHA Session 20: Latin American Antifascism(s): National and Transnational Perspectives

AHA Session 21: Subaltern Cosmopolitans in the 17th- and 18th-Century Atlantic World

AHA Session 22: Schools as Sites for Agency in 20th-Century Latin America

AHA Session 37: Anticommunism, Right-Wing Politics, and Latin America’s Cold War

AHA Session 39: An Entangled Empire: The Trans-Imperial Connections of the Portuguese World

AHA Session 43: Indio Identities in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Between Impositions and Adaptations

CLAH General Meeting

AHA Session 58: Indigenous Knowledge and Colonial Entanglements in the Americas

AHA Session 61: On the Edge: Public Dimensions of History in Mexico and the United States

AHA Session 62: Spatializing States: Authoritarianism and Urbanization in Latin America

AHA Session 63: Brazil and Cars in Historical Perspective

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 79: Reframing Christianity in Mexico from Francis to Facebook

AHA Session 80: Getting Argentina out of the Atlantic: Rethinking the Spaces of Historical Narrative Construction in the Southern Cone

AHA Session 86: Resisting Reforms in Spanish America: Royal Administrators and Colonial Subjects Negotiate Hapsburg and Bourbon Rule

The Catholic Church, State, Labor, and Identity Struggles in Latin America

AHA Session 104: Latin America’s Consuming Issues: A Roundtable Discussion of Two Recent Books on Commodities, Marketing, and Consumer Capitalism in Brazil

AHA Session 105: Imperial Fictions and Mexico in the American Imagination

AHA Session 106: Endurance and Evolution: Ecologies, Communities, and Families on the Move in the Early Modern Americas

AHA Session 107: Do Nonstate Actors Matter? Rethinking Inter-American Affairs across the 20th Century

AHA Session 108: New Perspectives on Refugees from Nazi Europe in the Americas

AHA Session 130: Martyrs, Narratives, and Social Change in 20th-Century Mexico and Latin America

AHA Session 131: Social and Political Identity in the Spanish Empire, 1765–1830

Race, Politics, and Nationalism in Latin American Public Spheres

Andean Studies Section: Social Movements and Governments in the Andes, Past and Present

Atlantic Studies Section: New Currents and Old Contests—Extending the Black Atlantic into the 19th Century

Caribbean Studies Section: New Approaches to Caribbean Labor and Working-Class History

Colonial Studies Section: The Global and the Local—A Colonialist’s Conundrum

Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Section: The Criminal (Un)Justice System in the US and Mexico Borderlands

Brazilian Studies Section: A Celebration of Barbara Weinstein

Central American Studies Section: Transnational Scholarship, Transnational Lives—Early Career Historians of/from Central America

Mexican Studies Section: Writing Mexican History—Issues and Solutions

AHA Session 147: Passports, Asylum, and Marronage: New Dimensions to Black Mobility in Mexico, Louisiana, and Haiti, 17th to 19th Centuries

AHA Session 148: The Political Economy of Hunger (or Lack Thereof) in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish America

AHA Session 149: Saints, Martyrs, and Workers: Representations, Reactions, and Rhetorics of Catholic Populism in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1926–38

AHA Session 152: The Politics of Paper: New Approaches to (Reading and Writing) Latin American Politics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

AHA Session 153: Constructing Urban Citizenship: The Built Environment and Social Belonging in Brazil

CLAH Information Table

AHA Session 172: Empires and Emancipation: Freedom, Agency, and Mobility in the Atlantic World

AHA Session 174: Rank-and-File Soldiers in Cold War Latin America

AHA Session 175: Do the Americas Have a Common History? On Hemispheric Forms of Imagination and Exchange

Youth, Poverty, Education, and Violence in Latin America

AHA Session 193: Deconstructing “Development” in Mexico, Brazil, and the CEPAL

AHA Session 195: Engendering the History of Latin American Capitalism: Women and Men in Brazilian Commodity Export Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Partisan Politics, Environmental Struggles, and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Central America, 1940s–70s

AHA Session 218: New and Old Norms: Forging and Inscribing Communities across the Atlantic World

AHA Session 219: “Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century

The Cuban Slave Trade: Demography, Ideology, and Race

Chile–Rio de la Plata Studies Section: New Approaches to Dictatorships and Human Rights

Gran Colombia Studies Section: Telling Stories from and about Gran Colombia—Historical Narratives, Fragmentary Subjects, and the Archive

Teaching and Teaching Materials Section: Revisiting the Survey

The Americas Board Meeting

AHA Session 241: Rethinking Histories of State Formation, Community, and Resistance through Ethnic Mexican Transborder Migration and Labor

AHA Session 242: Interviews with the Liberator: Four Momentous Meetings with Simón Bolívar

AHA Session 243: Debates on Citizenship in Latin America, 19th and 20th Centuries

AHA Session 262: Local and Transnational Scales in the History of Science, Race, and Medicine in the Americas, 1909–65

Coordinating Council for Women in History

Roundtable: Professional Associations in a Time of Precarity

Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Business Meeting

Plenary Session, Coordinating Council for Women in History

Reception: Coordinating Council for Women in History and Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

German Historical Institute

AHA Session 30: In Global Transit: Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Coping with Contingency on the Move

AHA Session 128: Infrastructure, Knowledge, and US Imperialism in the Americas, c. 1890–1970

History of Science Society

AHA Session 144: Forging a Nation with Transnational Science: Knowledge Production on Chinese Terms, 1880–1960

AHA Session 165: Material Culture in (Changing) Contexts: Teaching 21st-Century Museum Audiences with 19th-Century Science and Technology Collections

Immigration and Ethnic History Society

AHA Session 145: Regions and Scales in the Expansion of Migration Systems across Five Centuries: Selections from the Cambridge History of Global Migrations

AHA Session 250: Slavery and Law: New Histories of American Immigration

International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions

Conflict and Change in European History since the Renaissance

Constitution Writing and Parliamentary Organizations in the Atlantic World, 1660–1815

Pacific Rim Parliamentary and Political History: 1868–1945

State Reforms in Japan during the American Occupation, 1945–52: Continuity or Discontinuity?

In Memoriam—Voices Remembered: Cohn, Stolleis, Middlekauff, Calasso, Brundage, Pyle

Topics in European and American Parliamentary and Political Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

The Catholic Church in the Holocaust Era: First Findings from the Vatican Archives

Labor and Working Class History Association

AHA Session 48: Intersectional Perspectives on Military History: Sexual, Gendered, and Racialized Labor in US Militarism and Empire

AHA Session 200: Vice and Prohibition in the Early 20th Century

AHA Session 212: Crossing Boundaries: Global Perspectives on Labor and Mobility

AHA Session 224: The War on Drugs and the Working Class City

AHA Session 252: Working for the State in War and Peace: Gender, Race, and Labor, 1898–1945

Medieval Academy of America

AHA Session 12: The Shape of Sex

AHA Session 85: Intersecting Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Modern Greek Studies Association

Greeks in America: Forging Communities and Diasporic Networks during the First Half of the 20th Century

North American Conference on British Studies

AHA Session 186: Trouble in Empire: Colonialism and Subaltern Appropriations in South and Southeast Asia

AHA Session 235: The Strange Recrudescence of Thomas Carlyle’s Historical Writings

AHA Session 237: Unfinished Revolutions, Uncommon Solidarities: Irish Rebels in the American Left

Peace History Society

AHA Session 255: Constructing Peace History: An Editors’ Roundtable

Polish American Historical Association

Opening Event: Documenting Polish American Spaces—Triumphs, Challenges, and Frustrations—Introducing and Celebrating Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites across North America

Tracing Various Polish Diasporas in the United States

PAHA Board Meeting

Bloc Shots: Roundtable on Experiences of Americans Playing Professional Basketball in Poland

Cold War Networks

Literature as a Response to History

Gender, Class, Nation(s), and Work

Transatlantic Histories and World War II: Between World History and Intimate Perspectives

Looking for Women’s Voices: A Comparative Perspective across Time and Space

Nonobvious Sources for Migration History

Transatlantic Migrations of Goods, Ideas, and Practices

Individual Polish American Lives as Sources of Transatlantic History

Radical History Review

Roundtable: “Peace with Honor”—Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords

Roundtable: Fighting the Culture War Attack on History—Strategies and Experiences

Roundtable: Unions in Higher Education—Historical and Contemporary Realities

Roundtable: Empire of Sanctions

Roundtable: The “Ed Scare”—The Current Conservative Panic over the Academy and Its Antecedents

Roundtable: Alternatives to the Anthropocene

Strategy Meeting: Radical Historians, Intellectuals, and Activists on Our Roles in the Current Situation

Roundtable: Teaching the Truth in Secondary Schools during Contentious Times

Topics in South African Cultural and Political History

Roundtable: The Failed War on Terrorism—Afghanistan and Iraq

Roundtable: International Solidarity with Palestinians—Palestinian Internationalist Solidarities

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

The Pieces of Podcasting You Don’t Know but Should

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Reception

Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

AHA Session 14: Rethinking Imperial Institutions in Modern India and China

AHA Session 41: The Archive of the Text: New Directions in Cultural and Material Histories of South Asia

AHA Session 76: Male Intimacy and Friendships in South Asia

AHA Session 162: Elitist Politics of Social Reform in 20th-Century India: Engagements in the Vernacular Public Sphere

AHA Session 186: Trouble in Empire: Colonialism and Subaltern Appropriations in South and Southeast Asia

Book Celebration and Toast to the Winner of the 2021 John F. Richards Prize, Nira Wickramasinghe’s Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka

Society for French Historical Studies

AHA Session 52: Fraud in the Colonial Archive: Methodological Approaches to Social History in French North Africa

AHA Session 190: European Integration, Decolonization, and Racial Reconstruction: New Interconnected Histories of the Postwar Era

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

AHA Session 35: New Interpretations of Reagan Foreign Relations

AHA Session 48: Intersectional Perspectives on Military History: Sexual, Gendered, and Racialized Labor in US Militarism and Empire

SHAFR Awards Luncheon and Stuart L. Bernath Memorial Lecture

AHA Session 236: NATO and the European Order: Past, Present, Future

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

AHA Session 9: Race, Gender, and Science in US History

AHA Session 77: From the First to the Second International: Socialists in America, from the Civil War to World War I

AHA Session 105: Imperial Fictions and Mexico in the American Imagination

AHA Session 165: Material Culture in (Changing) Contexts: Teaching 21st-Century Museum Audiences with 19th-Century Science and Technology Collections

AHA Session 171: Varieties of Jewish Anarchism in North America

AHA Session 200: Vice and Prohibition in the Early 20th Century

AHA Session 211: Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth about Reconstruction

AHA Session 219: “Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century

AHA Session 252: Working for the State in War and Peace: Gender, Race, and Labor, 1898–1945

AHA Session 253: Black Female Empowerment through Education in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries

Society for Italian Historical Studies

Adriatic Italy in Early Modernity

Expertise in Early Modern Italy

SIHS Business Meeting

Italy, the US, and the Mediterranean from Fascism to the Present: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Racism, Identities, and Resistance

Society for Military History

George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History

Society for US Intellectual History

Putting Ideas in Their Place: Considering Locations as Evidence in US Intellectual History

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

AHA Session 140: Book History in Libraries: A Roundtable with Philadelphia-Area Librarians

Toynbee Prize Foundation

2023 Toynbee Prize Lecture

Urban History Association

AHA Session 185: If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress: Black Politics in 20th-Century Philadelphia

Western Society for French History

AHA Session 190: European Integration, Decolonization, and Racial Reconstruction: New Interconnected Histories of the Postwar Era

World History Association

AHA Session 102: World Historical Approach(es) to Periodizing Comics

AHA Session 129: World History and the Curriculum: A Conversation