140th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2027)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Saturday, January 9, 2027

8:00 AM-9:30 AM


Gender Equity Breakfast: Teaching Gender in Politicized Contexts

8:00 AM-11:30 AM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


AHA Sheraton Information Desk

ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:00 AM-6:00 PM


AHA Registration, Information, and Headquarters

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


K–16 Educators' Workshop, Part 1: International Affairs Revealed Through Primary Sources

Coping with Source Scarcity, Antiquity to the Present
AHA Session 155

Professional Development Off the Tenure Track
AHA Session 156

Writers, Know Your Rights!
AHA Session 157

Hands-on History: Interactive Activities in the Small Liberal Arts History Classroom
AHA Session 158

Civilization and the Making of International Law in the Ottoman 19th Century
AHA Session 159

Performing Race in 20th- and 21st-Century America
AHA Session 160

New Histories of the Allotment Era: Law, Land, and the Violence of Reform
AHA Session 161

AI and the Historian’s Craft: Promise, Peril, and Practice in Research and Teaching
AHA Session 162

Historians Across the University: Scholarly Expertise and the Role of History PhDs Across Staff and Nonfaculty Positions
AHA Session 163

Curating History, Creating Community, and Making Stories Public: Homegrown Archives in New Orleans
AHA Session 164

Scaling Scholarship: Histories of “Big” and “Small”
AHA Session 165

Beyond the Ratlines: German–Southern Cone Connections in the 20th Century
AHA Session 166

Memorializing Violence in Texas
AHA Session 167

Beyond Victory: War Termination, Diplomatic Resilience, and the Constraints of Imperial Power in the Early 19th Century
AHA Session 168

Fresh Perspectives on the Klan and Terror Across Southern History
AHA Session 169

Louisiana Legal History
AHA Session 170

Religion and Migration Transforming and Transformed: Christianity on the Move in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean from the 19th to 20th Centuries
AHA Session 171

Rethinking Imperial China’s “Native Officials” (Tuguan/Tusi): Sovereignty and Negotiation in the Sino-Southeast Asian Borderlands
AHA Session 172

Humanizing Transnational Networks: Intimacies of Power in Chinese Global Lives During the Cold War
AHA Session 173

Driving Growth: Roadways and Automobiles in Mid-20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 174

From Housework to the Lord’s Work: New Histories of Feminist Activism in the Long 1970s
AHA Session 175

Writing and Teaching Global Queer and Trans* History
AHA Session 176

Island Circuits in the Early Modern Atlantic, Part 1: The Political Economy of Atlantic Islands
AHA Session 177

The Social History Revolution and American Catholicism: A Panel in Honor of Professor James O’Toole
American Catholic Historical Association 23

Women, Catholicism, and Spirituality
American Catholic Historical Association 24

French Catholicism Beyond France
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Medicine, Disease, and the Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 26

Glocalized Connectivity, Globalized China: Transcultural Exchanges of Ideas and Arts Between China, America, and the World
Chinese Historians in the United States 5

Free Continental Breakfast
Conference on Faith and History

Caribbean Studies Section: Looking to the Future—Caribbean Studies as Digital Humanities
Conference on Latin American History 40

Filibusters in the Gulf South Borderlands
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 9

Female Celebrity in the Revolutionary Era
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 10

Teaching the Middle East in the K–12 Classroom
Historians for Peace and Democracy 15

Responding to Genocides: Universities, Legal Elites, and the Media, 1940s–2020s
Historians for Peace and Democracy 16

Rethinking Transatlantic Biographies and Narratives
Polish American Historical Association 8

The Global 20th Century: Histories, Historiographies, and New Directions
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 4

8:30 AM-10:30 AM


Poster Session #1
AHA Session 178

8:30 AM-5:30 PM


Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM-10:30 AM


“Works Which Have Endured”: The Ursulines’ Impact on Three Centuries of Catholicism in New Orleans
American Catholic Historical Association 27

9:00 AM-1:00 PM


Tour 3: The National WWII Museum

9:00 AM-6:00 PM


Coworking Space

Meetup and Coworking Space

Podcasters' Room

Quiet Room

Quiet Room

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


K–16 Educators' Workshop, Part 2: International Affairs Revealed Through Primary Sources

The Limits of the Enlightenment
AHA Session 179

Advocacy in Practice: Building Your Team, Your Argument, and Your Ask
AHA Session 180

Isolationism or Internationalism? America and the World, 1898–1949—AHA Teaching with Primary Sources Grant Recipient: Parallel Histories US
AHA Session 181

Articulating Shared Language About History Methods, Part 3: Producing History
AHA Session 182

Digital History and Restorative Justice in American Pasts and Presents
AHA Session 183

Teaching History in Today's Civic Education Landscape
AHA Session 183A

New Horizons in Teaching Ancient History
AHA Session 184

Caste, State Power, and Artisans in Modern India
AHA Session 185

Foreign Soldiers as Political Problems in 20th-Century Imperial Warfare
AHA Session 186

Global Wars, Everyday Entanglements: Mobility, Knowledge, and Violence Across 20th-Century Asia
AHA Session 187

Beyond Global History? A Roundtable on Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
AHA Session 188

Empires of Copper: Copper Currency, Transnational Trade, and China and Batavia’s Economy, 1600–1860
AHA Session 189

Travel America: New Histories of Tourism
AHA Session 190

Contesting the Carceral Borderlands: Historic Geographies of Order and Revolt in the Old and New Southwest
AHA Session 191

(Re)Shaping the Family During the Inter-American Cold War
AHA Session 192

Beyond Confinement: Jails in 18th- and 19th-Century America
AHA Session 193

Impossible Histories in Early Modern Europe
AHA Session 194

Toward a New African American Political History: Domestic Life and Kinship in the 19th-Century United States
AHA Session 195

Beyond the Textbook: Bunk, Digital Humanities, and Rethinking How We Teach American History
AHA Session 196

What the Special Period Exposed: Cuban Fault Lines, 1960s–80s
AHA Session 197

Indigenous Production of Power: Environmental Jurisprudence in Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Imperial Sphere
AHA Session 198

Amazonian History: Challenges and Possibilities
AHA Session 199

New Directions in the Study of Refugees and Humanitarianism
AHA Session 200

Imagining Explorers in the Public Realm: Commemoration, National Identities, and Controversy
AHA Session 201

Island Circuits in the Early Modern Atlantic, Part 2: Transatlantic Island Perspectives and the Reassessment of Imperial Narratives
AHA Session 202

A Conversation with Jason Berry: The Abuse Crisis and History
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Catholicism in Rural America
American Catholic Historical Association 29

New Research on Slavery Within the American Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 30

A Feminist History of Emotional Politics: Historicizing the “Angry Woman”
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 5

Doing History Through the Body: A Conversation with Yin Mei, Dancer and Choreographer
Chinese Historians in the United States 6

Faith and Sports History: A New Conversation
Conference on Faith and History

Paper Technologies: Empire and State Making in the Spanish Empire and Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 46

CLAH Book Awardees Panel
Conference on Latin American History 47

Faithful Identities: Religion and National Belonging in Revolutionary World
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 11

Coordinating Council of Women in History Graduate Student Research Lightning Round 2
Coordinating Council for Women in History 10

Political Prisoner Solidarity: Maintaining Movements Inside and Out
Historians for Peace and Democracy 17

Honoring Tom Bisson: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century and Its Relevance Today
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 3

Institutions and Identities: Romanticism, Nationalism, and the American Left in 20th-Century America
New England Historical Association

Intersections of Gender, Migration, and Civic Engagement in Polish North American Archives
Polish American Historical Association 9

10:30 AM-12:30 PM


Poster Session #2
AHA Session 203

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


Meetup: Thinking About Grad School? Ask a Grad Student

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


Department Chairs' Luncheon

1:00 PM-3:00 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session #1
AHA Session 204

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Meetup: Submitting to the American Historical Review

A Nobel for History: Celebrating the Work of Joel Mokyr
AHA Session 205

Recent Developments in Academic Freedom
AHA Session 206

Teaching the New Science of Late Antiquity
AHA Session 207

State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Korean History
AHA Session 208

Beyond Top-Down Propaganda: Participation, Practice, and Its Limits
AHA Session 209

Finding Ourselves in History
AHA Session 210

Explorations and Expeditions on the 18th-Century Mosquito Coast
AHA Session 211

Teaching College Level History in an Age of Fragmented Attention and Digital Distraction
AHA Session 212

Rediscovering Lost Pasts: Spatial Approaches to Middle Eastern History, Bridging Theoretical and GIS Analysis
AHA Session 213

Reconstructing Democracy: Centering Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggles in US History
AHA Session 214

Whose Health, Whose Safety? Historicizing Health and Safety Measures as Sites of Struggle in 20th-Century US Workplaces
AHA Session 215

Afterlives of the World’s Fair: Urban Space, Historical Reception, and the Enduring Legacies of International Expositions
AHA Session 216

Earth, Water, Air, and the City: Global Urban Environmental Histories of the 17th to 20th Centuries
AHA Session 217

Reimagining Graduate Education for the Present and Future
AHA Session 218

AI Workflows for Archival Collections
AHA Session 219

Sexuality, Medicine, and the Religious Right
AHA Session 220

Fantasies of Control: US Imperial Experiments Before the Second World War
AHA Session 221

Historical Memory, Public History, and Public Action: Lafayette’s 1824–25 American Tour, Then and Now
AHA Session 222

Women Religious and Material Culture: The New Orleans Ursulines in the Transatlantic World, 1732–1924
AHA Session 223

Land and Property in Latin America During the Long 19th Century
AHA Session 224

Jazz Festing in Place: How a Pandemic-Era Experiment in Exploiting Digital Archives Rescued the New Orleans Jazz Fest
AHA Session 225

Philology: New Histories of an Old Science
AHA Session 226

Imperial Afterlives: Histories of the Present from Asia, Part 3: Rethinking the Global Color Line
AHA Session 227

Sinclair Workshop on Historical Podcasting: Developmental Conversations
AHA Session 228

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 1: Business and Finance in the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
AHA Session 229

Coercive and/or Collaborative Institutions: The Church and State in (North) American Catholic Educational History from the Gilded Age to the Civil Rights Era
American Catholic Historical Association 32

Catholicism in New Orleans
American Catholic Historical Association 33

Centers, Initiatives, Institutes: What Can They Do for You?
American Catholic Historical Association 34

Writing the Next Book: Sustaining a Research Trajectory Beyond the First Book
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 6

Uses of the Archive in Women’s, Gender, and Public History: Soong Mayling and Soong Ching-Ling, Two “Mothers of China”
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 7

Book Roundtable on Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Central European History Society 5

China and Its Neighbors from the Qing Dynasty to the 21st Century
Chinese Historians in the United States 7

Imagining Brazil: Global Narratives, Cultural Projection, and the Politics of Representation
Conference on Latin American History 51

Mexican Studies Section: Beyond (and from) the Nation, Part 2—Politics, Religion, Migration, and the Cristero War
Conference on Latin American History 52

Grand Policy, Prestige, and Diplomatic Statecraft in the Revolutionary Era: Frameworks for the Modern Age
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 12

Sharing Stories from 1977: Analyzing the 1977 National Women’s Conference with Digital Humanities
Coordinating Council for Women in History 12

Imagining Internationalism, Studying Solidarity
Historians for Peace and Democracy 18

Recentering the Migrant Worker: Labor and Mobility in Middle Eastern Diaspora History
Historians for Peace and Democracy 19

Who Writes Poland? Outsider Visions and Diasporic Narratives in Transatlantic Literary Space
Polish American Historical Association 10

1:30 PM-4:30 PM


Op-Ed Workshop
AHA Session

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


How Historians Shape Technology: Exploring the Boundaries of Digital History with a Premodern Practitioner Perspective
AHA Session 231

Generational Experiences of Black Louisiana: At the Juncture of Genealogy and History
AHA Session 232

From Neighborhoods to Nations: Women’s Politics in Postwar East Asia
AHA Session 233

Teacher Education, Preparing Social Studies Teachers
AHA Session 234

Feudalism: The Utility of a Construct
AHA Session 235

Teaching the American Revolution at 250: Community Colleges and the Work of Civic Education
AHA Session 236

Archives of the Future
AHA Session 237

18th-Century Common Soldiers and their Words: Letter Writing, Communities, and Military Service, 1739–89
AHA Session 238

The James M. Banner, Jr., Lecture on the State of the Discipline of History
AHA Session 239

Apart at the Seams: Enclosures of Bodies and Worlds in Science and Medicine
AHA Session 240

Teaching Difficult Histories During Attacks on Academic Free Speech
AHA Session 241

Return, Build, Belong: New Histories of Race and Region in the United States.
AHA Session 242

Soft Power Battlegrounds: Reimagining the Global Cold War
AHA Session 243

New Directions in Coffee Historiography
AHA Session 244

Black Lives in Legal Archives: Approaches and Methods to Writing the Histories of Race and Crime from the Early Modern to the Present Day
AHA Session 245

Enslavement and Belonging in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800
AHA Session 246

Remembering the Great War in the Age of AI: Digital Memorialization, Institutional Partnership, and the Future of Civic Memory
AHA Session 247

The Great Contestation of Imperial Ideologies, Infrastructures, and Ecologies Among the Dutch, British, and Chinese Empires in Asia, 1600–1900
AHA Session 248

Local Histories, Local Politics: New Perspectives on the Yucatán Peninsula
AHA Session 249

Lessons from the Living Past: Teaching Empathy and Radicalism from Latin America
AHA Session 250

The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to the Present
AHA Session 251

Information Itineraries: New Approaches to Old Questions in Early Modern Politics, Religion, and Historical Thought
AHA Session 252

Armenian Identity Through Continuity and Change: A Multidimensional History
AHA Session 253

The New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America, Part 2: Environmental History and Commodity Chains in the New Histories of Capitalism in Latin America
AHA Session 254

Antisemitism in Fascist Italy, the Vatican, and Postwar Justice: New Research from the Vatican Archives
American Catholic Historical Association 35

Personal Devotion, Material Culture, and Warfare, 1860–1918
American Catholic Historical Association 36

Race and Racism in the US Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association 37

Catholic History and Present Concerns
American Catholic Historical Association 38

Reframing US–China Relations: Power, Engagement, and Memory Across the 20th Century
Chinese Historians in the United States 9

Governing Everyday Life: State Power and Social Regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Conference on Latin American History 56

Colonization, Revolution, and Repression Across Latin America
Conference on Latin American History 57

Urban Histories in the Revolutionary Era
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era 14

Coordinating Council for Women in History Plenary
Coordinating Council for Women in History 13

AfricanCalifornios.org: Recovering the Lives of Californians of African Descent, 1769–1850
Historians for Peace and Democracy 20

Faith and Reason in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Part 1: New Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern Science and Religion
History of Science Society 2

Polish American Local Politics
Polish American Historical Association 11

Presidential Publishing Panel
Society for Italian Historical Studies 8

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


Undergraduate Poster Session #2
AHA Session 255

5:15 PM-6:30 PM


AHA Business Meeting (AHA Members Only)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM


Coordinating Council for Women in History/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Reception, Sponsored with the Journal of Women's History
Coordinating Council for Women in History

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Mass
American Catholic Historical Association

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


Undergraduate Reception

CEHS Business Meeting
Central European History Society

SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

7:00 PM-10:00 PM


CLAH Awards Ceremony and Reception
Conference on Latin American History

7:30 PM-9:00 PM


Bierabend/Reception
Central European History Society

7:30 PM-9:30 PM


Social
American Catholic Historical Association