Events and Networking Opportunities
Plenary Session: Native History in Music/Native Music in History: A Conversation and Performance with Frank Waln
Thursday, March 31, 4:30 pm–6:00 pm
If there is one thing that unites Native American songwriters and performers, it is the way that an ever-present sense of history infuses the music. From Navajo metal to Indigenous hip hop to Native alternative to compositions in the classical tradition, the historical past is both the subject of the music and the condition under which it is made. As Lakota artist Frank Waln tells it:
I got this pain that I can’t shake/ ties to my people I can’t break
Got this history in my blood/ got my tribe that shows me love
So when I rise/ you rise/ come on let’s rise
This plenary session will delve into the relation between history and contemporary Indigenous music, and the ways that Native people have sought to use music to question and transform American narratives, while also imagining future forms of Indigeneity that draw on the past. Join Frank Waln and Phil Deloria for a wide-ranging conversation about the uses of history, performances of Waln’s Native hip hop grooves, and a survey of Native “history music,” past and present.
Frank Waln is an award winning Lakota performer, speaker and writer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He produces and releases music that fuses traditional Lakota instruments with Hip Hop and electronic music to create songs that shed light on Indigenous history and issues currently affecting Indian Country.
CC - this session is partially CART Captioned
Native Artisan Exhibit
Thursday, March 31, 3:00 pm–7:30 pm
Regional Native artisans will share examples of their work and their experiences navigating the world of fine art, preserving Indigenous lifeways and making new traditions.
The OAH Awards Ceremony
Friday, April 1, 5:15 pm–6:15 pm
Celebrating the best in American history—writing, teaching, public presentation, research, support, and distinguished careers—the OAH Awards Ceremony recognizes colleagues and friends whose achievements advance our profession, bolstering deep, sophisticated understandings of America’s complex past, and informed, historically relevant discussions of contemporary issues. Longtime members of the organization will also be honored.
OAH Business Meeting
Saturday, April 2, 5:15 pm–5:45pm
All OAH members are encouraged to attend the meeting and participate in the governance of the organization. Proposals for action should be made in the form of ordinary motions or resolutions. All such motions or resolutions must be signed by one hundred members in good standing and submitted at least forty-five days prior to the meeting to OAH Executive Director Beth English and OAH Parliamentarian Jonathan Lurie, c/o OAH, 112 North Bryan Ave., Bloomington, IN 47408. Should a motion or resolution be submitted in this manner, OAH membership will be notified via electronic communication at least 30 days in advance of the Annual Business Meeting. The OAH Business Meeting will immediately precede the Presidential Address.
Chat Room Seminars
Saturday, April 2, 12 pm - 12:45 pm
The Chat Room provides an opportunity for historians to share and learn from the knowledge and experiences of their peers. Led by up to two moderators, each 45-minute seminar encourages conversation in a relaxed and unstructured environment. Teach, learn, and debate while meeting friends both old and new.
Chat topics include:
• Historians Wearing ALL the Hats: What teaching and service look like at a Community College
• Academic Freedom
• Writing for Made by History
• The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919
• Disrupted Centennial: Continuing Conversations about Women’s Voting Rights after 2020
• Teaching History with Virtual Reality
• Academic Parenting
“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: New York City, 1980-2000
Exhibit Hall Feature:
This pop-up exhibit is a selection of photographs from “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: New York City, 1980-2000, and exhibition of social protest photography. The exhibition and companion multimedia website, www.whosestreets.photo feature the work of more than thirty five photographers who covered social issues including race relations and police brutality; housing and gentrification; war and the environment; HIV/AIDS and queer activism; abortion rights and the culture wars; and education and labor. “Whose Streets? Our Streets” highlights both the key roles of citizens and of journalists in enacting democratic social change, and invites viewers to reflect on how these social issues, as well as social movements and the practice of journalism, have evolved in recent decades. This exhibition is associated with Session 4326, “Social Protest Photography, Public History, and Racial Justice: from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter,” which includes co-curators Tamar Carroll and Josh Meltzer as well as contributing photographer Brian Palmer, and which will discuss the use of social protest photography to engage and educate audiences on the history of race relations in the U.S.
Creating a Digital Documentary Edition of a 17th-Century Wampanoag Vocabulary
Exhibit Hall Feature:
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society
This display will explore Wôpanâak Inscribed: Digital Edition of a 17th-Century Wampanoag Lexicon, a digital documentary edition that represents the manuscript text of a document in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. That text also, and more significantly, makes present the Wampanoag ancestors who still spoke and wrote this dialect on their home island, Noepe, commonly known today as Martha’s Vineyard.
Of the Indigenous nations that inhabited the northeastern seaboard before English began colonizing the area, the Wampanoag were the most prolific along and around the coast of Cape Cod. By the time this phrasebook was compiled in the 1660s, Wampanoag communities had endured devastating epidemics and increasing English encroachment on their territory. They remained semi-autonomous, retained strong social structures within and among tribal groups, and could still engage English communities on a relatively equal footing. Wampanoag culture and language continued to thrive; literacy, promoted initially by English missionaries, was embraced by Wampanoag community members.
This lexicon appears in a notebook kept by a missionary who arrived in the area in 1666. Alongside journal entries and miscellaneous content, the notebook includes about 100 pages of Wôpanâak to English phrase sets collected during the eighteen months that Rev. John Cotton Jr. lived on the island and sought to learn the language. While the names of Cotton’s teachers do not appear in these pages, the community he entered was used to discussing finer points of Christian scripture and writing in Wôpanâak. Finding a language teacher would not have been difficult.
The Wampanoag nation suffered great losses in the 1670s, particularly from the conflict known as King Philip’s War. In the ensuing decades, continued encroachment by colonists and forced integration led to the decline of Wôpanâak speech, even as the Wampanoag people continued to live in the area. Wôpanâak was last spoken fluently sometime in the mid-nineteenth century but survived in the vast written corpus produced to that point. Inspired by dream visions in the early 1990s, jessie little doe baird led the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project to reawaken the language for her people, beginning a wave of reclamation efforts that now reach across the continent.
The present edition is perhaps the last major Wôpanâak source to be edited; its creation, like that of the manuscript whose text it presents, could not exist without the Wampanoag ancestors and the teachers and students today. The digital edition pairs high-resolution scans of every page of the vocabulary with transcriptions. The latter have been prepared in XML by MHS editorial staff, with generous guidance from colleagues who specialize in the language and its history. For their assistance in making this possible, we thank jessie little doe baird, Tracy Kelley, Kathleen Bragdon, Norvin Richards, and Stephanie Hasselbacher. For financial support, we thank the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
"Hey, I Know Your Work" Mentorship Program
Graduate students, recent graduates, or early career historians can meet with experienced scholars to discuss research, professional aspirations, or simply to get acquainted.
The OAH’s Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories is committed to intersectionality in its conception, constitution, and in the practice of its rotating members. Our mission is to serve a broad swath of the rising underrepresented scholars in our craft. Mentees have the opportunity to learn strategies to navigate an academic career from a more senior scholar aligned with ALANA’s goals. Look for ALANA-endorsed mentors on the listing.
The Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) is again partnering with the OAH to provide mentors to those interested in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Look for SHGAPE-endorsed mentors in the listing.
How does it work?
- Select mentors from the list posted December 2021. The list will include the mentor’s positions and research interests.
- Connect: The OAH will assign up to three mentees to a mentor based on availability. In March 2022, all mentors and mentees are connected with each other to finalize their scheduled meeting time.
- Meet: During the event, mentors and mentees meet for conversation at a predetermined time. Meetings last between forty-five minutes and one hour.
- Why? This program offers emerging scholars the opportunity to forge professional and personal relationships with scholars whose work they admire.
If you are interested in becoming a mentor please email meetings@oah.org with the following:
- Name
- Title/Position
- Institution if applicable
- Contact information including email and phone number
- Topics of specialty or areas of interest
- If you would like to be listed as an ALANA or SHGAPE mentor
We are no longer accepting mentors for 2022 OAH.
If you are interested in becoming a mentee please email meetings@oah.org with the following:
- Name
- Institution if applicable
- Contact information including email and phone number
- Brief bio (150 words)
- Top three mentor choices
We are no longer accepting mentees for 2022 OAH.
Mentor Listing
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Curator, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |
Available for Virtual Meetings Only |
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President, American Antiquarian Society, Formerly: Dean of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences and Professor of History, UMBC |
Dr. Casper is interested in 19th-century US cultural history; history of the book; and hidden histories of historic sites. |
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Digital Projects Editor, Omohundro Institute, William & Mary |
Dr. Covart is interested in mentoring emerging scholars in public history and podcast production, what it is like to pursue a career in both public history and scholarly history, entrepreneurialism, and what it is like to leave academia and work as an independent scholar. |
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Associate Professor, Educational Foundations & Research; Visiting Scholar, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond; Associate Editor, Made by History, The Washington Post; Director, I-REEED; Co-Director, Education Foundations and Research Ph.D. Program, University of North Dakota |
Dr. D'Amico Pawlewicz is a historian of education policy and reform in the United States. Her work explores school policy as social policy and the various ways schools have served as barriers to/ conduits for broader fights for equity and justice. As a historian whose primary affiliation is not in a history department, she has had the opportunity to ground her work in an interdisciplinary foundation and to write to broad audiences. Additionally, as an associate editor for The Washington Post's Made by History section, she is also engaged in public scholarship. |
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Bright Distinguished Professor of American History Chair, History Department Director, The Bright Institute at Knox College Knox College, Galesburg, IL |
Available for Virtual Meetings Only |
| Megan Elias Gastronomy Program Director and Associate Professor, Boston University |
SHGAPE affiliated mentor Dr. Elias's interests include Food, Gender, and Business |
| David A. Gerber University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus; Senior Fellow in History and in Disability Studies |
Available for Virtual Meetings Only Dr. Gerber's interests and specializations include personal and group identities and group formations regarding race, ethnicity, and disability; veterans of military service with disabilities; American immigration law and policy; and personal correspondence of international migrants. He has authored and edited books and essays in each of these areas, and in addition, most recently, with Bruce Dierenfield, coauthored, Disability Rights and Religious Libertry in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (2020), which grew out of his longstanding teaching interest in the First Amendment's religion clauses. |
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John Robert (Bob) Greene |
Available for Virtual Meetings Only |
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Edward J. Hagerty |
Dr. Hagerty's topics and areas of interest include 19th and 20th Century Military History with special emphasis on the American Civil War and WWII in Europe, Antebellum South and Slavery, and Espionage and Intelligence. He is especially interested in mentoring students and young scholars seeking nontraditional careers in academia to include part-time/adjunct faculty careers, as well as public history settings, or those making a mid-career transition to the field of History. |
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Cindy Hahamovitch |
LAWCHA Mentor Cindy Hahamovitch is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. A historian of southern, international, and US labor and migration, she is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (UNC Press, 1997) and No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press). A Fulbright Fellow, Guggenheim, and the John E. Sawyer Fellow at the National Humanities Center, she is working on the history of human trafficking in labor over the past two centuries and on Chambers v Florida, a 1933 death penalty case. She is a member of UCWGA Local 3265, the incoming President of LAWCHA, the past president of the Southern Labor Studies Association, and for twelve years was Reviews Editor for Labor: Studies in the Working Class History. |
| Michael D. Innis-Jiménez Professor, Department of American Studies, The University of Alabama; Co-Editor, Latinx Histories Book Series (UNCP) |
Michael Innis-Jiménez is professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama. His research interests include the study of early Mexican and Mexican-American migrations to the U.S. Midwest and South. More specifically, his projects include a focus on Chicago’s Mexican immigrant and Mexican-American foodways, Mexican immigrant steelworker families and their environment |
| Jonathan Lurie Professor of History Emeritus Rutgers University, Newark |
Dr. Lurie's fields of interest include American Legal History, History of American Military Justice, and the Gilded Age. Dr. Lurie taught at Rutgers for 46 years and has published in each of these fields. He has also served as the Parliamentarian for the OAH for approximately 10 years. |
| Rafael Medoff Independent Historian, Washington, D.C |
Available for Virtual Meetings Only Dr. Medoff's research specializes in American responses to the Holocaust. He has authored more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on the subject over the past 30 years. He is interested in working with students and emerging scholars in the areas of American Jewish history, Holocaust studies, the history of American immigration policy, and U.S. foreign policy in the 1930s/1940s. |
| Seth Offenbach Associate Professor, Bronx Community College, CUNY |
Dr. Offenbach's areas of interest include modern US history, teaching college, and political history. |
| Graham A. Peck Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies |
Dr. Peck is interested in antebellum American history with a focus on northern politics, Lincoln and Douglas, and the origins of the Civil War, as well as Illinois history. |
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Brian Purnell |
Dr. Purnell's topics of specialty and areas of interest include Civil Rights, Black Power, urban history, NYC, oral history, public history, economic development, and social movements. |
| Nancy Unger Professor of History at Santa Clara University and President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |
SHGAPE Affiliated Mentor Dr. Unger is a historian of the United States, and her main area of interest is The Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is the author of Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer, and co-edited A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. She is also interested in Gender History (she teaches and publishes in the fields of Women's History and LGBTQ+ History), and US Environmental History. Her book at the intersection of those fields is Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History. Dr. Unger also enjoys making history available to the general public through a variety of platforms including op-eds, podcasts, radio, and television. |
| Kanisorn (Kid) Wongsrichanalai Director of Research at the Massachusetts Historical Society |
Dr. Wongsrichanalai is trained as a 19th century United States historian with interests in the American Civil War. He is also interested in oral history, public history, the World War I Era, gender, and various other topics. |
| Amy Louise Wood Professor History Department, Illinois State University |
SHGAPE Mentor Dr. Wood's areas of interest include Criminal Justice, Racial Violence, US Cultural and Intellectual, and Gilded Age and Progressive Era |
Hub Fair - Explore careers in history
Friday, April 1, 12 pm–1:30 pm
The OAH is excited to invite attendees to meet agencies, consultants, associations, institutions, and companies who work with, work as, or hire historians outside the academy. Join us on Friday, April 1 between 12 pm and 1:30 pm to explore the fair and learn about the various participants, the types of positions that exist for historians, and how one can find these opportunities. Some groups will also be available for one-on-one informational interviews.
Participating individuals/groups include:
⇒ Catherine Cocks, Michigan State University Press
A twenty-year veteran of scholarly publishing, Catherine Cocks is the assistant director and editor-in-chief at Michigan State University Press, which publishes 40 to 50 books and 15 journals annually in US and African history, Native American studies, Latinx studies, African literature and film, animal studies, rhetoric, and other fields. She earned her PhD in US history from the University of California, Davis, and is the author of two books: Doing the Town (University of California Press, 2001) and Tropical Whites (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). The chair of the AUPresses’ faculty outreach committee and the co-editor of H-Net’s scholarly communications forum Feeding the Elephant, she welcomes questions on careers in publishing.
⇒ Historical Research Associates, Inc.
Since 1974, Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA), has provided consulting services for public and private clients in history, litigation support, exhibit development, interpretive planning, cultural resource management, and historic preservation. We conduct archival research and oral histories country-wide and turn these investigations into compelling agency and company histories, expert-witness reports for litigation, and exhibits and historical displays for a variety of venues. If you are interested in how you could put your historical training and skills to work in a consulting environment, please stop by the HRA booth to speak with Keith Zahniser.
Visit the JAH booth to learn more about academic publishing and how graduatelevel training translates to production schedules, content development, editorial duties, and project management. Most societies produce a publication by coordinating with an academic publisher. Attendees can also expect to learn about publisher contacts and relations. Finally, there are other nonacademic jobs at journals such as editorial assistants (if not already covered by graduate students), office staff, copy editors, typesetters, etc.
⇒ Leventhal Map and Education Center
The Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library brings together geography, history, and visual collections to explore the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond. The Center is responsible for stewarding the library's collection of a quarter million geographic objects, ranging from C15 atlases to modern-day gesopatial data sets. We run free public programs in our gallery and teaching spaces designed to invite people into the key questions of historical geography. We partner with teachers from the primary school to postgraduate levels, bringing both physical and digitized material from the collections as well as critical perspectives to bear on issues such as space, place, environment, landscape, cities, and regions. Historians at the Center are involved in all aspects of our work, from collections management to outreach with community partners. We particularly emphasize the scholarly overlap between the fields of history and geography, as well as fields such as urban studies, environmental studies, and data science.
For 25 years the Organization of American Historians has partnered with the National Park Service (NPS) to bring leading scholarship to bear on the presentation of history at our national parks. Membership in the OAH makes you eligible for a wide range of sponsored funding opportunities through the OAH-NPS cooperative agreement. Your commitment can range from serving as the principal investigator on a multiyear research and writing project, to providing a peer review of a study in progress, to participating in a scholars round table at an NPS site. The OAH posts new opportunities as they become available. To learn more, and for more information about getting involved, stop by and talk to OAH Public History Manager Paul J. Zwirecki.
⇒ Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series.
In addition, the Office prepares policy-supportive historical studies for Department principals and other agencies. These studies provide essential background information, evaluate how and why policies evolved, identify precedents, and derive lessons learned. Department officers rely on institutional memory, collective wisdom, and personal experience to make decisions; rigorous historical analysis can sharpen, focus, and inform their choices. The Office of the Historian conducts an array of initiatives, ranging from briefing memos to multi-year research projects.
The Office of the Historian also promotes the declassification of documents to ensure a complete and accurate understanding of the past.
⇒ Organization of American Historians
Elisabeth Marsh is the Director of Membership, Marketing, and Communications for the OAH. She has been responsible for the membership department since 2013, shortly after graduating with her Ph.D. in U.S. history. If you are interested in translating the skills gained during graduate school into a nonprofit setting, or if you want to know what steps you can take while still in school to prepare for that career, stop by the OAH table to chat.
⇒ The Paul Revere Memorial Association
The house at 19 North Square famous for Paul Revere and his midnight ride is the oldest house still standing in downtown Boston, and one of the few remaining 17th-century dwellings in a large urban area in the United States.
The Paul Revere Memorial Association is the non-profit organization that runs the house and maintains a robust research program. In addition to its major publications and quarterly publication, The Revere Gazette, the research department and historians on-site produce the Revere House Radio podcast, the Revere Express blog, conduct on- and off-site lectures, and aim to bolster the interpretation of the house, North End neighborhood, and Boston generally over the centuries of history here.
Additionally, Historical Interpreters serve as guides in the Paul Revere House, clerks in the ticket booth and museum shop, write articles, and facilitate youth and adult groups and typically work one to two days a week. The PRMA also runs a robust internship program in the spring, summer, and fall in which interns produce their own primary source-based research project.
Revolutionary Spaces brings people together to explore the American struggle to create and sustain a free society, singularly evoked by Boston’s Old South Meeting House and Old State House. We steward these buildings as gathering spaces for the open exchange of ideas and the continuing practice of democracy, inspiring all who believe in the power of people to govern themselves. We are dedicated to creating experiences for our audiences that not only deepen understanding of the past but also provide a fresh perspective on the challenges we face today and equip us to build a more just and equitable tomorrow.
⇒ U.S. Army Center of Military History
The U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) is responsible for writing and recording the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters. This includes writing the operational and administrative histories of the Army in the Cold War and the global war on terror. In addition, Army historians maintain the organizational history of Army units, lead staff rides, conduct oral histories, and manage the Command History Program, which provides historical support and collects materials from peacekeeping and wartime operations world-wide. CMH serves as a hub for the Army Museum Enterprise, a network of museums that spans the globe and includes the National Museum of the U.S. Army.
For over ten years, Lincoln Bramwell has served as the Chief Historian of the U.S. Forest Service. His duties include directing all aspects of this Federal agency’s history program, including research and publication, public speaking, external outreach, producing and managing oral histories, as well as policy support, expert testimony in Federal court, and developing a strategic vision for history within the land management agency’s mission. He has also served as a Legislative Affairs specialist acting as a direct liaison between the agency and Congress and as a Program Manager overseeing social science programs across the Rocky Mountain West. If you’d like to chat more about how to apply skills obtained in a graduate history program outside of the normal bounds of history work, stop by the Forest Service’s booth.
⇒ U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Historian
The Office of the Historian collects and provides information to the widest possible audience on all aspects of the House’s rich history spanning more than two centuries: important events, people, precedents, dates, and statistics. It maintains the House’s major historical publications including The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and a series of volumes on women and minorities who have served in Congress. The office also conducts and publishes oral history interviews with former senior staff and Members of Congress.
⇒ United States Strategic Command
U.S. Strategic Command is one of eleven unified commands in the Department of Defense. The mission of USSTRATCOM is to deter strategic attack and employ forces, as directed, to guarantee the security of our Nation and our Allies. The command enables Joint Force operations and is the combatant command responsible for Strategic Deterrence, Nuclear Operations, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Enterprise Operations, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, Global Strike, Missile Defense, Analysis and Targeting, and Missile Threat Assessment.
⇒ Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG)
Founded in 1979, the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) works to address common concerns, support shared interests, and stimulate discussion across the federal history community. The work of that community takes many forms, including documentary collections, historic preservation and interpretation, institutional histories, museum exhibitions, oral history programs, policy research, records and information management, and reference services. The Society’s membership is similarly diverse, including not only historians but also archaeologists, archivists, consultants, curators, editors, librarians, preservationists, and others engaged in or committed to government history.
The Hub | One-on-One Meetings
Meet one-on-one with consultants and publishers during the conference. Information to book your appointment can be found in each description below. Book early as spaces fill quickly.
You must be registered for the OAH Conference on American History prior to signing up for an appointment.
Consultants
⇒ Grant Writing Consultation - Lori Shea Kuechler
- Has your department chair or organization asked you to write a grant?
- Are you interested in becoming a grant writer for history, social sciences, or the humanities?
- Do you have a specific idea or project that requires advice about how to seek funding?
- Do you want to add grant writing to your professional skill set?
In addition to Lori Shea Kuechler’s workshop, “Historians are Grant Writers” Lori is offering personalized consultations with you or your grant writing team. To make an appointment for one of five time slot opportunities (9:00am, 10:30am, 1:00pm, 2:30pm, and 4:00pm) on Saturday, April 2, contact Lmkuechler@msn.com and we will set a time, and determine what materials you can bring to support the conversation.
Lori Shea Kuechler has an MA Interdisciplinary Studies, and is the Principal Partner for Kuechler Nonprofit Consulting. She is a contract grant writer for several public entities and the author of hundreds of successful foundation and governmental grants for educational, historical, cultural, and social service agencies. She has been a grant evaluator for the NEH and the State of Oregon, and is currently an adjunct Liberal Arts instructor.
Publishers
⇒ Cambridge University Press
With more than 30 years of experience working in the publishing world, for both trade and academic houses, I currently commission and develop trade, academic, and reference works in US and Latin American history at Cambridge University Press. I am passionate about bringing original, paradigm-shifting scholarship to as wide a readership as possible and am interested in work that explores diversity and equality, highlights underrepresented voices and stories, and challenges the traditional historiographical narrative. Particular areas of interest include African American history, women’s history, legal history, the history of sexuality, the history of slavery, Afro-Latin American history, military history, particularly the study of war and society, and the history of religion.
To set up a meeting please email Cecelia Cancellaro at ccancellaro@cambridge.org
⇒ Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press’s history list is as wide-ranging as it is ambitious. That ambition may mean tackling long periods of history, connecting far-flung geographic locations to make unexpected arguments, bringing scholarship to general audiences, or advancing bold yet well-supported claims. In the effort to feature the most engaging history, I seek writers who have an eye for meaningful detail and the wherewithal to see the big picture.
To set up a meeting please email Senior Editor Priya Nelson at Priya_Nelson@press.princeton.edu.
⇒ The University of Illinois Press
• I am an acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, where I acquire a broad list of history titles, including labor and radical studies, disability studies, Illinois and midwestern history, Lincoln studies, and Appalachian studies, as well as religion, including Mormon studies, and digital humanities. I would love to meet with both junior and experienced writers at any stage of their projects. To set up a meeting, please email Alison Syring at asyring2@illinois.edu.
• What’s up! It’s Dominique here. I am accepting manuscripts in American ethnic studies; Black studies; and women, gender, and sexuality studies for publication consideration. I actively acquire history projects that use interdisciplinary methods to discuss marginalized groups and their material lives and is particularly interested in scholars that grapple with identity, shared experiences, and daring to exist in the world. Please sign up for a meeting with me at https://calendly.com/
⇒ The University of Notre Dame Press
The University of Notre Dame Press publishes academic and general interest books that engage the most enduring questions of our time, and we are proud to have a strong history list that complies with this mission. We frequently publish scholarly books in American religious history, political history, and general history and Latin American religious and cultural history. We are also always interested in American history and military history books written for a general audience.
If you have a proposal and would like to discuss it with Notre Dame Press, contact our Editor in Chief, Eli Bortz, at ebortz@nd.edu.
⇒ Yale University Press
I am a Senior Editor at Yale University Press, where I acquire books in history. My goal as an editor is to bring the best historical scholarship to a broad reading public, and to help historians inform the public conversation about the things that matter. I am interested in all periods and subfields of American history, and welcome proposals or queries.
To set up a meeting with Adina Popescu Berk, please visit here to get in touch.
