137th Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2024)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Thursday, January 4, 2024

8:30 AM-3:00 PM


AHA Council Meeting (invitation only)

9:30 AM-12:00 PM


Future of History in the Liberal Arts: Difficult Conversations in the Liberal Arts Classroom Premeeting Workshop
AHA Session

ACHA Tour 1: San Francisco’s North Beach Neighborhood
American Catholic Historical Association

10:00 AM-12:00 PM


ACHA Tour 2: Mission Dolores
American Catholic Historical Association

11:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

11:00 AM-7:00 PM


AHA Headquarters Office

AHA Information Desk

AHA Meeting Registration

LAC Office

Multifaith Room

Nursing Room

Nursing Room

12:00 PM-1:30 PM


ACHA Executive Committee Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

12:00 PM-6:00 PM


Quiet Room

Quiet Room

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


Getting the Most Out of the Annual Meeting

12:30 PM-5:00 PM


CLAH Information Table
Conference on Latin American History

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Faculty Mentorship in Liberal Arts College History Departments
AHA Session 1

Education Programs, History Departments, and the Current State of K–12 Teacher Preparation
AHA Session 2

Teaching Latin American History: Strategies, Experiments, and Experiences
AHA Session 3

Capitalists as Reformers? A View of the “Top” from the “Bottom Up”
AHA Session 4

Constructing and Deconstructing the Enemy between Italy and Germany: The Press in the 20th Century
AHA Session 5

Creating Knowledge and Connecting Communities: Undergraduate Research in Digital Humanities
AHA Session 6

Cultivating Inclusivity and Diversity in the Classroom: Teaching History through an Equity Lens
AHA Session 7

Experiencing the Immersive Global Middle Ages: A Workshop and Digital Lab
AHA Session 8

Framing Borders in Material and Visual Archives: Tracing Voices, Resilience, and Transnational Mobilities
AHA Session 9

Fugitive Work: Utility, Discipline, and Deviance at the Edges of the Spanish Empire
AHA Session 10

Gender and Empire in the United States and Liberia
AHA Session 11

Healing and Harm: A Roundtable on the Scholarship of Mary Lindemann
AHA Session 12

Intimate Labor and Global Migrations
AHA Session 13

Microhistories of Enslaved People and Slavery: Promises and Challenges
AHA Session 14

Missing No More: Researching, Writing, and Selling Women’s Biographies
AHA Session 15

Mixed Marriages, Family Formation, and the Dynamics of Gender and Race in the Portuguese Atlantic World
AHA Session 16

New Research about Asia: Pacific Science during the Early Cold War
AHA Session 17

Peeking behind the Professional Curtain: Public Facing Research and the Application of History
AHA Session 18

Race, Violence, and Resistance in Afro-Latin America
AHA Session 19

Reimagining Rural Landscapes, Building Modern(ist) States: Experts, Nature, and Nation in 20th-Century Latin America
AHA Session 20

Rethinking the Development of Capitalism in Japan
AHA Session 21

San Francisco's New Deal Art and the Specter of Communism
AHA Session 22

Sensory Encounters with China: The Torments, Taboos, and Tactics of Anglo-American Bodily Experiences
AHA Session 23

Social and Environmental Histories of Waste in Latin America
AHA Session 24

Supernatural Pasts in Islamic History
AHA Session 25

“You Don’t Have to Be White or Gay to Get AIDS”: Race and Inequality in New Histories of an Epidemic
AHA Session 26

Reacting to the Past: Innovation, Challenge, and Opportunity, Part 1: Playing with Primary Sources: Role-Immersion Pedagogy in the History Classroom
AHA Session 27

Seminar Session on the Post-Ottoman World, Part 1: Turkey and Greece
AHA Session 28

Motivations and Hindrances in the Evangelization of Black Catholics
American Catholic Historical Association 1

The Missionary Imagination
American Catholic Historical Association 2

Confronting the History and Legacy of Catholic Indigenous Boarding Schools in the United States, 1870s to the Present
American Catholic Historical Association 3

Cold War Germany and Transnational Solidarities
Central European History Society 3

Race, Class, Mobility, and Law: The Struggle for Justice and Freedoms in Colonial Latin America
Conference on Latin American History

Race, Power, and Religion in the Early Modern Iberian World
Conference on Latin American History 6

Constructing National Hegemony in Mexico, 19th and 20th Centuries
Conference on Latin American History 7

The Before Silicon Valley Project: A Women Public Historians’ Website Project on Mexican American Agricultural and Cannery Workers
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1

Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan: Challenges and Resources
Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching

In Memoriam: Narrative Insight as an Exercise in Historiography—Scholars Who Died in 2022
International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions 1

Transnational Journeys, Intimate Stories: Celebrating Anna Muller’s An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–96
Polish American Historical Association 1

Media and Movements in the American City, 1957–99
Radical History Review 1

Embodying Difference: Age, Injury, and Impairment in Early Modern Italy
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
AHA Session 29

Recent Developments in Advanced Placement US History, World History, and African American Studies Courses
AHA Session 30

Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers: Perspectives from Education Schools and History Departments
AHA Session 31

What K–12 Teachers Want Us to Know about Our Entering Students: A Report from the AHA History Gateways Project
AHA Session 32

Truthseeking of Indigenous Experiences in Boarding Schools
AHA Session 33

Publishing Award-Winning Student History Journals: A Roundtable
AHA Session 34

Big Asia: A Roundtable on Border Crossing
AHA Session 35

Black Resistance across Time and Place
AHA Session 36

Changing Catholic Perspectives on Sexuality and Family in 20th-Century Mexico
AHA Session 37

Christian Nationalism and Modern Nostalgia for the Premodern
AHA Session 38

Citizenship, Mobility, and Race in 20th-Century Germany
AHA Session 39

Communal Resistance and Reconstruction in the Peruvian Andes
AHA Session 40

“Desho Pradesh”: Gendered Performativity and Punjabi Identity in South Asia and the Diaspora across the 20th Century
AHA Session 41

Development from the Peripheries: Perspectives from Postwar Guatemala, Lebanon, and Senegal
AHA Session 42

Historicizing Climate and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World: Approaches, Debates, and Controversies
AHA Session 43

How to Address the Business History of Working-Class People
AHA Session 44

Is It Terminal? Revisiting the History Master’s Degree
AHA Session 45

New Directions in World History
AHA Session 46

Post-statist Approaches to the History of US–Iran Relations
AHA Session 47

Prison History as Global History
AHA Session 48

Queer Pasts and Digital Archives
AHA Session 49

Reagan and the Politics of History
AHA Session 50

Resettlement: Chicago Story—A Cinematic Digital History Project
AHA Session 51

Silicon Valley as Place, Phenomenon, and History
AHA Session 52

Teaching as a Crime: Anti-Woke Legislation and What It Means for Teaching Race in Florida Colleges and Universities and the Rest of the Nation
AHA Session 53

Marian Moments
American Catholic Historical Association 4

Evaluating the Emerging Catholic Right
American Catholic Historical Association 5

The History of the Papacy, Part 1:  The Papacy, Theopolitics, and Interfaith Diplomacy
American Catholic Historical Association 6

The Relevance of Region: Diverse Catholic Communities in the Western United States since Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 7

The American Historical Review and Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 9

Shaping Racial and Gender Ideologies and Identities through Transnational Processes
Conference on Latin American History 10

Counting, Naming, and Chronicling the Other/s in Latin American History
Conference on Latin American History 11

Women's History in the Digital Age
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4

Discussion of Margaret Power’s Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism
Radical History Review 2

3:30 PM-5:30 PM


PAHA Board Meeting
Polish American Historical Association

4:00 PM-5:00 PM


Undergraduate Orientation

5:00 PM-6:00 PM


Reception for Graduate Students

Undergraduate Reception

5:15 PM-6:00 PM


SIHS Business Meeting
Society for Italian Historical Studies

5:30 PM-6:30 PM


IRL Reception for Online Historians

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


Opening Reception

6:00 PM-8:00 PM


CLAH General Committee Meeting
Conference on Latin American History

6:30 PM-7:30 PM


SIHS Reception
Society for Italian Historical Studies

7:00 PM-8:00 PM


American Historical Association Awards Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:00 PM


Plenary: The Politicization of History Education at the State Level: Legislation and Standards