Immigration and Ethnic History Society

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society was founded in 1965 as the Immigration History Group. It was renamed the Immigration History Society in 1972, and was subsequently chartered as a non-profit organization in Minnesota. In 1998, the Society, which had traditionally dealt with matters of ethnicity as well as immigration, changed its name to the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. [Read more. . .]

Enroll or Renew Your Membership

Membership in the IEHS includes a subscription to the quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History as well as to the IEHS Newsletter. There is an annual meeting and dinner in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. We organize and sponsor sessions on immigration and ethnic subjects at various academic conferences. We also sponsor awards for outstanding books and articles and an award to encourage promising dissertation research. The Society is a member of the Association of North American Immigration Institutions (ANAII). [Read more. . .]

What's New at IEHS

The IEHS would like to hear from you! For planning purposes, we would like to know how many members regularly attend the AHA meeting in January. Would you like the IEHS to host some type of reception at the AHA on a regular basis? Please contact Hasia Diner (hasia.diner (at) nyu.edu) or Maria Cristina Garcia (mariacristinagarcia (at) cornell.edu) to offer feedback on this issue!

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society invites its members in academia to advance the professionalization of their graduate student advisees by offering them a one-time introductory gift subscription to the Journal of American Ethnic History. Subscription brings automatic membership in the IEHS and a full range of benefits including:

Subscription to the biannual newsletter which is not available online;

Access to the 'syllabi sharing' feature of the IEHS website;

IEHS sponsorship of panels at the AHA and OAH conferences;

The opportunity to meet and collaborate with a network of scholars in the field of immigration and ethnic history.

The enrollment form can be accessed at the IEHS website: http://www.iehs.org/membership_enroll_renew.php. Please consider offering your graduate students a gift subscription to mark successful doctoral defenses, candidacy exams, and other important events.

The program committee invites ideas for panels and roundtables for IEHS co-sponsorship at the 2014 meetings of the OAH and the AHA. Questions and submissions should be sent to the members of the program committee. Maria Cristina Garcia (mcg20@cornell.edu), Michael Innis-Jimenez (innisjmenez@gmail.com), Maddelena Marinari (mmarinari@gmail.com), and Lorrin Thomas (lthomas2@camden.rutgers.edu).

May 20, 2013