Program Committee

IEHS-Sponsored Sessions in 2009: 

American Historical Association – New York – January 2-5, 2009

“Jewish Migrants in Uncharted Terrain: From Europe to Small- Town and Rural America” – co-sponsored by the AHA

Chair:  Raymond A. Mohl, University of Alabama, Birmingham

 

“Jewish Migration Networks through Prussia and the United States, 1880-1914”

Nicole I. Kvale
University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

“Re-negotiating Jewish Identity in the Bible Belt: Peddlers and Merchants in the Post-Civil War South”

Diane C. Vecchio
Furman University

 

“Thin Capital and Thick Culture: Jews in the American Indian Heritage Trail”

David S. Koffman
New York University

Commentators:

Hasia Diner, New York University

Elliott R. Barkan, California State University, San Bernardino

 

“Don’t Send These to Me: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in the United States

 Chair:  Walter D. Kamphoefner, Texas A&M University

 

Nativism in the 1890s: the United States, Canada, and Australia

Richard Jensen, University of Illinois, Chicago

 

“‘The Dregs of Europe’: Congress and Jewish Immigration Policy, 1933-1941”

Nancy B. Young, University of Houston

 

“An Inhospitable Nation: Demography, Politics, and the Failure of Restrictionism in America

Brian Gratton, Arizona State University

Catherine O’Donnell, Arizona State University

Commentators: 

Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University

Walter D. Kamphoefner

 

Organization of American Historians – Seattle – March 26-29, 2009

Connections and Boundaries: The Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in Irish America

Chair:  David Brundage, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

“Black and Green: Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Marcus Garvey, and Irish America

Ely Janis, Boston College

 

“Race, Citizenship, and Service”

Andy Urban, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 

“Interethnic Connections: Abraham Shuman, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Boston’s Immigrant Elite”

Meaghan Dwyer, Boston College

Commentators:

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University

David Brundage

 

Negotiating the Bounds of Ethnic Identity: Religious Communities and Race in the Turn-of-the-Century United States

Chair:  Roland L. Guyotte, University of Minnesota, Morris

 

“Utopian Literature and Jewish Identity in Gilded-Age America

 Justin Nordstrom, Pennsylvania State University, Hazelton

 

“Staging ‘Tours of Understanding’: The American Friends Service Committee, Quakers, and Race Relations in the Early Twentieth Century”

Allan Austin, Misericordia University

 

“‘Forward’ From the Lower East Side: The Formation of Chicago’s Immigrant Jewish Working Class, 1886-1925”

Susan Breitzer, Fayetteville State University

Commentators:

Hasia Diner, New York University

Elliott R. Barkan, California State University, San Bernardino

 

“Sex, Race, and Empire Across the West and Pacific”

Chair:  Paul Kramer, University of Iowa

 

“Sammy Lee: Narratives of Asian American Masculinity and Race in Decolonizing Asia

Mary Liu, Yale University

 

“The Insurgent Pacific: Race, Wars, and Antiradicalism Before the First Red Scare”

 Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington

 

“Sex, Love, and Rockets: Imperial Intimacies in Latino America

 Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin Collete

Commentator: 

Paul Kramer

 

The IEHS Program Committee is soliciting sessions or single papers for
the following meetings:

2009 AHA (deadline Feb. 15, 2008)
New York City, January 2 - 5, 2009 - Theme: “Globalizing Historiography”
http://www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm

2009 OAH (deadline Feb. 15, 2008)
Seattle, WA, March 26-29, 2009 - Theme:  “History Without Boundaries”
http://www.oah.org/meetings/2009/call.html

Suggestions for other conferences at which the IEHS might offer sessions are also welcome. Proposals for full sessions are best, but the committee will try to match any individual paper proposals.  Please provide your name, affiliation, and a brief abstract of your paper. Send to the Program Committee chair or to any of the Program Committee members listed below.

Barbara M. Posadas, Chair
IEHS Program Committee
Northern Illinois University

Email: bposadas@niu.edu

Committee Members:
Nora Faires, Department of History, Western Michigan University
email: nora.faires@wmich.edu

Maria Cristina Garcia, Department of History, Cornell University
email: mcg20@cornell.edu

Stephen J. Gross, Division of the Social Sciences, University of
Minnesota
, Morris   email: grosssj@morris.umn.edu

Violet Johnson, Department of History, Agnes Scott College
email: vjohnson@agnesscott.edu

Raymond A. Mohl, Department of History, University of Alabama,
Birmingham  email: rmohl@uab.edu

K. Scott Wong, Department of History, Williams College
email: Kevin.S.Wong@williams.edu


2008 IEHS-Sponsored Sessions:

American Historical Association Annual Meeting

Washington, D.C.

January 3-6, 2008

 

German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Evolution of Racial Attitudes in the 19th-Century United States

Chair:       Russell Kazal, University of Toronto

Papers:   Francis Lieber’s Attitude on Race, Slavery, and Abolition

                  Hartmut Keil, University of Leipzig

                  German Americans, African Americans, and Labor in Post-

                  Emancipation St. Louis

                  Kristen Anderson, University of Iowa

                  How the Germans Became White Southerners:  German Immigrants

                  and Their Social, Economic, and Political Relations with African

                 Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860-1880

                 Jeffery Strickland, Montclair State University

Comment:          Walter Kamphoefner, Texas A & M University

 

Transnational Approaches to U.S. Immigration History

Chair:       Roland L. Guyotte, University of Minnesota, Morris

Papers:                           Korean Émigré Politics, Ethnicity, and Diasporic Formations,

                                          1903-  1945 Richard Kim, University of California, Davis

                  Migrants and Immigrants:  Puerto Ricans, U.S. Empire, and

                  Transnational History, 1900-1919

      Robert McGreevey, Brandeis University

      Identity Crisis?  Documentation and Registration in Chinese, Mexican

      and European Immigrant Communities, 1905-1930

      Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University

Comment:          Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin

 

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting

New York, NY

March 28-31, 2008

 

New Lessons from Old Immigrants:  The Economic and Cultural Assimilation of Nineteenth-Century Irish and Twentieth-Century Norwegian Americans

Chair:       Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University

Papers:                           From Irish Rags to American Riches?  The Surprising Data from New

                                          York’s Emigrant Savings Bank

      Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University

      Ethnic Persistence Overlooked?  ‘Surprising Data’ on Seattle’s

                  Norwegians Since the Mid-20th Century

      Elliott Barkan, California State University

Comment:          Jon Gjerde, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Bounding and Unbounding Spaces and Places

Chair:       Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Minnesota

Papers:   Railroad Crossings:  The Transnational World of North America,

                  1877-1910

      Christine A. Berkowitz, Univeristy of Toronto

                  Blacks on the Border: Migration, Freedom, and Detroit as Portal and                   Destination

      Nora Faires, Western Michigan University

     Erasing the Border:  Images of a Borderless West in the Early 20th

     Century

                 Sheila McManus, University of Lethbridge

Comment:          Jeffrey M. Pilcher

                              Daniel E. Bender, University of Toronto

 

 

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