Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
April 18-21, 2012
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Thursday, 4/19
1:30 - 3:00 | Ethnicity on the Urban Frontier: Comparative Perspectives on Milwaukee Germans
Chair: Walter Kamphoefner
Commentator: Margo Anderson
Suicide in the City: Self-Destruction and the German Immigrant Community in Late-Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee
Alison Efford
“Amphibians” and the Shift from German to English: The Linguistic Impact of Structural Changes in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee and Rural Wisconsin
Felecia Lucht
Cooperation and Conflict: Polish and German Immigrants in the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dorota Praszalowicz
4:30 – 5:30 | Dessert Before Dinner
Friday, 4/20
8:30 – 10:00 | State Power at the Border: Comparative Perspectives on US Immigration Regulation from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
Chair/Commentator: Alan Kraut
The Clash of the Commissioners: The Relationship between State and Federal Immigration Authorities in New York during the Civil War
Brendan O’Malley
Questionable Immigration: The British Assisted Emigration Scheme and American Border Control in the Gilded Age
Hidetaka Hirota
Hunting for Chinamen: Chinese Exclusion on the US-Mexico Border, 1890 – 1910
Julian Lim
Please also read this note from presenter Hidetaka Hirota, winner of the 2009 George Pozzetta Award:
I hope this email finds you doing well. It's Hidetaka Hirota, graduate student at Boston College. I have some news that I would like to report to you as a recipient of the 2009 IEHS Pozzetta Award.
Earlier this week, I was notified by the editor of the Journal of American History that my essay has been chosen to receive the 2012 Organization of American Historians Louis Pelzer Memorial Award. If I finish required revision on time, the piece will be published from the JAH in March 2013.
The essay emerged out of my dissertation, which I just defended this month and was partly funded by the Pozzetta Award. Without the assistance from the IEHS, I could not have completed my dissertation, nor could I have written the article. I'm deeply grateful to the IEHS for generous financial help with my project.
As it happens, I'm presenting part of the essay in a panel which is sponsored by the IEHS and is commented by Professor Alan Kraut at the upcoming OAH in Milwaukee. I am of course planning to go to the IEHS graduate reception. I look forward to seeing you there soon.
Thank you very much once again for supporting my work. I deeply appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Hidetaka Hirota
History Department
Boston College
Saturday, 4/21
10:30 – 12:00 | Roundtable: Oscar Handlin’s Legacy: Immigration and Ethnic History
Moderator: John Bukowczyk
Tyler Anbinder
Hasia Diner
David Gerber
Alan Kraut
Lorrin Thomas |
