Meetings and Activities of AHA Affiliated Societies

Coordinating Council for Women in History

Thursday, January 8

5:00–7:00 p.m. Marriott, Room 8217, Lobby Level. CCWH board meeting

Friday, January 9

7:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Marriott, Room 8228, Lobby Level.
Graduate Student Drop-In Room for graduates on the job market.

Watch AHA bulletin boards for meeting announcements

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Salon I.
Session 1, joint with the AHA Professional Division and the AHA Committee for Graduate Students. Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Delaware Suite B.
Session 2, joint with the AHA. Domestic Insecurity: Revisiting Red Scare Politics in the United States, 1930s–60s

5:30–7:30 p.m. Marriott, Wilson Suite A.
CCWH Reception, open to all meeting participants. This annual event offers graduate students an opportunity to chat informally with historians across a broad spectrum of fields and professions.

Saturday, January 10

9:30–11:30 a.m. Marriott, Coolidge Room.
Session 3. Roundtable on Preserving U.S. Women’s Sites: An Overview

12:15–1:45 p.m. Marriott, Virginia Suite A.
CCWH awards luncheon

Leila J. Rupp, professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and outgoing editor of the Journal of Women’s History, will speak on “Confessions of a ‘Journal Girl’ or, What Editing the Journal of Women’s History Tells Us About Where We Are Now.” Winners of the CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship, the Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship, and the Catherine Prelinger Scholarship (for a non-traditional historian) will be honored. Tickets ($35) should be purchased from Jennifer Scanlon, Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College, 7100 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011 no later than December 22, 2003. Make checks payable to CCWH.

2:30–4:30 p.m. Marriott, Coolidge Room.
Session 4. Historians as Activists: A Roundtable Discussion

Sunday, January 11