Check back later this fall to see the staff picks for Undergrads attending the 2020 annual meeting!

The AHA hosts a number of sessions for undergraduate historians at the annual meeting. Mark your calendars for Thursday’s informal orientation for undergraduate attendees followed directly by a welcome reception. These are great opportunities to learn about the structure of an academic conference, ask questions, and network. We encourage you to stop by the Undergraduate Lightening Round and Undergraduate Poster Session even if you are not presenting to support and see the work of your peers. We have also selected some sessions throughout the weekend that may interest students as they relate to careers in the discipline, current events, and more.

Undergraduate Sessions

Undergraduate Orientation to the Meeting
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Undergraduate Reception
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Undergraduate Lightning Round
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Undergraduate Poster Session
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

Suggested Sessions

Thursday January 3

Loyalty to Whom? Conflicting Loyalties of International Civil Servants
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Caribbean Sports History at the Intersections of Race, Gender and National Identity
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

The Many Careers in K-12: What Working in K-12 Education Really Looks Like
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Globalization and Industrialization: History and Food Panel
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Roundtable: History Podcasting as Graduate Students
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Film Screening: A Dangerous Idea
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 5:30 PM-8:00 PM

Friday January 4

Charting Public History Careers: Findings from “Career Paths in Public History: A Report”
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations in the United States
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? The Debate over Free Speech on Campus
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Resistance, Activism, and Protest
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Historians and the Public Sphere in Turbulent Political Times
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Who Speaks on Campus? African Americans and American Higher Education in the 20th Century
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities from Foundations and Nonprofits
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Intelligence Interference in Domestic Politics: International and Historical Perspectives on Russiagate 2016
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

The New Drug History and US Foreign Policy: Perspectives and Methodologies
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Professional Wrestling: Race, Representation, and “Legitimacy”
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Film Screening: The Rape of Recy Taylor
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Historians for Mental Health: An Open Discussion
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

HIV AIDS and the Historian, 2019
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

50 Years since Tranquility Base: Looking Back, and Ahead, from the Golden Anniversary of the First Moon Landing
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Neoliberalism: The History and Future of a Word
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Film Screening: ’63 Boycott
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

Unfaking the News: Historians in the Media in the Era of Trump
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Future Destinations: New Perspectives on the History of Tourism to and from Latin America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Film Screening John O’Connor Film Award Winner, Documentary: Loraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:00 PM-9:30 PM

Saturday January 5

Chicago Sports History: Fans, Gambling, and Shifting Loyalties
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Prison/Education: Historians Take on a National Debate
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Feminist Loyalties/Academic Disloyalties in Public
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

In the Universities and on the Streets: LGBTQ History, Queer Studies, Social Movement Histories
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

DH in 3D: Multidimensional Research and Education in the Digital Humanities
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

LGBTQ Oral History Past and Present
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

The Student as Citizen: Loyalties, Disloyalties, and the Politics of Education
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Film Screening: 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Recasting Recent American History through Video: Politics and Race in a Televisual Age
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Academic Blogging Roundtable: Networks, Perspectives and Trajectories
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Nostalgia and Narrative after Charlottesville: Comparing Myths of Origins in the Middle Ages and the American Civil War
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Police Brutality in Communities of Color
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Film Screening: Birth of a Movement
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

Sunday January 6

The Rights Revolution and Criminal Justice Reform after the 1960s
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

The End of Emancipation? Sex, Gender and Neo-Nationalism
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Social Media for Historians: A Practical Guide
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Teaching US History in the Age of Trump: An International Perspective
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Possibilities and Limits of Native Claims-Making within US Law
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

#MeToo in History: The Profession, Our Scholarship, Flawed (S)Heroes
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

The Height of US Immigration Restriction Reconsidered
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Creating Careers for Women: Gender and the Historical Profession after 1969
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Slavery’s Afterlives on Screen: A Crossdisciplinary Conversation on Historical Memory and Film
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

How to Say Yes and When to Say No: Navigating Service Work
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Race, Sport, and the Media: Representations and Voices of African Americans and Native Americans in 20th-Century Sports Journalism
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Archives of Images, Archives of Texts: Comics as Sources for Historical Research
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Telling Big Stories in History Museums: Exhibitions, Narrative, and Synthesis
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM