Why Attend the Annual Meeting?
Networking and Reconnecting
- Explore historical connections with scholars outside your field
- Catch up with that best friend from your grad school cohort
- Reconnect with scholars you met in the archives last summer
- Meet face-to face with historians you engaged online through social media or email
- Build relationships for future panels, edited volumes, and more
A Hub of Scholarship
- Attend sessions covering every subfield within the discipline
- Present your work and get feedback from diverse perspectives
- Pitch your latest project to editors from dozens of top presses
- Identify new trends in the discipline from both established and emerging historians
Resources for Educators
- Participate in teaching workshops for K-12 and undergraduate instruction
- Get new insights into important historiographical questions to bring to your classroom
- Find course materials from textbooks to digital primary source collections
Career Development
- Join critical discussions about issues facing historians in all professions
- Learn about the full diversity of historians’ employment
- Plan what’s next for your career, whether you’re an undergraduate, PhD candidate, early career historian, or beyond
- Gain new skills to improve your research, teaching, and public engagement
Insights into Local History and Culture
- Explore the unique history of the host city and region
- Join a tour with local experts to top museums and historic sites
- Discover local cuisine with new and old friends
Submit a Proposal for AHA19!
The theme for the 2019 annual meeting is "Loyalties." As always, the Program Committee does not consider relation to theme in evaluating proposals. The AHA encourages proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, posters, and any other format one can think of. Alternative formats in recent years have included lightning rounds, PechaKucha sessions, and book talks. Also note that as the AHA and MLA will both be holding their meetings at the same time a mile apart in Chicago, the associations have agreed to accept each other's badges to encourage cross-disciplinary conversations. The deadline for submitting proposals will be 11:59 p.m. PST, February 15, 2018.
Annual Meeting Funding
To help graduate students and early career historians attend the annual meeting, the AHA offers several grants and fellowships to assist with childcare and travel costs.
- Childcare Grants: 10 grants of up to $250 to assist members who have childcare costs during the meeting
- AHA Council Meeting Travel Grants - awards of $200-400 to subsidize graduate student attendance at the meeting
- Jerry Bentley World History Travel Grants - awards of $200-400 to subsidize travel of graduate students who list world history among their major or minor fields of academic study
- Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Annual Meeting Travel Grants - awards of up to $400 to subsidize travel of graduate students in any major or minor field
What People Are Saying
2018 Meeting Coverage
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Mar 9, 2018 - Search History: Making Research Transparent in the Digital Age
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Mar 9, 2018 - How Departments Are Tackling Lower Enrollments: Lessons from AHA18
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Mar 9, 2018 - “For the Future”: Doing Indigenous History after Standing Rock
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Mar 9, 2018 - Global Dissent: Historians Argue against a Unitary “Politics of ’68”
Important Dates & Deadlines
February
- February 15: Deadline to submit proposals for the 2019 annual meeting.
April
- Late April: The Program Committee will notify submitters of its decisions.
Summer
- Summer: Program participants will receive an email with the date, time, and hotel assignment of their sessions, as well as a proof of the sessions as they will appear in the printed program.