Around the Field – February 26, 2025

26 February 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Society of American Archivists wraps up applications for several awards; The American Association for State and Local History will host “250 con” and wraps up applications for their Award in Excellence; The American Alliance of Museums recognizes Museum Advocacy Day 2025. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The American Alliance of Museums marks Museum Advocacy Day 2025 this week and urges participants to write to their members of Congress and speak up in support of museums

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Society of American Archivists is accepting nominations for their Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award through February 28, 2025
• The Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2025 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award through February 28, 2025
• The Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for their C.F.W. Coker, Waldo Gifford Leland, Preservation Publication, Archival Innovator, and Theodore Calvin Pease Awards through February 28, 2025
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting nominations for their Award of Excellence through March 1, 2025
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for their Diversity Scholarship Program through April 1, 2025, which provides registration for their PastForward Conference in September 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
• The National Fund for Sacred Places is accepting grant applications through March 3, 2025
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program through March 14, 2025
• Applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are due April 14, 2025
• The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Autry Public History Price through April 15, 2025 
• The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Louise Pubols Public History Prize through June 30, 2025

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• National Humanities Alliance will host their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US, March 9-10, 2025
• Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri will host the 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US, from March 12-14, 2025
• Indianapolis Arts & Humanities Institute will host Objectivity, Neutrality, and the Pursuit of Knowledge Across the Disciplines Symposium to be held at Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, US, March 24-25, 2025
• The Society for Applied Anthropology calls for proposals for their 2025 annual meeting, Revitalizing Applied Anthropology, to be held in Portland, Oregon, US, March 25-29, 2025
• The Organization of American Historians will hold their 2025 annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, April 3-6, 2025
• The Society of Indiana Archivists will host its 2025 annual meeting, When Cloning Coworkers Isn’t an Option (Yet): Practical Tips and Tricks in Archives in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, April 4, 2025
• The Indiana Association of Historians will host their annual conference Revolutionary Eras: Long Past, Gone Astray, and Still Underway in Hanover, Indiana, US, April 4-5, 2025 
• The Midwestern Archives Conference will hold its 2025 annual meeting, Serving It Up, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, from April 10-12, 2025
• Seattle University calls for abstracts for a conference, Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025
• The Center for Cryptologic History and the National Cryptologic Foundation call for papers and posters for their 19th Cryptologic History Symposium in Laurel, Maryland, US, from April 30 – May 2, 2025
• The Society for History in the Federal Government calls for papers for its 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US, May 29-30, 2025
• The Association for Gravestone Studies will host their annual conference at York College of Pennsylvania in York, Pennsylvania, US, June 17-22, 2025. Call for papers closes March 31, 2025
• The Association of African American Museums invites proposals for their 47th Annual Conference Voices of Democracy: Commemorating the Voting Rights Act’s 60th Anniversary in Charleston, South Carolina, US, July 23-25, 2025
• The European Society for Environmental History is holding their bi-annual Climate Histories Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in August 2025
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host their PastForward 2025 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, September 16-18, 2025 
• The Preserving Historic Places conference will be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, September 30 – October 3, 2025 
• The Mountain-Plains Museums Association calls for proposals for their “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025
• EUROPAST will host “The Past and Future of Public History” in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 9-10, 2025. Proposals due March 31, 2025
• The Urban History Association will host “Metropolitan Majorities” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 9-12, 2025. Proposals due February 28, 2025
• The National Humanities Alliance will host their annual meeting Roots of Invention, Innovation, and Revitalization in Detroit, Michigan, November 12-16, 2025. Proposals are due April 10, 2025
• The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 2026
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2026 OAH Conference on American History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, April 16-19, 2026. Proposals due April 14, 2025

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The American Association for State and Local History will host “250 Con” virtually February 27-28, 2025 
• The Organization of American Historians will host “Historians in a Time of Turmoil: A Member Forum and Listening Session” on March 3, 2025 at 7:30pm EST
• Invisible Histories will host “State of the Field” panel virtually March 5, 2025 from 12 Noon to 1:30 PM CST 
• Columbia University will host the NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data June 2-13, 2025 at Columbia University, New York City, New York, US. Master students through established scholars are encouraged to apply. Financial support may be available for those needing to travel 
• The Preservation Institute Nantucket is now accepting applicants for their 2025 cohort. The program will run from June 9 – August 8 and is open to graduate students, upper-level undergraduate students, and recent graduates from any discipline and institution. Final application deadline is April 30, 2025, with priority given to those who apply by March 1, 2025
• The Newberry will host an Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat July 21-August 1, 2025. Applications are due March 15, 2025

PUBLICATIONS 

• The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission calls for proposals for essays about how The Negro Travelers’ Green Book influenced South Carolina and its citizens, due March 7, 2025
• Federal History and the Society for History in the Federal Government opens submissions for its 2026 issue, due March 30, 2025
• Chapter proposals between 300-500 words for chapters of 6,000-8,000 words for an edited collection, Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm, are due by April 15, 2025. All proposals are to be sent to both of the volume editors, Lauren Beck [email protected] and Lydia Towns [email protected]. Acceptance letters will be issued in early May, 2025. Full drafts will be due November 15, 2025, with a projected final submission to the publisher in Spring 2026