Around the Field – January 29, 2025
29 January 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History wraps up preliminary nominations for the Award of Distinction; Columbia University asks for applications for their NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 taking place in June; applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are launched.
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- The Colorado State University Water Resources Archive is accepting applications for the 2025 Water Scholar Award through January 31, 2025
- The American Association for State and Local History is accepting preliminary nominations for their Award of Distinction through February 1, 2025
- The Colorado State University Archives and Special Collections is accepting applications for its 2025 Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant through February 9, 2025
- The National Endowment for Humanities Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the 2025 Landmarks of American History and Culture program for K-12 educators and for higher education faculty and/or humanities professionals through February 12, 2025
- 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, 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 Fund for Sacred Places is accepting grant applications through March 3, 2025
- Applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are due April 14, 2025
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
- The Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference will be held in New Britain, Connecticut, US, February 21-22, 2025
- The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission will hold their 2025 annual conference in Columbia, South Carolina, US, on February 22, 2025
- Loyola History Graduate Student Association will hold their conference, History in the World: Engaging Communities, Connecting Scholarship, in Chicago, Illinois, US, February 22-23, 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. Calls for proposals have been extended to February 1, 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 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. Submissions for proposals are due February 7, 2025
- The Mountain-Plains Museums Association calls for proposals for their “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025
- The Urban History Association will host “Metropolitan Majorities” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 9-12, 2025. Proposals due February 28, 2025
- The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 2026. Proposals due February 15, 2025
- 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 International Coalition of Sites of Conscience will host Dialogue in Difficult Times on February 4-6, 2025
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host Navigating Congress and the Administration in 2025 and Beyond on February 12, 2025, at 2pm EST
- 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 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