Around the Field – March 12, 2025

12 March 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: National Humanities Alliance hosted their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US; the The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program; Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri hosts their 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program through March 14, 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
• 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 Prize 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

• 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 Inaugural Sensory Public History Conference will be held at University College London East in London, UK, May 30-31, 2025
• The Association for Gravestone Studies will host their annual conference at York College of Pennsylvania in York, Pennsylvania, US, June 17-22, 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 LBJ Presidential Library and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library invite emerging scholars to submit a presentation abstract to be a featured speaker during the National Archives and Records Administration’s first annual Vietnam War Symposium to be held September 24-25, 2025
• The Association for the Study of African American Life and History will host their annual conference “African Americans & Labor” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, from September 24-27, 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 annual conference “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
• The Urban History Association will host “Metropolitan Majorities” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 9-12, 2025
• The Oral History Association will host “Exploring Our American Stories” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 15-18, 2025
• The National Humanities Alliance will host their annual meeting Roots of Invention, Innovation, and Revitalization in Detroit, Michigan, US, 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

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 4(f) Compliance for Historic Properties in Montpelier, Vermont, US, from April 23-24, 2025
• The New York Historical will host an Institute for Constitutional History Seminar: Religion in American Law on April 25, 2025, at the New York Historical in New York City, New York, US. Applications are due March 28, 2025
• The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 106: An Introduction in New York, New York, US, from April 28-29, 2025 and in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, from May 20-21, 2025
• 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
• The Newberry will host an Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat July 21-August 1, 2025. Applications are due March 15, 2025
• The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School will host their Public Humanities Summer training weekdays from July 7, 2025 – August 1, 2025. Applications are due May 1, 2025

PUBLICATIONS 

• 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

Chapter Proposals for Labor Relations and the Creative Work: Arts on the Line are due June 15, 2025. Expression of interest is due April 15, 2025, with the final chapter submission deadline being January 31, 2026