"For rookie & experienced attendees alike, there is no shortage of advice about how to make conferences work for yourself. But established scholars have a second obligation to make conferences work for others..." Superb advice from Benjamin Carp https://t.co/bc66i0MAB8
Continuing with PCB-AHA award winners ... @Prof_NataliaM won the Norris and Carol Hundley Award for best book by a scholar living in our region for A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, published by @ucpress. Congratulations!
@vsmyan's dissertation was “A Spectrum Apart: Chinese and Japanese American Republicans and Conservatives, 1920-1990.” We are proud to honor and encourage outstanding researchers in all fields of history. 2/2
Continuing with our awards! The W. Turrentine Jackson Dissertation Award committee also offered an honorable mention to @vsmyan of @Stanford, now at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for her work. 1/2
The winner is Joseph David Schiller of @OUHistDept for “Zombie Miners: Life, Death, and Reanimation in the Wide Rural Rust Belt.” He is now with @OUPress.
More winners to come!
First, our awards from @PacHistReview. The W. Turrentine Jackson Award for outstanding dissertation on the history of the American West in the twentieth century. It is named for a longtime professor at @History_UCDavis who specialized in western and public history. 2/
The PCB-AHA conference is now behind us, and we hope those who attended enjoyed it. We would like to announce a few things related to the conference! We would like to share information about our award winners, who were honored at our awards ceremony. 1/
"The tributes and recognition will continue as they should. But Tree’s biggest legacy reverberates in the thousands of lives he touched, including mine," writes @PenielJoseph https://t.co/pl1L5ruKoo
Our conference begins Wednesday @csunorthridge with meetings and a graduate student reception, then panels, luncheons, and more Thursday and Friday. Tag us! And go to https://t.co/LxgWYyi2f2 for the program and all the information.
Teaching the events of January 6—which are not a “moment” but the product of a long history—presents a familiar yet urgent challenge: how can students use historical knowledge & thinking to understand recent crises? Here are some resources that might help. https://t.co/AjSWcRcw0h
The Western Association of Women Historians @WAWHTweets features Judy Tzu-Chun Wu on "Rethinking US Feminism Through Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress." 3/3
The Camarillo Family Latino/a Scholars Luncheon features @OrnelasHigdon on "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769-1920." 2/
We have a list of PCB-AHA program sessions, including President @PenielJoseph, our luncheons, and our awards ceremony/reception, at https://t.co/BMnHfsDmBe. We'll have the more detailed program available soon!