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59th Annual WHA Conference
October 16-19, 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada
2019 President: Martha A. Sandweiss
Sandweiss is the founder and director of The Princeton & Slavery Project (www.slavery.princeton.edu), a major public history project investigating Princeton University’s historical involvement with the institution of slavery. She teaches courses on the history of the American West, public history and narrative writing. The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Huntington Library and the Bogliasco Foundation, she consults widely on matters related to the use of visual images for museum exhibitions and historical research. |
Martha A. (Marni) Sandweiss is Professor of History at Princeton University, with particular interests in the history of the American West, visual culture, and public history. She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University and began her career as a photography curator at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, TX. She later taught American Studies and History at Amherst College for twenty years before joining the Princeton faculty in 2009. Sandweiss is the author or editor of numerous books on American history and photography. Her publications include Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line(2009), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (2002), winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Ray Allen Billington Award for the best book in American frontier history and the William P. Clements Award. Her other works include: Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace(1986), winner of the George Wittenborn Award for outstanding art book; the edited volume Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (1991), The Oxford History of the American West (1994; co-edited with Clyde A. Milner II and Carol A. O’Connor), winner of the Western Heritage Award and the Caughey Western History Association prize for the outstanding book in western history; and Eyewitness to History: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1989; co-authored with Rick Stewart and Ben W. Huseman).2019 Program & Conference Photos
View the 2019 Conference Program by clicking on the program cover.
View the 2019 Conference Program Errata (coming soon!)
View the 2019 Call for Papers: "What Happens in the West Doesn't Stay in the West"
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Program Committee
Juliana Barr, Duke University | Local Arrangements Comm.William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Co-Chair) Michael Green, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Co-Chair) Susan Lee Johnson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Co-Chair) Andrew Kirk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Co-Chair) DeAnna Beachley, College of Southern Nevada Richard Bryan, former Senator of the U.S. and chairman, Preserve Nevada
Maria Raquel Casas, Department of History, UNLV |
2019 ExhibitorsABC-CLIO Adam Matthew Digital Athabasca University Press Beinecke Library Center for the Great Plains Studies Center of the American West Church Historians Press Coalition for Western Women’s History (CWWH) WHA Graduate Student Caucus Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum Immigration and Ethnic History Society Lansing P. Bloom Family Award Montana Historical Society Mormon History Association Museum of the Fur Trade New Mexico Historical Review Oregon Historical Society Penn State University-History Department South Dakota Historical Society Press Southern Nevada Conservancy Texas Tech University Press Texas A&M University Press UNC Press Journals University of Arizona Press University of California Press University of Massachusetts Press University of Nebraska at Omaha University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Journal University of Nevada Press University of Nevada Reno Department of History University of New Mexico Press University of North Carolina Press University of North Texas Press University of Oklahoma Libraries University of Oklahoma Press University of Texas Press University of Washington Press University Press of Colorado University Press of Kansas Waveland Press Western Historical Quarterly Westerners International Western Writers of America Yale University Press Tesoro Cultural Center | 2019 SponsorsAlverson, Taylor, & Sanders American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming American West Center, University of Utah Beinecke Library, Yale University Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Black Mountain Institute Center of the American West, University of Colorado-Boulder Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico Charles Schwab Corporation Colorado College’s Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of History, Boise State University Department of History, Penn State University George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Penn State The Huntington Library The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Jeffrey Ostler Knox Robinson Films Nevada Mining Association Nevada State College Preserve Nevada Public History Program, Arizona State University Public History Program, Oklahoma State University Public History Program, University of Colorado Denver Public Lands History Center, Colorado State University Harry Reid Endowed Chair of the Intermountain West University of Nebraska Press University of Nevada at Las Vegas College of Liberal Arts University of Nevada at Las Vegas Departments of Anthropology, English, Interdisciplinary, & Gender Studies & Sociology University of Nevada at Las Vegas, History Department University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Office of the Provost University of Nevada Press University of North Carolina Press University of Oklahoma History Department-OU Foundation William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies Women Also Know History Women’s Research Institute of Nevada Princeton University |
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