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2026 CONFERENCE: PORTLAND! |
The Western History Association is pleased to announce that the 2026 WHA Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon. Mark your calendars for October 21-24, 2026! The WHA will meet at the Hilton Portland Downtown. Rooms will be $220/night.
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2026 PRESIDENT: ANNE HYDE |
| Anne Hyde is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Historical Quarterly. She grew up in Reno, Nevada and attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where she majored in American Studies. She got her MA and PhD in history at UC Berkeley. She’s the author of 5 books and has co-authored several others, including two textbooks about the U.S. West with William Deverell. Her most recent book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West, was published by W. W. Norton in 2022. Her earlier work includes Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Ecco 2012) winner of Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has served as President of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, Vice President of the AHA, and on the elected councils of the Western History Association and the AHA. Her teaching career started at Louisiana State University. After three years there, she spent 23 years at Colorado College, serving as director of the American Ethnic Studies program, the Southwest Studies program, and the Faculty Learning and Development Center. Since arriving at OU in 2016, she has taught the required U.S. survey in all forms and serves as faculty coordinator to support graduate assistants and faculty teaching that course. She has also directed 14 doctoral dissertations on 18th and 19th-century Indigenous history and the U.S. West. In 2022 she won a Distinguished Scholar Fulbright at Carleton University and served as Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2022-2023. |
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2026 CALL FOR PAPERS 66th Annual Conference Call for Papers October 21-24, 2026 Hilton Portland Downtown Portland, Oregon Unsettled: New Wests, New Lessons Communities and scholars continue to expand our understanding of who prospered and suffered in the North American West. They have unsettled the past by showing us that the past is unsettling. They demand that we attend to climate, migration, misery, resistance, sovereignty, and safety. With their insights in mind, the 2026 Program Committee calls for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and innovative session formats that encourage us to learn lessons from those demands. Meeting in Portland, Oregon, the WHA’s 2026 conference offers us a chance to listen. What do these Wests tell us? Can they teach us to consider difference, privilege, continuity, and rupture? What can we learn from places marked by millennia of traditions, encounters, collusion, and conflict? We welcome submissions from established and emerging scholars, as well as public historians, K-12 educators, and community members. We welcome submissions from scholars who may not think of themselves as western historians but whose visions of environment, Indigeneity, immigration, gender, economies, expansion, Pacific Worlds, politics, war, law, sexuality, and capitalism unsettle western history. We welcome submissions rooted in the unsettling scholarship by Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees, and queer persons removed or exiled from their homelands. We welcome submissions that encourage us to learn from our unsettled past. For more information and submission guidelines, visit www.westernhistory.org/2026. Submit proposals via the Western History Association website by Dec. 15, 2025. Policy: Diversity of Program Participants Statement 1) The Program Committee will actively promote the full and equitable inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities, diverse Indigeneities, religious minorities, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQ+ people, and people with various ranks and career paths on the Annual Meeting program. 2) Although not all sessions can reflect the entire diversity of the profession, the Program Committee will encourage proposers of sessions to include diverse sets of participants, addressing gender diversity, racial and ethnic diversity, sexual diversity, religious diversity, disability-based diversity, and/or LGBTQ+ diversity. 3) The Program Committee will encourage session proposers to consider the benefits of including on their panels historians in various career paths and of various ranks (i.e., senior scholars, public historians, graduate students, independent historians, etc.) within their organizations/institutions. 2026 Program Committee Co-Chairs Farina King, The University of Oklahoma, Co-Chair Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair Michael Lansing, Augsburg University, Co-Chair 2026 WHA President Anne Hyde, The University of Oklahoma |
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS |
The CFP deadline is December 5, 2025. Guidelines for submitting full sessions (preferred) are available at www.westernhistory.org/2026. The paper and panel submission process will open on September 1, 2025. If you have questions, please contact the 2026 Co-Chairs listed above. You can also contact the WHA office: wha@westernhistory.org SUBMIT YOUR WORK! (COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2025) If your work is accepted for the conference program, you must pay a registration fee for the conference. The WHA Policy on Conference Participants requires all conference program participants, regardless of professional status, to register for the conference if your work is accepted. |
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2026 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS |
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2026 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: TBA |
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2026 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS |
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2026 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE MEMBERS: TBA |
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