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| The WHA is excited to announce that it received an unprecedented number of full conference sessions and individual abstracts for the 2026 conference in Portland!
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| Stay tuned for the WHA Presenter Handbook Featuring:
COMING SOON: WHA 2026 PRESENTER HANDBOOK |
2026 PROGRAM COMMITTEE |
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2026 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Farina King, University of Oklahoma, Co-Chair Michael Lansing, Augsburg University, Co-Chair Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair Eliza Canty-Jones, Oregon Historical Society Chantel Rodriguez, Minnesota Historical Society Reilly Hatch, Davis High School Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon Kathy Morse, Middlebury College Micah Chang, Montana State University Monica Rico, Lawrence University Maile Arvin, University of Hawai'i, Manoa Jennifer O'Neal, University of Oregon Daisy Herrera, University of California, Riverside Andrew Varsanyi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tiffany Hale, Barnard College, Columbia University Joel Zapata, Oregon State University Miguel Juárez, The University of Texas at El Paso Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica, University of California, Santa Cruz Angel Hinzo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Steven Fountain, Washington State University |
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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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