April 8: CCWH Speakers Series: Roundtable on the Catherine Prelinger Award with Michelle Daniel Jones and Aimee Loiselle
The CCWH hosted this roundtable on the Catherine Prelinger Award with recent winners Michelle Daniel Jones (2021) and Aimee Loiselle (2020). This event took place on Friday, April 8 at 3 PM Easter/12 PM Pacific.
Michelle Daniel Jones is a graduate student at New York University working on a project titled “Creative Liberation Strategies in Prison: The Alabama Arts and Education Project.”
Aimee Loiselle is an assistant professor at Central Connecticut State University working on a manuscript titled Creating Norma Rae: Cultural Contests over the American Working Class, 1970s-1980s.
Friday, March 4, 2022, 12 pm- 1 pm EST CCWH Mentorship E-Session: Working at Non-Profits
February 2022: CCWH-Sponsored Virtual Sessions at the American Historical Association Conference
The CCWH and the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) co-sponsored an e-mentorship session about Oral History on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. The session featured a conversation with the CCWH Media Team Coordinator and President of SOHA, Dr. Farina King, who is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and has experience with Native American community-based oral histories.
January 6-9, 2022: The CCWH at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting 2022 in New Orleans
15-17 December 2021 Winter Writing Retreat
Just like previous retreats, CCWH members could sign up and drop in at any point during the live hours of the virtual Winter Writing Retreat.
The retreat was held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday December 15-17th
10:30am-4:30pm EST/9:30am-3:30pm CST (with 1-hr lunch 1-2 EST/12-1 CST)
This event featured an online talk hosted by the History of Feminism Group at the University of Warwick. 4:30pm -6pm
September 23, 2021: E-Mentorship Session: Resumes vs. CVs
The topic of this session was on the difference between resumes and CVs, and how we as historians can prepare both to be competitive in a range of jobs within and outside academia. 9:30am-3:30pm CST (with 1-hr lunch 1-2 EST/12-1 CST)
Virtual CCWH Summer Writing Retreats 2021
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday August 25-27th
10:30am-4:30pm EST/9:30am-3:30pm CST (with 1-hr lunch 1-2 EST/12-1 CST)
June 17: E-Session on Getting Started with Public History
This CCWH e-session on “Getting Started with Public History” featured our very own Public History Coordinator Elyssa Ford. This session was held for those who are interested in the field, or are practicing and want to hear some advice about the ins and outs of public history.
June 15, 2021: Berks co-sponsored AHA 2021 Panel Discussion: Caring for Money: How Intimate Laborers Employed Creative Strategies to Resist the Undervaluation of Their Labor, 1900-2020
April 9, 2021: Virtual Roundtable: Careers for Historians beyond Academia
The Coordinating Council for Women in History hosted Careers for Historians beyond Academia, a roundtable discussing career paths for historians outside the traditional academic model. Panelists discussed how to extend career options beyond the traditional academic track, as well as options for more senior scholars of how to continue to engage with the scholarly world post-retirement. Panelists included Nell Irvin Painter, Kathleen Sheldon, Joe Stubenrauch, Elizabeth Everton, and Crystal Feimster (moderator).
March 24, 2021: Mentorship E-Session on Navigating the Job Market at times of Covid
Mondays, 3 pm-4:30 pm EST, February 8-April 29, 2021: CCWH Virtual Writing Group Meetings
May 21-23, 2020
18th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders & Sexuality
The 2020 Big Berks was canceled.
January 3-6, 2020
Annual Meeting of the AHA
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January 3-6, 2019
Annual Meeting of the AHA
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January 4-6, 2018
Annual Meeting of the AHA
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June 1-4, 2017
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
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January 5-8, 2017
Annual Meeting of the AHA
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January 7-10, 2016
Annual Meeting of the AHA
Annual Meeting Perspective on History article
CCWH sessions
- Fashion, Food, and Flowers: Women’s Use of Trends as a Means of Establishing Public
- Life in the 19th- and 20th-Century United States
- CCWH Annual Business Meeting
- AHA Session 62: Reproducing Gossip: Gender, Rumor, and Fertility Control
- AHA Session 82: Job Workshop for Historians
- Contingent Faculty and the Historical Profession
- CCWH Annual Reception
- CCWH Annual Awards Luncheon
- Transforming Women’s History: Leila Rupp—Scholar, Editor, and Mentor
View all CCWH sessions at the 2016 AHA
January 3-5, 2015
Annual Meeting of the AHA
Friday, January 2, 2015
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
The Adjunct Problem: Collaborating for a Solution
Coordinating Council for Women in History 1
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
CCWH Annual Business Meeting
Coordinating Council for Women in History
Saturday, January 3, 2015
8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 6
Conflict at Home: Refugees, Workers, and Reproduction in Wartime Europe, 1929–45
Coordinating Council for Women in History 3
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
The Living Dead, Microscopic Fibers, Invisible Cloaks, and Radical Cartoons: Methods of Textile Studies for Historians
Coordinating Council for Women in History 4
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
CCWH/CLGBTH Reception
Coordinating Council for Women in History
Sunday, January 4, 2015
12:00 PM-1:45 PM
CCWH Annual Awards Luncheon
Coordinating Council for Women in History
2:30 PM-4:30 PM
The Traffic in Women: Early Twentieth-Century Debates in France, Argentina, and Vietnam
AHA Session 234
Monday, January 5, 2015
8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Roundtable: Exploring Alternative Academic Careers: How Your History Ph.D. Can Serve You in Diverse Careers beyond Teaching in the Discipline
AHA Session 243
Scholarly Communication: The Online Open Access Publishing Option
Coordinating Council for Women in History 7
2014
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Session 123: “Women’s History Meets Public History,” Saturday, 8-10a.m., University College 144
Sunday, May 24 – 9:30-11:30 a.m. – Discussion of Women’s Historians and the Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC, University College, Room 44 (lower level)
January 2–5, 2014
Annual Meeting of the AHA
What I Learned at AHA 2014: A Mentor’s Perspective
The AHA was held January 02 – 05, 2014 in Washington DC. The CCWH offered many great sessions including a panel on: “Forty-Five Years of the CCWH: Then, Now, and the Future” (Sunday, January 5, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2014/webprogram/Session10381.html
Coordinating Council for Women in History and Committee on LGBT History Reception
Friday, January 3, 2014: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM in the Wilson Room A (Marriott Wardman Park)
Interdisciplinary Discussions: Archivists and Historians Consider Possibilities of and Challenges to Expanding Women and Gender in the Archives
AHA Session 168 / Coordinating Council for Women in History 5
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 11:30 AM-1:30 P
Columbia Hall 2 (Washington Hilton)
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2014/webprogram/Session10397.html
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January 3 – 6, 2013
Annual Meeting of the AHA
CCWH Sessions
- In Pursuit of Equality: Frederick Douglass in the Transnational and National Paradigms
- Coordinating Council for Women in History Business Meeting
- AHA Session 53: Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century
- Daughters, Sisters, and Mothers: The Political Utility of Family in Civil Society
- Coordinating Council for Women in History and Committee on LGBT History Reception
- Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Awards Luncheon
- AHA Session 196: First Steps: Getting Started as a History Professional
- AHA Session 209: Changing the Narrative: Linda K. Kerber and Evolving Histories of Women and the State
- Revisiting the Second Women’s Movement: Resistance, Race, Activism, and Coalition
- Outsider’s Observations: Class and Culture Case Studies in Contact Zones
- AHA Session 225: Out of Place: Woman’s Rights and Use of Space in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American World
- AHA Session 269: Revisiting Maternalism and Its Legacy: Gender, Power, Health Policy, and Place in the United States, 1912–55
View all CCWH sessions at the 2013 AHA