Past Events

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

Visit the 2017 triennial conference site for more more information, book exhibit and announcements.

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

View all CCWH sessions at the 2014 AHA

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

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