We have now posted a final version of the conference program for the Spring 2012 conference at Rivier College, on April 21.
Click here for the online version or download the program as a PDF (updated 4/14/12).
Join us on Saturday, April 21 at Rivier College in Nashua, NH for our Spring conference. It looks like it will be a stellar meeting!
The Spring 2012 issue of NEHA News is now out; download a PDF copy or click on the “Newsletter” link in the left hand sidebar.
This issue features conference and registration information and a preliminary program for the NEHA Spring conference on April 21, 2012 at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire. It also includes biographies of the slate of candidates for Executive Board openings. Voting will take place during lunch at the Spring conference, or you may clip and mail in the ballot on page 11 of the newsletter.
The Spring issue also features the Executive Committee report, a Call for Nominations for the Graduate Student Paper Prize and Book Awards, the report from the Fall Conference, and News of the Profession including recent books of interest. There is a listing of upcoming conferences of interest, calls for submissions, grant and fellowship information, notification of new members, and a list of past organization presidents and conferences.
Book reviews include:
Amy Sonnie and James Tracy, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melville House, 2011), by Anna J. Cook of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Massimo Franco, Parallel Empires: The Vatican and the United States–Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict (Doubleday, 2008), by Thomas J. Carty of Springfield College
We’ve posted information on the 2012 spring conference at Rivier College on our “Conferences” tab, or click here for all the details.
Download a registration form (PDF)
Please note that all conference participants, including presenters, commenters and panel chairs, *must* be registered for the conference. Mail-in forms should be postmarked by April 6; walk-in registration is also possible on the day of the conference (cash or check only) although we cannot guarantee luncheon ticket availability for same-day registrants. The group rate at $99 per night for the Nashua Radisson is good until March 21, 2012.
We look forward to another dynamic conference! See you in April!
We welcome interest in some open slots in the New England Historical Association:
2 vacancies on the Executive Committee (3 year terms)
2 vacancies on the Nominating Committee (3 year terms)
NEHA Secretary (3 year term)
The voting for these open positions will take place during the Spring meeting on Saturday, April 21 at Rivier College. Please contact the interim Nominating Committee chair, Denise Youngblood at UVM (denise.youngblood@uvm.edu) by February 1 if you’d like to be on the ballot or you’d like more information about these opportunities.
We thought we’d pass along this opportunity, in case any of our members fit the bill and want to participate. It comes from our colleague Christy Snider at Berry College:
I’m organizing a roundtable for the 2013 AHA meeting in New Orleans tentatively titled: “Challenges Facing History Departments in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives from Department Chairs.”
I have 3-4 chairs lined up from a variety of institutions (a small liberal arts college in the South, a national public university, a top 10 regional private university in the Mid-West, and a regional public university in the Mid-West).
Some of the issues we are considering discussing include:
the imposition of corporate-based models on departments – selling history as a product to student customers
performance-based departmental funding
free speech limitations, even at public universities
history in an environment that increasingly stresses “pragmatic” training and the delivery of student credentials
curriculum reform – threats and opportunities
the struggle to balance the demand for more teaching from tenure-track faculty members, with research requirements and one-on-one mentoring opportunities with students
technology – opportunities; overuse and unrealistic expectations; digital history
departmental assessment for accreditation
overall workload issues facing departments given the loss of tenure track lines
how history departments can translate what we do (both in teaching and research) to administrators that tend to like results based on specific, tangible outcomesI would like to add one or two other department chairs to the roundtable. If you are interested in participating and can add some diversity to the panel in terms of institution type or subject matter, please email me (csnider@berry.edu ) before Dec. 27, 2011 with a brief description of your department (size, faculty composition (tenure-track/adjunct/etc.), a short explanation of your duties as chair and how long you’ve served in the position, and two or three different topics you would be willing to speak on at the AHA.
Thanks for your consideration,
Christy Snider
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Dr. Christy J. Snider, Chair
Department of History
5010 Mt. Berry Station
Berry College
Mt. Berry, GA
706-368-5652
The NEHA Spring 2012 conference will be held at Rivier College in Nashua, NH on April 21, 2012.
NEHA invites papers on any historical topic, time period, or theme. Proposals (paper title, brief abstract, and short vita) for single papers or complete sessions are equally welcome. Those willing to serve as a panel chair or commentator are invited to contact the conference chair. Proposal submission deadline for the April conference is January 15, 2012.
Submit materials via email to the Conference chair, Elizabeth DeWolfe (edewolfe@une.edu)
Mailing Address:
Prof. Elizabeth DeWolfe
History Department
University of New England
11 Hills Beach Road
Biddeford, ME 04005
Several positions on the NEHA Executive Board expire in April 2012, and we invite NEHA members to consider running for the board or organization leadership positions. We especially welcome participation by newer members or those who haven’t served on the board in the past, as we’re looking for ways to bring fresh faces into NEHA’s planning and leadership. You do not have to be a higher education faculty member to serve on the board. The election will be at the April conference to be held at Rivier College on 4/21/12.
The openings are:
2 members of the Nominating Committee (3 year term)
2 Executive Committee members (3 year term)
NEHA Secretary (3 year term)
Please contact the chair of the Nominating Committee by Feb 17th, Denise Youngblood (University of Vermont, denise.youngblood@uvm.edu) if you’d like more information about any of the positions or to indicate your interest in running.
Several of our fall conference participants have reported receiving emails from a company offering to print their conference papers in a journal called History Research. Please be warned that this is a pay-to-print journal, not a peer-reviewed scholarly one, and that their email is an academic phishing scam. All presenters at NEHA conferences are strongly advised to make inquiries about any unsolicited offer to publish, in particular in a journal unknown to the presenter. NEHA does not endorse such solicitations and takes no responsibility for the submission, review, and publication process.
At the fall meeting at Emmanuel College, we gave out a paper survey to the conference participants. We’re also interested in your feedback, whether you are a NEHA member or not. Please take a moment to complete our survey online, and thanks!
