Upcoming Events

May 7-8, 2020 -- CANCELLED (all accepted papers are invited to present next year)

  • American History Graduate Student Conference
    • Consuming America: Consumer, Capitalism, and Consequences


April 30, 2020 4-6pm -- CANCELLED

  • Professionalization Workshop
    • Conference Commenting 101


April 3, 2020, 12-2pm -- CANCELLED

  • Workshop
    • Telling Stories: Creating Podcasts


February 19, 2020

  • Paper Workshop, 4-6pm
    • Guest Speaker: Laura Korobkin
  • Work/Life Balance Workshop, 1-2pm


January 17, 2020, 4-6pm -- Rescheduled for March

  • Paper Workshop


October 31- November 1, 2019

  • African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium
    • Keynote: Stephen Best


October 11, 2019, 5-7pm

  • Book Talk
    • LaShawn Harris, Phd, Michigan State University
    • Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy


Sept 26, 2019, 12-3pm

  • Welcome back!
    • Plans for this year


May 10-11, 2019


May 9, 2019, 12-1pm

  • Conference Professionalization Workshop


March 22, 2019, 4-6pm

  • Zach Kopin, paper workshop
    • Founder’s Chic and Fascism


February 1, 2019, 4-6pm

  • Severina Scott, chapter workshop
    • “We Fell for Vel”: Vel Phillips, Fair Housing, and a Changed Milwaukee Landscape


November 30, 2018, 4-6pm

  • Morgan Carleton, article workshop
    • Mothering the Race: Racial Uplift and Motherhood in Interwar Detroit


October 12, 2018, 4-6pm

  • Molly Brookfield, dissertation chapter workshop
    • Criminalizing the Masher: Contested Looking in the Progressive-Era City


October 10, 2018, 4-5pm - Cancelled

  • Gianna May Sanchez, conference presentation workshop
    • Rerouting the Mother Road: Creating a Public-Facing Website for Hispanic Legacies of Route 66


September 17, 2018, 4-6pm

  • Welcome back