Updated OAH/NCPH 2012 Sessions List (Now with Room Numbers!)
4-18-12
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians starts in earnest this Thursday in Milwaukee. As always, HNN will be posting updates from the convention floor.
Below is a list of interesting sessions at this year's OAH -- if you'll be attending one of this sessions, let us know how it goes on Twitter by tagging @myHNN.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 – 10:30 AM
Contesting Conservative Interpretations of the Founding Fathers
103-C, FAC
Moderator: Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University
Barbara Clark Smith, Curator of Political History, Smithsonian Institution
Saul Cornell, Fordham University
Andrew Schocket, Bowling Green State University
David Waldstreicher, Temple University
Roundtable: Private Wealth in American Politics
202-C, FAC
Plutocracy in America, 1880s-1910s
Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin
Roots of the Bank War: American Politicans and Business Enterprise after the War of 1812
Reeve Huston, Duke University
The Myth of the Campaign Newspaper
Jeffrey L. Pasley, University of Missouri
Big Business Speaks: Corporate Lobbying in the 1970s
Benjamin Waterhouse, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 – 1:00 PM
Working Group: Civil War Sesquicentennial ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED THURSDAY AT 3:00 PM
Jim Campi and Todd Groce are unable to participate
103-D, FAC
Facilitators:
Bob Beatty, American Association for State and Local History
W. Eric Emerson, South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Dwight Pithcaithley, New Mexico State University
Discussants
James Campi, Civil War Trust
Michelle Delaney, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Undersecretary for History, Arts, and Culture
Barbara Franco, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Todd Groce, Georgia Historical Society
Kevin Levin, St. Anne's Belfield School
Lorraine McConaghy, Museum of History and Industry
Kent A. McConnell, Phillips Exeter Academy
Serge Noiret, European University Institute
Gregory Ruth, Loyola University Chicago
Andrew Talkov, Virginia Historical Society
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 – 1:30 PM
Advise and Dissent: Intellectuals, Values, and Postwar Conservative Trajectories
202-B, FAC
Chair: J. David Hoeveler, UW Milwaukee
A Victorian in a Postmodern Age: Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Neoconservative Politics of History
Andrew Hardman, Illinois State University
A Thoroughly Admirable Dissent: The Conservatism of Stephen J. Tonsor
Gregory Schneider, Emporia State University
Tall Ideas Dancing: Compassion, Capitalism, and the Aesthetics of Conservatism
Lisa Szefel, Pacific University
Commentator: George H. Nash, independent scholar
Frontiers of Trust: Confidence Building in American Business and Technology
202-A, FAC
Chair: Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
Corporate Reputation and Regulation in Historical Perspective
Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford
Graybeards versus Sock-Puppets: Mistrust and Consensus in a Community of Internet Engineers
Andrew Russell, Stevens Institute of Technology
Traveling Salesmen and Trust Brokering in the Nineteenth-Century Grocery Trade
Susan Spellman, Miami University
Manufacturing Trust: Experts and the Production of Energy Statistics in the United States, 1973-1982
Lee Vinsel, Harvard University
Commentator: Stephen Mihm
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Rise of Punitive Policy at the Federal, State, and Local Levels
101-B, FAC
Chair: Khalil Gibrain Muhammad, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Arming the Footsoldiers: The Nixon Administration and Federal Investment in Urban Police Forces
Elizabeth Kai Hinton, Columbia University
Embracing Punishment: The Demise of the Rehabilitative Ideal and the Ruse of Punitive Criminal Sentencing in California, 1968-1980
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University
Warring on Poverty is Warring on Crime: the Problem of Crime in the Great Society, 1964-1968
Jessica Neptune, University of Chicago
Commentator: Heather Ann Thompson, Temple University
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 – 3:00 PM
Working Group: What It’s Worth: Valuing and Pricing the Work of Historical Consultants ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED THURSDAY AT 1:00 PM
Christy Davis, Kerry Davis, Lynn Kronzek, and Lisa Singleton are no longer participating
103-B, FAC
Facilitators:
Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates, Inc.
Kathy Shinnick, Consulting Historian
Discussants:
Michael Adamson, CSU Sacremento
Susan Ferentinos, Independent Historian
Angi Fuller Wildt, University of South Carolina
Lynn Kronzek, Lynn C. Kronzek and Associates
Lisa Singleton, ILO Century Project at the International Labour Organization
Stephanie Stegman, independent historian
Barbara Stokes, Museum of South Texas History
Anne Mitchell Whisnant, UNC Chapel Hill
Morgen Young, Senior Historian and Owner Alder, LLC
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 – 3:30 PM
Roundtable: The Revolution in American Life
101-A, FAC
Moderator: Sarah Purcell, Grinnell College
The Founding Syndrome: Rhetoric and Reality in the Revolutionary Era and Beyond
Michael McDonnell, University of Sydney
Peace Reformers and the Specter of the Revolution
Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Old Fashioned "Tea Parties": Nineteenth-Century Parodies of the Revolution
Frances Clarke, University of Sydney
Containing the Contradictions: The Revolution Remembered 1890-1945
Clare Corbould, Monash University
Remembering the Revolution: Individual and Collective Memories in the Twentieth Century
Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Roundtable: The Warfare State since the Vietnam War
101-B, FAC
Moderator: Corey Robin, Brooklyn College and City College of New York Graduate School
Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University
Beth Bailey, Temple University
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Roundtable: Religion, Corporate Capitalism, and Democracy in the Twentieth Century
103-C, FAC
Chair: David Chappell, University of Oklahoma
Kate Bowler, Duke University
Darren Dochuk, Purdue University
Darren Grem, Emory University
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia
Commentator: David Chappell
The Corporate University: Capitalism, Labor, and the Crisis in Democracy
102-C, FAC
Moderator: Corey D.B. Walker, Brown University
Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University
Michael Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
Russel Rickford, Darmouth College
Kyle Schafer, Organizer, UNITE HERE, Chicago
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 – 8:30 AM
Congress and American Political History
103-C, FAC
Chair: Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
The Field of Blood: The Culture of Congress in Antebellum America
Joanne Freeman, Yale University
Congress, the Appropriations Power, and Late-Twentieth-Century Foreign Policy
Rober Johnson, Brooklyn College
Closing the Window: The 1966 Midterm Elections and their Aftermath
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
Commentator: William Howell, University of Chicago, and Jane Dailey
Multinational Corporations and International Politics
202-E, FAC
Chair: Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois
Measuring the Power of Multinational Corporations: Problems in Theory and Evidence
Christopher Endy, CSU Los Angeles
Markets, Ethics, and Globalization: The United States and Transnational Corruption in the 1970s
Vernie Alison Oliveiro, Harvard University
Multinational Corporations and Human Rights: The New International Economic Order and the Third World Challenge to MNCs in the 1970s
Brad Simpson, Princeton University
Commentator: Marcelo Bucheli
The Return of Political Economy?
Ballroom B, FAC
Richard White is unable to participate
Chair: Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley
Sven Beckert, Harvard University
Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University
Kimberly Philips-Fein, New York University
Adolph Reed, University of Pennsylvania
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 – 10:00 AM
Narratives of Economic Crisis: What They Tell Us; Why They Matter
202-C, FAC
Chair: Steve Fraser, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Panic-less Panic: The Strange Career of the Panic of 1837
Jessica Lepler, University of New Hampshire
Four Horsemen of the Liberal Apocalypse: Moody, Freud, Chekhov, and Luxemburg Describe the Panic of 1873
Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary
Narrating the "Great Recession": Big Government: the Money Trust and the Politics of Economic Reform
Alice O'Connor, UC Santa Barbara
Commentator: Steve Fraser
A Different Kind of History: Historians in the Legal Arena
102-E, FAC
Chair: Alan Newell, Historical Research Associates, Inc.
Michael Adamson, CSU Sacramento
Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates, Inc.
Douglas R. Littlefield, Littlefield Historical Research
Undermining the Regulatory State from Within: Law, Administration, and Conservatism in Late-Twentieth Century America
202-E, FAC
Chair: Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia
Deregulation by Other Means: Bureaucratic Power and Reagan's 1980 Presidential Transition
Eduardo Canedo, University of Connecticut
Ronald Reagan's Struggle to End Legal Services and the Rise of the Unitary Executive
Alexander Gourse, Northwestern University
Labor, Law, and the Limits of the Reagan Revolution
Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Commentator: Reuel Schiller, UC Hastings
Roundtable: Military History and the Creation and Application of Counterinsurgency Doctrine
101-A, FAC
Moderator: John A. Lynn, Northwestern University
Andrew Birtle, U.S. Army Center of Military History
Conrad C. Crane, U.S. Army Institute for Military History
Brian M. Linn, Texas A&M
Peter Mansoor, The Ohio State University
Historical Perspectives on the Democratic Revolutions in the Middle East
102-C, FAC
Chair: Michael Sherry, Northwestern University
The Roots of the Democratic Upheavals in the Middle East
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Commentators: Juan Cole, University of Michigan, and Melani McAlister, George Washington University
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 – 1:30 PM
Remembering and Interpreting Women in the U.S. Military
102-D, FAC
Moderator: Loren Miller, American University
Laura Browder, University of Richmond
Robbie Fee, Women in Military Service for America Foundation
Megan Harris, Veterans History Project, Library of Congress
Beth Ann Koelsch, the Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
What's Good for America: New Perspectives on Business and the State
203-D, FAC
Chair: Paula Baker, The Ohio State University
Building a Civic Welfare State: Businessmen's Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America, 1919-1929
Daniel Amsterdam, The Ohio State University
Implementing the Powell Memorandum: Pacific Legal Foundation, Property Rights, and the Courts
Jefferson Decker, Rutgers University
Pocketbooks before Patriotism: The Curious Campaign to Sell War Bonds during World War II
Jason Petrulis, University of Illinois
Commentator: Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico
Desegregating Backlash: Liberals and African Americans in the Making of Modern Conservatism
103-A, FAC
Chair: Heath Ann Thompson, Temple University
Intellectual White Flight: Conservatism's History and Ours
Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
Democrats, the Conservative Ascendency, and the Backlash against Civil Rights
Brett Gadsden, Emory University
African American Republicans and the Appropriation of "Black Urban Rage"
Leah Wright, Wesleyan University
Commentator: Heather Ann Thompson
Making Working-Class Women's History
202-A, FAC
Moderator: Priscilla Murolo, Sarah Lawrence College
Building an Archive: Working-Class Women's Stories of Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
Joey Fink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Public Policy and Women in Non-Traditional Work
Francine Moccio, Emory University Law School
Building an Archive: Working-Class Women's Stories of Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
Jessica Wilkerson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Wages, Not Welfare": Low-Wage Women Workers, Union Radicalism, and Political Engagement, 1970s to 1980s
Naomi R. Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What Historians Can Teach Activists about Opposing Modern Slavery, and Vice-Versa
203-B, FAC
Chair: Robert P. Forbes, University of Connecticut
Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth-Century British Antislavery: A Case Study in Successful Mobilization
David Richardson, University of Hull
Combating Slavery Today: What Historians Need to Learn from Activists
Louise Shelley, George Mason University
Defeated by the Past? Historians, Activists, and the Challenge of Contemporary Slavery
James Banner Stewart, Macalester College
Historians and Climate Change
103-C, FAC
Chair: Philip Scarpino, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Mark Carey, University of Oregon
Rebecca Conrad, Middle Tennessee State University
David Glassberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin
Organizing Workers in the New Jungle: Labor Activists and Scholars in Dialogue
Ballroom B, FAC
Chair: Nancy MacLean, Duke University
Kim Bobo, Interfaith Worker Justice
Janice Fine, Rutgers University
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Andrea van den Heever, Connecticut Center for a New Economy and UNITE HERE
Field Critique: The Republic of Nature: Rediscovering the Environmental Origins of American History
102-C, FAC
Chair: William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Fiege, Colorado State University
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Linda Gordon, New York University
Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University
Workers, Citizens, and the Social Wage in the Era of Downsizing
202-E, FAC
Chair: Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
Reaganized in the 1980s: U.S. Urban Public-Sector Job Losses in Global Perspective
Jane Berger, Cornell University
Let's Make the Market Work for Us: Community-Bank Partnerships as an Alternative to State-Led Urban Renewal, 1975-1989
Rebecca Marchiel, Northwestern University
From Private Support to Privatization: The Corporate Transformation of Higher Education and American Manufacturing
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago
Commentator: Christopher Phelps
Politics, the Economy, and the Future of the Profession
101-A, FAC
Chair: David Chang, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota
Albert Camarillo, Stanford University
William Chafe, Duke University
Gail Dubrow, University of Minnesota
Claire Potter, The New School
FRIDAY, APRIL 20 – 3:00 PM
Plenary Session: David Montgomery--Labor Historian, Activist, Teacher, Mentor
Ballroom A, FAC
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, OAH President, Columbia University
James Green, UMass Boston
Andrea van den Heever, Director, Community Organizing Programs, UNITE HERE
Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University
Yevette Richards Jordan, George Mason University
Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 8:30 AM
Lessons from ACORN: Rethinking Community Organizing in Modern America
103-C, FAC
Chair Marisa Chappell, Oregon State
John Atlas, Author, Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group
Fred Brooks: School of Social Work, Georgia State University
Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
Randy Cunninghma, Cleveland Tenants Organization
Gary Delgado, Director, BackStory Narratives
Robert Fisher, University of Connecticut
Wade Rathke, Community Organizations International
Frontiers of Finance
103-E, FAC
Chair: Bethany Moretan, University of Georgia
Remaking the World in their Image: Management Consultants and the Rise of the Temporary Economy
Louis Hyman, Cornell University ILR School
Democracy of Credit: The (Un)Politics of Finance and Transformations of Economic Citizenship in U.S. Society
Greta Krippner, University of Michigan
Not All of Us Were Keynesians: Supply-side Ideology and Politics before the Reagan Revolution
Julia Ott, New School
The Cuban Missile Crisis Fifty Years Later--New Perspectives
201-B, FAC
Chair: Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University
21 Weeks: Politics and Policy of the Cuban Missile Crisis
David Coleman, University of Virginia
Blind over Cuba
Max Holland, journalist
Soviet Perspectives on the Caribbean Crisis
Sventlana Savanskya, National Security Archive
Outsie the ExComm: Deciding Before Decisions
Martin J. Sherwin, George Mason University
Commentator: James Hershberg, George Washington University
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 10:30 AM
The National Declassification Center: Advancing the Public's Access to National Security Documentation
Moderator: Kristin Ahlberg, U.S. Department of State
101-A, FAC
Carl Ashley, U.S. Department of State
William Burr, National Security Archive
John Fitzpatrick, Director, Information Security Oversight Office
Richard Immerman, Temple University
Sheryl Shenberger, National Declassification Center
Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument
202-C, FAC
Eli Zaretsky's Paper "Why America Needs a Left" will serve as the focus of this panel. The paper will be circulated electronically in March to attendees who indicate an interest. Visit http://annualmeeting.oah.org for more information.
Chair: Barbara Epstein, UC Santa Cruz
Why America Needs a Left
Eli Zaretsky, New School for Social Research
Commentators: David Roediger, University of Illinois, and Barbara Epstein
Birthright Citizenship: Can the Fourteenth Amendment Defend Itself?
103-C, FAC
Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Fred Tsao, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Right
Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University
Adam Coz, New York University School of Law
One Hundred Years Later: The Legacy of 1912 and the Future of Progressive Politics in America
203-C, FAC
Chair: Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University
Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Jackson Lears, Rutgers University
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Binghampton University, State University of New York
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 1:30 PM
Neoliberalism and Its Discontents
201-A, FAC
Chair: Jennifer Burns, University of Virginia
Sonja Amadae, The Ohio State University
Johanna Bockman, George Mason University
Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer Burns
Daniel Stedman-Jones, City Law School, London
The Crisis of the Public Sector and the Fight over Its Future: A Roundtable Discussion
102-C, FAC
Moderator: William P. Jones, University of Wisconsin
David Newby, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Joshua B. Freeman, Queens College and the Graduate Center
Roberta Lynch, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Commentator: David Newby, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
Government's Invisible Hand: The Growth of Business-State Partnerships, 1868-1994
202-E, FAC
Chair: Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University
The Urban Policy Limits of Big Government Conservatism, 1979-1990
Brent Cebul, University of Virginia
A "Business Congress": The National Board of Trade, Economic Policy and the Relationship of Business and Government in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
Cory Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Citizen Coke: A Political and Environmental History of the Coca-Cola Company
Bartow Elmore, University of Virginia
Commentator: Meg Jacobs, MIT
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 4:30 PM
OAH Presidential Address
Ballroom A, FAC
Capitalism, Democracy, and the Emancipation of Belief
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 – 7:00 PM
Ballroom B, FAC
BackStory with the American History Guys
This year's keynote will take a public turn. Join an extraordinary team of historian-hosts for a live taping of the radio show BackStory with the American History Guys as they use the history of beer to explore capitalism, democracy, immigration, labor, and more.
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 – 8:00 AM
The Rise of Political Spin: Advertising and Publicity in Twentieth-Century American Politics
202-B, FAC
Chair: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
It's Time for a Change: Representing Female Citizenship on Televsion, 1952-2008
Liette Gidlow, Wayne State University
George Creel and the Perils of Publicity
David Greenberg, Rutgers University
Creating Political Strategy, Controlling Political Work: Edward Bernays as Political Consultant
Adam Sheingate, Johns Hopkins University
Commentator: Sarah Igo, Vanderbilt University
Roundtable: Religion, Democracy, and the Working Class in Capitalist America, Gilded Age to Present
201-B, FAC
Chair: Nick Salvatore, Cornell University
Chris Cantwell, Newberry Library
Maureen Fitzgerald, College of William and Mary
Janine Giordano Drake, University of Illinois
John Hayes, Augusta State University
Matthew Pehl, Augustana College
Jarod Roll, University of Sussex
Commentator: Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 – 10:30 AM
NEW The Context and Practice of the "Occupy" Movement
203-C, FAC
Chair: Linda Gordon, New York University
Occupy and Women's/Gender Issues
Susan Dirr, Occupy Chicago Activist
Occupy and Organized Labor
Penelope Lewis, The Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York
Class Analysis and Narratives of Predators
Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Occupy and Black Radical Politics
Barbara Ransby, U of I Chicago
The Wisconsin Struggle: Forerunner to Occupy?
Alexander Shashko, UW Madison
Commentator: Linda Gordon
New Directions in the History of Reproductive Rights, 1950-2000: Feminism, Class and Race
102-D, FAC
Chair: Margaret Marsh, Rutgers University
Discrimination or Genocide? Black Politics and the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referendum
Nicola Beisel, Northwestern University
Making Sense of the Abortion Marketplace: The Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers and Consequence of Women's Right to Choose
Judith Houck, University of Wisconsin
"I Didn't Give a Hoot for a Male Contreceptive": A Wealthy Feminist's Support for Reproductive Rights
Joan Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University
Commentator: Alecia Long, Louisiana State University