NDAH

Upcoming Events

About the Workshop

New Directions in American History (NDAH) is currently accepting submissions for the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome works-in-progress from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. We are especially interested in submissions that situate the United States in its Atlantic, hemispheric, and/or transnational context. If you are interested in presenting at some point during the upcoming year, please email your coordinators. This year, the workshop will meet at 4:30 PM on alternating Thursdays unless otherwise posted. Accepted presenters should plan on sharing their paper at least two weeks before their workshop date for pre-circulation. We look forward to your submissions and to what should be an exciting year!

NDAH focuses on themes and topics in North American history, serving as the primary home for the University of Chicago’s Americanists. We also welcome participation from outside students and faculty and are inclusive of projects which bring interdisciplinary methods and theoretical frameworks to bear on diverse historical questions and problems, while remaining mindful of their legal and sociocultural resonances in the present-day. This workshop is intended to be a constructive and supportive space for attendees to critically engage with a variety of projects on pre- and post-1900 U.S. & Atlantic History and its diversity of cultures, receive feedback on works-in-progress, and build collegiality across different disciplines and subfields.