Sessions

1. Childhood and Youth

102. Child Migrants Maynes
103. Finding Children and Youth in the Archives I Wing
104. Book Roundtable on Amy Farrell's "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" Dillenburg
105. Book Roundtable on "Writing with Fire: The Cowboy Suit Tragedy and the Course of a Life" by Barbara Welke Dillenburg
106. Historical Geographies of Childhood and Youth Maynes
107. Childhoods in Postwar Eras Maynes
108. Finding Children and Youth in the Archives II Maynes
109. Governing Childhoods: Labor, Discipline, and Marginality in South Asia Dillenburg


2. Crime, Justice and the Law

201. Crime, Justice and the Law Shiff/Levi
202. Violence, Gender, and Criminalization Shiff
203. Constructing and Responding to Crime Shiff
204. Prison Nation and Cop City: An Assessment of the Field of Carceral State History in the U.S. Schrader


3. Culture

302. Trust in Uncertain Times: Substantive and Methodological Reflections Duina
303. Global Modernities and Alternative Epistemologies Dromi
304. Morality in Economic and Political Transformations Dromi
305. Collective Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia Dromi
306. Theorizing and Morality in Historical Social Science I: Ethics and Method Dromi
307. Theorizing and Morality in Historical Social Science II: Time, Space, and Process Dromi
308. Aesthetics, Materiality, and Ideology Dromi
309. Fields, Organizations, and Differentiation Dromi


4. Data Infrastructure

402. Digitization and Linkage of the 1990 United States Census Bleckley
403. Building and Interpreting Censuses I Magnuson
404. Building and Interpreting Censuses II Magnuson
405. Wrangling Occupational and Denominational Data Magnuson
406. A Day in the Life Magnuson
407. Using IPUMS Full Count Data: Spatial Dimensions in Historical Data Magnuson
408. Beyond the Census I Magnuson
409. Beyond the Census II Magnuson
410. Building and Interpreting Censuses III Magnuson


5. Economics

501. Financial Stability and the Dollar Eloranta/Dul/Meyer/Dominguez
502. Interdisciplinary Social Science History & Publishing in Social Science History Wegge
503. Author Meets Critics: The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression by Jason E. Taylor Dominguez
504. Indo-Us Maritime Trade, c. 1780-1950: Merchants, Networks, and Commodities Nadri
505. Author Meets Critic: Ian Kumekawa, "Business State: Empire and Big Business in the Twentieth-Century British State." McCants
508. Women at Work Dul
509. Effects of Environmental Pressures Dul
510. State Institutions and Development Dul
511. Development and Labor Dul
512. Microdata Methods Dul


6. Education, Knowledge and Science

603. Author Meets Critics: Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico by Diana Graizbord Griffen
604. Comparative Perspectives on State Ignorance Graizbord
605. Author Meets Critics: Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America by Héctor Vera Griffen
606. Sustained Interventions in Schooling: Case Studies from Around the World Griffen
607. Science and Expertise: Academic and Political Institutionalization Griffen
608. Tactics of Resistance Against Technocratic and Linguistic Domination Griffen
609. Expertise and Accountability in Medicine: Case Studies from Around the World Griffen
610. Discursive Developments Across Disciplines and Ideologies Griffen
611. Theoretical Approaches to Structural and Infrastructural Transformation Griffen
612. Intellectual Histories and Theoretical Trajectories Griffen


7. Family and Demography

702. Patriarchal Regimes in Comparative Perspective: Variation, Measurement, and Historical Change Szoltysek
703. Women and Property, - Inheriting, Using, Distributing Moring
704. Mortality Inequalities Across Class, Place, and Borders Jennings/Breen
705. Mortality: The Aftermath of Disease Jennings/Breen
706. Fertility in Changing Contexts Jennings/Breen
707. Understanding Kinship and Family Dynamics Jennings/Breen
708. Opening up Opportunity: Economic and Societal Change Jennings/Breen
709. Union Formation and Dissolution in Historical Perspective Jennings/Breen
710. The Demographic Legacies of Slavery Jennings/Breen


8. Health, Medicine and Body

801. Health, Medicine and Body Caron/Tatarek
802. Disease Ecologies, Notions of Modernity, and Conceptions of Illness Caron
803. Gender and Health: From Coal Miners to Motherhood Caron
804. Twentieth-Century Medical Perspectives Caron


9. Historical Geography and GIS

902. Mapping Atlanta's Historical Geographies of Race, Class, and Justice I Markley
903. The City and Its Environments Yildiz
904. Spatial Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases Ramiro Fariñas
905. Assessing Scales and Configurations of Segregation Using Fine-Grained Data: A Roundtable Swope
906. Mapping Racial Violence Canavera
907. The World Historical Gazetteer as Shared Spatial Infrastructure for Social Science History Vashist
908. Text Mining Across Space, Time, and Languages Kennedy
909. Mapping Atlanta's Historical Geographies of Race, Class, and Justice II Markley
910. Teaching Spatial History: A Roundtable Baics
911. Advancing Spatial Methods Kennedy
912. Geographies of Racialized Dispossession Kennedy
913. Settlement Patterns and Inequality Kennedy
914. Mapping Perceptions of Space Kennedy


10. Labor

1002. From Automation to Artificial Intelligence: Antilabor Technologies and Worker Resistance in Comparative and Historical Perspective Hanna
1003. Book Panel: Class Warfare in Black Atlanta Walter
1004. Book Panel: Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights Walter
1005. Organizing Workers: Unions, Professionalization, and Labor Militancy in the United States Wood
1006. Labor Stratification, Migration, and Political Economy Wood
1007. Race, Labor, and Inequality in Modern Capitalism Wood
1008. Labor, Political Economy, and the Expansion of Democracy Wood
1009. Grassroots Labor Activism and Worker Solidarity Wood
1010. Labor Coercion and Class Formation in Global and Colonial Contexts Wood


11. Macrohistorical Dynamics

1101. Macrohistorical Dynamics Payne/Zhang/Pula
1102. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (I) Pula
1103. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (II) Pula
1104. Beyond the Periphery: Eastern Europe and the Complexities of Social and Political Transformation (III) Pula
1105. Power and Normativity in Society and History I: The Lives and Logics of Empire Skotnicki
1106. Power and Normativity in Society and History II: Order and the Atlantic World Skotnicki
1107. Power and Normativity in Society and History III: Power and Pluralism in Social Theory Skotnicki
1108. Book Session. The Great Separation: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Ordoeconomism, by Xiaohong Xu Zhang
1109. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (I): A Hundred Protagonists Zhang
1110. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (II): Temporality and Contingency Zhang
1111. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (III): Braving the Market Waves Zhang
1112. The Chinese Reform as Social Science History (IV): Remaking Modernities Zhang
1113. The Tangling of Theory and Evidence in Historical Sociology Newman
1114. Presidential Session. Book Session on David Zaret, Petitioning and Power Relations in Pre-Modern Eurasia (Oxford University Press, 2025) Hung
1116. Hegemony Unraveling: Crisis and Post-Crisis Silver
1117. State and Business Institutions in Early Modern China Chen
1118. Why Some Rise and Others Don't: Inequality, Geography, and the Long Arc of State Formation Payne
1119. Governing by Classification: Archives, Imperial Time, and the Long Life of Colonial Rule Payne
1120. Red Flags and Colonial Frontiers: Ideology, Insurgency, and the Politics of Revolution Payne
1121. Where Markets End and States Begin: Institutional Boundaries, Military Spending, and Neoliberal Networks Payne
1122. Reading the Modern: Computational Methods and the Historical Genealogy of Social Meaning Payne
1123. Presidential Session: book session on Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini. Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000. (Princeton University Press, 2025) Hung


12. Migration/Immigration

1202. Enclosure, Expulsion, and Nation-Making in Cold War Asia Hsu
1204. Author Meets Critics: Borders and Belonging by Hiroshi Motomura Motomura
1205. Past as Prologue: Migrant Labor, Migrant Rights, and “Multiculturalism” in Late Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Kazal
1206. Imperialism, Migration, and the Welfare State Dubler
1207. Nationality in Question: Practices and Problems for Migrating and Displaced Europeans in the 1930s and 1940s Hsia
1208. Labor Migrations Newhouse
1209. Marginalization, Exclusion, and Inclusion Newhouse
1210. Migrant Agencies and Countering State Mandates Newhouse
1211. Migration Affects Newhouse


13. Race and Ethnicity

1302. Book Session: Order of Business: The Golden Age of Fraternity and Its Legacy of Inequality by Pamela A. Popielarz Popielarz
1304. Author Meets Critic: The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate by Sunmin Kim Kim
1305. Racialized Local Spaces Calderon-Zaks
1306. The Global Color Line Calderon-Zaks
1307. Confronting the White Supremacist Origins of Current Processes Calderon-Zaks


14. Religion, Power, and Social Change

1401. Religion, State Formation and Political Authority Tabakoglu/Aygenc
1402. Islamic Political Thought, Sovereignty, and Alternative Modernities Tabakoglu
1403. Religious Transformation, Community Formation, and Social Change Tabakoglu


15. Rural, Agricultural and Environmental

1503. Author Meets Critics: Andrew McCumber’s "Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds," University of Chicago Press. Fox
1504. Comparative-Historical Environmental Sociology Part One: Empirics and Theory Scoville
1505. Comparative-Historical Environmental Sociology Part Two: Modernity and its Others Scoville
1506. Energy, Climate Change, and the Immediacy of the Present Scoville
1507. Environment, Justice, and Land Scoville
1508. Labor and Environment Scoville


16. States, Politics and Society

1601. States, Politics and Society McCourt/Lee/Smith
1602. Author Meets Critics: Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry by Jason Jackson Jackson
1603. Origins of Partisanship in the British Empire Pincus
1604. Author Meets Critic: The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society by Mujun Zhou Zhou
1605. Book Session: Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey by Zeynep Ozgen. Alshaibi
1606. Recent and Ongoing Challenges to Liberalism in the US and Throughout the World Reynolds
1608. Politics and Social Science: From Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” to Present-Day Discussions Steinmetz
1609. Contested Belonging in the Shadow of World War II: Gender, Nation, and Empire in East and Southeast Asia, 1937-1952 Kuo
1610. Author Meets Critics. Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust by Aliza Luft Quisumbing King
1611. Global Historical Sociologies of Violence: Economies of Violence Quisumbing King
1612. Black Power's Politics, Infrastructures and Afterlives: Authors Meet Collective Conversation Johnson
1613. Global Historical Sociologies of Violence: Enabling Violence White
1614. Goffmanian Political Economy (I): Big Picture Fink
1615. Goffmanian Political Economy (II): Finance Fink
1616. Goffmanian Political Economy (III): Industry Fink
1617. Goffmanian Political Economy (IV): Selves and Bodies Fink
1618. Goffmanian Political Economy (V): Policymaking and Performance Fink
1619. Conflicting Imperial Political Economies Pincus
1620. Presidential Session. Civil Society in the Global South Hung
1621. Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Historical Analysis Between Short Term and Longue Durée Newman
1622. Revolution Compared I: Classical Revolutions Hung
1623. Revolution Compared II: Revolutions Since Late Cold War Hung
1624. Social Technologies of African Development Peeples
1625. States Under Pressure Clemens
1626. The Ambivalence of Expertise in the Progressive and New Deal State Popp Berman
1628. Law, Authority, and Administrative Rationalization McCourt
1629. Surveillance, Health, and Settler Administration McCourt
1630. Power, Order, and Institutional Change in Premodern China and Korea McCourt
1631. Nationalist Projects, Transnational Solidarities, Colonial Legacies McCourt
1632. Warfare, Welfare States, and State-Corporation Relations McCourt
1633. Civil Society and the Welfare State McCourt
1634. Rule of Law, Policy Feedback, and Civic Participation McCourt
1635. Abolitionism, Coalition Formation, and Mobilization McCourt
1636. Democratic Vulnerability, Diaspora Mobilization, and Advocacy Networks McCourt
1637. Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Politics McCourt
1638. Theories of Consolidation, Legislative Politics, and Illiberal Contexts McCourt
1639. Racial Classification, Census Politics, and Jim Crow McCourt
1640. Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Removal, and Displacement McCourt
1641. Red Guards, Elite Conflict, and the Cultural Revolution McCourt
1642. Socialist Construction, Economic Reform, and Ideological Production in China and Taiwan McCourt
1643. Property Rights, Land Markets, and Cultural Industries McCourt
1644. Émigré Regimes, Diaspora Mobilization, and Underground Resistance McCourt
1645. Media and Technocracy McCourt
1646. Revolutionary Writing, Identity, and Social Discourse McCourt
1647. Dollars, Debt, and Financial Risk McCourt


17. Women, Gender and Sexuality

1702. Decentering Modernity : Women, Household, and Decision Making in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Nasir
1703. Author Meets Critic: Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX by Celene Reynolds Reynolds
1704. Intimate Rule: Gender, Marriage, and the Colonial State Grisard
1705. Labor, Discipline, and the Gendered Social Question Grisard
1706. Reproduction, Population, and the Modern State in South and East Asia Grisard
1707. Gender and the Making of Knowledge across Traditional and Modern Institutions Grisard
1708. Sexuality, Race, and the Regulation of Difference Grisard
1709. Contested Intimacies: Gender, Knowledge, Desire, and the Making of Authority Across Modernities Grisard


18. Critical Studies

1802. Author Meets Critics Panel: Until the Last Ton: Fossil Fuels in India from Empire to the Climate Crisis by Matthew Shutzer Sharma
1803. Anti-Colonial Knowledge-Production: Affective Regimes, Fanon’s Revolutionary Psychiatry, and the General Union of Palestinian Writers McNally
1804. Subaltern Militancy and the Black Radical Tradition McNally
1805. Historicizing the Relationship between Marxist and Postcolonial Theory Bates
1806. Historical Ethnography with and beyond Benjamin Ballester
1807. Rethinking Anticolonial Thought and Resistance Through the African North Bavbek
1808. Critical Studies of Europe's East: Empire, Nationalism, and Political Economy Bavbek
1809. Empire, Race, and Labour Movements Bavbek
1810. Teaching Social Sciences Under Authoritarianism and Genocide Bavbek
1811. US Empire, Education, and Sociology Bavbek
1813. Critical Perspectives on Colonial Projects across the Globe Grell-Brisk
1814. Critical Perspectives on US History Sharma
1815. Colonialism, Decolonization, and Racial Capitalism Sharma
1816. Theorizing States and Modernity Sharma
1817. Race and Space Sharma
1818. Presidential Session: Development in the age of the New/Old Imperialism Thornton


21. SSHA Sessions

2101. Network Meeting - Childhood and Youth Maynes/Dillenburg
2102. Network Meeting - Crime, Justice and the Law Shiff/Levi
2103. Network Meeting - Culture Dromi/Woodberry/Skotnicki
2104. Network Meeting - Data Infrastructure Magnuson/Mourits
2105. Network Meeting - Economics Eloranta/Dul/Meyer/Dominguez
2106. Network Meeting - Education, Knowledge and Science Griffen/Steward
2107. Network Meeting - Family and Demography Jennings/Rothe/Breen
2108. Network Meeting - Health, Medicine and Body Caron/Tatarek
2109. Network Meeting - Historical Geography and GIS Kennedy/Baics/Swope
2110. Network Meeting - Labor Wood/Walter
2111. Network Meeting - Macrohistorical Dynamics Payne/Zhang/Pula
2112. Network Meeting - Migration/Immigration Newhouse/Bhalla/Hsu
2113. Network Meeting - Race and Ethnicity Calderon-Zaks
2114. Network Meeting - Religion, Power, and Social Change Tabakoglu/Aygenc
2115. Network Meeting - Rural, Agricultural and Environmental Scoville/Fox
2116. Network Meeting - States, Politics and Society McCourt/Lee/Smith
2117. Network Meeting - Women, Gender and Sexuality Grisard/Pieper Mooney/Corsa
2118. Network Meeting - Critical Studies Sharma/Bavbek/Parisot/Grell-Brisk
2120. Presidential Session: Populism and the New Right in the Global South Kumral