Hidetaka Hirota

***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner***

Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!

***IEHS Digital Grants Awards Winner***

Congratulations to Kate Motluck (Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Toronto) for a digital project on the history of forced migration to and from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean!

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The IEHS Program Committee invites submissions for panels at the annual meeting of the OAH in San Francisco in 2027. If you are interested, please submit a panel proposal to Program Committee Chair Hidetaka Hirota: hhirota@berkeley.edu

***Upcoming IEHS Elections***

On 12/15, IEHS members will receive an email from IEHS Secretary providing them with information about this year’s elections. Members will have until 1/15 to vote. This year, the IEHS will choose three new Executive Board members whose terms will run from 2026-2029.

Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest for November yet?

We just sent out our monthly newsletter which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events.

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***Awards!***

The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines:

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Strum, Harvey. Maine's Aid to Ireland During the Great Hunger | NEJH

New publication from IEHS member Harvey Strum:

“Maine's Aid to Ireland during the Great Hunger,” Journal of New England History 82, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 80-107.

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Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942 | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 4 Abstract In December 1942, teachers and Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center created a scrapbook for Elmer Shirrell, the camp’s outgoing director. The scrapbook reveals Tule Lake teac...

New publication by IEHS member Samuel J. Klee:

“Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942,” Environmental History 30, no. 4 (October, 2025): 729-745.

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Creating a “Mass Production Technique”: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 by S. Deborah Kang New archival research shines a light on the anti-Mexican animus that motivated the authors and agents of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 and reveals that racism was a feature, rathe...

***New article by IEHS member @kangborderlaw.bsky.social ***

“Creating a ‘Mass Production Technique’: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952,” Journal of American Constitutional History 3, no. 3 (2025): 545-613.

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***Write for the IEHS Blog***

Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity.

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***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed***

If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information and areas of expertise to jaehreviews@gmail.com

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Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web... European migrants are often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrants, yet Europeans did enter and remain in the US without proper authorization. In this webinar, our experts will tell the stor...

***A week from today***

The IHRC invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST.

Register at z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.

IHRC Welcomes Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the Inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Reception 5-6pm Lecture 6-7:30pm (hybrid) Weisman Art Museum 333 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455 The Immigration History Research Center invites you to our inaugural Phi...

TODAY, November 5th

Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture at the University of Minnesota

Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling with Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund lecture at UMN and online. Register at z.umn.edu/HittiLecture

Global Teach Ins-Outs about Migration

The Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges migration scholars to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025.

Info? migrationscholarsnetwork@gmail.com.

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social:

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***David J. Weber Prize Winner***

Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @omarvaleriojimenez.bsky.social for receiving the David J. Weber Prize from the Western History Association for his Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship!

OAH-IEHS Joint Virtual Event TOMORROW:

Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST

The event will focus on the history of deportation in the United States and feature several IEHS members who are experts on the topic.

Register: www.oah.org/2025/10/06/o...

Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest for October yet?

We just sent out our monthly newsletter which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events.

Want to be included? Email digest@iehs.org

IHRC Welcomes Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the Inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Reception 5-6pm Lecture 6-7:30pm (hybrid) Weisman Art Museum 333 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455 The Immigration History Research Center invites you to our inaugural Phi...

Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture at the University of Minnesota with Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
6:00 to 7:30 at the Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Rd. Minneapolis, MN. This lecture will be hybrid.

Register at z.umn.edu/HittiLecture.

Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here, with @kevinkenny.bsky.social , @irpinaingiro.bsky.social , and @migrantherstory.bsky.social :

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

More details here:

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Be sure to check out this new blog post in our IEHS blog, Not From Here!

@migrantherstory.bsky.social interviews the editors of After Rituals of Migration, @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @kevinkenny.bsky.social.

Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …

Thank you @iehs.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social & Eunice Kim for this conversation on Rituals of Migration @nyupress.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja Abstract. Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East

New article by IEHS members Naoko Wake and @michaelrjin.bsky.social:

“Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja,” American Historical Review 130, no. 3 (September 2025): 1009-1038.

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Pioneers of Latino Ministry Traces the history of the Claretian Missionaries and their far-reaching influence on Latino CatholicsPioneers of Latino Ministry tells the story of the Clare...

New book from IEHS member Deborah Kanter:

Deborah E. Kanter, Pioneers of Latino Ministry: Claretians and the Evolving World of Catholic America (New York University Press, 2025).

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