PCB-AHA 2025 Conference Program
2025 Conference highlights:
Hosted by the University of Santa Clara, the two-day 118th annual meeting featured 57 panels, two spectacular luncheon talks, a presidential plenary, and an awards ceremony and reception.
Photo: The Presidential Plenary focused on “Teaching in Turbulent Times” and featured past presidents of the PCB: Marsha Weisiger, Stacy Smith, Ari Kelman, and speaking at the podium Ben Mutschler
PCB Awards 2025
The PCB-AHA Distinguished Service Award: Right: Glenna Matthews, longtime PCB-AHA contributor, distinguished teacher, and author of five important books is congratulated (photo) at Awards Ceremony by President-elect James Gregory
The W. Turrentine Jackson Award (to the author of a dissertation adjudged to be the most outstanding on any aspect of the history of the American West in the twentieth century): Andrew Klein, Mellon Fellow with the San Francisco Maritime Historical Park, for his dissertation at UCLA: “The Water’s Edge: Empire, Race, and the Global History of Oakland, California, 1848-1980.”
The Norris and Carol Hundley Award (for the best book published in history during a calendar year by a scholar living in the region served by the PCB-AHA): Charles Wilkinson, University of Colorado School of Law, for Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights, published by the University of Washington Press.
The Pacific Coast Branch Award (for the best book submitted by a scholar who resides in the states and provinces from which the PCB-AHA draws its membership, offered only for first books, and usually to younger scholars): Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, published by Stanford University Press.
The Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph or edited volume in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history): Julia F. Irwin, Louisiana State University, for Catastrophic Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
The Robert W. Cherny Award (for the best article in labor and political history appearing in the Pacific Historical Review or published elsewhere by a member of the PCB-AHA): Iker Saitua, the University of the Basque Country, for “‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War,” published in the Pacific Historical Review in Spring 2024.
The Abbott-Johnson Prize (for the best article in the history of the Pacific World published in the Pacific Historical Review or in another journal by a PCB-AHA member): Two awards: Gregory T. Cushman of the University of Arizona, Trisha Jackson of Gaia Consulting, and Johannes J. Feddema, late of the University of Victoria, for “Ecologies of Resilience: The Many Colonizations of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. 1200-present,” published in the American Historical Review in Fall 2024.
Co-winner: Travis D. Hancock of Washington Place, Hawai’i, for “The Many (De)Colonial Lives of Ka-Pena George Gilley,” published in the Pacific Historical Review in Spring 2024.
The Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award (for the most deserving contribution to the Pacific Historical Review, selected by the Board of Editors of the Review): Cameron Blevins, University of Denver, and Annelise Heinz, University of Oregon, “’Separated, but far from alone’: Forging Lesbian Networks in the 1970s–1980s” (Summer 2024)
The W. Turrentine Jackson Prize (to a graduate student whose essay has been adjudged by the Editors of the Pacific Historical Review to be of outstanding quality): Jonathan van Harmelen, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Nowhere to Go: Epidemiology, Quarantine Orders, and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II” (Fall 2024)
