Pacific Coast Branch

The Program Committee for the 2012 Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB–AHA) annual meeting invites proposals for panels and papers on all historical subjects and time periods but with special consideration for those that fit the theme, "New Beginning or Beginning of the End?" The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 06, 2012.

View 2012 Call for Papers

The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association congratulates the following PCB–AHA prize and award winners.

The Louis Knott Koontz Memorial Award

(most deserving contribution to the Pacific Historical Review, selected by the Board of Editors of the Review)

David Igler, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, for:
“On Coral Reefs, Volcanoes, Gods, and Patriotic Geology; Or, James Dwight Dana Assembles the Pacific Basin” (February 2010)

The Pacific Coast Branch Award

(best book submitted by a scholar who resides in the states and provinces from which the Branch draws its membership, offered only for first books, and usually to younger scholars)

Thomas Mullaney, Ph.D., Stanford University, for:
Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)

The W. Turrentine Jackson Prize

(graduate student whose essay has been adjudged by the Editors of the Pacific Historical Review to be of outstanding quality)

Mary C. Greenfield (co–winner), ABD, Yale University, for:
“‘The Game of One Hundred Intelligences’: Mahjong, Materials, and the Marketing of the Asian Exotic in the 1920s” (August 2010)

Philip Van Huizen (co–winner), ABD, University of British Columbia, for:
“Building a Green Dam: Environmental Modernism and the Canadian-American Libby Dam Project” (August 2010)

The W. Turrentine Jackson Award

(author of a dissertation judged to be the most outstanding on any aspect of the history of the American West in the twentieth century)

Veta Schlimgen, Ph.D., for:
“From Insular Subjects to Colonial Aliens: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Filipino America from 1900 to 1950” (University of Oregon, 2010)

The Norris and Carol Hundley Award

(best book published in history during a calendar year by a scholar living in the region served by the Branch)

Amanda Podany, Ph.D., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for:
Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Prize Information

The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting will take place in San Diego, California from August, 9^th to 11^th. Information regarding location and accommodations, registration, and the provisional program will be available in the summer of 2012. If you have questions or comments, please contact us.

2012 Annual Meeting