Pacific Coast Branch

A provisional Overview of the Program for the 2012 Annual Conference is now available. The final printed program will be available at the conference Registration Table.

All activities associated with the 2012 conference will take place at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, at the University of San Diego, with the exception of two meetings related to the Pacific Historical Review, which will be held at the Courtyard Marriott, San Diego – Hotel Circle.

We ask that any queries regarding the program be addressed to: pcbregistration@cgu.edu.

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All activities associated with the 2012 conference will take place at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, at the University of San Diego, with the exception of two meetings related to the Pacific Historical Review, which will be held at the Courtyard Marriott, San Diego – Hotel Circle.

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Pre–conference registration will be done exclusively online from April 1 – July 31, 2012. All participants are expected to register for the conference. Take advantage of discounts by registering early (April 1 – 30), or during the regular registration period (May 1 – July 31). A $10 late fee will be applied to in–person registration.

Special Events Tickets – Advance Purchase: Please purchase tickets for any special events you wish to attend in advance online when registering for the conference. Due to guarantees we must make, only an extremely limited number of event tickets, if any, will be available for purchase at the conference registration table.

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Two blocks of rooms have been reserved at a special group rate of $149 plus taxes per night, for single or double occupancy, at the following two hotels: Courtyard Marriott San Diego and DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego. They are near (but not walking distance to the University of San Diego). Make your reservation early, but no later than July 9, to take advantage of the special rate. Be advised, the blocks of rooms may sell out well before the cut–off date, and San Diego will be in “high season” during our conference.

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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.

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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)

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