Past WMQ-EMSI Workshops
2021
“Material Culture Studies and Early American History”
Zara Anishanslin, Convener
December 10-11, 2021
2019
“Archaeology, History, and the Problem of ‘Early America’”
Robin Beck, Convener
May 10-11, 2019
2018
“Archives-Based Digital Projects in Early America”
Molly O’Hagan Hardy, Convener
May 18-19, 2018
2017
“Early American Environmental Histories”
James Rice, Convener
May 19-20, 2017
2016
“Religions in the Early Americas”
Catherine Brekus, Convener
May 12-14, 2016
2015
“Early American Legal Histories”
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Convener
May 29-30, 2015
2014
“The Age of Revolutions”
Sarah Knott, Convener
May 30-31, 2014
2013
“Before 1607”
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Convener
May 24-25, 2013
2012
“Early American Biographies”
Annette Gordon-Reed, Convener
May 25-26, 2012
2011
“Women in Early America”
Terri Snyder, Convener
May 26-28, 2011
Other Workshops
2021 and 2022
“Contagious Connections: Epidemic Disease in the Vast Early Americas”
Claire Gherini and Ryan Kashanipour, Organizers
The workshop met online for several sessions in fall 2021 and spring 2022.
2019
Two panels jointly sponsored by the Hispanic American Historical Review and the William and Mary Quarterly at the American Society for Ethnohistory’s 2019 conference,
“Exploring Colonial Roots/Routes in North America and Latin America”
Martha Few and Joshua Piker, Organizers
September 25-29, 2019
2018
“Digital Research in Early America”
Co-sponsored by the OI and the University of California at Irvine
Sharon Block and Joshua Piker, Organizers
October 11-12, 2018