Thanks everyone for joining us at @isanet.bsky.social 2026 in Columbus this week, including at our reception, where we had a chance to announce and celebrate our award winners – both in attendance and in absentia. 🎉

Strange times for a US conference. But w/in obvious constraints, this week's @isanet.bsky.social convention in Columbus was awesome. Thanks to friends & colleagues for great conversations, sharing fascinating work & joining the @hist-isanet.bsky.social reception. Congrats again to all HIST awardees!

Join us today at 6:15pm for the #ISA2026 President’s Address. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you are in Columbus, come and join us for the HIST reception tonight! It's going to be an absolutely ... historic reception! 🤓 👇

Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

Congratulations to our CAIT director, @felixroesch.bsky.social, who has received the 2026 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations. 🏆 Find more details below 👇 and the paper is available (open access) here: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

Very proud of Hermann Derwanz for winning this prize — congratulations!

A massive congratulations to @whitproject.bsky.social for ERASED, winning the @hist-isanet.bsky.social Francesco Guicciardini for 2026 - so well deserved and not the only award this year as it picked up the @isanet.bsky.social Theory Section Best Book Award as well!🥂 @princetonupress.bsky.social

Get ready for the 2026 @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Columbus! To help you navigate the programme, here's an overview of our exciting HIST events and panels! 🗓️ First of all, the HIST section reception: Monday 23rd, 8pm – Taft A, Hyatt Regency Columbus 🧵

Exciting new special forum out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social, full of contributions by HIST members! 👇

The countdown is on for the 67th Annual Convention! Columbus is ready... Are you? #ISA2026 Swipe left for more info on badge pickups, registration hours and more!

🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical IR by a Graduate Student Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller The award goes to ... 🥁 Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”

🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"

This is so lovely. 🤓 Thanks to the @hist-isanet.bsky.social for showcasing historical work and to the committee for recognising Erased with this prize. 🥂 Congratulations to Yan Long for their honourable mention.

This is a landmark book in international relations - and relevant now more than ever.

🏅 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman for "Weimar’s Long Shadow" (Cambridge University Press)

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

🗓️ Less than two weeks until the 2026 @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Columbus, Ohio! Over the coming days, we will be announcing the winners of our 2026 prizes, and point you to all HIST panels at the ISA. Stay tuned!

🚨 The 2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum on last year's winner "Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations" is now out in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Have a look at the introduction, individual reviews, and editors' response below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HistIR postdoc opportunity at ANU in Canberra Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations on the Australian Research Council project “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees”, reporting to Prof Luke Glanville DL March 15th – details 👇

👋 If you're looking for updates of the ISA's Historical Section (HIST), you're in the right place! Please like, share, and follow to help us spread the word 😀 #HistIR

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

New @ejir.bsky.social special issue on "History and Theory in International Relations" #HistIR 🔽 Congrats to all contributors and the editorial team! 🥳 journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJT/curr...

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

⏰ Reminder! Don't forget to submit your nominations for our 2025 prizes – the deadline is **tomorrow** ⬇️ All details below & on our website:

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here! Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations by a Graduate Student are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

Modern Intellectual History is now on BlueSky: give @mihjournal.bsky.social a follow – lots of excellent work of interest to historically-minded IR scholars too!

🚨 The deadline to apply for a ISA Research Workshop Grant (up to $2,500) is TOMORROW! 50K total funding available for 2026! In-person & virtual options. #ISA2026 👉 buff.ly/vDxoU04

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations by a Graduate Student are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com Spread the word!

👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇 Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social,‬ @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR

Announcing the 2025 ISA Dissertation Completion #Fellowship. This award is for #EarlyCareerScholars in the later stages of their #PhD program. It is intended to help #Students offset the cost of completing their dissertation. Eligibility Criteria & submission details here: buff.ly/pv0ye0Z

All updated information on prizes (see below) is now also available on our @isanet.bsky.social section website: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

🚨 2025 HIST prize details Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇 Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

🗓️ The registration deadline for #EISAPEC25 has been extended by four days to 18 May, 2025! 🔗 Register via our online portal: bit.ly/4cB8W8N

Tomorrow is the deadline fo proposals for ISA-West 2025, scheduled for September in Pasadena, CA!! More information can be found here: buff.ly/J7I0jFA

Want to nominate/self-nominate a book or article for one of the ISA HIST prizes this year? Here's all the up-to-date info you need 👇 #HistIR

🚨 2025 HIST prize details Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇 Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

👋 If you're looking for updates of the ISA's Historical Section (HIST), you're in the right place! Please like, share, and follow to help us spread the word 😀 #HistIR

ISA is pleased to announce our 2026 conference, taking place in March 22-25, 2026 in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme is "Back to the Fundamentals" and the deadline for submissions is June 1st: buff.ly/ItyofBO

Happy to be ISA HIST Communications Officer for the next two years! If you don't yet, make sure to follow @hist-isanet.bsky.social for any and all Historical IR updates. Check out the section website here: www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections... 1/3

IR scholars: We've gathered the associations and groups we could find thus far. Shout out to be added. go.bsky.app/6S1gqpq

We are pleased to announce that @qbruneau.bsky.social 's STATES AND THE MASTERS OF CAPITAL is the Winner of the 2025 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations from the @hist-isanet.bsky.social‬ section of the International Studies Association. buff.ly/A3KP6vj