***Submit IEHS Panel Proposals for the 2027 OAH by January 31*** If you are interested, please submit a full panel proposal for consideration to Program Committee Chair and IEHS Vice President Hidetaka Hirota.

***IEHS Elections (December 15-January 15)*** On December 15, IEHS members received an email from IEHS Secretary Nicole Greer Golda providing them with information about this year’s elections. Members will have until January 15 to vote.

‼️ Colleagues: If you're teaching this semester, please let me know how I can help you. Happy to recommend reading or talk about immigration, free speech/association, Cold War/McCarthyism, ideological exclusion/deportation, "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

In Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, @nellstra.bsky.social reviews STRANGERS NO LONGER by @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social. 📝 Review: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art... 📕 Book: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

***PEC Representatives at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Jan 2026*** The IEHS Professional Environment Committee guarantees the presence of at least two reps at the AHA. This year they will be Mark Steiner and Maddalena Marinari. More info here: iehs.org/about/policy...

***IEHS Elections (December 15-January 15)*** On December 15, IEHS members received an email from IEHS Secretary Nicole Greer Golda providing them with information about this year’s elections. Members will have until January 15 to vote.

Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest? We just sent out our monthly newsletter recently which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events. Want to be included? Email [email protected]

Excellent 🧵 by @kevinkenny.bsky.social on "a nation of immigrants." 🗃️ @iehs.bsky.social

Check out this book talk with IEHS member and past president @kevinkenny.bsky.social :

Thank you @iehs.bsky.social Online Book Series for featuring my book "The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States" @academic.oup.com Short video available here: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWsL...

Deborah E. Kanter (CHICAGO CATOLICO) reviews "They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir" by Tim Z. Hernandez in Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1. 📝 Review: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

***IEHS on Social Media** Be sure to follow and connect with the IEHS on social media if you have yet to do so! The IEHS is on Bluesky, Facebook, and Youtube. If there is anything in particular you’d like to see added to social media, reach out to the Social Media Officer at [email protected].

In Journal of American Ethnic History (@iehs.bsky.social) Vol. 45, No. 1, Delilah Hernandez reviews CHICANA LIBERATION by Marisela R. Chávez. 📝 Review: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art... 📙 Book: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

***We're on YouTube!*** Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools! m.youtube.com/%40iehs_org?...

New on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Deborah Kanter & Stephen Koeth iehs.org/authors-on-a...

***Special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History*** "Immigration and Citizenship" Co-edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

***Apply to awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society*** The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. iehs.org/awards/

***Please email us if you recently published something. We are happy to feature your scholarship in the monthly digest.*** Email: [email protected]

New article from IEHS member Robert Shaffer: “Pearl S. Buck on American Society: Towards a Multi-Racial (Post-Racial?) Future,” Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature (November, 2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

New book from IEHS members Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross: Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (University of British Columbia Press, 2025) www.ubcpress.ca/challenging-...

***Share Your News with Us*** The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community. [email protected]

***Are You A Member? Create an Expert Profile on the IEHS Website*** This is an excellent resource for fellow academics, journalists, and other readers interested in the work that IEHS members do. Create profile here: iehs.org/all-experts/

***Call for Papers at Western History Association Conference*** The Call for Papers is now open for the WHA's 66th Annual Conference, October 21-24, 2026, in Portland, Oregon. Read the full CFP and submit your proposal by December 5, 2025: www.westernhistory.org/2026/proposals

Check out the new issue of our journal, the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):

***Call for IEHS mentors at the 2026 OAH*** The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is seeking mentors for its first in-person mentorship program for graduate students and early career scholars. Please register your interest here by January 31, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congratulations again, @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! This is so well deserved.

***Nikki Keddie Book Award Winner*** Congratulations to IEHS Executive Board member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social for receiving the Nikki Beddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her Unmentionables. Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class!

***IEHS Digital Grants Awards Winner*** Congratulations to Kate Motluck (Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Toronto) for a digital project on the history of forced migration to and from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean!

**Submit IEHS Panel Proposals for the 2027 OAH by January 31** The IEHS Program Committee invites submissions for panels at the annual meeting of the OAH in San Francisco in 2027. If you are interested, please submit a panel proposal to Program Committee Chair Hidetaka Hirota: [email protected]

***Please email us if you recently published something*** We are happy to feature your scholarship in the monthly digest. Email: [email protected]

***Upcoming IEHS Elections*** On 12/15, IEHS members will receive an email from IEHS Secretary providing them with information about this year’s elections. Members will have until 1/15 to vote. This year, the IEHS will choose three new Executive Board members whose terms will run from 2026-2029.

Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest for November yet? We just sent out our monthly newsletter which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events. Want to be included? Email [email protected]

***Awards!*** The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines: iehs.org/awards/

New publication from IEHS member Harvey Strum: “Maine's Aid to Ireland during the Great Hunger,” Journal of New England History 82, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 80-107. www.nejh.org/product-page...

The recording of our Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the US webinar is now available at cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev... @iehs.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social

New work by @samuelklee.bsky.social :

New publication by IEHS member Samuel J. Klee: “Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942,” Environmental History 30, no. 4 (October, 2025): 729-745. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The “mass production technique” here refers to mass prosecutions, an earlier iteration of mass deportation policy that has been aimed at Mexicans in Los Angeles for my entire lifetime

***New article by IEHS member @kangborderlaw.bsky.social *** “Creating a ‘Mass Production Technique’: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952,” Journal of American Constitutional History 3, no. 3 (2025): 545-613. jach.law.wisc.edu/anti-mexican...

***We're on YouTube!*** Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools! www.youtube.com/@iehs_org/

***Share Your News with Us*** The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community.

***Write for the IEHS Blog*** Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity. For more information: iehs.org/submit-a-blo...

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social iehs.org/authors-on-a...

***TODAY*** The @ihrc-umn.bsky.social invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST. Register: z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.

***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information and areas of expertise to [email protected] iehs.org/review-books...

Please join us this Wednesday at 5pm (ET) for a conversation with the authors of Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. Register for the webinar here: umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @ihrc-umn.bsky.social @dbattisti.bsky.social @carlygoodman.bsky.social

***Tomorrow*** The recently formed Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges all migration scholars around the globe to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025. More: [email protected].

***Funding Opportunity*** The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 Research and Project Grant call for applications. Deadline: 3/31/26. botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...

In case you missed it: There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...