Social Science History Association
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the past
The 2025 SSHA Call for Papers
50th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
2025 SSHA Call for Papers
Complexity and its Consequences
The 2025 SSHA Conference will be held at the Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deadline extended to March 15
The Social Science History Association is an interdisciplinary organization that publishes a journal, Social Science History, organizes an annual conference, supports graduate student travel to the conference, and awards book and article prizes.
With scholars from history, economics, sociology, demography, anthropology, and other social sciences, the association brings together scholars in thematic networks where they can explore common questions.
Each network organizes its own call for papers and selects the bulk of the papers to be presented at the annual conference. This open, flexible, and non-hierarchical structure makes these networks particularly welcoming spaces for younger scholars and invigorating tonic for more seasoned academics.
SSHA 2023 Conference Award Winners
Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award
Book Award Winner |
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Ayşe Zarakol |
Presidents Book Award
Book Award Winner | Honorable Mention |
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Robyn d'Avignon | Wei Yu Wayne Tan |
Founders Prize
Daniel Seligson and Anne E. C. McCants
"Polygamy, the Commodification of Women, and Underdevelopment."
Social Science History Volume 46, Issue 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 1-34.
Announcements
SSHA 2024 Final Conference Program Released
The 2024 SSHA conference (in Toronto, Oct 31 - Nov 3) program has been released and is available here.
SSHA Town Hall, March 25
The SSHA officers invite SSHA members to attend a Zoom town hall on Monday March 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm EST to discuss and answer questions about the four Executive Committee motions passed on December 20, 2023, and February 8, 2024. The zoom link is here (Meeting ID: 895 1708 6578 | Password: 602250).
These motions concern our association journal, Social Science History, specifically editorial procedure guidelines, journal scope and the editor model. These motions have been posted on the SSHA website.
2024 Annual Conference Submissions Now Open
SSHA is now accepting paper and session submissions for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please visit our submission portal to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.