Midwest World History Association News

Congrats to the newly elected!

Jeanne Grant — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:51:29 GMT

Dear MWWHA Members and Friends,

Thank you to everyone who ran for the MWWHA Officer positions and Executive Committee, and all who work to make our organization such a collegial and collaborative group. As we start the new year, we would like to congratulate the newly elected:

President: Andrew Magnusson

Vice President: Nikki Magie

Secretary: Eileen Orzoff-Baranyk

Treasurer: Tom Barker

Website Coordinator: Jeanne Grant

Executive Committee members: Dave Eaton and Karin Steinbrueck

Congratulations to the new Executive Members who start in 2025!

Jeanne Grant — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:10:27 GMT

Dear MWWHA Members and Friends,

Thank you to everyone who ran for the MWWHA Executive Committee, and all who work to make our organization such a collegial and collaborative group. As we start the new year, we would like to congratulate the incoming members of the EC:

Kaveh Hemmat

Andrae Marak

Mark Soderstrom

We look forward to working together with you!

MWWHA President - Nikki Magie

Keynote Speaker for 2024

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:56:08 GMT

Tamim Ansary, the author of The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000 Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection, will be MWWHA's 2024 keynote speaker.

Congratulations to the new officers and Executive Committee members who start in 2024

Jeanne Grant — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:50:50 GMT

Dear MWWHA members and friends,

The results of the MWWHA election are in, and I have the privilege to announce our next leadership team as well as who the newly elected members of our Executive Committee will be. Before I do, however, I would like to thank everyone who supported our leadership team over the last two years. And without further ado, here are the election results:

Nikki Magie, President

Andrew Magnusson, Vice President

Eileen Orzoff-Baranyk, Secretary

Tom Barker, Treasurer

Jeanne Grant, Website Coordinator

EC Members:

James Tallon

Anthony Baker

Sara Eltabib

Thanks again and I also hope to see you at our next conference.

Saludos,

Andrae Marak

MWWHA President

**Please, see our "About" page for more info.

Congrats to the newly elected!

Jeanne Grant — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:35:40 GMT

Dear MWWHA members and friends,

The results of the MWWHA election are in, and I have the privilege to announce who the newly elected members of our Executive Committee. Before I do, however, I would like to thank everyone who ran for office as well as everyone who took the time to vote. As always, this year’s election was quite competitive, which is a good indicator of the continued health of our all-volunteer organization. And without further ado, the newly elected members of the EC are:

Steven Glazer

Karin Steinbrueck

Andrew Magnusson

Eileen Orzoff-Baranyk

David Eaton

Thanks again and I also hope to see you at our next conference.

Saludos,

Andrae Marak

MWWHA President

Conference 2022 registration is open!

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:58:44 GMT

The registration for Conference 2022 is definitely open!

Go to "The Next Conference."

Conference 2022

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:07:16 GMT

The Call for Proposals is now available and submissions are welcome. Click here to see the CFPs and/or submit a proposal.

Congrats to the newly elected!

Jeanne Grant — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:22:54 GMT

Congratulations to the following who were elected to positions in the MWWHA!

President - Andrae Marak

Vice President - Nikki Magie

Secretary - Krista Feinberg

Treasurer - Tom Barker

Website Coordinator - Jeanne Grant

Executive Board Members - Nat Godley, Mark Soderstrom, and Julie Tanaka

SEWHA's conference is also on Crisis and Recovery (and it's free!)

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:00:00 GMT

SEWHA's conference is Oct. 22-23, 2021, and it is virtual. Registration and attendance are both free.

For more information: https://www.sewha.org/conference/.

Final 2021 Conference Program is available.

Jeanne Grant — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:28:45 GMT

It is with all conference programs now.

(Draft) 2021 Conference Program is now available

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 01:16:46 GMT

The conference committee is pleased to share a (draft version) of the conference program for 2021. Please go to "The Next Conference" page to see and/or download the pdf and to register for the conference if you haven't already!

Congratulations to the newly elected Executive Committee members!

Jeanne Grant — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:31:58 GMT

Congratulations to the newly elected Executive Committee members!

They are:

Kathleen Duffy (Barrington High School, Barrington, Illinois)

Jennifer Morris (Mount St. Joseph University, Cinncinnati, Ohio)

Jim Tallon (Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois)

Congratulations to newly elected officers and executive committee members!

Jeanne Grant — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:43:00 GMT

Congratulations to the newly elected officers and executive committee members of MWWHA!

They are:

President - Mark Soderstrom

Vice President - Nikki Magie

Treasurer - Tom Barker

Secretary - Carmen Hernandez

Executive Committee members:

Steve Glazier

Andrew Magnusson

Eileen Orzoff-Baranyk

Paul Jentz

Dave Eaton

Jeanne Grant (as web coordinator and journal's new chief editor)

(See our "About" page for all the executives.)

Call for Nominations: Officers and Executive Committee

Jeanne Grant — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:30:00 GMT

We invite nominations identifying qualified and motivated individuals to serve as Officers and as part of the Executive Committee of the Midwest World History Association.

Nominations are sought for President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and Website Coordinator as well as for at least three positions on the Executive Committee.

Terms will start on January 1, 2020, with officers serving for a two-year period and Executive Committee members serving for a three-year period.

Duties of the Officers and Executive Committee members are described on the MWWHA “About” webpage.

Please send an email to self-nominate or nominate someone else—the latter of which should be cleared with the person you intend to nominate. Each nomination should also include a short nominee statement of 100 words or less and the nominee should be a current member of the MWWHA in good standing.

Submit your nomination(s) by November 8th, 2019, to Tom Barker: tbarker@usd497.org

The election will take place from December 1st – December 14th, 2019.

Regards,

MWWHA Election Committee

Tom Barker

Nat Godley

Conference 2020 location and dates announced!

Jeanne Grant — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:30:00 GMT

The next conference will be at Lewis University, Oct. 2-3, 2020.

Online registration for the 2019 conference

Jeanne Grant — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:45:00 GMT

Online registration will close the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 18. If you miss online registration, you can still register for the conference on site at the registration table, though meals may not be available for same-day purchase. See the conference page for more info.

Draft of Schedule of Sessions

Jeanne Grant — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:54:27 GMT

The draft of the schedule of sessions has been posted. Please click here.

The 2019 Conference is coming!

Jeanne Grant — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:30:03 GMT

The 2019 conference is returning to North Hennepin Community College. Ten years ago MWWHA was created at NHCC. The conference will be September 20-21, 2019.