Congrats to all the 2026 IEHS award winners! 🙌🏾

@iehs.bsky.social banquet during #OAH26 was phenomenal! Over 80 immigration historians got together. Besides prize winners, we celebrated Tyler Anbinder @ithacamcg.bsky.social & Mae Ngai for their lifetime achievements! Congratulations to all! Thank you @irpinaingiro.bsky.social for your leadership!

This year’s @iehs.bsky.social banquet and awards ceremony was truly incredible. Over 80 people came together to celebrate all the award winners. The atmosphere was so welcoming and joyful. Enjoy the photos below 👇🏽

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Photos from our Annual IEHS Banquet and Awards Ceremony

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***Photos from our Annual IEHS Banquet and Awards Ceremony***

Thanks to Bryan Zehngut-Willits for the photos!

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Timely AF panel The Urgency of Recent Immigration History in the Trump Era with @carlygoodman.bsky.social @daralind.bsky.social @yaelschacher.bsky.social Alexander Stephens, Diana Martinez-Montes, and Martha Guerrero Badillo (in spirit). This great panel was solicited by @iehs.bsky.social
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Another fine @iehs.bsky.social solicited panel: New Perspectives on the History of Labor Migration Policy, chaired by Madeline Hsu, with @hidehirota.bsky.social Kyle Pruitt and Monique Laney, with comments by Cindy Hahamovitch delivered and amplified by Leon Fink. These historians are doing the work

Congratulations, @srmeiners.bsky.social! I’m so glad we were able to celebrate you last night.

Congratulations again, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social! I’m so glad we were able to honor you in person last night.

Congratulations, @ithacamcg.bsky.social! This is so richly deserved. An outstanding scholar, phenomenal mentor, and incredible leader. @iehs.bsky.social is what it is today because of what you started during your tenure as president.

Congratulations to all the @iehs.bsky.social award winners! It was so much fun to celebrate everyone at the annual banquet last night. This is definitely my favorite part of my role as president of the organization!

Congrats, @ithacamcg.bsky.social !!

Congrats, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social !!

These all look super interesting

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Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Mae Ngai (Columbia University)

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Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Maria Cristina Garcia (Cornell University)

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Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Tyler Anbinder (George Washington University)

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Theodore Saloutos Book Award Honorable Mention

Beth Lew-Williams, John Doe Chinaman. A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law (Harvard University Press, 2025)

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Theodore Saloutos Book Award Winner

Marla A. Ramirez, Banished Citizens. A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025)

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First Book Award Honorable Mention

David-James Gonzales, Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation. Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange County, California (Oxford University Press, 2025)

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First Book Award

Marla A. Ramirez, Banished Citizens. A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025)

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Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Award

Lila Teeters Knolle, “Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota”

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Lauren Catterson (University of Toronto), “Bad Behaviour at the Border: Abuse, Misconduct, and the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigration Service”

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Congrats, @srmeiners.bsky.social !!

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