CEHS is delighted to announce that, as of April 1, 2026, it is entering into a five-year partnership with the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. The arrangement is the brainchild of CEHS past president Dominique Reill, who became the Wirth Institute’s director in July 2025 and proposed the partnership as part of her strategic plan for the Institute. The CEHS Executive Board approved the partnership during its regular meeting at the 2026 AHA annual meeting.

The most visible piece of the partnership is that, for an initial five-year period, the Wirth Institute will “house” the Society’s journal, Central European History. While this will have no effect on the journal’s editorial autonomy and operations, it will facilitate the editors’ efforts to solicit and publish excellent scholarship on central European history by scholars based in Austria and Central Europe. At the same time, the Wirth Institute will be able to draw on the journal’s reputation and its networks to develop new programming that will further stimulate scholarly discussions about Central Europe. Finally, because the partnership includes financial support for CEH operations, it will allow CEHS to shift funds currently used for the journal to other programs (for example, an expansion of its research and travel grants).