Applying to the Emerging Scholar Program
Note: the following information applies to those interested in participating in a session at the AHA’s 2028 Annual Meeting in Seattle.
Each proposal must present a complete session, namely a panel consisting of research papers given by three scholars (no fewer and no more). Panels presenting research of three “emerging scholars” – namely, ABD doctoral students and recent PhDs (up to three years after degree completion) – are preferred. However, the committee will also consider panels with only two emerging scholars (coupled with a third presentation by a more senior scholar). At least two of the presenters must be based in North America. Finally, in keeping with current practices for academic conferences, the three presenters may not all be affiliated with the same institution.
Because the panels supported as part of this program will be submitted to the AHA’s program committee, all applications need to follow the AHA’s guidelines for session proposals. Also, note that deadline for submitting a panel to the emerging scholar program falls well before the AHA’s deadline for submitting session proposals. This is because, as noted in the general program description, CEHS’s selection committee will be working with the organizers of the sessions selected for support to fine-tune the proposals and recruit moderators and/or commentators before these panels are submitted to the AHA.
The deadline for the submission of all panels is December 1, 2026.
Specifically, each proposal needs to include:
- A list of all participants, including current email address, affiliation, city, state, and country. (If you would like CEHS to help recruit a moderator and/or commentator for the session, please indicate that here as well.)
- Session title (of no more than 20 words)
- Session abstract (up to 500 words)
- Short session abstract for the meeting app (up to 50 words)
- Paper or presentation titles (if any)
- Abstract or description for each presentation (up to 300 words).
- Biographical paragraph or CV summary (up to 250 words) for each participant
- Current e-mail address, affiliation, city, state, and country for each participant
Please create all proposals as a single Word (.docx) or pdf file and email them to the program’s director, Teresa Walsh University of North Carolina, Greensboro), using “CEHS Emerging Scholars Program” as the subject. Decisions on the sessions chosen for the program will be made by early January 2027. The selected panel(s) will then be submitted to the AHA’s program committee (deadline: February 15, 2027). Should the AHA decline to accept one or the other panel, CEHS will sponsor it directly.
Please direct all queries to Teresa Walch, director of the Emerging Scholars Program: tmwalch@uncg.edu.