About
The Western History Association (WHA) is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. Its mission is to cultivate the broadest appreciation of this diverse history by enabling collaborations among peoples, institutions, and organizations devoted to the study of western history, conducting an annual conference for teachers, scholars, and professionals to share research and exchange ideas, publishing an award-winning peer-reviewed journal, and promoting public education on western history through involvement with teachers, museums, nonprofit organizations, libraries, and other venues.
Funding Opportunities
Oscar O. Winther Award
The Oscar O. Winther Award is an annual prize established by the Western History Association Council to recognize excellence in historical scholarship. The award honors the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly during each academic year. Award recipients are selected by the WHQ Board of Editors through a competitive review process. The award carries a monetary prize of $500 and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of western history. Named after Oscar O. Winther (1903-1970), a distinguished scholar of western transportation and the second President of the Western History Association, this award celebrates scholarly achievement in the study of the American West and related topics. The award has been given annually since the early 1970s and has recognized groundbreaking research on topics including Native American history, borderlands studies, environmental history, gender history, and regional development.
Bert M. Fireman and Janet Fireman Award
The Bert M. Fireman and Janet Fireman Award, first announced as the Bert M. Firemen Award by the Western History Association Council at the 1982 WHA Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, and renamed in 2015, recognizes the best student article published in the Western Historical Quarterly each year. The award provides $1,000 and is generously supported by the Fireman family. Award recipients are selected annually by the WHQ Board of Editors. The award honors the legacy of Bert M. Fireman (1913–1980), an Arizona journalist, historian, and educator who devoted his life to exploring and promoting Arizona and Western history. He believed in accessible, readable history that would involve the broader public, and was a lecturer in Arizona history at ASU and curator of the Arizona Collection in Hayden Library. His daughter Janet R. Fireman, Editor of California History and member of the History Department at Loyola Marymount University, helped establish this award to continue her father's passion for stimulating student research, writing, and achievement in Western history. The WHA office sends award notifications in August each year. The awards cycle opens annually on January 15, and the award recognizes excellence in student scholarship focused on Western history topics published in the Western Historical Quarterly.
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- Total Funding Opportunities
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- Active Now
- 2
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- westernhistory.org
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