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Dear All,

My name is Alana Rumley Rogers and I am an Independent Scholar, recently graduated with a MA from the University of North Alabama. I hope you are all looking forward to this year's conference. I am once again putting together a panel for public historians or for anyone using public history concepts in their research. Last year's public history panel was very informational and engaged several different topics of study. If you feel as if your research might fit within the public history category, or you if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at alrumley@una.edu. Thank you!

Edited to Add: I am very interested in having someone on panel that might have done research or has experience in dramaturgy/historical film making.

Alana Rumley Rogers

Dear all,

I hope you are well. I am a postdoc at the University of Nevada, Reno and I work on early modern Britain. I am interested in organising a panel which, broadly speaking, explores the relationship between religion and death in Britain and the British empire since 1500. I have recently been working on a series of articles that examines religious responses to suicide between 1500-1700. As part of the panel, I would like to present some of that research and work with others interested in similar themes. I have no geographic or temporal limitations in mind. If you are interested, you can reach me at pjain@unr.edu. Thanks very much.

Pranav

Hi everyone,

I’m a History PhD student at the University of Warwick. My research focuses on the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick between 1571 and 1700. The Lord Leycester is an almshouse, which was founded by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1571. The Sidney family took up the patronage of the almshouse following the death of Leicester’s older brother, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick.

I am interested in presenting a paper on the history of the Lord Leycester Hospital during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The almshouse offers a powerful local case study of how a small community in a garrison town was impacted by this national conflict and by the rise of Parliamentarian state power.

Hi Everyone,

I am a PhD Candidate in History at UCLA and my dissertation examines how resistance to technoscientific development in late nineteenth-century Britain was interpreted through the afterlives of Luddism/the Luddites. I am interested in presenting a paper on how newspapers, popular histories, dictionaries, and satirical verse mobilized the figure of the “Luddite” to diagnose and discipline technoscientific dissent during the Late Victorian period.

I am writing to see if anyone would like to organize a panel along the lines of science/tech, political economy, or the Late Victorian Period. I would be very happy to join a panel if you think my paper would be suitable. I am very open to different panel framings!

If this overlaps with your work or you are assembling something along these lines, please feel free to reach out. I would love to chat!

votavac@ucla.edu

Dear colleagues,

I'm a PhD candidate at Rutgers writing a dissertation on a group of firms across colonial Asia who remained in the opium business after prohibition in the early twentieth century. I'd be thrilled to form a panel -- or join one that's already forming -- on capitalism, corporations, etc., or alternatively on the Asian empire.

I'd welcome geographic and chronological diversity, with a more coherent concept for our panel proposal materializing as participants emerge.

You can find me at andrew.bellamy@rutgers.edu!

I am considering submitting a proposal for a paper focusing on the Nonjuror Charles Leslie's patriarchalism and its support for divine right monarchy and episcopacy.

If anyone is considering a panel on Anglicanism, I would be interested in participating.

Welcome to the NACBS 2026 discussion forum. Use this group for all things #nacbs2026! Organize panels, schedule meetups, find roommates, and more!

Welcome to the NACBS 2026 discussion forum.