Year      Host Institution                                 KEY: PC (Program Chair) LAC (Local Arrangements Chair)

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1979       U.S. Naval Academy , James C. Bradford (PC), James C. Bradford (LAC)

1980       University of Illinois, Daniel Calhoun (PC), Robert McColley (LAC)

1981       Sienna College, James Roger Sharp (PC), Sharp Thomas O. Kelly II (LAC)

1982       Memphis State University, Carl E. Prince (PC), C. Edward Skeen (LAC)

1983       Bentley College, William Rorabaugh (PC), Leonard J. Sneddon (LAC)

1984       IUPUI, Ruth Bogin (PC), Jan Shipps (LAC)

1985       George Washington University, William H. Pease (PC), Constance Schultz (LAC)

1986       University of Tennessee, Carol Berkin (PC), Bruce Wheeler (LAC), Barbara Oberg (LAC)

1987       Temple University, James B. Stewart (PC), Herbert Ershkowitz (LAC)

1988       Worcester Tech/AAS, Bernard Freeman (PC)

1989       University of Virginia/Monticello, John Larson (PC), Daniel P. Jordon (LAC)

1990       York University, Kermit Hall (PC), Marc Engal (LAC)

1991       University of Wisconsin, Don Hickey (PC), John Kamanski (LAC)

1992       Gettysburg College, Johanna Nicol (PC), Shields Michael Birkner (LAC)

1993       University of North Carolina, Joan Cashin (PC), Harry Watson (LAC)

1994       Boston College, David Moltke-Hansen (PC), Alan Rogers (LAC)

1995       University of Cincinnati, Peter S. Onuf (PC), John K. Alexander (LAC)

1996       Vanderbilt University/Hermitage, Richard R. John (PC), Joyce Chaplin (LAC)

1997       Penn State University, Jan Lewis (PC), Anne C. Rose (LAC)

1998       Harper’s Ferry NHP, Jack Rakove (PC), Bruce J. Noble (LAC)

1999       Transylvania University, Stephen A. Aron (PC), Craig T. Friend (LAC)

2000       SUNY Buffalo, Joyce Chaplin (PC), Richard E. Ellis (LAC)

2001       Johns Hopkins University, Andrew Cayton (PC), Ron Walters (LAC), Mary Kupiec Cayton (PC)

2002       University of California, Berkeley, Patricia Cline Cohen (PC), Jacqueline Reinier (LAC)

2003       Ohio State University, Jeffrey L. Pasley (PC), John Brooke (LAC)

2004       Brown University, Herb Sloan (PC), Joanne Melish, Mike Vorenberg (LAC)

2005       SHEAR Philadelphia, Susan E. Klepp (PC), Dan Richter (LAC)

2006       University of Montreal, Cathy Kelly (PC), Matt Harrington (LAC), Francois Furstenberg (LAC)

2007       American Antiquarian Society, Jeanne Boydston (PC), John Hench (LAC), Jan Lewis (PC), Caroline Sloat (LAC)

2008       SHEAR Philadelphia, Nancy Isenberg (PC), Michelle McDonald (LAC)

2009       Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Jim Huston (PC), Ton Schwartz (LAC)

2010       Rochester Institute of Technology, Christopher Clark (PC), Richard Newman (LAC)

2011       SHEAR Philadelphia, John Larson (PC), Michelle McDonald (LAC)

2012       University of Baltimore, Amy Greenberg (PC), Tom Carney (LAC)

2013       St. Louis University, Stacey Roberston (PC), Lorri Glover (LAC)

2014       SHEAR Philadelphia, Charlene Boyer Lewis (PC), Michelle McDonald (LAC)

2015       NC State University, Seth Rockman (PC), Craig Friend (LAC)

2016       Yale University, Seth Cotlar and Carolyn Eastman (PC), Joanne Freeman and Edward Rugemer (LAC)

2017       SHEAR Philadelphia, Douglas Egerton and Leigh Fought (PC), Jessica Roney (LAC)

2018      John Carroll University, Lorri Glover and Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch (PC), Rodney Hessinger and Daniel Kilbride (LAC)

2019      Harvard Law School, Frank Cogliano and Sarah Pearsall, (PC), Katheryn P. Viens (LAC)

2021      Virtual SHEAR, Online. Emily Conroy-Krutz an Vanessa Holden (PC)

2022      SHEAR New Orleans, Christopher Bonner and Caitlin Fitz (PC), Jonathan Earle (LAC)

2023      SHEAR Philadelphia, Eliga Gould and Manisha Sinha (PC), Amy Baxter-Bellamy (LAC)