The 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are developing ocean history through their scholarship. Papers must be historical, but in recognition that many disciplines engage… Read More The 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement

CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and… Read More CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

Launched! The Inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is pleased to announce the winner of its inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize. The award aims to provide recognition and support for early career scholars who are developing ocean history through their scholarship. Papers must be historical, but in recognition that many disciplines engage… Read More Launched! The Inaugural Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History Winner Announcement

CFP Announcement: 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces its Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and support… Read More CFP Announcement: 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

Call for applications for the position of Vice-President of ICHO

The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) invites nominations, including self-nominations, to fill one of four Vice-President positions of the commission that has recently become vacant. ICHO is a global body devoted to linking scholars, writers, and teachers interested in the history of the ocean sciences, broadly defined. We are a commission of the International Union of History and… Read More Call for applications for the position of Vice-President of ICHO

ICHO at the History of Science Society Conference, November 2022

By Katherine Sinclair On November 17, 2022, in the ornate “Venetian Room” of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, historians of oceans and of oceanography gathered for the “Oceans in Depth: Knowledge, Resource, Representations” round table as occasional flakes of snow fell on the Lake Michigan beaches outside the window. Organized by Helen Rozwadowski and Katharine… Read More ICHO at the History of Science Society Conference, November 2022

Discovering the Deep Mediterranean Environment: A History of Science and Strategy, 1860-2020

The DEEPMED Project at the University of Sevilla (Spain), funded by an European Research Commission, is seeking one PhD candidate and one Postdoc under the supervision of Lino Camprubí. Few geographical spaces have been more relevant to human life and more intensively theorized than the Mediterranean Sea. Today, this sea poses some of the most… Read More Discovering the Deep Mediterranean Environment: A History of Science and Strategy, 1860-2020

/CFP/ Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea

The 2022 ASANOR (American Studies Association of Norway) Conference will be held at Nord University from September 29 to October 1. We welcome papers from a wide range of fields, including literature, history, political science, linguistics, and cultural studies, that explore the role of the sea in the American experience. From the Puritan pilgrims landing… Read More /CFP/ Appalling Ocean, Verdant Land: America and the Sea

Oceans & History: International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) Meet & Greet

April 30, 2021, 2:00 PM (EDT) ASEH will be hosting ICHO members and anyone interested in ocean history to gather to find out about ICHO, meet each other, and learn about each others’ work. The event will begin with a short presentation introducing ICHO, followed by two 15-minute break out groups of 4-5 people (think group speed… Read More Oceans & History: International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) Meet & Greet