Office of Undergraduate Research
Professional Organizations: Humanities and Social Sciences
By Major
Also most disciplines offer a professional organization that focuses on education. Please see the discipline that applies to you for a list of education professional organizations.
Africana Studies
- Association for the study of Afro-American Life and History
- National Association for African American Studies
- National Council for Black Studies
- Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation
- African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Anthropology
- American Anthropological Association
- American Ethnological Society
- The High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology
- Popular Cultural Association
- American Cultural Resources Association
- Society for American Archaeology
- American Association for Physical Anthropologists
- Society for Applied Anthropology
Communication Studies
- National Communication Association
- International Communication Association
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Association for Business Communication
- International Association of Business Communicators
- Society for Technical Communication
- Public Relations Society of America
- International Association for Media and Communications research
- IEEE Professional Communication Society
Criminal Justice
- Colorado Criminal Justice Association
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- American Society of Criminology
- Justice Research and Statistics Association
Economics
- National Association of Economic Educators
- American Economic Association
- Association for Evolutionary Economics
- Association of Social Economics
- National Association for Business Economists
English
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American Comparative Literature Association
- American Literature Association
- Academy of American Poets
- PEN (Poets, Playwrights, essayists, editors, novelists)
- International Reading Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- Western Literature Association
- American Religion and Literature Society
Foreign Languages
- American Association for Applied Linguistics
- American council on Immersion Education
- American council on the Teaching of Foreign Language
- The Linguistic Society of America
- National Association for Bilingual Education
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- National Council on the Teaching of Less Commonly Taught Languages
- National Network for Early Language Learning
- Network of Business Language Educators
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Geography
- Association of American Geographers
- American Geographical Society
- National Geographic Society
- National Council for Geographic Education
History
- American Association for State and Local History
- American Historical Association
- World History Association
- Oral History Association
- Organization of American Historians
- American Association for Museums
Journalism
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications
- Society for Professional Journalists
- National Communication Association
- American Communication Association
Mexican American Studies
Philosophy
- American Philological Association
- American Philosophical Assocation
- American Philosophcal Practitioners Association
- Society for Women in Philosophy
Political Science
- American Political Science Association
- International Political Science Association
- Club de Madrid
- International Association for Political Science Students
- International Association of Centers for Federal Studies
Social Science
- National Council for the Social Studies
- Please see the particular emphasis: ie. Geography, political science, et al.
Sociology
- American Sociological Association
- International Sociological Association
- Rural Sociological Society
- Society for Applied and Clinical Sociology
- Society for the Study of Social Problems