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2026 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology
January 7-10, 2026

Detroit, Michigan

SHA 2026 Call for Paper

Call for Papers opens May 1, 2025.

The submission deadline for the 2026 Call for Papers has been extended to July 15, 2025.

 

Conference Code of Conduct

SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE CODE OF CONDUCT

PREAMBLE

The Society for Historical Archaeology is committed to providing a safe, respectful environment for all attendees at its conferences.  To that end, the SHA will work to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or any other category.  The SHA will not tolerate harassment in any form at any SHA-sponsored events.  This policy applies to all SHA members and non-members who participate in an SHA activity.

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLES OF IMPERMISSIBLE CONDUCT

Harassment includes offensive comments or behavior related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion, technology choices, sexual images in public space, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.  Outside of research presentations that include specific considerations of sexuality or sexual representations in the past, sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, social media and other online media.

Harassment under this Policy refers to any behavior by an individual or group that contributes to a hostile, intimidating and/or unwelcoming environment.  Such conduct is harmful, disrespectful, and unprofessional. 

OBLIGATION

All participants and attendees at the conference accept the obligation to treat everyone with respect and civility and to uphold the rights of all participants and attendees, including SHA staff, temporary staff, contractors, volunteers and hotel staff, to be free from harassment.

Attendees are bound by the SHA Ethics Principles, the SHA Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Policy, and this Conference Code of Conduct.  Attendees should also be aware that they are also bound by the codes of conduct at their home institution(s).  This policy, which is consistent with the professional ethics statement of the SHA, does not supersede institutional codes but is intended to reinforce their message.

By obtaining SHA membership, registering to present or attend SHA meetings, members and participants commit to maintaining respectful and ethical relationships in accordance with this policy.  The SHA reserves the right to remove an individual violating this policy from the SHA annual conference without warning or refund and prohibit attendance at future SHA conferences and/or activities.

Should the SHA have concerns regarding an individual’s attendance at its conference creating a safety issue, the SHA can bar the individual from registering and attending the conference. In the case of proven violations that took place prior to the annual meeting and that have been reported and documented prior to pre-registration, proven harassers/assailants will be barred from participation.  Late and on-site registrations will be rescinded immediately should information be received documenting a proven violation.  The SHA will not conduct its own investigation but will accept the investigations of law enforcement agencies, RPA, universities, EEOC and employers.  Documented harassers/assailants should be identified to SHA staff or leadership by survivors or other reporters as early as possible.  Identification with documentation of adjudication needs to be provided to bar participation in SHA events. 

REPORTING AT THE CONFERENCE

Conference attendees, who experience or witness harassment as defined by this policy, or who are aware that a conference participant is currently or has been sanctioned for assault or harassment by an adjudicating body and can provide documentation of the outcome, are encouraged to contact one of the following:

  1. SHA Executive Director directly at 240-753-4397;
  2. A member of the SHA Board of Directors ; or
  3. A member SHA Code of Conduct Committee, whose name and contact information are listed at the end of this document.

These individuals will provide appropriate support to those who witnessed or who have experienced harassment or feel unsafe for any reason at the conference.  The Executive Director or a member of the SHA Code of Conduct Committee will advise on the formal complaints process and, if requested, forward complaints to the full SHA Code of Conduct Committee for resolution. 

Formal complaints should be as specific as possible about how alleged behavior constitutes harassment, as defined in this SHA policy.   Any report received will remain confidential to the maximum extent possible when the SHA Code of Conduct Committee considers and investigates the complaint. 

Conference Committee
Conference Co-Chairs
Krysta Ryzewski
Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Wayne State University 
 
John M. Chenoweth
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn
 
Program Chair
Lynn Evans
Curator of Archaeology, Mackinac State Historic Parks, Michigan

Program Chair – Terrestrial
Rebecca Graff
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lake Forest College
 
Program Chair – Underwater
Wayne Lusardi
State Maritime Archaeologist of Michigan
 
Co-Chair – Underwater
Madeline Roth
Maritime Archaeologist/PhD Candidate, East Carolina University
 
Local Events Chair
Amy Krull
Federal Projects Archaeologist, Michigan State Historic Preservation Office
 
Workshop and Roundtable Luncheon Director
Jade Luiz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Metropolitan State University of Denver
 
Volunteer Coordinators
Samantha Ellens
Archaeology Collections Manager, Michigan State University Museum
 
Sarah Pounders
Preservation Associate, Preservation Detroit
 
Social Media Coordinator
Nathan Nietering
Project Coordinator, Michigan State Historic Preservation Office

Call for Paper

Download the SHA 2026 Call for Paper

There are two important options for the 2025 Conference, as follows:

  1. OPEN vs. CLOSED SYMPOSIA. Symposium organizers can choose whether their session is “open” to additional presenters in the session or “closed” to additional presenters. Organizers will need to indicate this when they submit their session. For OPEN symposia, the title, abstract and organizer contact information will be posted to the SHA Conference page at https://sha.org/conferences/. Individuals interested in submitting their paper to a particular “open” symposium must contact the organizer to request permission to submit to the session prior to submitting their abstract. The Conference Program Committee may also assign relevant general submissions to an open symposium, subject to the approval of the organizers. For CLOSED symposia, only presenters identified by the organizer at the time the session abstract is submitted will present in that session.
  2. IN-PERSON vs. PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATION. You will be asked to indicate whether you will be presenting your paper/session in person at the conference in Detroit or whether you wish to pre-record your paper/session and have it uploaded to a website platform for viewing by conference registrants. All forum and poster presentations must be in-person. It is at the discretion of a symposium organizer or general submission paper author as to whether their contribution is pre-recorded or in-person, but there will be no mixing and matching of formats within a session. This means that all papers in an in-person symposium must be presented by an individual in Detroit; no pre-recorded presentations will be permitted for in-person symposia (or vice versa). All pre-recorded papers and sessions will be included in the conference program.

Submit your abstract at: www.conftool.com/sha2026

For questions on the Call for Papers, contact the 2026 Program Chairs at shaDetroit2026@hotmail.com

Open Symposia

Symposium organizers can now choose whether their symposium is closed or open to other submissions. If a session is designated as ‘open’ by the symposium organizer, then other authors can submit individual papers to that session once approval has been given by the symposium organizer; the 2026 Program Committee may also direct appropriate papers to the session. Additional papers will be subject to approval by the symposium organizer. Please contact the symposium organizer directly by email before submitting your abstract to an open symposium.

Title: Mobility in French America
Organizers: Andrew R. Beaupre andrew.beaupre@maine.gov,  Erika K. Hartley erika.k.loveland@wmich.edu

Abstract: During the exploration and colonization of the New World, the theme of “mobility” can be recognized across the Americas. The French navigated vast territories and diverse social settings, where resourcefulness and adaptability contributed to their survival and success. Landscapes, material culture, and identities were often manipulated and transformed, resulting in social impacts on the French and Indigenous peoples that lasted beyond the colonial era and can be seen today. Participants are invited to discuss their colonial research with an emphasis on mobile aspects recognized in the archaeological record.

Title: Hearts in Transit: Emotional Journeys in Historical Archaeology
Organizers: Tania Casimiro tania.casimiro@gmail.com, Susana Pacheco susanalfsdpacheco@hotmail.com

Abstract: This session explores the emotional dimensions of mobility in historical archaeology. While movement across landscapes, borders, or social roles is a core theme in archaeology, its emotional aspects are often overlooked. How did people feel when they moved? What material traces reflect emotions like longing, grief, relief, or hope? We invite papers that engage with the affective experiences of mobility: migration, forced displacement, travel, exile, and return. Topics may include emotional attachments to place, identity in motion, memory and mourning, or the sensory and material expressions of emotional resilience. By focusing on emotional mobility, this session seeks to explore understandings of past lives and mobilities, and to explore new ways to interpret the entanglement of movement, material culture, and affect.

Title: Digital Historical Archaeological Data
Organizer: Paulina F. Przystupa ciszka@opencontext.org

Abstract: This session will explore the diverse digital data literacies of historical archaeological research. Digital data increasingly inform how people understand the stories, histories, and lived experience of the past. In recent years, historical archaeologists have developed a wide variety of technological and data-oriented projects to better understand the past and steward existing historical archaeological collections. However, to make these data more democratic, accountable, and available, historical archaeologists need to make these resources more accessible. By discussing these data, and how to educate with them, this session will demonstrate how research of the historical period provides a unique opportunity to develop critical archaeological data literacy skills. The papers in this session, which explore topics such as open source mapping and community engagement with cultural heritage data, aim to demonstrate how we can create greater data literacy for the benefit of historical archaeology now and in the future.

Title: The Potteries: The Heritage, Archaeology, and History of Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire Ceramics Industry
Organizer: Alasdair Brooks alasdair.brooks@re-form.org

Abstract: The city of Stoke-on-Trent was the centre of the British ceramics industry from the second half of the 18th century into the 20th century. The pottery produced in Stoke was traded and consumed globally, and has had a global impact on the archaeological record. This session explores recent studies on the archaeology, built heritage, and museum collections of Stoke-on-Trent, while also offering the opportunity to link to the impact of that industry on other parts of the world, particularly North America. The happy coincidence that the 2026 SHA conference takes place in another post-industrial city deeply impacted by its traditional industry, while 2025 marked the centenary of Stoke-on-Trent achieving city status, offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on the significance of Stoke’s heritage and archaeology in the UK and further afield.

Title: Revisiting the Archaeology of Borders
Organizers: Misty M. Jackson mjackson@arbrecroche.com, Mark Howe mlhowe1@hotmail.com

Abstract: In 2009 the SHA’s conference in Toronto explored the theme “The Ties that Divide: Trade, Conflict, and Borders.” Given Detroit’s geographical position, this symposium seeks to revisit the theme of borders while also exploring the 2026 conference theme of mobility across them. Theory on borders has been increasingly explored since the late twentieth century, and current political events continue to bring attention globally to boundaries between nations. The symposium welcomes a broad range of contributions that examine any aspect of borders and frontiers, past and present. Topics may range from international political challenges as they relate to or are evidenced in the archaeological record including but not limited to sites such as forts and issues of cultural patrimony including implications of NAGPRA across political borders.

Title: Spotlight on Graduate Student Research: Symposium Sponsored by the ACUA
Organizers: River Rivera michaelarivera@tamu.edu, Christina Guidici cguidici@uwm.edu

Abstract: In lieu of a panel, this year, the ACUA Graduate Student Associates have decided to chair an open symposium focusing on Graduate Student research. This offers the opportunity for students to have a spotlight on their research without having to fit within the confines of a specific session. These bodies of work come from various archaeological periods and from various regions around the world focusing on any aspect of maritime or underwater archaeology. Participants must present their papers in person.

Title: Investigations of 15th-16th century Shipwrecks in the Americas
Organizers: Charles Beeker cbeeker@iu.edu, Sarah Muckerheide smmucker@iu.edu

Abstract: The 15th and 16th centuries marked transformative periods in maritime history, defined by European exploration and the development of transoceanic trade routes. The Americas became a focal point of these voyages, with numerous ships meeting their end along its coasts and waters. Despite archival evidence documenting hundreds of transatlantic journeys, fewer than twenty shipwreck sites from this era have been conclusively identified in the Americas. These shipwrecks offer invaluable insights into maritime technologies, colonial interactions, and the emergence of global trade networks. This session explores ongoing studies of these shipwrecks, emphasizing their significance in understanding the complex interplay of exploration, exploitation, and cultural exchange that shaped the early modern world.

Title: Recent Findings in Maritime and Terrestrial Archaeology of WWII in the Pacific
Organizers: Lucas S. Simonds lsimonds@iaoceania.com, Matthew F. Napolitano mnapolitano@iaoceania.com

Abstract: World War II has long been a focus of archaeologists working in the Pacific, whether searching for the remains of missing service members, studying battlefield landscapes, seeking sunken vessels, or interpreting the formation processes of sites damaged by the conflict. This work continues, bringing proven strategies to uninvestigated areas and testing novel methods to yield new data from known sites. This symposium brings together papers from recent terrestrial and underwater investigations around the Pacific islands to discuss the latest contributions this archaeological record. These papers cover a variety of locations from the Solomon Islands to the Marianas and in between, as well as differing research orientations, including missions for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, compliance-driven surveys, and academic projects. Results of these projects improve our understanding of the most significant conflict in this region and set the stage for future work to deepen our knowledge and expand in new directions.

Title: 250 Years of U.S. Navy History Through the Lens of Maritime Archaeology
Organizers: Alexis Catsambis alexis.catsambis.civ@us.navy.mil, George Schwarz george.r.schwarz2.civ@us.navy.mil

Abstract: The Continental Navy was established on October 13, 1775 marking this year as the U.S. Navy’s semiquincentennial. Over the last 250 years, the Navy has transitioned from a small sailing force, through the age of steam and ironclads, to nuclear powered submarines and aircraft flown from aircraft carriers. Each key age, transition, evolution, and development is reflected in the material culture it left behind; an assemblage that encompasses nearly 3,000 shipwrecks and over 20,000 aircraft wrecks located across the globe. This session is dedicated to case studies associated with the management, research, preservation and interpretation of sunken military craft spanning the U.S. Navy’s history.

Title: The Conservation of Materials from Underwater Sites
Organizer: Chris Dostal dostalc@tamu.edu

Abstract: The conservation of archaeological materials from submerged sites brings in unique challenges not present in terrestrial archaeological conservation. Storage, pre-treatment, conservation strategies, and curation strategies all have to be tailored to contend with the way different materials degrade in water. Significant strides have been made in recent decades to overcome several of the more serious issues that have plagued conservators, but there are plenty of new challenges ahead, especially as more modern materials begin to fall into the archaeological record. This session is a broad forum to highlight recent developments in methodological approaches, some of the challenges facing conservators, and interesting case studies related to the conservation of archaeological materials from underwater sites.

Title: Doomed to Repeat?: Excavating Contemporary Issues in 20th Century Contexts
Organizer: Katrina C. L. Eichner, katrinae@uidaho.edu

Abstract: The historian’s burden is knowing that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” A battleground for competing visions of justice, identity, and belonging in the United States, the 20thcentury remains an understudied period within historical archaeology. As we are confronted with social, economic, and political unrest in 2025, scholars who study the 20th century are well aware of how their research can – and has – been shaped by and contributes to today’s political debates. This session brings together research that’s highlights the historical roots of our contemporary institutions, while also illustrating how history is shaped by the intellectual climate of our own time. Through case studies focused on 20th century sites, we will cover hot-button topics such as, but not limited to: public health campaigns, systemic racism, immigration policy, welfare reform, urban renewal, labor movements, sexual liberation, and the evolution of public education.
 
Title: Landscapes of Movement: Research Contributions from the Northeastern U.S.
Organizer: Holly Herbster hherbster@palinc.com
 
Abstract: This session highlights recent CRM research in New England and the Northeast that examines the home and work spaces of individuals engaged in local and long-distance exchange networks. The papers investigate how mobility shaped and was shaped by interactions across physical, cultural, technological, and economic landscapes. Key themes include patterns of colonial migration and settlement, dynamics of Euro-Native American cultural exchange, and the development of local industries and production. The examination of sites of domesticity, labor, communal activity, and commerce provide an opportunity to understand the movement of ideas, materials, and technology over nearly four centuries. Collectively, these studies offer new insights into how people moved within and transformed their environments.

Title: Predicaments and Progress in Public Archaeology
Organizers: Sara Ayers-Rigsby sayersrigsby@fau.edu, Audrey Andrews audreyandrews@unr.edu
 
Abstract: This session explores dilemmas faced in public archaeology, as well as how public archaeologists find success in the face of obstacles. Today, public archaeologists face barriers ranging from practical to profound. What challenges are public archaeologists facing today? How are public archaeologists remaining resilient? We invite papers that explore both problems and solutions. Presenters may discuss longstanding hurdles like safety and transportation, as well as acute threats such as Trump administration funding cuts and job loss. Through inviting conversations about predicaments and progress in public archaeology, we aim to foster comradery and flexibility amidst a challenging era.
 
Title: Stories from the Shelves: Novel Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes
Organizer: Eric A. Rodriguez-Delgado earodrig@ucsd.edu
 
Abstract: From the continental shelves to inland lakefronts, submerged and coastal landscapes hold interwoven stories of past lifeways, environmental shifts, and contested futures. Yet, recovering stories from these complex spaces is a difficult task as their study requires archaeologists to employ a variety of methodological strategies, interdisciplinary thinking, and community perspectives specific to each context. Oftentimes, these endeavors produce unique archaeological narratives and frameworks —both theoretical and methodological—that contribute to the broader study of submerged and coastal landscapes. This session invites contributions from a myriad of geographical regions and temporalities that highlight their innovative approaches and recovered stories to investigating these dynamic spaces.

Title: Understanding the Overseer
Organizer: Terry P. Brock brockt@wfu.edu

 
Abstract: Over the past 40 years, archaeologists have conducted extensive archaeological research at plantation sites throughout the Americas. This work has explored the lives of enslavers and the people they enslaved, ranging from excavations of manor houses, outbuildings, formal gardens, dwellings of enslaved people, and the spaces in between. However, few archaeologists have looked at the lives of the overseer, despite their near ubiquitous role in plantation society, and an integral component as a part of the social, economic, and racial hierarchy that supported the institution of slavery. This symposium will bring together papers discussing material analyses of the plantation overseer, with papers that address questions about both the overseer’s role on the plantation, the way they navigated their position, and how material culture reflects the identities of themselves and their families.

Title: Mobility, Borderlands, and the Commons: Archaeological Perspectives
Organizers: Jodi Barnes barnesj@dnr.sc.gov, Kendy Altizer kendy.altizer@ung.edu

 
Abstract: This session examines mobility, borderlands, and the commons from the peripheries of cities to the margins of plantation landscapes. Building upon the multiple layers of conceptual meanings, the authors use multi-scalar perspectives to understand the ways Indigenous, African, and Europeans negotiated colonial, antebellum, and postbellum worlds at sites ranging from an eighteenth-century gunsmith site to remote plantation settlements. The authors in this session explore the ways Black and Indigenous communities renegotiated the terrain of radical exploitation and totalizing social control envisioned by enslavers and European settlers to create spaces on the peripheries and moved across the interstices of plantation ecologies and urban localities.
 
Title: Storied Landscapes: Co-Producing Meaningful Knowledge about Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Organizers: Ian Kuijt ian.kuijt.1@nd.edu, Meredith S. Chesson Meredith.Chesson.3@nd.edu
 
Abstract: Humans are storytellers. The narratives and experiences, framed around memories, places and spaces, often nurture profoundly salient lessons. As archaeologists and heritage practitioners, we need to be listeners, learners, storytellers, and co-narrators, in the goal of documenting rich human lived experiences. Drawing upon archaeology, oral history, and visual anthropology, participants in this session discuss the challenges, best practices, and community-driven approaches they have adopted that enhance and complement more traditional archaeological knowledge production about people and their worlds. Papers will explore different methodological pathways for learning and telling stories with an emphasis on lived experience, memories, emotions, and the complexities of intertwined material and immaterial heritage and practices. This session gathers together diverse geographical, thematic, and methodological case studies in order to facilitate a dynamic discussion of community-serving, non-extractive, research projects in which archaeology and community partners make knowledge production meaningful.

Title: Artifacts are Enough: Interpretative Approaches to Historic Material Culture
Organizer: Richard Veit rveit@monmouth.edu

Abstract: Artifacts are basic building blocks of archaeological interpretations. This session celebrates the artifact, whether individually or as part of larger assemblages. Innovative approaches to artifact analysis are explored from high-tech analytical studies to humanistic contextual interpretations. Archaeologists in the 1960s and 1970s increasingly eschewed artifact studies as they focused on hypothesis testing and the search for cultural laws. This session recenters the artifact as central to archaeology.

 
Title: Unburying Black Towns: Archaeologies of Black Freedom, Erasure, Mobility Across North America
Organizer: Alicia D. Odewale dig2rewrite@gmail.com
 
Abstract: This symposium contributes to a growing body of archaeological research centering Black towns as sites of freedom, mobility, refuge, and prosperity across North America. Before slavery ended in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Black people moved across thousands of miles to escape violence and build communities of care. From early towns like Fort Mose and Pocahontas Island to Africville and Amber Valley, this session explores how Black families created interconnected spaces of safety, survival, and dream-building. Drawing on artifacts, oral histories, archival records, and cultural landscapes, presenters highlight the archaeology of Black freedom colonies across the continent. Even when these towns and settlements are no longer visible—or erased from maps and archives—they leave behind traces that resist forgetting. By reconnecting these places across regions and borders, this session affirms the power of archaeology to challenge erasure and center Black mobility, prosperity, and memory in shaping the future of African Diaspora archaeology.

Conference Venue and Hotel Information

All conference sessions will be held at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center at 400 Renaissance Drive. The riverfront hotel welcomes you with a contemporary design, a newly renovated modern lobby, and the Fuell restaurant. The 73-story conference hotel offers rooms with spectacular views of the city, Detroit River, and Canada. SHA has reserved a limited number of rooms for the conference at a rate of US$180 per night (plus state and local taxes – 15%) for single or double occupancy. Subject to the availability of rooms in the SHA block, this rate will be available from Monday, 5 January through Sunday, 11 January 2026, and will expire if not booked before 15 December 2025. Please note that any changes in departure date made after check-in may result in an early departure fee.

 
Reserve your room at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center:
https://book.passkey.com/go/SHAAnnualConference
 
Guests may park in Beaubien Garage, which offers in-and-out privileges to hotel guests for a flat rate of $25 per day and can be charged to guestrooms. Valet parking is also available for $30 daily/$40 overnight.

Check-In: Check-in time is 4:00 PM, and check-out time is 11:00 AM. For contactless arrival, use Mobile Check-In and Mobile Key through the Marriott Bonvoy app if you’re a Bonvoy member.

Food & Beverage: The hotel restaurant and bar, Fuell, is currently open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Motor City Pantry opens daily from 6:00 AM – midnight and offers grab-and-go options. Illy Cafe is currently open daily from 6:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

Housekeeping: The hotel has resumed providing daily stayover housekeeping service. If you need extra towels or any additional amenities, they are available at the front desk for pick-up, or you may dial “0” from any house phone to request these items be delivered to your hotel room.

Wi-Fi: $14.95 a day. Complimentary Basic Internet in guest rooms with individual Bonvoy membership. You can join by using this link:  http://www.joinmarriottbonvoy.com/DTWDT

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival. Please note that we will assess a one-night fee if you cancel after the deadline.

Sponsorship

The support of our conference sponsors is vitally important to the success of the SHA annual conference, allowing us to keep conference registration affordable and encourage maximum participation.  With several sponsorship levels and activities, you can tailor your sponsorship in a variety of ways, and if you have other sponsorship ideas, we’d love to discuss them with you.  If you have an idea, please contact SHA Headquarters (hq@sha.org) to start the discussions.

Download the SHA 2026 Sponsorship Form.

Book Room Exhibitor Prospectus

The SHA 2026 Conference will feature a Book Room with exhibits of products, services, and publications from companies and other organizations in the archaeological community. The SHA welcomes exhibitors, who share its mission and agree with its Ethics Principles, the SHA Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Policy, and its Conference Code of Conduct, at the 2026 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, January 7-10, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.

Download the 2026 SHA Conference Exhibitor Prospectus here.

Conference Venue and Hotel Information
 
All conference sessions will be held at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center at 400 Renaissance Drive. The riverfront hotel welcomes you with a contemporary design, a newly renovated modern lobby, and the Fuell restaurant. The 73-story conference hotel offers rooms with spectacular views of the city, Detroit River, and Canada. SHA has reserved a limited number of rooms for the conference at a rate of US$180 per night (plus state and local taxes – 15%) for single or double occupancy. Subject to the availability of rooms in the SHA block, this rate will be available from Monday, 5 January through Sunday, 11 January 2026, and will expire if not booked before 15 December 2025. Please note that any changes in departure date made after check-in may result in an early departure fee.
 
Reserve your room at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center:
https://book.passkey.com/go/SHAAnnualConference
 
Guests may park in Beaubien Garage, which offers in-and-out privileges to hotel guests for a flat rate of $25 per day and can be charged to guestrooms. Valet parking is also available for $30 daily/$40 overnight.

Check-In: Check-in time is 4:00 PM, and check-out time is 11:00 AM. For contactless arrival, use Mobile Check-In and Mobile Key through the Marriott Bonvoy app if you’re a Bonvoy member.

Food & Beverage: The hotel restaurant and bar, Fuell, is currently open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Motor City Pantry opens daily from 6:00 AM – midnight and offers grab-and-go options. Illy Cafe is currently open daily from 6:00 AM – 1:00 PM.

Housekeeping: The hotel has resumed providing daily stayover housekeeping service. If you need extra towels or any additional amenities, they are available at the front desk for pick-up, or you may dial “0” from any house phone to request these items be delivered to your hotel room.

Wi-Fi: $14.95 a day. Complimentary Basic Internet in guest rooms with individual Bonvoy membership. You can join by using this link:  http://www.joinmarriottbonvoy.com/DTWDT

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival. Please note that we will assess a one-night fee if you cancel after the deadline.