Become a Member

Thank you for your interest in joining the Equine History Collective!

Your membership and support are greatly appreciated. We face general operating expenses to run the website and subscribe to software for back-end administration. We also seek to make tech upgrades to help the organization run smoothly and offer additional programming. Finally, we incur expenses to make our conferences the best they can be: catering, A/V, honoraria, travel grants, and more. Your membership will help us grow and prosper!  

To become a member now, visit https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/IOMqfhN15KLo-PKcABrLXA.

Members benefits include:  

  • Reduced conference admission
  • Voting rights
  • Members-only digital events
  • Eligibility for a #MemberMonday profile on the EHC website (click here for examples; formalized membership does not affect existing profiles)
  • A subscription to HippoCampus the EHC members quarterly magazine 

The membership levels are: 

  • $50 – Individual
  • $25 – Reduced – for students, the underemployed, and retired. If you have questions about your eligibility, please e-mail us at secretary[at]equinehistory[dot]org. 
  • $75 – Individual sponsor – Choose this option if you would like your EHC membership to include an additional donation that goes towards supporting EHC administrative software costs, technology upgrades, and conference expenses. 
  • $90 – Institutional- for instance, libraries, archives, museums, and breed organizations. Institutions will get one vote and two member-rate tickets for representatives to attend the annual conference. 

Membership lasts for a year from the date of payment. 

Note: Being included in the list of equine-history researchers on the EHC website does not require membership, and being a member does not require being publicly listed as a researcher. Use the contact page to request your listing.

You may pay by credit or debit card. The default payment system is Stripe; you will have the option to switch to PayPal, if preferred. Irrespective of the platform, the EHC does NOT store your payment information.