American Historical Association

From the AHA Activities column of the March 2005 Perspectives

2005 Committee Structure

Council

• James J. Sheehan (Stanford Univ.), president
• Linda K. Kerber, (Univ. of Iowa), president-elect
• Jonathan D. Spence (Yale Univ.), immediate past president
• Anthony T. Grafton (Princeton Univ.), vice president, Professional Division
• Roy A. Rosenzweig (George Mason Univ.), vice president, Research Division
• Patrick Manning (Northeastern Univ.), vice president, Teaching Division
• Art Gomez (National Park Service)
• Kevin Reilly (Raritan Valley Community Coll.)
• Mrinalini Sinha (Penn State Univ.)
• Pamela H. Smith (Pomona Coll.)
• Quintard Taylor Jr. (Univ. of Washington)
• Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (Duke Univ.)

Professional Division

• Anthony T. Grafton, vice president
• Art Gomez, Council member
• Spencer Crew (National Underground Railroad Freedom Center)
• Mary Lindemann (Univ. of Miami)
• Denise J. Youngblood (Univ. of Vermont)

Research Division

• Roy A. Rosenzweig, vice president
• Pamela H. Smith, Council member
• Karen Ordahl Kupperman (New York Univ.)
• Robert C. Ritchie (The Huntington)
• Paula A. Sanders (Rice Univ.)

Teaching Division

• Patrick Manning, vice president
• Kevin Reilly, Council member
• Joan Arno (George Washington High Sch.)
• Emily Tai (Queensborough Community Coll., CUNY)
• Monica Tetzlaff (Indiana Univ. at South Bend)

Nominating Committee

• Kenneth L. Pomeranz (Univ. of California at Irvine), chair
• Antoinette Burton (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Olivia Remie Constable (Univ. of Notre Dame)
• Paula Findlen (Stanford Univ.)
• Neil Foley (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
• Dena Goodman (Univ. of Michigan)
• Michael Gonzales (Northern Illinois Univ.)
• David Northrup (Boston Coll.)
• Clarence Walker (Univ. of California at Davis)

Committee on Committees

• Linda K. Kerber, chair
• Julia Clancy-Smith (Univ. of Arizona)
• Peter F. Guardino (Indiana Univ.)
• Philippa J. A. Levine (Univ. of Southern California)
• Elaine Tyler May (Univ. of Minnesota)

Standing Committees

 

Committee on Affiliated Societies:

• Linda K. Kerber, chair
• Quintard Taylor Jr., Council member
• John Mears (Southern Methodist Univ.)
• Mary C. Wilson (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst)

 

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History:

• David Hollinger (Univ. of California at Berkeley), chair
• Richard Beeman (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
• Melvyn Leffler (Univ. of Virginia)
• James J. Sheehan, president
• Linda K. Kerber, president-elect

 

Committee on International Historical Activities:

• Dane Kennedy (George Washington Univ.), chair
• John Coatsworth (Harvard Univ.)
• Cary Fraser (Penn State Univ.)
• Sonya Michel (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
• Reba Soffer (California State Univ. at Northridge)

 

Committee on Minority Historians:

• Terence McIntosh (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair
• Donald Grinde (SUNY at Buffalo)
• Sandra Jowers (Howard Univ.)
• Keith Mayes (Univ. of Minnesota)
• George Sanchez (Univ. of Southern California)
• Samuel Yamashita (Pomona Coll.)

 

Committee on Women Historians:

• Jan Lewis (Rutgers Univ. at Newark), chair
• Daniela Blei (Stanford Univ.)
• James Green (Brown U.)
• Kathryn A. Jacob (Harvard Univ., Schlesinger Library/Radcliffe Institute)
• Leslie Peirce (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
• Annette Palmer (Morgan State Univ.)

 

Committee for Graduate Students:

• Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, chair
• Daniela Blei  
• Sandra Jowers 
• Brenna L. Lissoway (Arizona State Univ.)
• Aaron Marrs (Univ. of South Carolina)

 

Joint AHA-OAH Committee on Part-time and Adjunct Employment:

From the AHA

• Amy J. Kinsel (North Seattle Community Coll.), chair
• Lois Banner (Univ. of Southern California)
• Paula Gillett (San Jose State Univ.)
• Carolyn Roy (San Diego State Univ.)
• Nancy Woloch (Barnard Coll.)
• Anthony T. Grafton, Professional Division representative

From the OAH

• Robert W. Cherny (San Francisco State Univ.)
• Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia Univ.)
• Jeffrey Kolnick (Southwest State Univ.)
• Rusty Monhollon (Hood Coll.)
• Arlene Lazarowitz (California State Univ. at Long Beach)
• Elizabeth Nybakken (Old Dominion State Univ.)
• Howard Shorr (Portland Community Coll.)
• E. Howard Smead (Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County)
• Lee Formwalt (executive director, OAH), ex officio

Award Committees

 

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

• Suzanne Desan (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), chair
• Thomas Brady (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
• Caroline C. Ford (UCLA)
• John Gillis (Rutgers Univ.)
• Michael Metcalf (Univ. of Mississippi)

 

Committee on the AHA Prize in Atlantic History

• Eliga Gould (Univ. of New Hampshire), chair
• Allen Howard (Rutgers Univ.)
• Jose Moya (UCLA)

 

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize

• Sandi Cooper (Graduate Center, CUNY), chair
• Frank Costigliola (Univ. of Connecticut)
• William R. Keylor (Boston Univ.)
• Thomas A. Schwartz (Vanderbilt Univ.)
• Jeremi Suri (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

 

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award and John H. Dunning Prize

• Grace Hale (Univ. of Virginia), chair
• Paul Dorsal (Univ. of South Florida)
• Gunther Peck (Duke Univ.)
• Charles Walker (Univ. of California at Davis)
• Robert Wells (Union Coll.)

 

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize

• William Klingshirn (Catholic Univ. of America), chair
• Karl Friday (Univ. of Georgia)
• Sara Lipton (SUNY, Stony Brook)
• Warren Treadgold (Saint Louis Univ.)

 

Committee on the John Edwin Fagg Prize

• Timothy Coates (Coll. of Charleston), chair
• Carla Rahn Phillips (Univ. of Minnesota)
• William B. Taylor (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

 

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize

• Tani Barlow (Univ. of Washington), chair
• Susan Mann (Univ. of California at Davis)
• Frederick Dickinson (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
• Susan Naquin (Princeton Univ.)
• Peter Perdue (MIT)

 

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award:

• Rickie Solinger (independent scholar), chair
• Douglas Arnold (Washington, D.C.)
• James P. Niessen (Rutgers Univ.)
• Stafford Poole (Vincentian Studies Inst.)
• James C. Van Hook (U.S. Dept. of State)

 

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize

• James Cronin (Boston Coll.), chair
• Paul Halliday (Univ. of Virginia)
• John LaRocca (Xavier Univ.)
• Pamela Scully (Denison Univ.)
• Heather Sharkey (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

 

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award in Editorial Achievement

• Leila J. Rupp (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara), chair
• Daniel Kaiser (Grinnell Coll.)
• Susan Karant-Nunn (Univ. of Arizona)
• Barbara Oberg (Princeton Univ.)
• Gerhard L. Weinberg (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award:

• Ruth MacKay (independent scholar), chair
• David Bell (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
• Jessica Riskin (Stanford Univ.)
• Julius Ruff (Marquette Univ.)
• Londa Schiebinger (Stanford Univ.)

 

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize:

• Kathleen Brown (Univ. of Pennsylvania), chair
• Jean Allman (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Judith A. Degroat (St. Lawrence Univ.)
• Ruth Feldstein (Harvard Univ.)
• Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize:

• John Wunder (Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln), chair
• Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State Univ.)
• Anthony Freyer (Univ. of Alabama)
• Sarah Barringer Gordon (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
• Harry N. Scheiber (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

 

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize:

• Thomas Kselman (Notre Dame Univ.), chair
• Katrin Schultheiss (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)
• David Troyansky (Texas Tech Univ.)

 

Committee on the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize:

From the ACHA:

• Kenneth Gouwens (Univ. of Connecticut), chair

From the SIHS:

• David D. Roberts (Univ. of Georgia)

From the AHA:

• Charles Stinger (SUNY, Buffalo)

 

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize:

• Deborah Harkness (Univ. of California at Davis), chair
• Craig Koslofsky (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Jerry Muller (Catholic Univ. of America)

 

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize:

From the AHA:

• Eric Arneson (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), chair
• Charles Ambler (Univ. of Texas at El Paso)
• Christine Hunefeldt (Univ. of California, San Diego)

From the ASALH:

• V.P. Franklin (Columbia Univ.)
• Francille Rusan Wilson (Univ. of Maryland at College Park)

 

Committee on the John O'Connor Film Award:

• John Chambers (Rutgers Univ.), chair
• Donald F. Stevens (Drexel Univ.)
• Elizabeth Thompson (Univ. of Virginia)

 

Committee on the Nancy Roelker Mentorship Award:

• Joel Blatt (Univ. of Connecticut), chair
• William Benedicks (Tallahassee Community Coll.)
• Estelle Freedman (Stanford Univ.)
• Tom Laichas (Crossroads Sch.)
• Douglas Skopp (SUNY at Plattsburgh)

 

Committee on Teaching Prizes:

From the AHA:

• Carole Stanford Bucy (Volunteer State Community Coll.), chair
• Brad Austin (Salem State Coll.)
• Sharon Cohen (Springbrook High Sch.)
• Carl Pletsch (Univ. of Colorado at Denver)

From SHE:

• Troy Johnson (California State Univ. at Long Beach)

Grant and Fellowship Committees

 

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship:

• Pauline Maier (MIT), chair
• Matthew Guterl (Indiana Univ.)
• Susan Hartmann (Ohio State Univ.)
• Harry Watson (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Lisa Norling (Univ. of Minnesota)

 

Committee on the NASA Fellowship:

From the NCPH:

• Roger Launius (National Air and Space Museum), chair

From the AHA:

• Merritt Roe Smith (MIT)
• Daniel Kevles (Yale Univ.)

From SHOT:

• Peter Jakob (Smithsonian Inst., National Air and Space Museum)

From the HSS:

• Pamela Mack (Clemson Univ.)

From the OAH:

• Cheryl R. Ganz (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago)

From the EHA:

• Roger Ransom (Univ. of California at Northridge)

 

Committee on Research Grant Awards (U.S./Western Hemisphere grants):

• Sarah C. Chambers (Univ. of Minnesota), chair
• Elliott Barkan (California State Univ. at San Bernardino)
• Kimberly Porter (Univ. of North Dakota)

 

Committee on Research Grants Awards (Africa, Asia, and Europe Grants):

• Dennis Romano (Syracuse Univ.), chair
• Chun-Shu Chang (Univ. of Michigan)
• Kerry Ward (Rice Univ.)

Ad Hoc and Joint Committees

 

Committee on Master's Degrees in History:

• David Trask (Guilford Technical Community Coll.), chair
• Thomas Bender (New York Univ.)
• Fritz Fischer (Univ. of Northern Colorado)
• Patricia Mooney-Melvin (Loyola Univ. Chicago)
• Colin Palmer (Princeton Univ.)
• Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason Univ.)
• Carlton Wilson (North Carolina Central Univ.)
• Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY)

 

Program Committee, 2006:

• Celia Applegate (Univ. of Rochester), chair
• Kären Wigen (Stanford Univ.), co-chair
• Gary Gerstle (Univ. of Maryland at College Park)
• Dena Goodman (Univ. of Michigan)
• Claudio Lomnitz (Univ. of Chicago)
• Nancy McTygue (Univ. of California at Davis)
• Patricia Ann Palmieri (Fashion Inst. of Technology)
• Patricia Pelley (Texas Tech Univ.)
• Stephen Rapp (Georgia State Univ.)
• Ray Smock (Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies)
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Indiana Univ.)

 

Program Committee, 2007:

• Barbara Y. Welke (Univ. of Minnesota), chair
•  co-chair to be appointed

 

Task Force on Intellectual Property:

• Stanley Katz (Princeton Univ.), chair
• Fred Cate (Indiana Univ.)
• Michael Grossberg (Indiana Univ.)
• James Grossman (Newberry Library)
• Mark Kornbluh (Michigan State Univ.)
• Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State Univ.)
• Page Putnam Miller (Univ. of South Carolina)

Delegates

 

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation:

• Wm. Roger Louis (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

 

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies:

• Donald Raleigh (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

American Council of Learned Societies:

• Charles Maier (Harvard Univ.)

 

Canadian Historical Association:

• Scott See (Univ. of Maine)

 

Consortium of Social Science Associations:

• Lynn Hollen Lees (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

 

Friends of the German Institute:

• Isabel V. Hull (Cornell Univ.)
• Dane Kennedy (George Washington Univ.)

 

Holmes Devise:

• Maeva Marcus (Supreme Court Historical Society)

 

International Committee of Historical Sciences:

• Dane Kennedy (George Washington Univ.)

 

National Historical Publications and Records Commission:

• Stanley Katz (Princeton Univ.)

 

National History Center Planning Committee:

• Wm. Roger Louis

 

Social Science Research Council:

• Frederick Cooper (Univ. of Michigan)

AHA Executive Director Arnita A. Jones is an ex officio member of all the committees.

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