Graduate and Early Career Committee

Established in May 1995 as the Task force on Graduate Education, re-authorized for an additional three-year term in May 1999, made permanent in January 2002 as Committee for Graduate Students, renamed the Graduate and Early Career Committee in 2008. (5 members)

Chair is the Council representative for graduate students. The committee is composed of representatives from the Council, the Professional Division, the Committee on Minority Historians, Committee on Women Historians, the Committee on Graduate Education, and two at-large graduate student appointments, made by the Committee on Committees.

The Graduate and Early Career Committee provides a voice within the Association for graduate students and historians early in their careers, and serves as a venue to discuss issues of concern and interest to students and early career professionals. The Mission of the Committee is to:

1. To serve as the point of contact for graduate student members in order to articulate their concerns and interests to the larger membership and governing bodies of the AHA.

2. To advocate for inclusion of graduate students as vital participants in debates concerning the course of the profession and the practice of history.

3. To support the rights of graduate student teachers who seek to improve the circumstances of their work environment at their respective institutions.

4. To work with other committees and divisions of the AHA to facilitate their understanding of the changing needs of graduate students and to help them and individual departments in an advisory capacity to carry out initiatives that directly or indirectly affect graduate education.

Previous and On-Going Responsibilities include: recruiting graduate students members in the AHA, as a means to adequately represent graduate students and to instill professionalism; organizing sessions on topics of concern to graduate students and sponsoring a Graduate Student Forum and reception at the AHA annual meeting; and surveying AHA graduate members and presenting concerns of graduate students to the Council and divisions of the AHA.

Assignment to Division: None. Reports on its work directly to the Council.

Officers, 2009

  • Elise S. Lipkowitz (Northwestern Univ.), co- chair
  • Ryan Linkof, (Univ. of Southern California), co- chair
  • Katherine Hijar, CWH representative
  • Douglas Kiel, CMH representative
  • Aaron Marrs (U.S. Department of State)
  • Aleah Soine (Univ. of Minnesota)

 

Staff

  • Noralee Frankel, Assistant Director

Resources

 

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Last Updated: February 3, 2009 2:18 PM