Prize and Award Committees

Book Prize Committees, 2008

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

  • Caroline C. Ford (UCLA), chair
  • George Behlmer (Univ. of Washington)
  • Carole B. Levin (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)
  • H. Glenn Penny (Univ. of Iowa)
  • Hugh Thomas (Univ. of Miami)

 

Committee on The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History

  • Carole Shammas (Univ. of Southern California), chair
  • Mia Bay (Rutgers Univ. at New Brunswick)
  • Larry Hudson (Univ. of Rochester)

 

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize

  • Ann Goldberg (Univ. of California, Riverside), chair
  • Susan Brewer (Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)
  • Joel Colton (Duke Univ.)
  • Peter Fritzche (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Konrad Jarausch (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

 

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

  • Nancy Shoemaker (Univ. of Connecticut), chair
  • Eileen Findlay (American Univ.)
  • Ann Marie Plane (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Claire Potter (Wesleyan Univ.)
  • Julian Zelizer (Princeton Univ.)

 

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize

  • David N. Gibbs (Univ. of Arizona) , chair
  • Nicholas Sarantakes (U.S. Army Command & General Staff Coll.)
  • Heather E. Streets (Washington State Univ.)

 

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize

  • Lynda L. Coon (Univ. of Arkansas), chair
  • Clifford Ando (Univ. of Southern California)
  • Valerie French (American Univ.)

 

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize

    AHA Representatives

    • William Henry Foster III (Homerton College, Cambridge), chair
    • William Katerberg (Calvin College)

    CHA Representatives

    • Andrew M. Johnston (Carleton University)
    • Reginald C. Stuart (Mount Saint-Vincent University)

 

Committee on the John Edwin Fagg Prize

  • Dain Borges (Univ. of Chicago), chair
  • Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
  • Robert Whealey (Ohio Univ.)

 

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize

  • Barbara Molony (Santa Clara Univ.), chair
  • Mark P. Bradley (Univ. of Chicago)
  • Linda Cook Johnson (Michigan State Univ.)
  • Karl Gerth (Merton Coll., Oxford Univ.)
  • Wesley Sasaki-Uemura (Univ. of Utah)

 

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award

  • Rebecca Conard (Middle Tennessee State Univ.), chair
  • John Fox (U.S. National Park Service)
  • Cathy Gorn (National History Day)
  • Douglas Greenberg (Shoah Foundation)
  • Marla R. Miller (Univ. of Massachusettsat Amherst )

 

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize

  • James A. Epstein (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair
  • Jordana Bailkin (Univ. of Washington)
  • Eric Carlson (Gustavus Adolphus Coll.)
  • Jeffrey L. Cox (Univ. of Iowa)
  • Cynthia Herrup (Univ. of Southern California)

 

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award

  • John Hurt (Univ. of Delaware), chair
  • Paul Friedland (Bowdoin Coll.)
  • John Marshall (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
  • Susan Peabody (Washington State Univ.)
  • Linda Pollock (Tulane Univ.)

 

Committee on the Clarence Haring Prize

  • Linda Hall (Univ. of New Mexico), chair
  • Cheryl E. Martin (Univ. of Texas at El Paso)
  • Peter H. Sigal (Duke Univ.)
  • Hendrick Kraay (Univ. of Calgary)
  • Ada Ferrer (New York Univ.)

 

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize

  • Ellen Dubois (UCLA), chair
  • Sandy Bardsley (Moravian College)
  • Kirsten Childers (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  • Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore Coll.)
  • Kristen Fischer (Univ. of Minnesota)

 

Committee on the Waldo G. Leland Prize

  • Malcolm J. Rohrbough (Univ. of Iowa), chair
  • Erick D. Langer (Georgetown Univ.)
  • Steven A. Colston (San Diego State Univ.)
  • Alison D. Sandman (James Madison Univ.)
  • Allida M. Black (George Washington Univ.)

 

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize

  • Ariela J. Gross (Univ. of Southern California), chair
  • Robert J. Cottrol (George Washington Univ.)
  • Hendrik Hartog (Princeton Univ.)
  • Thomas Mackey (Univ. of Louisville)
  • David Stebenne (Ohio State Univ.)

 

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize

  • Victoria Thompson (Arizona State Univ.), chair
  • Sarah Hanley (Univ. of Iowa)
  • Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard Univ.)

 

Committee on the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize

    From the AHA:

    • Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State Univ.)

    From the ACHA:

    • Kenneth Gouwens (Univ. of Connecticut), chair

    From the SIHS:

    • Spencer di Scala (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston)

     

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize

  • Mary Louise Roberts (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), chair
  • Jeffrey Brooks (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
  • Pieter Judson (Swarthmore Coll.)

 

Committee on the Premio Del Rey Prize

  • Richard L. Kagan (Johns Hopkins Univ.), chair
  • Ida L. Altman (Univ. of Florida)
  • Brian Catlos (Univ of California at Santa Cruz)
  • Mark Meyerson (Univ. of Toronto)
  • David Nirenberg (Univ. of Chicago)

 

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize

  • Geraldine H. Forbes (SUNY-Oswego), chair
  • David R. Kobrin (Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science and Technology)
  • David Pace (Indiana Univ.)
  • Holly Shulman (Univ. of Virginia)
  • Julie Winch (Univ. of Massachusetts at Boston)

 

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize

    From the AHA:

    • Laurent Dubois (Duke Univ.)
    • Lisa A. Lindsay (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    • Stephanie Shaw (Ohio State Univ.)

    From the ASALH:

    • Sylvia Jacobs (North Carolina Central Univ.), chair
    • Lillie Edwards (Drew Univ.)

 

Other Award Committees

Committee on Honorary Foreign Member and Awards for Scholarly Distinction

  • Gabrielle M. Spiegel, president
  • Barbara Weinstein, immediate past president

 

Committee on the John O'Connor Film Award

  • David Culbert (Louisiana State Univ.), chair
  • Saverio Giovacchini (Univ. of Maryland at College Park)
  • David Nasaw (Graduate Center, CUNY)

 

Committee on the Nancy Roelker Mentorship Award

  • Enrique C. Ochoa (California State Univ. at Los Angeles), chair
  • Robert Coven (Cary Academy)
  • Paula DeVos (San Diego State Univ.)
  • Douglas Egerton (Le Moyne Coll.)
  • Theresa May Furgol (Montgomery College)

 

Committee on the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Public Service Award

  • Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  • Arnita Jones

 

Committee on Teaching Prizes

    • Terry Seip (Univ. of Southern California), chair
    • Lauren Jared (Cate School)
    • Troy Johnson (California State Univ. at Long Beach)
    • Kenneth Pearl (Queensborough Community College, CUNY)
    • Linda Levstik (Univ. of Kentucky)

     

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