News & Advocacy
News
The latest activity of the AHA and historians in supporting history and historical thinking.
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AHA Members Named Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows (May 2021)
May 07, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA members Ariela Gross (Univ. of Southern California) and Tiya Miles (Harvard Univ.), who were announced as Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows for 2021-22.
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AHA Members Named 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (May 2021)
May 05, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA members Mike Amezcua (Georgetown Univ.) and Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda (Loyola Univ., Chicago), who have been named 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders. The awards support junior faculty, and 11 scholars were selected for the 2021 cycle.
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AHA Member Accepted into Academic Leadership Institute (May 2021)
May 04, 2021 -Reginald K. Ellis, councilor on the AHA’s Professional Division, has been accepted into the Academic Leadership Institute, a partnership between the University of Michigan and The New School. Ellis is an associate professor of history and the assistant dean in the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Florida A&M University.
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AHA-FDU Survey Featured in Time (April 2021)
Apr 30, 2021 -In Time, AHA member Pete Burkholder and AHA deputy director Dana Schaffer report on the findings of a recent national survey “of people’s understandings and uses of the past.” The survey is a collaboration between the American Historical Association and Fairleigh Dickinson University, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the full results will be released later this summer. While “the survey data suggest the divisions are real when it comes to how we think about our collective past,” Burkholder and Schaffer write, “our findings offer a possible path out of the history wars by changing the focus from what sets of facts are taught to how they are taught.”
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AHA Endorses Letter for Congressional Title VI Enhancements (April 2021)
Apr 30, 2021 -The American Historical Association signed onto a letter from the Coalition for International Education to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The letter expressed support for the bipartisan re-authorization of the Higher Education Act and the inclusion of enhancements to Title VI in the bill.
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AHA Member Appointed Newberry Library Vice President (April 2021)
Apr 29, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA member Laura McEnaney, who has been appointed the Newberry Library's vice president for research and academic programs. McEnaney is the AHA’s vice president, Teaching Division. She is will be joining the Newberry from Whittier College in California, where she is professor of history.
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AHA Member Appointed Director of NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access (April 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA member Briann G. Greenfield, who has been appointed the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access. Greenfield joins the NEH from the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT, where she served as executive director.
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AHA Members Named 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellows (April 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA members Beth L. Bailey (Univ. of Kansas) and Francoise N. Hamlin (Brown Univ.), who have been named to the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The program “provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.”
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AHA Member Named Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow (April 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 -Congratulations to AHA member Brandon Morgan (Central New Mexico Community Coll.), who has been named a Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow for 2021. The program “offers faculty teaching at two-year colleges support for research, pedagogy, and community engagement projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences,” and 28 scholars were awarded fellowships in the 2021 cycle.
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AHA-FDU Public Engagement with History Survey Featured on History News Network (April 2021)
Apr 27, 2021 -At History News Network, AHA member Peter Burkholder reported on some interesting trends revealed in a national survey recently conducted by the AHA and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the survey explored public engagement with history and showed that Americans prefer to “get information about the past” through video more than any other source. The full results of the survey will be published later this summer on the AHA website.
Advocacy
The AHA is part of the National Coalition for History, a consortium of over 50 organizations that advocates on federal, state and local legislative and regulatory issues. The NCH has compiled a list of advocacy issues most relevant to the study of history, as well as a list of resources to assist historians in their advocacy work.
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