John Dichtl became president and CEO of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in 2015. Prior to that he was the executive director of the National Council on Public History for nine years, and worked for the Organization of American Historians for 14 years as deputy director and in several other roles. John received his MA and PhD in early American history from Indiana University, and from 2006 to 2015 was an adjunct faculty member of the history department at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis. Before graduate school he worked for the US Senate Judiciary Committee. He is a 2004 graduate of the Seminar for Historical Administration (now History Leadership Institute), a program that stems from an AASLH partnership with the Indiana Historical Society and other organizations. John helped to found the History Relevance Campaign, the International Federation for Public History, and is active in the National Coalition for History.
John Dichtl
