1987 AHA Committee Structure

The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved com­mittee structure for 1987.

 

Council

Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University {president); Akira lriye, Universi­ty of Chicago (president-elect); Carl N. Degler, Stanford University (immediate past president); Mary Beth Norton, Cornell Uni­versity (vice-president, Research Division); Patricia Albjerg Graham, Harvard University (vice-president, Teaching Division); John J. TePaske, Duke University (vice-president, Professional Division); Bernard Lewis, Princeton University; George B. Tindall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Re­search; Robert Forster, Johns Hopkins University; John F. Benton, California Institute of Technology; Richard H. Kohn, Office of Air Force History, USAF; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, and David L. Ransel, AHR, ex officio.

Professional Division

John J. TePaske (vice-president); George B. Tindall (Council member); Clara M. Lovett, George Washington University; George M. Fredrick­son, Stanford University; Albert Camarillo, Stanford University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Research Division

Mary Beth Norton (vice-president); Louise A. Tilly (Council member); Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minnesota; Anna K. Nelson, American Uni­versity; Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Teaching Division

Patricia A. Graham, (vice-president); Robert Forster (Coun­cil member); Marjorie Wall Bingham, St. Louis Park Public Schools; Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park; Philip B. Scranton, Rutgers University-Camden; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Nominating Committee

William H. Chafe, chair, Duke University; Susan M. So­colow, Emory University; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; Richard S. Dunn, Uni­versity of Pennsylvania; Suzanne D. Lebsock, Rutgers University; David K. Wyatt, Cornell University; Giles Constable, Institute for Ad­vanced Study; Darlene Clark Hine, Purdue University; Suellen Hoy, North Carolina Di­vision of Archives and History; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on Committees

Akira Iriye, chair, University of Chicago; Gail L. Bernstein, University of Arizona; David Brody, University of California, Davis; E. William Monter, Northwestern University; Linda Levy Peck, Purdue University; Ingrid Winthur Scobie, Texas Woman’s University; Samuel R. Gammon. AHA, ex officio.

Committee on Affiliated Societies

Akira Iriye, chair, University of Chica­ go; John F. Benton, California Institute of Technology (Council member); David Herlihy, Brown University; Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University; Samuel R. Gammon AHA, ex officio.

Standing Committees

 

Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship

John W. Shy, chair, University of Michigan; J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology; David H. Fischer,  Brandeis  University;  Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University; Akira Iriye, University of Chicago; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on International Historical Activities

Karen M. Offen, chair, Stanford University; Robert Darn­ ton, Princeton University; Elizabeth L. Eisen­ stein, University of Michigan; C. Warren Hollister, University of California, Santa Barbara; Stuart B. Schwartz, University of Minnesota; William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sam­ uel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on Quantitative Research in History

Robert V. Wells, chair, Union College; Peter H. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Martha C. Howell, Rutgers University; An­drejs Plakans, Iowa State University; Theo­dore K. Rabb, Princeton University, ex officio; Konrad Jarausch, University of North Caro­lina, Chapel Hill, ex officio; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on Women Historians

Judith Walkowitz, chair, Rutgers University; Nancy Schrom Dye, University of Kentucky; Ronald G. Walters, Johns  Hop­ kins University; Barbara A. Engel, University of Colorado, Boulder; Louise A. Kerr,  Loyola University of Chicago; Virginia J. Scharff, University of Arizona (graduate student); Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Prize Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Cissie Fairchilds, chair, Syracuse University; Norman F. Can­tor, New York University; Richard Herr, University of California, Berkeley; Vernon Lidtke, Johns Hopkins University; Stephen White, Wesleyan University; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize

Sally J. Marks, chair, Rhode Island College; F. Roy Willis, University of California, Davis; Edward Malefakis, Colum­bia University; Isabel Hull, Cornell Universi­ty; Anthony Sutcliffe, University of Shef­field; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

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

A.J.R. Russell-Wood, chair, Johns Hopkins University; Nell I. Painter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Carol Berkin, Baruch College, CUNY; John L. Thomas, Brown University; Stephanie Wolf, Winterthur Museum; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize

Jaroslav J. Pelikan, chair, Yale University; Frank M. Clover, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jacob Lassner, Wayne State University; Karl F. Morrison, University of Kansas; David N. Keightley, University of California, Berke­ley; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the John K. Fair­bank Prize

Jonathan Spence, chair, Yale University; Charles E. Neu, Brown Universi­ty; Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award

Romana M. Danysh, chair, US Army Center of Military History; Nicholas C. Burckel, Washington University; Stephen Brier, American Social History Project, CUNY; Bettye Collier-Thomas, Bethune Museum and Archives; one member to be appointed; Smauel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award

Nancy L. Roelker, chair, emerita, Boston University; Mack Walker, Johns Hopkins University; Dora B. Weiner, Uni­ versity of California, Los Angeles; Ellen G. Friedman, Boston College; Sidney Burrell, emeritus, Boston University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the Joan Kelly Prize for Women’s History

Marga­ret Strobel, chair, University of Illinois, Chi­cago; Allen F. Davis, Temple University; Susan M. Hartmann, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Jean Quataert, SUNY Bingham­ ton; Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Samuel R.  Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the Littleton­ Griswold Prize in American Law and Society

Harry N. Scheiber, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Marylynn Salmon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Laura Kalman, University of Cali­ fornia, Santa Barbara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the Howard R. Marraro Prize

Rudolph Vecoli, chair, University of Minnesota; Elisa Carrillo, Marymount College, Tarrytown; John F. D’A­mico, George Mason University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize for Best Teach­ing Aid

Robert V. Schnucker, chair, Northeast Missouri State University; Richard T. Fry, Illinois College; Dana Greene, St. Mary’s College of Maryland; Robert L. Har­ris, Cornell University; Robert A. Rosen­ stone, California Institute of Technology; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Fellowship Programs

Committee on the J, Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History

Ronald Bayor, chair, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jane H. Pease, Uni­versity of Maine, Orono; John Bodnar, Indi­ ana University; Samuel R. Gammon,  AHA, ex officio.

Committee on the NASA Fellow­ship

Melvin Kranzberg, chair, Georgia In­stitute of Technology; Robert Wohl, Univer­sity of California, Los Angeles; William Becker, George Washington University; Ed­ ward Constant, Carnegie-Mellon University; Alex Roland, Duke University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Ad Hoc Committees

Committee on the Columbus Quincentennial

Helen Nader, chair, Indiana University; Joseph Sanchez, Nation­al  Park Service; David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University; James L. Axtell, Col­lege of William and Mary; Lawrence A. Clayton, University of Alabama; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio.

Special Committee on the Bicentennial Era

Mary K. B. Tachau, chair, University of Louisville; Don E. Fehren­ bacher, Stanford University; Herman]. Belz, University of Maryland, College Park; Rich­ ard Bushman, University of Delaware; Har­ old M. Hyman, Rice University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Joint AHA-APSA Committee on Project ’87

Richard B. Morris, emeritus, Columbia University (AHA cochair) and above committee.

Joint AHA-CHA Committee

Richard D. Challener, chair, Princeton University; Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania; Margaret Andrews, Washington State Uni­versity; Samuel Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Joint AHA-OAH-SAA Committee on Historians & Archivists

Deborah Gardner, chair, Baruch College, CUNY; Thomas G. Paterson, University of Connecti­cut, Storrs; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Joint AHA-ASLH Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund

Harry N. Scheiber, chair, University of Cali­fornia, Berkeley; Marylynn Salmon, Univer­sity of Maryland Baltimore County; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Bar­bara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Joint Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Histori­ans Under the First Amendment

Natalie Zemon Davis, ex officio; Parliamentar­ian; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Program Committee

Lewis Perry, chair, Vanderbilt University; Alexander Ra­binowitch, cochair, Indiana University; Carlos E. Cortes, University of California, River­ side; Kathleen M. Dalton, Phillips Academy, Andover; Kermit L. Hall, University of Flori­da; Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa; Penel­ope Johnson, New York University; Jon Kukla, Virginia State Library; Vernon Lidtke, Johns Hopkins University; Anand A. Yang,  University  of  Utah; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Histori­cal Diplomatic Documentation: Warren F. Kuehl, University of Akron, emeritus; Robert Dallek, University of Cali­fornia, Los Angeles; Blanche Wiesen Cook, John Jay College, CUNY.

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies: Reginald E. Zelnik, University of California, Berkeley.

American Council of Learned So­cieties: Philip D. Curtin, Johns Hopkins University.

International Committee of Historical Sciences: Karen M. Offen, Stanford University; Alternates: Natalie Ze­mon Davis, Princeton University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA.

National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Ron­ald P. Formisano, Clark University; Carol R. Bleser, Clemson University.

Social Science Research Council: William H. Sewell, Jr., University of Michigan.

US-USSR Subcommission on Quantitative Research in History: Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University.