Publication Date

December 1, 1988

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

William H. Chafe, chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 1987 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Association.

President

Akira Iriye, University of Chicago

President-elect

Louis Harlan, University of Maryland-College Park

Vice-President, Research Division

Richard T. Vann, Wesleyan University

Council Members

Place 1: Lawrence Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Place 2: Carol Gluck, Columbia University

Divisional Committee Members

Profession: Caroline Bynum, University of Washington
Research: Ira Berlin, University of Maryland-College Park
Teaching: Julia Werner, Nicolet High School

Committee on Committees

Place 1: Louisa Haberman, Austin, TX
Place 2: John Gillis, Rutgers University

Nominating Committee

Place 1: William B. Cohen, Indiana University
Place 2: Colin Palmer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Place 3: Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University

 

The results will be announced at the annual business meeting in Washington on December  29, in the Sheraton Washington,  Atrium I, beginning 4:45 p.m. A detailed election report will appear in the January issue of Perspectives.