Jane Landers (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair of the Nominating Committee, announces the following results of the 2008 balloting for officers and committee members of the American Historical Association.
President (1-year term)
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University (early America, comparative women’s, material culture)
President-elect (1-year term)
Barbara Metcalf, University of Michigan and emeritus, Univ. of California, Davis (history of the Indian subcontinent, especially the colonial period; history of the Muslim population of India and Pakistan)
Vice-President, Research Division (3-year term)
Iris Berger, University at Albany-SUNY (Africa, comparative women’s, labor and working-class)
Council/Divisions (3-year terms)
Councilor Profession
Sarah C. Maza, Northwestern University (18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century France, methodology)
Councilor Research
John K. Thornton, Boston University (Africa, Atlantic, world)
Councilor Teaching
Barbara L. Tischler, Horace Mann School, NYC (American cultural, the 1960s, women’s, labor, teaching practice)
Committee on Committees (3-year terms)
Slot 1
Kriste Ann Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County (U.S. social with an emphasis on public policy, the history of childhood, and women and gender during the late 19th and early 20th centuries)
Slot 2
Lloyd S. Kramer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (modern European cultural and intellectual history with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France)
Nominating Committee (3-year terms)
Slot 1
Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University (Latin America, with emphasis on Brazil and Central America; nationalism and nation-building, history of industrialization)
Slot 2
Poshek Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (modern Chinese history, history of Hong Kong, Chinese diaspora, war and culture, popular culture, pan-Chinese and pan-Asian cinemas)
Slot 3
Carol Anderson, University of Missouri-Columbia (Emory Univ. beginning Jan. 2009) (diplomatic, U.S. 20th-century, African American)
The results will be formally announced at the annual business meeting scheduled to be held in New York City on January 4, 2009, in the Beekman Parlor of the Hilton New York beginning at 4:45 p.m. A detailed election report will appear in the January 2009 issue of Perspectives on History.
