Publication Date

March 1, 2011

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

Council

Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.), president; William Cronon (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison), president-elect; Barbara Metcalf (Univ. of California, Davis, emerita), immediatepast president; Iris Berger (Univ. at Albany, SUNY), vice president, Research Division; Patricia Nelson Limerick (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder), vice president, Teaching Division; Jacqueline Jones (Univ. of Texas at Austin) vice president, Professional Division; Sara Abosch (Univ. of Memphis); Cheryll Ann Cody (Houston Community Coll.–West Loop Campus); Martha C. Howell (Columbia Univ.); Anne F. Hyde (Colorado Coll.); Sarah C. Maza (Northwestern Univ.); Laura Isabel Serna (Univ. of Southern California); Thomas J. Sugrue (Univ. of Pennsylvania); John K. Thornton (Boston Univ.); Barbara L. Tischler (Horace Mann School)

Professional Division

Jacqueline Jones, vice president; Sara Abosch; Sarah C. Maza; Laura Isabel Serna

Research Division

Iris Berger, vice president; Martha C. Howell; Thomas Sugrue; John K. Thornton; Robert A. Schneider, AHR, ex officio

Teaching Division

Patricia Nelson Limerick, vice president; Cheryll Ann Cody; Anne F. Hyde; Barbara L. Tischler

Nominating Committee

Carol Anderson (Emory Univ.), chair; Marshall C. Eakin (Vanderbilt Univ.); Poshek Fu (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Sandra E. Greene (Cornell Univ.); Pekka J. Hämäläinen (Univ of California at Santa Barbara); Page Herrlinger (Bowdoin Coll.); Jan Ellen Lewis (Rutgers Univ.-Newark); Raúl A. Ramos (Univ. of Houston); Julia Adeney Thomas (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Committee on Committees

William Cronon, chair; Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Univ. of Texas at Austin); John Connelly (Univ. of California at Berkeley); Lloyd S. Kramer (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Kriste Lindenmeyer (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County)

Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: William Cronon, chair; Mary Kelley (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Louise McReynolds (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Anthony Grafton, chair; William Cronon; Lizabeth Cohen (Harvard Univ.); Robin D. G. Kelley (Univ. of Southern California); Peter Onuf (Univ. of Virginia)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; John Garrigus (Univ. of Texas at Arlington); Joseph Harahan (U.S. Commission on Military History); Carol Harrison (Univ. of South Carolina); Harry Liebersohn (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Committee on Minority Historians: Martin Summers (Boston Coll.), chair; Douglas Kiel (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison); Shaun T. Lopez (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Celia E. Naylor (Barnard Coll.); Mae Ngai (Columbia Univ.)

Committee on Women Historians: Leora Auslander (Univ. of Chicago), chair; Leslie Alexander (Ohio State Univ.); Charles Capper (Boston Univ.); Ruby Lal (Emory Univ.); Laura Rominger Porter (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Graduate and Early Career Committee: Aaron Marrs (U.S. Dept. of State), chair; Laura Rominger Porter, CWH representative; Douglas Kiel, CMH representative; Laura Isabel Serna (Professional Divn. representative); Mark P. O’Tool (Cengage Learning); Aleah Soine (Univ. of Minnesota)

Award Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: George Behlmer (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), chair; Clare H. Crowston (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Laura L. Frader (Northeastern Univ.); A. Katie Harris (Univ. of California at Davis); Hugh Thomas (Univ. of Miami)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Mary D. Lewis (Harvard Univ.), chair; Michael Adas (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick); Herrick Chapman (New York Univ.); Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown Univ.); Marla Stone (Occidental Coll.)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Eric Hinderaker (Univ. of Utah), chair; Paula Alonso (George Washington Univ.); Amy Greenberg (Pennsylvania State Univ.); David Greenberg (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick); Manisha Sinha (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst)

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize: Nicholas Sarantakes (U.S. Army Command and General Staff Coll.), chair; Douglas M. Peers (York Univ.); Carol B. Stevens (Colgate Univ.)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: Patrick Geary (UCLA), chair; Bonnie Effros (Univ. of Florida); Charles King (Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha)

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize: Elizabeth Mancke (Univ. of Akron), AHA representative; Dimitry Anastakis (Trent Univ.), CHA representative; Christopher P. Dummitt (Trent Univ.), CHA representative; Jerry Bannister (Dalhousie Univ.), CHA ex officio member

Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize: J. William Harris (Univ. of New Hampshire), chair; Gretchen Adams (Texas Tech Univ.); Susan A. Glenn (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Peter Onuf (Univ. of Virginia); Matthew Pinsker (Dickinson Coll.)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History: Carol Ann Benedict (Georgetown Univ.), chair; Daniel Botsman (Yale Univ.); Pamela Crossley (Dartmouth Coll.); Thomas Havens (Northeastern Univ.); Hyung Gu Lynn (Univ. of British Columbia)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Ian Christopher Fletcher (Georgia State Univ.), chair; Deborah Cohen (Northwestern Univ.); Amy Froide (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Dana Rabin (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Peter Thorsheim (Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Paul Monod (Middlebury Coll.), chair; Jennifer M. Jones (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick); Benjamin Schmidt (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt Univ.); Ulrike Strasser (Univ. of California at Irvine)

Committee on the Clarence H. Haring Prize: Brodwyn Fischer (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Donna Guy (Ohio State Univ.); Emily Kouri (Univ. of Chicago); Francisco Scarano (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison); Kevin Terraciano (UCLA)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award in Editorial Achievement: Thomas Slaughter (Univ. of Rochester), chair; Mark Lawrence (Univ. of Texas at Austin), Jane Mangan (Davidson Coll.); Ann Moyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania); June Namias (Univ. of Alaska at Anchorage)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History: Karin Rosemblatt (Univ. of Maryland at College Park), chair; June Melby Benowitz (Univ. of South Florida at Sarasota-Manatee); Katherine French (State Univ. of New York at New Paltz); Sheryl Kroen (Univ. of Florida); Michele Mitchell (New York Univ.)

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History: Jean Allman (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), chair; Benedict Carton (George Mason Univ.); Toyin Falola (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Committee on the Waldo G. Leland Prize: Philander D. Chase (Univ. of Virginia), chair; Elizabeth Z. Bennett (Princeton Univ.); Jonathan Dewald (Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY); James M. Murray (Western Michigan Univ.); Mary Ann Quinn, (Rockefeller Archive Center) 

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Sally Hadden (Western Michigan Univ.), chair; Annette Gordon-Reed (New York Univ.); Daniel W. Hamilton (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Karl Jacoby (Brown Univ.); David Stebenne (Ohio State Univ.)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Patricia Lorcin (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), chair; Katherine B. Crawford (Vanderbilt Univ.); Kenneth Moure (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara) 

Committee on the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize: Sharon Strocchia (Emory Univ.), AHA representative, chair; Margaret King (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY), ACHA representative; Marla Stone (Occidental Coll.), SIHS representative

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: George Williamson (Florida State Univ.), chair; Tracie Matysik (Univ. of Texas at Austin); Jonathan Sheehan (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize in Atlantic History: Marjoleine Kars (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), chair; Christine Daniels (Michigan State Univ.); Sarah Pearsall (Oxford Brookes Univ.)

Committee on the Premio del Rey: Mark Meyerson (Univ. of Toronto), chair; Brian Catlos (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz); Simon Doubleday (Hofstra Univ.); Lu Ann Homza (Coll. of William & Mary); David Nirenberg (Univ. of Chicago)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History: Mrinalini Sinha (Univ. of Michigan), chair; Durba Ghosh (Cornell Univ.); Kris Manjapra (Tufts Univ.)

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize: Julie Winch (Univ. of Massachusetts at Boston), chair; Florence M. Baker (El Camino Coll.); Andrew E. Kersten (Univ. of Wisconsin–Green Bay); Dominique Padurano (Horace Mann School); Holly Shulman (Univ. of Virginia)

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Daryl Scott (Howard Univ.), ASALH representative, chair; Annette Palmer (Morgan State Univ.), ASALH representative; Tiffany R. Patterson (Vanderbilt Univ.), Alexander X. Byrd (Rice Univ.), and Laura Rosanne Adderley (Tulane Univ.), AHA representatives

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Cora Granata (California State Univ.-Fullerton), chair; William Benedicks (Tallahassee Community Coll.); Francis Couvares (Amherst Coll.); Susannah Ottaway (Carleton Coll.); Tim Schroer (Univ. of West Georgia) 

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: Robert P. Forbes (Univ. of Connecticut at Torrington), chair; Richard H. Kohn (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Linda Shopes (Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, retired); Susan Strasser (Univ. of Delaware); Clement Price (Rutgers Univ.-Newark)

Committee on the John O’Connor Film Award: Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School), chair; Suzanne Langlois (Glendon Coll., York Univ.); Nina Mjagkij (Ball State Univ.)

Committee on the Nancy Roelker Mentorship Award: Caroline Cox (Univ. of the Pacific), chair; Deborah Gray-White (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick); Carol Lasser (Oberlin Coll.); David C. Penn (Crane Technological High School, Chicago); Darlene Spitzer-Antezana (Prince George’s Community Coll.)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History: Daniel Cohen (George Mason Univ.), chair; Michael O’Malley (George Mason Univ.), Stephen Brier (George Mason Univ.), GMU representatives; Kathleen W. Jones, (Virginia Tech. Univ.) and Michael Galgano (James Madison Univ.), AHA representatives

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Holly Brewer (North Carolina State Univ.), chair; Paul G.E. Clemens (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick); William Everdell (St. Ann’s School); Stuart D. Graybill (Sacramento City Coll.); Troy Johnson (California State Univ. at Long Beach)

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Mark R. Cheathem (Cumberland Univ.), chair; Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg Univ. of Pennsylvania); Kimberly Phillips (Coll. of William & Mary); Scott Sandage (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Eva Sheppard Wolf (San Francisco State Univ.)

Committee on the NASA Fellowship: Margaret A. Weitekamp (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution), AHA representative, chair; Joseph N. Tatarewicz (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County),AHA representative; Patrick Moore (Univ. of Western Florida),NCPH representative; Lisa D. Cook (Michigan State Univ.), EHA representative; Jennifer Ros-Nazzal(NASA Johnson Space Center), OAH representative; Robert Smith (Univ. of Alberta), HSS representative

Committee on Research Grants (Africa, Asia, Europe): Michael A. Osborne (Oregon State Univ.), chair; Sumit Guha (Rutgers Univ.-New Brnuswick); Nancy Rose Hunt (Univ. of Michigan)

Committee on Research Grants (U.S./Western Hemisphere): Robin Einhorn (Univ. of California at Berkeley), chair; W. Jeffrey Bolster (Univ. of New Hampshire); John E. Kicza (Washington State Univ.)

Ad Hoc and Joint Committees

Program Committee, 2012: Jacob Soll (Rutgers Univ.-Camden), chair; Jennifer Siegel (Ohio State Univ.), co-chair; Beverly Bossler (Univ. of California at Davis); Daniel Cohen (George Mason Univ. and Center for History & New Media); Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.); Linda Gordon (New York Univ.); Nile Green (UCLA); Cynthia Koch (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum); Paul E. Lovejoy (York Univ.); Alan Lucibello (Montville School District/Seton Hall); J. R. McNeill (Georgetown Univ.), 2013 co-chair; Kenneth Mills (Univ. of Toronto); Paul Sutter (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder), 2013 chair; Francesca Trivellato (Yale Univ.)

Task Force on Intellectual Property: Stanley Katz (Princeton Univ.), chair; Fred Cate (Indiana Univ.); Mark Kornbluh (Michigan State Univ.); Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State Univ.); Page Putnam Miller (Univ. of South Carolina); Robert Schneider (Indiana Univ.)

Task Force on Disability: Sandra Sufian (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago), DHA representative, chair; Jeffrey Blane Cook (North Greenville Univ.); Jacqueline Jones; Leisa D. Meyer (Coll. of William Mary); Michael A. Rembis (Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY)

Task Force on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Historians:, Leisa D. Meyer (Coll. of William & Mary), chair; Jacqueline Jones and Marc Stein (York Univ.), AHA representatives; Jennifer Brier (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) and Susan Stryker (Indiana Univ.), Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History representatives

Two-Year College Task Force:, Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas Coll.), chair; David Berry (Essex County Community Coll.), ex officio; Cheryll Ann Cody; Judith Jeffrey Howard (Arlington, Virginia); Natalie Kimbrough (Community Coll. of Baltimore County); Kevin Reilly (Raritan Valley Community Coll.)

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation: Richard Immerman (Temple Univ.)

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies: Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore Coll.)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Lee Palmer Wandel (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison)

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: Stanley Katz (Princeton Univ.)

AHA Executive DirectorJames Grossman is anex officio member of the Council, the three divisions, the Committee on Committees, and all standing and ad hoc committees.

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