AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2016

Council

Patrick Manning (Univ. of Pittsburgh), president; Tyler E. Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), president-elect; Vicki L. Ruiz (Univ. of California, Irvine), past president; Chris McNickle, treasurer; Philippa J. A. Levine (Univ. of Texas, Austin), vice president, Professional Division; Edmund P. Russell III (Univ. of Kansas), vice president, Research Division; Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt (Cleveland State Univ.), vice president, Teaching Division; David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.); Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel Univ.); Jeffrey A. Bowman (Kenyon Coll.); Catherine A. Epstein (Amherst Coll.); Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas Coll.); Farina Mir (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Valerie Paley (New-York Historical Soc.); Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First); James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

Professional Division

Philippa Levine, vice president; Debjani Bhattacharyya; Catherine A. Epstein; Valerie Paley

Research Division

Edmund P. Russell III, vice president; David A. Bell; Farina Mir; James H. Sweet

Teaching Division

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, vice president; Jeffrey A. Bowman; Trinidad Gonzales; Brenda J. Santos

Nominating Committee

Francois Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins Univ.), chair; Paula Alonso (George Washington Univ.); William Deverell (Huntington Library); Leila T. Fawaz (Tufts Univ.); Jana K. Lipman (Tulane Univ.); Edward W. Muir Jr. (Northwestern Univ.); Pamela Scully (Emory Univ.); Kären E. Wigen (Stanford Univ.); Jamil S. Zainaldin (Georgia Humanities Council)

Committee on Committees

Tyler E. Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), chair; Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Michele Mitchell (New York Univ.); Cynthia Radding (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Tyler E. Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), chair; Sandra E. Greene (Cornell Univ.); Robert J. Malone (History of Science Society); Thomas F. X. Noble (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Patrick Manning, chair; Tyler E. Stovall; Richard J. M. Blackett (Vanderbilt Univ.); Gary L. Gerstle (Univ. of Cambridge); Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard Univ.)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Jean M. Allman (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Yinghong Cheng (Delaware State Univ.); Gregory P. Downs (Univ. of California, Davis); Kris E. Lane (Tulane Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ History and Historians: Susan Ferentinos (public history consultant), chair; Wallace D. Best (Princeton Univ.); Leah DeVun (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); James N. Green (Brown Univ.); Leisa D. Meyer (Coll. of William and Mary)

Committee on Minority Historians: Melissa Nicole Stuckey (independent historian), chair; Devyn Spence Benson (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge); Adrian Burgos (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); David A. Chang (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); Reginald K. Ellis (Florida A&M Univ.)

Committee on Women Historians: Katrin Schultheiss (George Washington Univ.), chair; Richard Godbeer (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.); Aiala T. Levy (Univ. of Chicago); Monica L. Mercado (Bryn Mawr Coll.); Ulrike Strasser (Univ. of California, San Diego)

Graduate and Early Career Committee: Anita Casavantes Bradford (Univ. of California, Irvine), chair; Ellen R. Feingold (Smithsonian Inst.); Erica Heinsen-Roach (Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg); Elizabeth Lundeen (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Adam J. Pratt (Univ. of Scranton)

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Gary B. Cohen (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), chair; Joshua H. Cole (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Fiona J. Griffiths (Stanford Univ.); Craig M. Koslofsky (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Michael Kwass (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Frank P. Biess (Univ. of California, San Diego), chair; Holly A. Case (Cornell Univ.); J. P. Daughton (Stanford Univ.); Susan K. Morrissey (Univ. of California, Irvine); Mary Nolan (New York Univ.)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Daniel L. Smail (Harvard Univ.), chair; Andrew S. Sartori (New York Univ.); Heather E. Streets-Salter (Northeastern Univ.)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Stephen A. Mihm (Univ. of Georgia), chair; Emilio Kouri (Univ. of Chicago); Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Carleton Univ.); Carla G. Pestana (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Paul S. Sutter (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize: Nicoletta F. Gullace (Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham), chair; David Holloway (Stanford Univ.); Adam R. Seipp (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: Susanna K. Elm (Univ. of California, Berkeley), chair; Ian Morris (Stanford Univ.); David Schoenbrun (Northwestern Univ.)

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize: Karen A. Balcom (McMaster Univ.), chair and CHA rep.; Damien-Claude Belanger (Univ. of Ottawa), CHA rep.; Susan E. Gray (Arizona State Univ.), AHA rep.; Sheila M. McManus (Univ. of Lethbridge), AHA rep.

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Samuel H. Yamashita (Pomona Coll.), chair; John Bezis-Selfa (Wheaton Coll., Mass.); Lilia Fernandez (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); Michael J. Galgano (James Madison Univ.); Elizabeth A. Heath (Baruch Coll., CUNY)

Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize: Michael Kazin (Georgetown Univ.); George C. Rable (Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa); Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton Univ.); John W. Sweet (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Marcia A. Yonemoto (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Alexis Dudden (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs); Charles P. Keith (Michigan State Univ.); Kristin Stapleton (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Janet Browne (Harvard Univ.), chair; Arianne J. Chernock (Boston Univ.); Holger Hoock (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Lara H. Kriegel (Indiana Univ.); Susan Dabney Pennybacker (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Magda Teter (Fordham Univ.), chair; Jack R. Censer (George Mason Univ.); James V. H. Melton (Emory Univ.); Kathryn Norberg (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Gabriel Paquette (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Carol Sheriff (Coll. of William and Mary), chair; Rachel B. Reinhard (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Rick R. Warner (Wabash Coll.)

Committee on the Clarence Haring Prize: Thomas Miller Klubock (Univ. of Virginia), chair; Sueann Caulfield (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Eileen J. Findlay (American Univ.); Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale Univ.); Ann Twinam (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award: Lisa Wolverton (Univ. of Oregon), chair; Raymond Clemens (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library); Barbara B. Oberg (Princeton Univ.); Daniel Robert Woolf (Queen’s Univ., Can.)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Jeremy I. Adelman (Princeton Univ.), chair; Matt David O’Hara (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); Lara E. Putnam (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Serena Mayeri (Univ. of Pennsylvania), chair and AHA rep.; Amy M. Froide (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), AHA rep.; Rachel G. Fuchs (Arizona State Univ.), AHA rep.; Barbara N. Ramusack (Univ. of Cincinnati), CCWH rep.; Judith Surkis (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick), AHA rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Nwando Achebe (Michigan State Univ.), chair; Bruce S. Hall (Duke Univ.); Pier M. Larson (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the Waldo Leland Prize: C. Cymone Fourshey (Bucknell Univ.), chair; Cathy Moran Hajo (Ramapo Coll.); Frederick E. Hoxie (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); D. Bradford Hunt (Newberry Library); Rebecca Shumway (College of Charleston)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Adrienne Davis (Washington Univ., St. Louis), chair; Laura F. Edwards (Duke Univ.); Michael Meranze (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Christopher Lawrence Tomlins (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Barbara Young Welke (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Allan A. Tulchin (Shippensburg Univ.), chair; Tessie P. Liu (Northwestern Univ.); Michael B. Miller (Univ. of Miami)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Valerie Ramseyer (Wellesley Coll.), chair and ACHA rep.; Carl D. Ipsen (Indiana Univ.), AHA rep.; Steven F. White (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.), SIHS rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Celia S. Applegate (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Allyson M. Poska (Univ. of Mary Washington); Michael T. Saler (Univ. of California, Davis)

Committee on the John E. O’Connor Film Award: Desiree J. Garcia (Arizona State Univ.), chair; Steven J. Ross (Univ. of Southern California); Theresa E. Runstedtler (American Univ.)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Sarah Knott (Indiana Univ.), chair; Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Roquinaldo Ferreira (Brown Univ.)

Committee on the Premio Del Rey: Gretchen Starr-LeBeau (Principia Coll.), chair; Nina Caputo (Univ. of Florida); A. Katie Harris (Univ. of California, Davis); Teofilo F. Ruiz (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); David J. Wasserstein (Vanderbilt Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Manu Goswami (New York Univ.), chair; Sumit Guha (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Rachel L. Sturman (Bowdoin Coll.)

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize: James Harris (Saint Margaret’s Episcopal School), chair; Bob Bain (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Rudolph M. Bell (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); Fritz Fischer (Univ. of Northern Colorado); Rebecca Nedostup (Brown Univ.)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Eric L. Goldstein (Emory Univ.), chair; Deborah Dash Moore (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Matthias B. Lehmann (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media), chair and GMU rep.; Sharon Block (Univ. of California, Irvine), AHA rep.; Sharon M. Leon (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep.; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), GMU rep.; Janice L. Reiff (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), AHA rep.

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Frank A. Guridy (Columbia Univ.), chair and AHA rep.; Jarvis L. Hargrove (North Carolina Central Univ.), ASALH rep.; Melina Pappademos (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), AHA rep.; Jon F. Sensbach (Univ. of Florida), AHA rep.; Nikki Marie Taylor (Texas Southern Univ.), ASALH rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: G. Kurt Piehler (Florida State Univ.), chair; Paul Gardullo (Smithsonian Inst.); Emily Greenwald (Historical Research Assoc.); Jana C. Remy (Chapman Univ.); Eric Sandweiss (Indiana Univ.)

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Bryant T. Ragan (Colorado Coll.), chair; Jonathan H. Earle (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge); Amy Helene Forss (Metropolitan Comm. Coll.); Angela A. Lee (Weston High Sch.); Stephen R. Morillo (Wabash Coll.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Melissa L. Cooper (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), chair and AHA rep.; Tim W. Keirn (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep.; Martha E. Kinney (Suffolk County Comm. Coll., SUNY), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Christopher Capozzola (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), chair; Benjamin L. Alpers (Univ. of Oklahoma); Gregory P. Downs (Univ. of California, Davis)

Committee on the NASA/AHA Fellowship: Andrew J. Dunar (Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville), chair and OAH rep.; Steven Dick (NASA, ret.), HSS rep.; Peter Benjamin Meyer (US Bureau of Labor Statistics), EHA rep.; Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal (NASA Johnson Space Center), NCPH rep.; Asif A. Siddiqi (Fordham Univ.), AHA rep.

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Marjorie R. Becker (Univ. of Southern California), chair; R. Terry Bouton (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Evan Haefeli (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station), chair; Konstantin Dierks (Indiana Univ.); Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State Univ.)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Cathleen D. Cahill (Univ. of New Mexico), chair; Paul D. Halliday (Univ. of Virginia); Terri L. Snyder (California State Univ., Fullerton)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Rita A. Krueger (Temple Univ.), chair; Parks M. Coble (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln); Rhonda M. Gonzales (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)

Ad Hoc Committees

2017 Program Committee: Anand A. Yang (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), chair; Edda L. Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), co-chair; Carl Edward Ashley (US Dept. of State); John L. Brooke (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); Kate Brown (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Erika Bsumek (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Zephyr L. Frank (Stanford Univ.); Katherine L. French (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Robert L. Hardmond (Brooklyn Technical High School); Dina R. Khoury (George Washington Univ.); Joy Elizabeth Schulz (Metropolitan Comm. Coll.); Jonathan K. Skaff (Shippensburg Univ.); Valentina K. Tikoff (DePaul Univ.); Kerry R. Ward (Rice Univ.); Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), 2018 chair; Rick Halpern (Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough), 2018 co-chair

Committee on State Standards: Bob Bain (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Fritz Fischer (Univ. of Northern Colorado); Gail Hamilton (Bancroft Middle School); Geri Hastings (Catonsville High School); Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First)

Digital History Working Group: David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.), co-chair; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), co-chair; Kalani Craig (Indiana Univ.); Paula Findlen (Stanford Univ.); Walter W. Hawthorne (Michigan State Univ.); Jason M. Kelly (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis); Andrew H. Lee (New York Univ.); Michelle Moravec (Rosemont Coll.); Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)

Two-Year College Faculty Task Force: Shannon T. Bontrager (Georgia Highlands Coll., Cartersville); Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas Coll.); Sarah Elizabeth Shurts (Bergen Comm. Coll.); Emily Sohmer Tai (Queensborough Comm. Coll., CUNY)

Delegates

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Anne E. Gorsuch (Univ. of British Columbia)

American Council of Learned Societies: George J. Sanchez (Univ. of Southern California)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

National Advisory Board of the History Teacher: Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First)

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: William G. Thomas III (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa)