Publication Date

March 1, 2018

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

Council

Mary Beth Norton (Cornell Univ.), president; John R. McNeill (Georgetown Univ.), president-elect; Tyler E. Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), past president; Kevin Boyle (Northwestern Univ.), vice president, Profession; Sophia Rosenfeld (Univ. of Pennsylvania), vice president, Research; Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt (Cleveland State Univ.), vice president, Teaching; Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel Univ.), councilor, Profession; Mary Elliott (Smithsonian Inst.), councilor, Profession; Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge), councilor, Profession; Melissa K. Bokovoy (Univ. of New Mexico), councilor, Research; Becky M. Nicolaides (USC & UCLA), councilor, Research; James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), councilor, Research; Jeffrey A. Bowman (Kenyon Coll.), councilor, Teaching; Matthew R. Cone (Carrboro High School), councilor, Teaching; Carlos A. Contreras (Grossmont Coll.), councilor, Teaching; Sarah Mellors (Univ. of California, Irvine), councilor, at large; Chris J. McNickle, treasurer; James R. Grossman (American Historical Association), executive director; Alex Lichtenstein (American Historical Review), AHR editor; Eric S. Jackson (The Sack Law Firm P.C.), counsel; Kenneth F. Ledford (Case Western Reserve Univ.), parliamentarian

Professional Division

Kevin Boyle, vice president; Debjani Bhattacharyya; Mary Elliott; Suzanne L. Marchand

Research Division

Sophia Rosenfeld, vice president; Melissa K. Bokovoy; Becky M. Nicolaides; James H. Sweet

Teaching Division

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, vice president; Jeffrey A. Bowman; Matthew R. Cone; Carlos A. Contreras

Nominating Committee

William Deverell (Univ. of Southern California), chair; Carin Berkowitz (Science History Institute); Kathleen Anne Brosnan (Univ. of Oklahoma); Purnima Dhavan (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Laurent M. Dubois (Duke Univ.); Susannah R. Ottaway (Carleton Coll.); Gabriel Paquette (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Kären E. Wigen (Stanford Univ.); Jamil S. Zainaldin (Georgia Humanities Council)

Committee on Committees

John R. McNeill, chair; Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Madeline Y. Hsu (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Jennifer L. Palmer (Univ. of Georgia); Kaya Șahin (Indiana Univ.)

Permanent and Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Robert J. Malone (History of Science Society), chair; John R. McNeill; Ann E. Moyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Ann Twinam (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Committee on Gender Equity: Susan Kingsley Kent (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Matthew L. Basso (Univ. of Utah); Monica L. Mercado (Colgate Univ.); Ulrike Strasser (Univ. of California, San Diego); Mary Ann Villarreal (California State Univ., Fullerton)

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 Status in the Profession: Tammy Ingram (Coll. of Charleston), chair; Wallace D. Best (Princeton Univ.); Leah DeVun (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); Michael A. Ryan (Univ. of New Mexico); Red Vaughan Tremmel (Tulane Univ.)

Committee on Minority Historians: Laurie Arnold (Gonzaga Univ.), chair; William J. Bauer (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas); Adrian Burgos (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Cara Caddoo (Indiana Univ.); Reginald K. Ellis (Florida A&M Univ.)

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Mary Beth Norton; Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard Univ.); Kristin L. Hoganson (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); John R. McNeill; Alan S. Taylor (Univ. of Virginia)

Council Committee on the Annual Meeting: Tyler E. Stovall, chair; Jeffrey A. Bowman; Mary Elliott; Becky M. Nicolaides

Finance Committee: Mary Beth Norton, chair; Suzanne Lynn Marchand; John R. McNeill; Chris J. McNickle; William F. Wechsler (Capitol Peak Asset Management)

Graduate and Early Career Committee: James Cantres (Hunter Coll., CUNY), chair; Ellen R. Feingold (Smithsonian Inst.); Caroline Marris (Columbia Univ.); Amanda L. Scott (US Naval Academy); Sarah Mellors, Council rep.

Investment Committee: Chris J. McNickle, chair; Keith Hocter (Bellwether Consulting); John R. McNeill; Mary Beth Norton; Tyler E. Stovall; William F. Wechsler

2019 Local Arrangements Committee: Elaine K. Carey (Purdue Univ. Northwest), co-chair; Frank Valadez (Chicago Metro History Education Center), co-chair

2019 Program Committee: Claire Bond Potter (New School), chair; Brian W. Ogilvie (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), co-chair; Emily Clark (Tulane Univ.); Evan N. Dawley (Goucher Coll.); Ada Ferrer (New York Univ.); Durba Ghosh (Cornell Univ.); Julie A. Golia (Brooklyn Historical Society); David N. Myers (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Kenneth A. Osgood (Colorado Sch. of Mines); Amy Godfrey Powers (Waubonsee Comm. Coll.); Liz Robbins (Chicago Public Schools); Mark D. Sheftall (Bucknell Univ.); Timothy J. Smit (Eastern Kentucky Univ.); Thabiti Willis (Carleton Coll.); Joshua L. Reid (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), 2020 chair; Sarah Elizabeth Shurts (Bergen Comm. Coll.), 2020 co-chair

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Fiona J. Griffiths (Stanford Univ.), chair; Karl R. Appuhn (New York Univ.); Craig M. Koslofsky (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Isabel A. Moreira (Univ. of Utah)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Mary Nolan (New York Univ.), chair; Geoff Eley (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); James B. Loeffler (Univ. of Virginia); Susan K. Morrissey (Univ. of California, Irvine); Michelle E. Tusan (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Heather E. Streets-Salter (Northeastern Univ.), chair; Prakash Kumar (Penn State Univ.); Peter C. Mancall (Univ. of Southern California); Michael G. Vann (California State Univ., Sacramento); Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Carleton Univ.), chair; Richard Candida Smith (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Matthew Jon Countryman (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Mae M. Ngai (Columbia Univ.); Brett Rushforth (Univ. of Oregon)

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize: Adam R. Seipp (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station), chair; Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State Univ.); Bruno Cabanes (Ohio State Univ., Columbus)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: David Schoenbrun (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Carol L. Neel (Colorado Coll.); Eric Rebillard (Cornell Univ.)

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize: Susan E. Gray (Arizona State Univ.), chair and AHA rep.; David P. Massell (Univ. of Vermont), AHA rep.; Michel Hogue (Carleton Univ.), CHA rep.; Daniel Macfarlane (Western Michigan Univ.), CHA rep.

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: John Bezis-Selfa (Wheaton Coll., Mass.), chair; Michael J. Galgano (James Madison Univ.); Isaac E. Land (Indiana State Univ.)

Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize: Robert H. Abzug (Univ. of Texas, Austin); James T. Campbell (Stanford Univ.); S. Max Edelson (Univ. of Virginia)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Kristin Stapleton (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo), chair; Jeffrey Hanes (Univ. of Oregon); Gail Hershatter (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); Charles P. Keith (Michigan State Univ.); Micheline R. Lessard (Univ. of Ottawa)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Lara H. Kriegel (Indiana Univ.), chair; Susan Dabney Pennybacker (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Ethan H. Shagan (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Brent Stuart Sirota (North Carolina State Univ.); Kathleen Wilson (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Jack R. Censer (George Mason Univ.), chair; Paul R. Hanson (Butler Univ.); James H. Johnson (Boston Univ.); Alexandra Shepard (Univ. of Glasgow); Adam D. Sutcliffe (King’s Coll., London)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Rachel B. Reinhard (Univ. of California, Berkeley), chair; Heather Flynn Roller (Colgate Univ.); Rick R. Warner (Wabash Coll.)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award: Lisa M. Sousa (Occidental Coll.); John W. Randolph (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Holly C. Shulman (Univ. of Virginia)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Tatiana Seijas (Penn State Univ.), chair; Raymond B. Craib (Cornell Univ.); Jerry Davila (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Emilio Kouri (Univ. of Chicago); Lara E. Putnam (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize: Carolyn J. Dean (Yale Univ.), chair and AHA rep.; Beth L. Bailey (Univ. of Kansas), AHA rep.; Julie Hardwick (Univ. of Texas, Austin), AHA rep.; Barbara Molony (Santa Clara Univ.), CCWH rep.; Barbara N. Ramusack (Univ. of Cincinnati), CCWH rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Pier M. Larson (Johns Hopkins Univ.), chair; Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Univ. of California, Davis); Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ.)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Daniel Dupre (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte), chair; Katrina L. Jagodinsky (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln); Ajay K. Mehrotra (American Bar Foundation); Honor Sachs (Western Carolina Univ.); John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Tessie P. Liu (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth Coll.); Gary M. Wilder (Graduate Center, CUNY)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Richard R. Drake (Univ. of Montana), AHA rep.; Areli Marina (Univ. of Kansas), ACHA rep.; Steven F. White (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.), SIHS rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Michael T. Saler (Univ. of California, Davis), chair; Ann M. Blair (Harvard Univ.); Lisa Moses Leff (American Univ.); Patricia M. E. Lorcin (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); A. Dirk Moses (Univ. of Sydney)

Committee on the John E. O’Connor Film Award: Laura E. Nym Mayhall (Catholic Univ. of America), chair; Kathleen DuVal (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Steven J. Ross (Univ. of Southern California)

Committee on the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize: Vincent Richard DiGirolamo (Baruch Coll., CUNY), chair; Kim Teresa Gallon (Purdue Univ.); Jonathan Daniel Wells (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Rebecca Earle (Univ. of Warwick), chair; Alison F. Games (Georgetown Univ.); Susanah Shaw Romney (New York Univ.); Abigail L. Swingen (Texas Tech Univ.); David Wheat (Michigan State Univ.)

Committee on the Premio Del Rey: Nina Caputo (Univ. of Florida), chair; A. Katie Harris (Univ. of California, Davis); Adam J. Kosto (Columbia Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Rachel L. Sturman (Bowdoin Coll.), chair; Rajeev Kumar Kinra (Northwestern Univ.); Yasmin Saikia (Arizona State Univ.)

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize: Fritz Fischer (Univ. of Northern Colorado), chair; Trevor Russell Getz (San Francisco State Univ.); Rebecca Nedostup (Brown Univ.)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Matthias B. Lehmann (Univ. of California, Irvine), chair; Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt Univ.); Hasia R. Diner (New York Univ.)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media), chair and GMU rep.; Jennifer E. Guiliano (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis), AHA rep.; Janice L. Reiff (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), AHA rep.; Sean P. Takats (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep.; Lauren Tilton (Univ. of Richmond), GMU rep.

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Jarvis L. Hargrove (North Carolina Central Univ.), chair and ASALH rep.; LaShawn D. Harris (Michigan State Univ.), ASALH rep.; Rashauna Johnson (Dartmouth Coll.), AHA rep.; Erik S. McDuffie (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), AHA rep.; Jon F. Sensbach (Univ. of Florida), AHA rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: Jana C. Remy (Chapman Univ.), chair; Mireya Loza (National Museum of American History); Robert B. Townsend (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Committee on Honorary Foreign Member and Awards for Scholarly Distinction: John R. McNeill; Mary Beth Norton; Tyler E. Stovall

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Amy Helene Forss (Metropolitan Comm. Coll.), chair; Ernesto Chavez (Univ. of Texas at El Paso); Angela A. Lee (Weston High School); Stephen R. Morillo (Wabash Coll.); Susan M. Yohn (Hofstra Univ.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Martha E. Kinney (Suffolk County Comm. Coll., SUNY), chair and AHA rep.; Tim W. Keirn (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep.; Tracy L. Steffes (Brown Univ.), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Stephen D. Kantrowitz (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Kathi Kern (Univ. of Kentucky); Kathy L. Peiss (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Committee on the NASA/AHA Fellowship: Teasel Elizabeth Muir-Harmony (Smithsonian Inst.), chair and HSS rep.; Angelina Long Callahan (Georgia Inst. of Technology), SHOT rep.; Jenifer L. Van Vleck (Smithsonian Inst.), AHA rep.

Committee on Annual Meeting Grants: Elizabeth A. Heath (Baruch Coll., CUNY); Clifton Hood (Hobart and William Smith Coll.); Kennetta Hammond Perry (East Carolina Univ.)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Janine M. Lanza (Wayne State Univ.), chair; Robyn d’Avignon (New York Univ.); Di Wang (Univ. of Macau)

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: R. Terry Bouton (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), chair; Peter F. Guardino (Indiana Univ.); Emily L. Wakild (Boise State Univ.)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State Univ.), chair; Gregory Dowd (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Ann M. Little (Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Paul D. Halliday (Univ. of Virginia), chair; Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Sally E. Hadden (American Society for Legal History)

Ad Hoc Committees

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)

Committee on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: David Pace (Indiana Univ.), chair; Adam G. Beaver (Harvard Univ.); Natalie Mendoza (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Laura M. Westhoff (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis)

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)

Delegates

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

American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science and Human Rights Coalition: James R. Grossman

American Council of Learned Societies: Cheryl L. Greenberg (Trinity Coll., Conn.)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Paul W. Werth (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Catherine A. Epstein (Amherst Coll.); Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown Univ.)

National Advisory Board of the History Teacher: Matthew R. Cone

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: William G. Thomas (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)

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