AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2026

Council

Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge), AHA president; Lonnie G. Bunch III (Smithsonian Institution), AHA president-elect; Ben Vinson III, AHA past president; Karin A. Wulf (John Carter Brown Library), vice president, Professional Division; William G. Thomas III (Montana State Univ., Bozeman), vice president, Research Division; Serena R. Zabin (Carleton Coll.), vice president, Teaching Division; Jennifer L. McNabb (Univ. of Northern Iowa), Council member, Professional Division; Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan (Rutgers Univ.), Council member, Professional Division; M. Raisur Rahman (Wake Forest Univ.), Council member, Professional Division; Cemil Aydin (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Council member, Research Division; Van E. Gosse (Franklin & Marshall Coll.), Council member, Research Division; Jana K. Lipman (Tulane Univ.), Council member, Research Division; Jennifer High Baniewicz (Amos Alonzo Stagg High School), Council member, Teaching Division; Edward D. Cohn (Grinnell Coll.), Council member, Teaching Division; Karen R. Miller (La Guardia Comm. Coll., CUNY), Council member, Teaching Division; Pragya Kaul Guido (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Council member, at large; William F. Wechsler (Atlantic Council), AHA treasurer; Alison M. Dreizen (Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP), counsel; Sarah Jones Weicksel (American Historical Association), executive director; Mark Philip Bradley (Univ. of Chicago), AHR editor; Kenneth F. Ledford (Case Western Reserve Univ.), AHA parliamentarian

Professional Division

Karin Wulf, vice president; Jennifer McNabb; Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan; Rais Rahman

Research Division

William Thomas, vice president; Cemil Aydin; Van Gosse; Jana Lipman

Teaching Division

Serena Zabin, vice president; Jennifer Baniewicz; Edward Cohn; Karen Miller

Nominating Committee

Anthony J. Steinhoff (Univ. du Québec, Montréal), chair; Alexander Aviña (Arizona State Univ.); Mariana P. Candido (Emory Univ.); Hilary Nicole Green (Davidson Coll.); Hiromi Mizuno (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); Amanda B. Moniz (National Museum of American History); Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston Coll.); Dana Rabin (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Matthew B. Restall (Penn State Univ.)

Committee on Committees

Lonnie G. Bunch, chair; Julio C. Capó (Florida International Univ.), through July; Carol Harrison (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia); Laura J. Mitchell (Univ. of California, Irvine); Linh Vu (Arizona State Univ.)

Permanent and Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Lonnie G. Bunch, chair; Winson W. Chu (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Julie M. Greene (Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park); Sharon Ann Murphy (Providence Coll.)

Committee on Gender Equity: Amanda Allen (High Point Univ.); Judith Ann Giesberg (Villanova Univ.); J. T. Roane (Rutgers Univ., Piscataway); Lisa M. Tetrault (Carnegie Mellon Univ.); Yvon Wang (Univ. of Toronto)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Solsiree Del Moral (Amherst Coll.); Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh (Northeastern Illinois Univ.); Anna Yu. Krylova (Duke Univ.); Marc Landry (Univ. of New Orleans); Priyanka Srivastava (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession: Christina J. Carney (Univ. of Missouri, Columbia), co-chair; Nathan E. Marvin (Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock), co-chair; Robert Franco (Kenyon Coll.); Kris Klein Hernández (Connecticut Coll.); Jen Manion (Amherst Coll.)

Committee on Racial and Ethnic Equity: Elise Boxer (Univ. of South Dakota); Alan Shane Dillingham (Arizona State Univ.); Cherisse R. Jones-Branch (Arkansas State Univ.); Suzy Kim (Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey); Edward Anthony Polanco (Virginia Tech)

Finance Committee: Ben Vinson, chair; Lonnie Bunch; Suzanne Marchand; Rais Rahman; Noel Salinger; William F. Wechsler

Graduate and Early Career Committee: Daniel Edward Castaneda (Univ. of California, Davis); Kyra Dezjot (Fordham Univ.); Robert L. Powers (Mountain Empire Comm. Coll.); Treasure Tinsley (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); Pragya Kaul Guido, Council rep.

Investment Committee: Keith Hocter (Bellwether Consulting), chair; Lonnie Bunch; Suzanne Marchand; William F. Wechsler

2027 Program Committee: Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State Univ., Shreveport), chair; Melissa N Stuckey (Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia), co-chair; Luisa Fernanda Arrieta Fernandez (Spelman Coll.); BuYun Chen (Swarthmore Coll.); Rowan Dorin (Stanford Univ.); Roy Doron (Winston-Salem State Univ.); Theresa R. Jach (Houston City Coll., Northwest); Katrina L. Jagodinsky (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln); Jesse C. Kauffman (Eastern Michigan Univ.); Monica Muñoz Martinez (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Stuart Rockoff (Mississippi Humanities Council); Nerina Rustomji (Saint John’s Univ., NY); Wade Trosclair (Jesuit High School of New Orleans)

2028 Program Committee: Karin Wulf, chair; Paul Gardullo (National Museum of African American History and Culture), co-chair

2027 Local Arrangements Committee: Ashley Rogers (Whitney Plantation), co-chair; Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier Univ., La.), co-chair

Awards Committees

 

Awards for Publications

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Kathleen M. Crowther (Univ. of Oklahoma), chair; John Christopoulos (Univ. of British Columbia); Carolyn Anne Day (Furman Univ.); Ann E. Moyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Brian A. Porter-Szucs (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Committee on the AHA Prize in European International History: Laura D. Beers (American Univ.); Victoria de Grazia (Columbia Univ.); Thomas Fleischman (Univ. of Rochester); William G. Gray (Purdue Univ.); Peter I. Holquist (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Committee on the AHA Prize in History prior to CE 1000: Ruth Mostern (Univ. of Pittsburgh), chair; Kathryn M. de Luna (Georgetown Univ.); John F. Donahue (Coll. of William & Mary)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Holger Droessler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), co-chair; Adam Ewing (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), co-chair; Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State Univ.); Sarah C. Davis-Secord (Univ. of New Mexico); Ben W. Goossen (Boston Univ.)

Committee on the Beveridge Family Prize in American History: Jeremy Zallen (Lafayette Coll.), chair; Robyn Lily Davis (Millersville Univ., Pa.); Seth W. Garfield (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Alex Lichtenstein (Indiana Univ.); Robert B. Townsend (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize: Mark Atwood Lawrence (Univ. of Texas, Austin), chair; Heather R. Perry (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte); Tammy M. Proctor (Utah State Univ.)

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize: Molly P. Rozum (Univ. of South Dakota), chair, AHA rep.; Sean Graham (National Defence), CHA rep.; William Jenkins (York Univ.), CHA rep.; Lissa K. Wadewitz (Univ. of Oregon), AHA rep.

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Garrett L. Washington (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), chair; Jacob M. Blosser (Texas Woman’s Univ.); Amanda I. Seligman (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Committee on the Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize: Ethan I. Segal (Michigan State Univ.), chair; Carla S. Nappi (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Sixiang Wang (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Emer S. O’Dwyer (Oberlin Coll.), chair; Janet Y. Chen (Princeton Univ.); Evan N. Dawley (Goucher Coll.); Eric Schluessel (George Washington Univ.); Kerry Smith (Brown Univ.)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Paul R. Ocobock (Univ. of Notre Dame), chair; Jill C. Bender (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro); Christopher L. Brown (Columbia Univ.); Tobias J. Harper (Arizona State Univ.); Katie A. Hindmarch-Watson (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Andre Wakefield (Pitzer Coll.), chair; Daniela Bleichmar (Univ. of Southern California); Simon P. Newman (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Laura M. Westhoff (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis), chair; Nicholas J. Kryczka (National Louis Univ.); Tore C. Olsson (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Committee on the Clarence Haring Prize: Heidi V. Scott (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), chair; Pablo Palomino (Emory Univ., Oxford Coll.); Mauricio Tenorio (Univ. of Chicago)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Pablo F. Gómez (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), chair; Takkara Brunson (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station); Andrew P. Konove (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio); Heather F. Roller (Colgate Univ.); Heather A. Vrana (Univ. of Florida)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize: Allyson M. Poska (Univ. of Mary Washington), chair, AHA rep.; Choi Chatterjee (California State Univ., Los Angeles), AHA rep.; Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins Univ.), AHA rep.; Jessica R. Pliley (Texas State Univ.), CCWH rep.; Felicity M. Turner (Georgia Southern Univ., Armstrong), CCWH rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Akin O. Ogundiran (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Kenda B. Mutongi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology); Elizabeth Thornberry (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the Waldo Leland Prize: Brian Luna Lucero (Columbia Univ.); Gregory E. O’Malley (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz); Kristin Stapleton (Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Gautham Rao (American Univ.), chair; Kate E. Brown (Western Kentucky Univ.); Sara Damiano (Texas State Univ.); Hidetaka Hirota (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Nate Holdren (Drake Univ.)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Emily Marker (Rutgers Univ., Camden), chair; Michael C. Behrent (Appalachian State Univ.); Jessica G. Riskin (Stanford Univ.)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Brian J. Maxson (East Tennessee State Univ.), chair, SIHS rep.; Roy Domenico (Univ. of Scranton), ACHA rep.; Molly Tambor (Long Island Univ. Post), AHA rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Stefan J. Link (Dartmouth Coll.), chair; Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams Coll.); Nancy Shields Kollmann (Stanford Univ.); Scott O. Moore (Eastern Connecticut State Univ.); Corinna A. Treitel (Washington Univ., St. Louis)

Committee on the John E. O’Connor Film Award: Jason W. Herbert (Historians At The Movies), chair; Paula Halperin (Purchase Coll., State Univ. of New York); David K. Johnson (Univ. of South Florida, Tampa)

Committee on the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize: Michael R. Stamm (Michigan State Univ.), chair; Kathy Roberts Forde (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst); David Greenberg (Rutgers Univ.)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Adriana Chira (Emory Univ.); Jenna M. Gibbs (Florida International Univ.); Timothy P. Hawkins (Indiana State Univ.); Kym Y. Morrison (San Francisco State Univ.); Randy J. Sparks (Tulane Univ.)

Committee on the Premio Del Rey: Thomas W. Barton (Univ. of San Diego), chair; Max Deardorff (Univ. of Florida); Maya Soifer Irish (Rice Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Robert D. Crews (Stanford Univ.), chair; Sunil Amrith (Yale Univ.); Shahla Hussain (Saint John’s Univ., NY); Amanda M. Lanzillo (Univ. of Chicago); Elizabeth Lhost (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize: Eric N. Gonzaba (California State Univ., Fullerton), chair; Nishani Frazier (North Carolina State Univ.); Bennett Gabriel Sherry (OER Project)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Rachel Kranson (Univ. of Pittsburgh), chair; Allan M. Amanik (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY); Sarah A. Stein (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Lincoln Mullen (George Mason Univ.), chair, GMU rep.; Tom Chandler (Monash Univ.), AHA rep.; Jennifer M. Guglielmo (Smith Coll.), AHA rep.; Kristen Mapes (Michigan State Univ.), GMU rep.; Michael H. O’Malley (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep.

Committee on the Sinclair Prize: David J. Trowbridge (Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City), chair; Andrew J. Falk (Christopher Newport Univ.); Joanne B. Freeman (Yale Univ.)

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: LaShawn D. Harris (Michigan State Univ.), chair, ASALH rep.; Caree Ann Marie Banton (Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville), AHA rep.; Yesenia Barragan (Rutgers Univ.), AHA rep.; Karen Cook Bell (Bowie State Univ.), ASALH rep.; Herman L. Bennett (Graduate Center, CUNY), AHA rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on Honorary Foreign Member and Awards for Scholarly Distinction: Lonnie Bunch; Suzanne Marchand; Ben Vinson

Committee on the Lepage Center Award: Michael T. M. McCoyer (US Dept. of State), chair; Stephen Aron (Autry Museum of the American West); Katherine Landdeck (Texas Woman’s Univ.)

Committee on the John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice: Peniel E. Joseph (Univ. of Texas, Austin), chair; Sun-Young Park (George Mason Univ.); Adam Rothman (Georgetown Univ.)

Committee on the John Lewis Award for Public Service to the Discipline of History: Suzanne Marchand; Sarah Weicksel

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Barbara Young Welke (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), chair; Brittany Adams (Irvine Valley Coll.); Melissa K. Byrnes (Southwestern Univ.); Benjamin L. Carp (Brooklyn Coll., CUNY); Erik Reed Vincent (Atlanta International School)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Eileen S. Luhr (California State Univ., Long Beach), chair, SHE rep.; Stephen J. Jackson (Univ. of Kansas), AHA rep.; Ángeles Picone (Boston Coll.), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Beau D. J. Gaitors (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), chair; Rebecca L. Davis (Univ. of Delaware); Julia F. Irwin (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Ashli White (Univ. of Miami), chair; Matthew Kruer (Univ. of Chicago); David J. Silverman (George Washington Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ History Research Grants: Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Pippa E. Holloway (Univ. of Richmond)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Alison L. LaCroix (Univ. of Chicago), chair; Julian Lim (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Kenneth W. Mack (Harvard Law School)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: James R. Brennan (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Judd C. Kinzley (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Victoria E. Thompson (Georgia Inst. of Technology)

Ad Hoc Committees

Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom: Karin Wulf, chair; David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.); Cynthia Copeland (NYU Steinhardt School); Reginald K. Ellis (Clark Atlanta Univ.); Anne Marie Evans (Univ. of Richmond); Johann N. Neem (Western Washington Univ.); Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (New School); David M. Rabban (Univ. of Texas School of Law); Robert D. Taber (Fayetteville State Univ.)

Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence in History Education: Jennifer Baniewicz; Doron Ben Atar (Fordham Univ., Lincoln Center); Theresa A. Case (Univ. of Houston, Downtown); Adam Clulow (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Sonia Hernández (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station); Kelly Schrum (George Mason Univ.); Tamara L. Shreiner (Grand Valley State Univ.); Lee Vinsel (Virginia Tech)

Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence in History Research and Publications: William Thomas, chair; Matthew J. Connelly (Columbia Univ.); Jo Guldi (Emory Univ.); Louis R. Hyman (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Loren S. Moulds (Univ. of Virginia); Jacqueline M. Olich (Veza Alliance Management); Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich (McNeil Center for Early American Studies); Adina Popescu (Yale Univ. Press); Patricia L. Searl (Univ. of Virginia Press); Lauren Tilton (Univ. of Richmond)

Digital History Working Group: Kalani L. Craig (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), co-chair; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), co-chair; Tiffany Earley-Spadoni (Univ. of Central Florida); Gillian S. Macdonald (Michigan State Univ.); Janneken L. Smucker (West Chester Univ.)

NARA Review Committee: Richard H. Immerman (Temple Univ.), chair; Matthew J. Connelly (Columbia Univ.); Trudy H. Peterson; Christopher J. Prom (Univ. of Illinois Library); Leslie S. Rowland (Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park)

Working Group on K–12 Education: Jennifer Baniewicz; Shane Carter (ORIAS, Univ. of California, Berkeley); Daniel Gutierrez (Harvard-Westlake School); Kathleen Hilliard (Iowa State Univ.); Katharina Matro (Walter Johnson High School); Craig Perrier (Fairfax County Public Schools); Brenda Santos (Annenberg Institute, Brown Univ.

Working Group on Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Edward Cohn (Grinnell Coll.), co-chair; Jessica Pearson (Macalester Coll.), co-chair; Ernesto Capello (Macalester Coll.); Jordana Dym (Skidmore Coll.); Melissa K. Byrnes (Southwestern Univ.)

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation: Timothy J. Naftali (New York Univ.)

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

American Council of Learned Societies: Carlos Alberto Contreras (Grossmont Coll.)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Victor Petrov (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)

CIA Historical Review Board: Beverly Gage (Yale Univ.)

Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History: Daniel J. Sherman (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Tiffany N. Florvil (Univ. of New Mexico); Emily L. Swafford (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

National Advisory Board of The History Teacher: Katharina Matro (Walter Johnson High School)

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: Kim T. Gallon (Purdue Univ.)

Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: Risa L. Goluboff (Univ. of Virginia); Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins Univ.)