Publication Date

March 1, 1984

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved com­mittee structure for 1985.

 

Council

Arthur S. Link, Princeton University (president); William H. McNeill, University of Chicago (presi­dent-elect); Philip D. Curtin, Johns Hopkins University (immediate past­ president); Richard S. Kirkendall, Iowa State University (vice president, Profes­sional Division); Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (vice president, Research Division); John A. Garraty, Columbia University (vice president, Teaching Division); Robert I. Rotberg, Massachusetts Insti­tute of Technology; Elizabeth L. Eisen­stein, University of Michigan; Robert M. Warner, Archivist of the United States; Joyce O. Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles; Katherine Fischer Drew, Rice University: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., University of California, Berkeley; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Professional Division

Richard S. Kirkendall (vice president); Frederic Wakeman Jr. (Council member); Bernard Semmel, SUNY Stony Brook: Sam Wells, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Robert L. Zangrando, University of Akron; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Research Division

Gerhard L. Wein­berg (vice president); Robert I. Rotberg (Council member); K. C. Liu, UC Davis; Walter LaFeber, Cornell University; Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Teaching Division

John A. Garraty (vice president); Joyce O. Applebv (Council member); Gerald G. Eggert, Pennsylvania State University; Marjorie Wall Bingham, St. Louis Park Public Schools, Minn.; Nadine Hata, El Ca­mino College; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Nominating Committee

Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University (chair); Elizabeth Pleck, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College; Herbert Klein, Columbia University; Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas; Frances Richardson Keller, San Francisco State University; Pauline R. Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Stansky, Stanford University; Ar­nita A. Jones, NEH; John L. Gaddis, Ohio University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on Committees

William H. McNeill, University of Chicago (chair); Barbara Sicherman, Trinity College, Connecticut; William Keylor, Boston University; G. Wesley Johnson, Public History Program, University of California. Santa Barbara; John Morrow Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on Affiliated Societies

Wil­liam H. McNeill, University of Chicago (chair); Gerhard L. Weinberg (Council member); Mary F. Berry, US Commission on Civil Rights and Howard University; David Underdown, Brown University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Policy Committee on Popular History Magazine

Robert I. Rotberg, Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology (chair); John A. Garraty, Columbia University; Joyce O. Appleby, University of Califor­nia, Los Angeles; Barbara Tuchman

Standing Committees

 

Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship

Mor­ton Keller, Brandeis University (chair); James T. Patterson, Brown University; Samuel P. Hayes, University of Pitts­burgh; Arthur S. Link, Princeton University; William H. McNeill, University of Chicago; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on International Historical Activities (enlarged for 1985 Congress)

Nancy L. Roelker, Boston University (chair); Morton Keller, Brandeis University; Natalie Z. Davis, Princeton University; Joel Colton, Duke University; John W. Baldwin, Johns Hopkins University; Stanley Stein, Princeton University; J. P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University; Nathan I. Huggins, Harvard University; Barbara Jelavich, Indi­ana University; Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University; Nikki R. Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles; Frederic E. Wakeman Jr., University of California, Berkeley; John Womack Jr , Harvard University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on Quantitative Research in History

Peter Czap, Amherst College (chair); J. Morgan Kousser, Califor­nia Institute of Technology; Janice Reiff, Newberry Library; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Berkeley; Maris Vinovskis, University of Michi­gan; ex officiis: Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University; Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA

Committee on Women Historians

Linda Levy Peck, Purdue University (chair): Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University; Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University; William Chafe, Duke University; Karen Offen, Stanford University; Ellen Furlough, graduate student, Brown University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Prize Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Eleanor Searle, California Institute of Technology; John Cammett, John Jay College, CUNY; Rudolph Binion. Brandeis University; Thomas Bisson, University of California, Berkeley; Cissie Fairchilds, Syracuse University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize

John Cairns, University of To­ronto (chair); Paul Lauren, University of Montana; James Sheehan, Stanford University; Charles Maier, Harvard University; Philip Bankwitz, Trinity College, Connecticut; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award and the John H. Dunning Prize

Eugene K. Chamberlin, San Diego Mir­amar College (chair); Richard S. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania; Patricia Bonomi, New York University; Philip Cantelon, Historv Associates, Inc.; Eric Foner, Columbia University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize in US History for Foreign Scholars

David Hall, Boston University (chair); Kathleen N. Conzen, University of Chicago; Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego; Reinhard Doerries, University of Hamburg; Rob­ert V. Remini, University of Illinois, Chicago; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award for Nonacademically Affiliated Historians

Frank Vandiver, Texas A&M University (chair); Harold P. Anderson, Wells Fargo Bank; William Slany, His­torian, US Department of State;  Suel­len Hoy, North Carolina Division of Archives and History; Otis A. Pease, University of Washington; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Joan Kelly Prize for Women’s History

Carolyn C. Lougee, Stanford University (chair); Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University; E. William Monter, Northwestern University; Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNY: Nikki R. Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Howard R. Marraro Prize

Emiliana P. Noether, University of Connecticut (chair); Lauro Martines, University of California, Los Angeles; Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minneso­ta; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize for Teaching Aid

Earl A. Reitan, Illinois State University (chair); Gerald M. Straka, University of Dela­ware; F. David Roberts, Dartmouth Col­lege; Daniel K. Walkowitz, New York University; Judith Zinsser Lippmann, United Nations International School; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Fellowship Programs

Congressional Fellowship Program

Martha H. Swain, Texas Woman’s University (chair); Al­lan M. Winkler, University of Oregon; Ronald Hoffman, University of Mary­land, College Park; Donald A. Ritchie, Senate Historical Office; Anna K. Nel­son, George Washington University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History

Jacob E. Cooke, Lafayette College (chair); Nancy Nichols Barker, University of Texas, Austin; John M. Cooper Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Ad Hoc Committees

Special Committee on the Bicentennial Era

Mary K. B. Tachau, University of Louisville (chair); Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University; Herman Belz, University of Maryland, College Park; Lin­da K. Kerber, University of Iowa; Mil­ton Klein, University of Tennessee; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-APSA Committee on Project ’87

Richard B. Morris. The Papers of John Jay, Columbia University (cochair, AHA); Mary K.B. Tachau, University of Louisville; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University; Herman Belz, University of Maryland, College Park; Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa; Milton Klein, University of Tennessee; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-OAH Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Historians under the First Amendment

Arthur S. Link, Princeton University, ex officio; parliamentarian; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-ASLH Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund

Stanley I. Kutler, University of Wisconsin-Madi­son (chair); Harry N. Scheiber, University of California, Berkeley; Marylynn Salmon, University of Marrland Baltimore County; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-CHA Committee

Carlos Schwantes, Walla Walla College (chair); Suzann C. Buckley, SUNY, Plattsburgh; Robert H. Babcock, University of Maine, Orono; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-OAH-SAA Committee on Historians and Archivists

Fredrick Aandahl, Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University; Wilbur Jacobs, University of California, Sama Barbara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Histori­cal Diplomatic Documentation: Ernest R. May, Harvard University; John L. Gaddis, Ohio University; Carol Gruber, William Paterson College

American Council of Learned So­cieties: Carl F. Schorske, Princeton University

International Committee of Historical Sciences: Nancy L. Roelker, Boston University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, alternate

National Archives Ad­visory Council: W. Turrentine Jackson, University of California, Davis.

National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Richard Schlatter, American Council of Learned Societies; Carol R. Bleser, Colgate University

Social Science Research Council: Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Research

US-USSR Subcommission on Quantitative Research in History: Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University