Publication Date

March 1, 1985

Perspectives Section

AHA Activities

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

 

Council

William H. McNeill, University of Chicago (president); Carl N. Degler, Stan­ford University (president-elect); Arthur S. Link, Princeton University (immediate past­ president); Richard S. Kirkendall, Iowa State University (vice president, Professional Divi­sion); John A. Garraty, Columbia University (vice-president, Teaching Division); Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University (vice-presi­dent, Research Division); Joyce O. Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles; Kath­erine Fischer Drew, Rice University; John V. Lombardi, Indiana University; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University; Louise Tilly, New School for Social Research; George B. Tindall, University of North Carolina, Cha­pel Hill; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Professional Division

Richard S. Kirkendall (vice-president); George B. Tindall (Council member); Robert L. Zangrando, University of Akron; Bernard Semmel, SUNY Stony Brook; Clara M. Lo­vett, George Washington University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Research Division

Mary Beth Norton (vice-president); Louise Tilly (Council member); Franklin W. Knight, Johns Hopkins Univer­sity; K. C. Liu, University of California, Da­vis; Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minneso­ta; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Teaching Division

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

Nominating Committee

Pauline R. Maier, chair, Massachusetts Institute  of  Technolo­gy; Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas; Frances Richardson Keller, San Francis­co State University; Peter Stansky, Stanford University; John L. Gaddis, Ohio University; Arnita A. Jones, History Associates, Louis­ville, KY; William H. Chafe, Duke Universi­ty; Susan M. Socolow, Emory University; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on Committees

Carl N. Degler, Stanford University, chair; John Morrow, Jr., University of Tennessee; Gail L. Bern­stein, University of Arizona; David Brody, University of California, Davis; E. William Monter, Northwestern University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on Affiliated Societies

Carl N. Degler, Stanford University, chair; Bernard Lewis (Council member); David Underdown, Brown University; Mary F. Berry, US Com­mission on Civil Rights and Howard Univer­sity; Samuel R. Gammon AHA, ex officio

Standing Committees

 

Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship

James T. Pat­terson, Brown University, chair; Samuel P. Hayes, University of Pittsburgh; John W. Shy, University of Michigan; William H. McNeill, University of Chicago; Carl N. Degler, Stanford University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on International Historical Activities (enlarged for 1985 Congress)

Nan­cy L. Roelker, Boston University, chair; Joel Colton, Duke University; John Baldwin, Johns Hopkins University; Stanley Stein, Princeton University; Morton Keller, Bran­deis University; Natalie Z. Davis, Princeton University; J. P. Greene, Johns Hopkins Uni­versity; Nathan I. Huggins, Harvard Univer­sity; Barbara Jelavich, Indiana University, Bloomington; 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

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

Committee on Women Historians

Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University, chair; William H. Chafe, Duke University; Karen Offen, Stanford University; Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University; Nancy Schrom Dye, University of Kentucky; Ellen Furlough, Brown University, graduate stu­dent; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Prize Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

John Cammett, John Jay College, CUNY; Rudolph Binion, Brandeis University; Thomas N. Bisson, University of California, Berkeley; Cissie Fairchilds, Syracuse University; Norman F. Cantor, New York University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize

John C. Cairns, University of Toronto, chair; James Sheehan, Stanford University; Charles S. Maier, Harvard University; Philip C. F. Bankwitz, Trinity College; Sally J. Marks, Rhode Island College; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

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

Patricia Bonomi, New York University, chair; Philip Cantelon, History Associates, Inc.; Eric Foner, Columbia  University; A.J. R. Russell-Wood, Johns Hopkins Uni­versity; Nell I. Painter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize

Jaroslav J. Pelikan, Yale University, chair; Frank M. Clover, University of Wis­consin, Madison; Jacob Lassner, Wayne State University; Karl F. Morrison, University of Kansas; David H. Keightley, University of California, Berkeley; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the John K. Fair­bank Prize

Akira Iriye, University of Chicago, chair; Marlene J. Mayo, University of Maryland, College Park; Jonathan Spence, Yale Univer­sity; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award

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

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award

Peter  Gay, Yale University; Maurice Lee, Jr., Rutgers University; Mack Walker, Johns Hopkins University; Dora B. Weiner, University of California, Los Angeles; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement

Louis Harlan, University of Maryland, Col­ lege Park, chair; Jonathan Dull, Yale Univer­sity; Mary Jo Kline, Sotheby’s, NYC; James McLachlan, New York University; Lewis Per­ry, Vanderbilt University; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Joan Kelly Prize for Women’s History

Carolyn C. Lougee, Stan­ford University, chair; Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNY; E. William Monter, Northwestern University; Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University; Margaret Strobel, University of Illinois, Chi­cago; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the Howard R. Marraro Prize

Lauro Martines, University of Califor­nia, Los Angeles; Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Elisa Carrillo, Marymount College; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Fellowship Programs

Congressional Fellowship Program

Donald A. Ritchie, Senate Historical Office, chair; Ronald Hoffman, University of Maryland, College Park; Anna K. Nelson, George Washington University; Allison Blakely, Howard University; Joseph P. Harahan, Office of Air Force History; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History

John M. Coo­per Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison, chair; Nancy Nichols Barker, University of Texas, Austin;  Ronald Bayor, Georgia Insti­tute of Technology; 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; Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa; Richard Bushman, University of Delaware; Harold M. Hyman, Rice University; 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; Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa; Richard Bushman, University of Delaware;  Harold M. Hyman, Rice University; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-CHA Committee

Suzann C. Buckley, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, chair; Robert Babcock, University of Maine; Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-OAH-SAA Committee on Historians & Archivists

Wilbur R. Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara; Deb­orah Gardner, New York Stock Exchange; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Joint AHA-ASLH Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund

Harry N. Scheiber, Uni­versity of California, Berkeley, chair; Mary­lynn Salmon, University of Maryland Balti­more County; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Samuel R. Gam­mon, AHA, ex officio

Program Committee

John M. Murrin, Princeton University, chair; William C. Jor­dan, Princeton University, cochair; Paula S. Fass, University of California, Berkeley; Howard L. Green, New Jersey Historical Commission; James Lockhart, University of California, Los Angeles; H. C. Erik Midel­fort, University of Virginia; Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago; Mary P. Ryan, Uni­versity of California, Irvine; William H. Sew­ell, Jr., University of Arizona; Robert C. Williams, Washington University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Histori­cal Diplomatic Documentation: Carol Gruber, William Paterson College; Warren F. Kuehl, University of Akron; third member to be appointed

American Council of Learned So­cieties: Philip D. Curtin, Johns Hopkins University

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

National Historical Publications & Records Commission: Carol R. Bleser, Clemson Uni­versity; Ronald P. Formisano, Clark 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