The following is a list of the officers, elected Council members, and the approved committee structure for 1986.
Council
Carl N. Degler, Stanford University (president); Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University (president-elect); William H. McNeill, University of Chicago (immediate past president); Richard S. Kirkendall, Iowa State University (vice-president, Professional Division); Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University (vice-president, Research Division); Patricia Albjerg Graham, Harvard University (vice-president, Teaching Division); Robert Forster, Johns Hopkins University; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University; Peggy K. Liss, Washington, DC; Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Research; George B. Tindall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, and David L. Ransel, AHR, ex officio
Professional Division
Richard S. Kirkendall (vice-president); George B. Tindall (Council member); Bernard Semmel, SUNY Stony Brook; Clara M. Lovett, George Washington University; George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Research Division
Mary Beth Norton (vice-president); Louise A. Tilly (Council member); K. C. Liu, University of California, Davis; Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minnesota; Anna K. Nelson, American University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Teaching Division
Patricia Albjerg Graham (vice-president); Robert Forster (Council member); Gerald G. Eggert, Pennsylvania State University; Marjorie Wall Bingham, St. Louis Park Public Schools; Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Nominating Committee
Peter Stansky, chair, Stanford University; John L. Gaddis, Ohio University; Arnita A. Jones, History Associates, Inc., Louisville, KY; William H. Chafe, Duke University; Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University; Susan M. Socolow, Emory University; Richard S. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania; Suzanne D. Lebsock, Rutgers University; David K. Wyatt, Cornell University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on Committees
Natalie Zemon Davis, chair, Princeton University; Gail L. Bernstein, University of Arizona; David Brody, University of California, Davis; Linda Levy Peck, Purdue University; E. William Monter, Northwestern University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on Affiliated Societies
Natalie Zemon Davis, chair, Princeton University; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University (Council member); Mary F. Berry, Howard University; David E. Underdown, Yale University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Standing Committees
Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship
Samuel P. Hays, chair, University of Pittsburgh; John W. Shy, University of Michigan; J. Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology; Carl N. Degler, Stanford University; Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on International Historical Activities
Karen Offen, chair, Stanford University; Morton Keller, Brandeis University; Stanley J. Stein, Princeton University; Robert Darnton, Princeton University; Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, University of Michigan; C. War ren Hollister, University of California, Santa Barbara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on Quantitative Research in History
Maris Vinovskis, chair, University of Michigan; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Berkeley; Peter H. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert V. Wells, Union College; Lorena Walsh, Maryland State Archives; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on Women Historians
Alice Kessler-Harris, chair, Hofstra University; Sylvia Jacobs, North Carolina Central University; Nancy Schrom Dye, University of Kentucky; Judith Walkowitz, Rutgers University; Ronald Walters, Johns Hopkins University; Virginia Scharff, University of Arizona (graduate student); Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Prize Committees
Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Thomas N. Bisson, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Rudolph Binion, Brandeis University; Cissie Fairchilds, Syracuse University; Norman F. Cantor, New York University; Richard Herr, University of California, Berkeley; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize
James J. Sheehan, chair, Stanford University; Charles S. Maier, Harvard University; Philip C. F. Bankwitz, Trinity College, CT; Sally J. Marks, Rhode Island College; F. Roy Willis, University of California, Davis; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award and the John H. Dunning Prize
A.J.R. Russell-Wood, chair, Johns Hopkins University; Stanley L. Falk, US Army Center of Military History (Retired); Milton Klein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Nell I. Painter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; John L. Thomas, Brown University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize
Paul M. Kennedy, chair, Yale University; Peter Paret, Stanford University; David Trask, US Army Center of Military History; Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MacGregor Knox, University of Rochester; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.
Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize
Jaroslav J. Pelikan, chair, Yale University; 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 Albert B. Corey Prize
Suzann C. Buckley, SUNY Plattsburgh; John D. Wirth, Stanford University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.
Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize
Jonathan D. Spence, chair, Yale University; Charles E. Neu, Brown University; Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Herbert Feis Award
Frank E. Vandiver, chair, Texas A&M University; Harold P. Anderson, Wells Fargo Bank; Suellen Hoy, North Carolina Division of Archives & History; Romana M. Danysh, US Army Center of Military History; Nicholas C. Burckel, Washington University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award
Nancy L. Roelker, chair, emerita, Boston University; Peter Gay, Yale University; Mau rice 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 Clarence H. Haring Prize
Richard Graham, chair, University of Texas, Austin; Arnold J. Bauer, University of California, Davis; Frederick P. Bowser, Stanford University; Asunción Lavrín, Howard University; Murdo J. MacLeod, University of Florida; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio.
Committee on the Joan Kelly Prize for Women’s History
Carolyn C. Lougee, chair, Stanford University; Margaret Strobel, University of Illinois, Chicago; Allen F. Davis, Temple University; Susan M. Hartmann, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Jean Quartaert, University of Houston, Clear Lake; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Waldo G. Leland Prize
Daniel J. Leab, chair, Seton Hall University; Robert M. Weible, Lowell National Historical Park; John B. Jentz, Newberry Library; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Littleton Griswold Prize in American Law and Society
Harry N. Scheiber, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Marylynn Salmon, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Howard R. Marraro Prize
Rudolph Vecoli, chair, University of Minnesota; Elisa Carrillo, Marymount College, Tarrytown; John D’Amico, George Mason University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize
Perez D. Zagorin, chair, University of Rochester; Donald J. Olsen, Vassar College; Martin J. Weiner, Rice University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Fellowship Programs
Committee on the J, Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History
John M. Cooper, Jr., chair, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ronald Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology: Jane H. Pease, University of Maine, Orono; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Committee on the NASA Fellowship
Melvin Kranzberg, chair, Georgia Institute of Technology; William Becker, The George Washington University; Edward Constant, Carnegie-Mellon University; Alex Roland, Duke University; Robert Wohl, UCLA; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Ad Hoc Committees
Committee on the Columbus Quincentennial
Helen Nader, chair, Indiana University; David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University; James L. Axtell, College of William and Mary; Robert Potash, University of Massachusetts; Joseph Sanchez, National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Special Committee on the Bicentennial Era
Mary K. B. Tachau, chair, University of Louisville; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Stanford University; Richard Bushman, University of Delaware; Harold M. Hyman, Rice University; Herman Belz, University of Maryland, College Park; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Joint AHA-APSA Committee on Project ’87
Richard B. Morris, emeritus, Columbia University (AHA co-chair) and above committee
Joint AHA-CHA Committee
Robert Babcock, chair, University of Maine, Orono; Michael Katz, University of Pennsylvania; Margaret Andrews, Washington State University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Joint AHA-OAH-SAA Committee on Historians & Archivists
Deborah Gardner, chair, New York Stock Exchange; Thomas G. Paterson, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Joint AHA-ASLH Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund
Harry N. Scheiber, chair, University of California, Berkeley; Marylynn Salmon, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Joint Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Historians Under the First Amendment
Carl N. Degler, ex officio; Parliamentarian; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Program Committee
Margaret C. Jacob, chair, Eugene Lang College-New School for Social Research; Patricia U. Bonomi, co-chair, New York University; Philip C. Huang, University of California, Los Angeles; David Michael Kennedy, Stanford University; Marjorie Lightman, Institute for Research in History; Leon Lipson, Yale University; Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University; Charles S. Maier, Harvard University; Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago; August Meier, Kent State University; David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University; Samuel R. Gammon, AHA, ex officio
Delegates
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation: Carol Gruber, William Paterson College (mid-year); Warren F. Kuehl, University of Akron; Robert Dallek, University of California, Los Angeles
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies: Reginald E. Zelnik, University of California, Berkeley
American Council of Learned Societies: Philip D. Curtin, Johns Hopkins University
International Committee of Historical Sciences: Karen Offen, Stanford University
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 (mid year)
US-USSR Subcommission on Quantitative Research in History: Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University