The Association is pleased to announce that Dr. James B. Gardner has accepted the position of Deputy Executive Director of the AHA, effective September 15, 1986. Dr. Gardner has been a member since 1975 and is widely known to fellow members. Many will remember his effective work as the graduate student assisting Professor Dewey Grantham, program chair for the 1977 meeting in Dallas.
Dr. Gardner did his undergraduate work at Southwestern, and received his MA and PhD from Vanderbilt, the latter in 1978, specializing in southern political history in the mid-twentieth century. Since 1978 he has been a staff member of the American Association for State and Local History, based in Nashville. He was editor of a volume of original essays, Ordinary People and Everyday Life: Perspectives on the New Social Hist01y (AASLH, 1983). For the past two years he has been Assistant Director, and Director of Education and Special Programs for AASLH. For the last two years he has also been a member of the Tennessee Humanities Council. He is a member of the Council of the Tennessee Association of Museums and has served as a reviewer for NEH and NHPRC.
Dr. Gardner is married; they have a small son.
