Under the bylaws pursuant to Article VIII, Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the constitution, the executive director invites all members of the Association to submit to him, on or before December 15, recommendations for the following offices: president-elect; vice-president of the Professional Division; two Council members; one member each for the Professional, Research, and Teaching divisions; one member of the Committee on Committees; and three members of the Nominating Committee. All suggestions received will be forwarded to the Nominating Committee for consideration at its meeting next February.
Present membership of the Council and elective committees is as follows with open positions indicated by the year and name in bold italic lettering:
Council
1988 Natalie Z. Davis, Princeton University, immediate past president
1989 Akira Iriye, Harvard University, president
1990 Louis R. Harlan, University of Maryland, College Park, president-elect
1988 Patricia A. Graham, Harvard University, vice president, Teaching Division
1989 John J. TePaske, Duke University, vice president, Professional Division
1990 Richard T. Vann, Wesleyan University, vice president, Research Division
1988 Robert Forster, The Johns Hopkins University
1988 Peggy K. Liss, Washington, D.C.
1989 John F. Benton*, California Institute of Technology
1989 Richard H. Kohn, Office of Air Force History
1990 Carol Gluck, Columbia University
1990 Lawrence W. Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Divisions
Professional
1988 George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University
1989 Albert Camarillo, Stanford University
1990 Caroline W. Bynum, Columbia University
Research
1988 Anna K. Nelson, Tulane University
1989 Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
1990 Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park
Teaching
1988 Sharon Harley, University of Maryland, College Park
1989 Philip B. Scranton, Rutgers University, Camden
1990 Julia Stewart Werner, Nicolet High School, Wisconsin
Committee on Committees
1988 Linda L. Peck, Purdue University
1989 Ingrid Winther Scobie, Texas Woman’s University
1990 John R. Gillis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
1990 Louisa S. Hoberman, Austin, Texas
Nominating Committee
1988 Richard S. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania
1988 Suzanne D. Lebsock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
1988 Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas
1989 Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University
1989 Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study
1989 Suellen Hoy, University of Notre Dame
1990 William B. Cohen, Indiana University
1990 Alice Kessler-Harris, Hofstra University
1990 Colin A. Palmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
See also the ballot material for the 1988 elections that was mailed to the membership last month, the slate of which was published in the April 1988 Perspectives.
Suggestions should be submitted to the Executive Director, AHA, 400 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Please specify academic or other position and field of the individual; include also a brief statement of his or her qualifications for the particular position for which you are recommending the person.
*Editor’s Note: The Council voted to retain the late Professor Benton’s name on its rolls for the rest of his term.
