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 Teaching Division; two Council members; one member each for the Professional, Research, and Teaching divisions; one member for 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:
Terms expire in December.
Council
David Herlihy, Brown University, president
1991 William E. Leuchtenburg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, president-elect
Louis R. Harlan, University of Maryland, College Park, immediate past president
1990 Richard T. Vann, Wesleyan University, vice-president, Research Division
1991 Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, University of Louisville, vice-president, Teaching Division
1992 Susan Socolow, Emory University, vice-president, Professional Division
1990 Lawrence W. Levine, University of California, Berkeley
1990 Carol Gluck, Columbia University
1991 Margaret Strobel, University of Illinois, Chicago
1991 Martin J. Wiener, Rice University
1992 Barbara Hanawalt, University of Minnesota
1992 Paul L. Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Divisional Committee Members
Professional
1990 Caroline W. Bynum, Columbia University
1991 David M. Katzman, University of Kansas
1992 Barbara Alpern Engel, University of Colorado, Boulder
Research
1990 Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park
1991 Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina
1992 David H. Stam, Syracuse University
Teaching
1990 Julia Stewart Werner, Nicolet High School, Wisconsin
1991 Barbara J. Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1992 Robert Brent Toplin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Committee on Committees
1990 John R. Gillis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
1990 Louisa S. Hoberman, Austin, Texas
1991 Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1992 Carole Shammas, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Nominating Committee
1990 William B. Cohen, Indiana University
1990 Alice Kessler-Harris, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
1990 Colin A. Palmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1991 Angeliki Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks
1991 Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
1991 Barbara N. Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
1992 Pete Daniel, National Museum of American History
1992 Patrick Geary, University of Florida
1992 Arvarh E. Strickland, University of Missouri, Columbia
See also the ballot material for the 1990 elections that was mailed to the membership last month, the slate of which was published in the April 1990 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.
