Under the AHA Constitution and Bylaws (Article VIII, Section 1; Article IX; and Bylaws 11 and 12), the executive director invites all members of the Association to submit, on or before January 6, 2025, recommendations for the following offices:
President-elect
Vice President, Professional Division (member of the Council, chair of the Division)
Council Member, Professional Division, one position (Council—governance of the organization; Division—responsible for overseeing matters concerning working conditions and practices of historians, primarily by articulating ethical standards and best practices in the historical discipline)
Council Member, Research Division, one position (Council—governance of the organization; Division—responsible for promoting historical scholarship, encouraging the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, ensuring equal access to information, and fostering the dissemination of information about historical records and research)
Council Member, Teaching Division, one position (Council—governance of the organization; Division—responsible for the Council’s work relating to history education, including efforts to promote and improve teaching and learning of history at all levels of education)
Committee on Committees, one position (nominations for large number of Association committees, including book awards and prizes; member begins serving immediately after election)
Nominating Committee, three positions (nominations for all elective posts)
Members of the Council and elective committees as of January 6, 2025, are listed below. Positions being replaced in the June 1–July 15, 2025, elections are in bold. Unless otherwise indicated, terms expire in January of the listed year.
President
2026 Thavolia Glymph, Duke Univ. (slavery, emancipation, plantation societies and economies, gender, women)
2027 Ben Vinson III, Howard Univ. (African diaspora, colonial Mexico)
2028 Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge (European intellectual, history of humanities/material culture/arts, Germany and Austria 1700–1945)
Professional Division
2026 Anne Hyde, vice president, Univ. of Oklahoma (19th-century North American West, Indigenous America, race)
2026 Tony Frazier, Council member, Penn State Univ. (social and legal history of Blacks in 18th-century in Great Britain, Atlantic slavery and emancipation, African American)
2027 Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Council member, Rutgers Univ. (19th-century US, social, public)
2028 Jennifer McNabb, Council member, Univ. of Northern Iowa (social and legal, medieval and early modern Europe)
Research Division
2026 Erin Greenwald, Council member, The Working Historian LLC (French Atlantic world, colonial Louisiana)
2027 William G. Thomas III, vice president, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln (American legal, digital scholarship)
2027 Jana Lipman, Council member, Tulane Univ. (20th-century US, US foreign relations, US immigration, labor)
2028 Cemil Aydin, Council member, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (global, modern Asia and Middle East)
Teaching Division
2026 Charles Zappia, Council member, San Diego Mesa Coll. (corporatization of higher education, transformation of work and the American labor movement)
2027 Jennifer Baniewicz, Council member, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School (US, AP US and European, Western civilization)
2028 Serena Zabin, vice president, Carleton Coll. (early America, American Revolution)
2028 Edward Cohn, Council member, Grinnell Coll. (Soviet Union/Russia/central Europe, policing and surveillance)
At Large
2027 Pragya Kaul, Univ. of Michigan (Europe, Asia, global)
Committee on Committees
7/2025 Rashauna Johnson, Univ. of Chicago (Atlantic slavery and emancipation, 19th-century African diaspora, US South, urban and regional)
7/2026 Julio Capó Jr., Florida International Univ. (20th-century queer Miami, transnational Caribbean-US sexuality)
7/2027 Carol Harrison, Univ. of South Carolina (religion, gender, France 1750–1914)
7/2027 Linh Vu, Arizona State Univ. (war dead in 20th-century China, virtue and citizenship)
Nominating Committee
2026 Carlos Kevin Blanton, Texas A&M Univ. (Chicana/o history, education, civil rights, Texas)
2026 Bianca Murillo, California State Univ., Dominguez Hills (modern Africa, global capitalism/economies/markets, race and gender studies)
2026 Kaya Şahin, Ohio State Univ. (early modern Ottoman Empire, religion, history writing, governance)
2027 Amanda Moniz, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (early America, humanitarianism)
2027 Matthew Restall, Penn State Univ. (colonial Latin America, Maya history)
2027 Anthony Steinhoff, Univ. du Québec à Montréal (modern Germany/France, religion, opera, urban)
2028 Hiromi Mizuno, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities (cultural history of science in Japan, colonialism, environmental)
2028 Hilary Green, Davidson Coll. (Black education in Reconstruction, Civil War memory)
2028 Dana Rabin, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Great Britain, race, 18th-century empire)
Email suggestions to committees@historians.org. Please specify the individual’s academic or other position and field, and include a brief statement of their qualifications. Refer to the Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments (historians.org/ahadiversity), which encourages suggesting individuals from diverse backgrounds for both appointments and nominations. All suggestions received will be forwarded to the Nominating Committee for consideration.
Schedule for Nominations and Elections of AHA Officers
January 6, 2025
Deadline to make suggestions to executive director.
February 2025
Nominating Committee meets to determine slate.
March–May 2025
Slate published in Perspectives Daily and Perspectives on History.
June 1, 2025
Link to ballot emailed to AHA members.
July 15, 2025
Final deadline to record votes.
August–September 2025
Results announced in Perspectives Daily and Perspectives on History. Committee on Committees elected member begins term immediately.
January 10, 2026
Results announced at business meeting during 139th annual meeting in Chicago.
January 11, 2026
Terms of office begin.
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