Under the AHA Constitution and Bylaws (Article VIII, Section 1; Article IX; and Bylaws 15 and 16), the executive director invites all members of the Association to submit, on or before January 11, 2026, recommendations for the following offices:
President-Elect
Vice President, Research 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organization; Division—responsible for promoting historical scholarship, encouraging the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, ensuring equal access to information, and fostering the dissemination of information about historical records and research)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)
Councilor, At Large, one position (no divisional responsibilities; a graduate student enrolled in a history program and advanced to candidacy; will represent the interests of graduate students in Council, play a leadership role in organizing participation of graduate students in AHA activities, and disseminate information about AHA activities and initiatives to graduate students in history)
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 11, 2026, are listed below. Positions being replaced in the June 1–July 15, 2026, elections are in bold.
Unless otherwise indicated, terms expire in January of the listed year.
Presidents
2027 Ben Vinson III (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)
2029 Lonnie Bunch III, Smithsonian Inst. (US, museums, African American history, American presidency/sport/film)
Professional Division
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)
2029 Karin Wulf, vice president, John Carter Brown Library and Brown Univ. (colonial America, women, family and politics)
2029 M. Raisur Rahman, Council member, Wake Forest Univ. (South Asia, Muslims, local and urban)
Research Division
2027 William G. Thomas III, vice president, Montana State Univ., Bozeman (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)
2029 Van Gosse, Council member, Franklin & Marshall Coll. (African American struggle for citizenship, Global Cold War politics and culture)
Teaching Division
2027 Jennifer Baniewicz, Council member, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School (US, AP US, AP 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)
2029 Karen Miller, Council member, LaGuardia Comm. Coll., CUNY (internal migration programs, settler colonization, long 20th-century US empire in Philippines)
At Large
2027 Pragya Kaul Guido, Univ. of Michigan (Europe, Asia, global and world)
Committee on Committees
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)
7/2028 Laura J. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Irvine (colonial South African labor/slavery, African environmental, world)
Nominating Committee
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, modern European religion, Wagner/operatic culture in German-speaking Europe, 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)
2029 Alexander Aviña, Arizona State Univ. (Latin America, activism and social movements, immigration)
2029 Mariana P. Candido, Emory Univ. (West Central Africa, land and property, gender, slavery / slave trade)
2029 Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston Coll. (South Asia, India, economic and social, environmental)
Email suggestions to committees@historians.org. Please specify the academic or other position and the field of the individual, and include a brief statement of their qualifications for the position. Refer to the Statement on Diversity in AHA Nominations and Appointments (historians.org/ahadiversity), which was drafted in the hope that it will encourage members to suggest more individuals from diverse backgrounds for both appointments and nominations. All suggestions received will be forwarded to the Nominating Committee for consideration at its meeting in January 2026.
Nominations may also be made by petition; each petition must carry the signatures of 100 or more members of the Association in good standing and indicate the particular vacancy for which the nomination is intended. Nominations by petition must be in the hands of the Nominating Committee on or before April 1 and should be emailed to committees@historians.org. All nominations must be accompanied by certification of willingness of the nominee to serve if elected. In distributing the annual ballot to the members of the Association, the Nominating Committee shall present and identify such candidates nominated by petition along with its own candidates.
Schedule for Nominations and Elections of AHA Officers
January 11, 2026 Deadline to make suggestions to executive director.
Late January 2026 Nominating Committee meets to determine slate.
March–May 2026 Slate published in Perspectives on History online and in print.
June 1, 2026 Link to ballot emailed to AHA members.
July 15, 2026 Final deadline to record votes.
August–September 2026 Results announced in Perspectives on History online and in print. Committee on Committees elected member begins term of office immediately.
January 9, 2027 Results announced at business meeting during 140th annual meeting in New Orleans.
January 10, 2027 Individuals begin terms of office.
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