AHA Activities

AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2019

Compiled by Liz Townsend | Mar 1, 2019

Council

John R. McNeill (Georgetown Univ.), president; Mary Lindemann (Univ. of Miami), president-elect; Mary Beth Norton (Cornell Univ.), past president; Kevin Boyle (Northwestern Univ.), vice president, Professional; Sophia Rosenfeld (Univ. of Pennsylvania), vice president, Research; Laura McEnaney (Whittier Coll.), vice president, Teaching; Mary Elliott (Smithsonian Institution), councilor, Profession; Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge), councilor, Profession; Nerina Rustomji (Saint John's Univ., NY), councilor, Profession; Melissa K. Bokovoy (Univ. of New Mexico), councilor, Research; Christopher R. Boyer (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago), councilor, Research; Becky M. Nicolaides (USC & UCLA), councilor, Research; Carlos A. Contreras (Grossmont Coll.), councilor, Teaching; Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State Univ.), councilor, Teaching; Craig Perrier (Fairfax County Public Schools), councilor, Teaching; Sarah Mellors (Missouri State Univ.), councilor, at large; William F. Wechsler (Atlantic Council), treasurer; James R. Grossman (American Historical Association), executive director; Alex Lichtenstein (American Historical Review), AHR editor; Alison M. Dreizen (Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP), counsel; Kenneth F. Ledford (Case Western Reserve Univ.), parliamentarian

Professional Division

Kevin Boyle, vice president; Mary Elliott; Suzanne L. Marchand; Nerina Rustomji

Research Division

Sophia Rosenfeld, vice president; Melissa K. Bokovoy; Christopher R. Boyer; Becky M. Nicolaides

Teaching Division

Laura McEnaney, vice president; Carlos A. Contreras; Alexandra Hui; Craig Perrier

Nominating Committee

Laurent M. Dubois (Duke Univ.), chair; Carin Berkowitz (New Jersey Council for the Humanities); Kathleen A. Brosnan (Univ. of Oklahoma); Purnima Dhavan (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Daniel A. Greene (Northwestern Univ./US Holocaust Memorial Museum); Susannah R. Ottaway (Carleton Coll.); Gabriel Paquette (Univ. of Oregon); Akiko Takenaka (Univ. of Kentucky); Karin A. Wulf (Omohundro Institute)

Committee on Committees

John R. McNeill, chair; Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Madeline Y. Hsu (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Jennifer L. Palmer (Univ. of Georgia); Kaya Șahin (Indiana Univ.)

Permanent and Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Mary Lindemann; Ann E. Moyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Charles T. Strauss (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.); Ann Twinam (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Committee on Gender Equity: Susan Kingsley Kent (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Matthew L. Basso (Univ. of Utah); Maureen G. Elgersman Lee (Hampton Univ.); Lindsey Martin (Northwestern Univ.); Mary Ann Villarreal (California State Univ., Fullerton)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Jean M. Allman (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Gregory P. Downs (Univ. of California, Davis); Jean M. Hébrard (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Manako Ogawa (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession: Tammy Ingram (Coll. of Charleston), chair; Lacy Spotswood Ferrell (Central Washington Univ.); Andrew Israel Ross (Loyola Univ., Md.); Michael A. Ryan (Univ. of New Mexico); Red Vaughan Tremmel (Tulane Univ.)

Committee on Minority Historians: Laurie Arnold (Gonzaga Univ.), chair; William J. Bauer (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas); Cara Caddoo (Indiana Univ.); Michael D. Innis-Jimenez (Univ. of Alabama); Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier Univ., La.)

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Kristin L. Hoganson (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Mary Lindemann; John R. McNeill; Alan S. Taylor (Univ. of Virginia); Elliott West (Univ. of Arkansas)

Council Committee on the Annual Meeting: Mary Beth Norton, chair; Mary Elliott; Alexandra Hui; Becky M. Nicolaides

Finance Committee: John R. McNeill, chair; Mary Lindemann; Suzanne L. Marchand; Mary Beth Norton; William F. Wechsler

Graduate and Early Career Committee: James Cantres (Hunter Coll., CUNY), chair; Curtis Foxley (Univ. of Oklahoma); Caroline Marris (Columbia Univ.); Amanda L. Scott (United States Naval Academy); Sarah Mellors, Council rep.

Investment Committee: Keith Hocter (Bellwether Consulting), chair; Mary Lindemann; John R. McNeill; William F. Wechsler

2020 Local Arrangements Committee: Andrew Needham (New York Univ.), co-chair; Lilly Tuttle (Museum of the City of New York), co-chair

2020 Program Committee: Joshua L. Reid (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), chair; Sarah Elizabeth Shurts (Bergen Comm. Coll.), co-chair; Christine Abajian (G.W. Hewlett-Woodmere High School); Joel Blecher (George Washington Univ.); Paul R. Deslandes (Univ. of Vermont); C. Cymone Fourshey (Bucknell Univ.); David Greenberg (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); Sana Haroon (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston); Moramay Lopez-Alonso (Rice Univ.); Austin Mason (Carleton Coll.); Brett Laurence Walker (Montana State Univ., Bozeman); Jacqueline E. Whitt (US Army War Coll.); Christine D. Worobec (Northern Illinois Univ.); Morgen Alix Young (Historical Research Associates); Patrick Lozar (Univ. of Washington, Seattle), 2020 graduate assistant; Jared Poley (Georgia State Univ.), 2021 chair; Lisa M. Brady (Boise State Univ.), 2021 co-chair

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Karl R. Appuhn (New York Univ.), chair; Fiona J. Griffiths (Stanford Univ.); Anna Krylova (Duke Univ.); Laurie Marhoefer (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Isabel A. Moreira (Univ. of Utah)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Michelle E. Tusan (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas), chair; Geoff Eley (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Wendy Morgan Lower (Claremont McKenna Coll.); Maura O'Connor (Univ. of Cincinnati); Vanessa Ogle (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), chair; Prakash Kumar (Penn State Univ.); Peter C. Mancall (Univ. of Southern California); Elisabeth M. McMahon (Tulane Univ.); Laura J. Mitchell (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Richard Cándida Smith (Univ. of California, Berkeley), chair; Steven W. Hackel (Univ. of California, Riverside); Mae M. Ngai (Columbia Univ.); Linda M. Rupert (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro); Brett Rushforth (Univ. of Oregon)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: Carol L. Neel (Colorado Coll.), chair; Touraj Daryaee (Univ. of California, Irvine); Eric Rebillard (Cornell Univ.)

Committee on the Albert Corey Prize: Christian Ayne Crouch (Bard Coll.), AHA rep.; Michel Hogue (Carleton Univ.), CHA rep.; Daniel Macfarlane (Western Michigan Univ.), CHA rep.; David P. Massell (Univ. of Vermont), AHA rep.

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Isaac E. Land (Indiana State Univ.), chair; Mary A. Conley (Coll. of the Holy Cross); Eileen M. Ford (California State Univ., Los Angeles)

Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize: James T. Campbell (Stanford Univ.), chair; Robert H. Abzug (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Tamar W. Carroll (Rochester Inst. of Technology); Nicole E. Eustace (New York Univ.); Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State Univ.)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Gail Hershatter (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), chair; Christopher P. Atwood (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Hanes (Univ. of Oregon); Micheline R. Lessard (Univ. of Ottawa); Rian Thum (Univ. of Nottingham)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Brent S. Sirota (North Carolina State Univ.), chair; Allison J. Abra (Univ. of Southern Mississippi); Elizabeth E. Prevost (Grinnell Coll.); E. M. Rose (Harvard Univ.); Angela Thompsell (State Univ. of New York, Coll. at Brockport)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Adam D. Sutcliffe (King's Coll., London), chair; James H. Johnson (Boston Univ.); Carina L. Johnson (Institute for Advanced Study); Jacob S. Soll (Univ. of Southern California)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Heather Flynn Roller (Colgate Univ.), chair; Andrew H. Lee (New York Univ.); Urmi Engineer Willoughby (Murray State Univ.)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award: John W. Randolph (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), chair; Kevin P. Grant (Hamilton Coll.); Leslie S. Rowland (Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park); Holly C. Shulman (Univ. of Virginia); Lisa M. Sousa (Occidental Coll.)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Tatiana Seijas (Rutgers, The State Univ. of NJ), chair; Laura Rosanne Adderley (Tulane Univ.); Raymond B. Craib (Cornell Univ.); Jerry Davila (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Emilio Kouri (Univ. of Chicago)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize: Barbara Molony (Santa Clara Univ.), chair, CCWH rep.; Beth L. Bailey (Univ. of Kansas), AHA rep.; Julie Hardwick (Univ. of Texas, Austin), AHA rep.; Abigail McGowan (Univ. of Vermont), AHA rep.; Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac Univ.), CCWH rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ.), chair; James De Lorenzi (John Jay Coll., CUNY); Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Univ. of California, Davis)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Honor R. Sachs (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Katrina L. Jagodinsky (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln); Ajay K. Mehrotra (American Bar Foundation); Kunal Madhukar Parker (Univ. of Miami); John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth Coll.), chair; Rebecca L. Spang (Indiana Univ.); Gary M. Wilder (Graduate Center, CUNY)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Richard R. Drake (Univ. of Montana), chair, AHA rep.; Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ., St. Louis), ACHA rep.; Jesse Locker (Portland State Univ.), SIHS rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: A. Dirk Moses (Univ. of Sydney), chair; Ann Blair (Harvard Univ.); Greg Eghigian (Penn State Univ.); Lisa Moses Leff (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum); Patricia M. E. Lorcin (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Committee on the John E. O'Connor Film Award: Laura E. Nym Mayhall (Catholic Univ. of America), chair; Kathleen DuVal (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Poshek Fu (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Committee on the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize: Kim T. Gallon (Purdue Univ.), chair; Jeremy D. Popkin (Univ. of Kentucky); Jonathan D. Wells (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Alison F. Games (Georgetown Univ.), chair; Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Susanah Shaw Romney (New York Univ.); Abigail L. Swingen (Texas Tech Univ.); David Wheat (Michigan State Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Yasmin Saikia (Arizona State Univ.), chair; Ayesha Jalal (Tufts Univ.); Rajeev K. Kinra (Northwestern Univ.)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Hasia R. Diner (New York Univ.), chair; Arie M. Dubnov (George Washington Univ.); David Sorkin (Yale Univ.)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media), chair, GMU rep.; Jennifer E. Guiliano (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis), AHA rep.; Karen C. Pinto (Boise State Univ.), AHA rep.; Sean P. Takats (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep.; Lauren Tilton (Univ. of Richmond), GMU rep.

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Rashauna Johnson (Dartmouth Coll.), chair, AHA rep.; LaShawn D. Harris (Michigan State Univ.), ASALH rep.; Randal Maurice Jelks (Univ. of Kansas), ASALH rep.; Erik S. McDuffie (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), AHA rep.; Michelle McKinley (Univ. of Oregon), AHA rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: Robert B. Townsend (American Academy of Arts and Sciences), chair; Robin F. Bachin (Univ. of Miami); Mireya Loza (New York Univ.)

Committee on Honorary Foreign Member and Awards for Scholarly Distinction: Mary Lindemann; John R. McNeill; Mary Beth Norton

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Ernesto Chavez (Univ. of Texas, El Paso), chair; Allie N. Frickert-Murashige (Mount San Antonio Coll.); Jinhee Lee (Eastern Illinois Univ.); Lee Pope (Grady High School); Susan M. Yohn (Hofstra Univ.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Tracy L. Steffes (Brown Univ.), chair, AHA rep.; Michelle K. Berry (Univ. of Arizona), AHA rep.; Tim W. Keirn (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Kathi Kern (Univ. of Kentucky), chair; Stephen D. Kantrowitz (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Victoria W. Wolcott (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo)

Committee on the NASA/AHA Fellowship: Angelina Long Callahan (US Naval Research Laboratory), chair, SHOT rep.; Omar W. Nasim (Univ. of Regensburg), HSS rep.; Jenifer L. Van Vleck (Smithsonian Institution), AHA rep.

Committee on Annual Meeting Grants: Clifton Hood (Hobart and William Smith Coll.); Kennetta Hammond Perry (De Montfort Univ.); Alexander M. Zukas (National Univ.)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Di Wang (Univ. of Macau), chair; Robyn d'Avignon (New York Univ.); Matthew D. Gerber (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Emily L. Wakild (Boise State Univ.), chair; R. Terry Bouton (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Peter F. Guardino (Indiana Univ.)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Ann M. Little (Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins), chair; Gregory Dowd (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Mark Allen Peterson (Yale Univ.)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Sally E. Hadden (American Society for Legal History), chair; Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington Univ., St. Louis); H. Timothy Lovelace (Indiana Univ.)

Ad Hoc Committees

Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion in the AHR: Christopher R. Boyer (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago); Carlos A. Contreras (Grossmont Coll.); Ruth Mazo Karras (Trinity Coll., Dublin); Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ.)

Committee on State Standards: Bob Bain (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Fritz Fischer (Univ. of Northern Colorado); Gail Hamilton (Bancroft Middle School); Geri Hastings (Catonsville High School)

Committee on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Laura McEnaney (Whittier Coll.), chair; David Pace (Indiana Univ.), chair; Christopher R. Boyer (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago); Nerina Rustomji (Saint John's Univ., NY)

Digital History Working Group: David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.), Co-Chair; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), Co-Chair; Kalani Craig (Indiana Univ.); Paula Findlen (Stanford Univ.); Walter W. Hawthorne (Michigan State Univ.); Jason M. Kelly (Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Indianapolis); Andrew H. Lee (New York Univ.); Michelle Moravec (Rosemont Coll.); Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media)

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation: Richard H. Immerman (Temple Univ.)

American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science and Human Rights Coalition: James R. Grossman

American Council of Learned Societies: Cheryl L. Greenberg (Trinity Coll., Conn.)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Paul W. Werth (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Catherine A. Epstein (Amherst Coll.); Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown Univ.)

National Advisory Board of the History Teacher: Craig Perrier

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: William G. Thomas (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise: Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa)


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