AHA Activities

AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2017

Compiled by Liz Townsend | Mar 1, 2017

Council

Tyler E. Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), president; Mary Beth Norton (Cornell Univ.), president-elect; Patrick Manning (Univ. of Pittsburgh), past president; Chris McNickle, treasurer; Kevin Boyle (Northwestern Univ.), vice president, Professional Division; Edmund P. Russell III (Univ. of Kansas), vice president, Research Division; Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt (Cleveland State Univ.), vice president, Teaching Division; David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.); Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel Univ.); Jeffrey A. Bowman (Kenyon Coll.); Carlos Alberto Contreras (Grossmont Coll.); Suzanne L. Marchand (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge); Becky M. Nicolaides (independent scholar); Valerie Paley (New-York Historical Soc.); Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First); James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

Professional Division

Kevin Boyle, vice president; Debjani Bhattacharyya; Suzanne L. Marchand; Valerie Paley

Research Division

Edmund P. Russell III, vice president; David A. Bell; Becky M. Nicolaides; James H. Sweet

Teaching Division

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, vice president; Jeffrey A. Bowman; Carlos A. Contreras; Brenda J. Santos

Nominating Committee

Jana K. Lipman (Tulane Univ.), chair; Paula Alonso (George Washington Univ.); William Deverell (Huntington Library); Purnima Dhavan (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Laurent M. Dubois (Duke Univ.); Leila T. Fawaz (Tufts Univ.); Susannah R. Ottaway (Carleton Coll.); Kären E. Wigen (Stanford Univ.); Jamil S. Zainaldin (Georgia Humanities Council)

Committee on Committees

Mary Beth Norton, chair; Daniel Bornstein (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Michele Mitchell (New York Univ.); Kaya Șahin (Indiana Univ.)

Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Robert J. Malone (History of Science Society), chair; Ann E. Moyer (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Thomas F. X. Noble (Univ. of Notre Dame); Mary Beth Norton

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Richard J. M. Blackett (Vanderbilt Univ.); Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard Univ.); Kristin L. Hoganson (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Mary Beth Norton; Tyler E. Stovall

Committee on International Historical Activities: Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Jean M. Allman (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Yinghong Cheng (Delaware State Univ.); Gregory P. Downs (Univ. of California, Davis); Kris E. Lane (Tulane Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession: Susan Ferentinos (public history consultant), chair; Wallace D. Best (Princeton Univ.); Leah DeVun (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); James N. Green (Brown Univ.); Michael A. Ryan (Univ. of New Mexico)

Committee on Minority Historians: Melissa Nicole Stuckey (independent historian), chair; William J. Bauer (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas); Devyn Spence Benson (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge); Adrian Burgos (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Reginald K. Ellis (Florida A&M Univ.)

Committee on Women Historians: Katrin Schultheiss (George Washington Univ.), chair; Richard Godbeer (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.); Monica L. Mercado (Bryn Mawr Coll.); Ulrike Strasser (Univ. of California, San Diego); Mary Ann Villarreal (California State Univ., Fullerton)

Graduate and Early Career Committee: Anita Casavantes Bradford (Univ. of California, Irvine), chair; Ellen R. Feingold (Smithsonian Inst.); Erica Heinsen-Roach (Univ. of South Florida, St. Petersburg); Elizabeth Lundeen (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Adam J. Pratt (Univ. of Scranton)

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Craig M. Koslofsky (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), chair; Karl R. Appuhn (New York Univ.); Joshua H. Cole (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Fiona J. Griffiths (Stanford Univ.); Michael Kwass (Johns Hopkins Univ.)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Holly A. Case (Cornell Univ.), chair; Geoff Eley (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); James B. Loeffler (Univ. of Virginia); Susan K. Morrissey (Univ. of California, Irvine); Mary Nolan (New York Univ.)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Andrew S. Sartori (New York Univ.), chair; Juanita L. De Barros (McMaster Univ.); Heather E. Streets-Salter (Northeastern Univ.); Michael G. Vann (California State Univ., Sacramento); Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Paul S. Sutter (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Matthew Jon Countryman (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Cindy Hahamovitch (Univ. of Georgia); Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Carleton Univ.); Carla G. Pestana (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: David Schoenbrun (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Ian Morris (Stanford Univ.); Carol L. Neel (Colorado Coll.)

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Samuel H. Yamashita (Pomona Coll.), chair; John Bezis-Selfa (Wheaton Coll., Mass.); Lilia Fernandez (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); Michael J. Galgano (James Madison Univ.)

Committee on the John H. Dunning Prize: Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton Univ.); Robert H. Abzug (Univ. of Texas, Austin); James T. Campbell (Stanford Univ.); S. Max Edelson (Univ. of Virginia); George C. Rable (Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Marcia A. Yonemoto (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), chair; Jeffrey Hanes (Univ. of Oregon); Charles P. Keith (Michigan State Univ.); Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna Coll.); Kristin Stapleton (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: Holger Hoock (Univ. of Pittsburgh), chair; Lara H. Kriegel (Indiana Univ.); Susan Dabney Pennybacker (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Ethan H. Shagan (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Kathleen Wilson (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Kathryn Norberg (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), chair; Jack R. Censer (George Mason Univ.); Gabriel Paquette (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Adam D. Sutcliffe (King's Coll., London)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Rachel B. Reinhard (Univ. of California, Berkeley), chair; Heather Flynn Roller (Colgate Univ.); Rick R. Warner (Wabash Coll.)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award: Raymond Clemens (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), chair; John W. Randolph (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Kevin Reilly (Raritan Valley Coll.); Holly C. Shulman (Univ. of Virginia); Lisa M. Sousa (Occidental Coll.)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Matt David O'Hara (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), chair; Lara E. Putnam (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Tatiana Seijas (Penn State Univ.)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Amy M. Froide (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County), chair and AHA rep.; Beth L. Bailey (Univ. of Kansas), AHA rep.; Carolyn J. Dean (Yale Univ.), AHA rep.; Barbara Molony (Santa Clara Univ.), CCWH rep.; Barbara N. Ramusack (Univ. of Cincinnati), CCWH rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Nwando Achebe (Michigan State Univ.), chair; Pier M. Larson (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Carina E. Ray (Brandeis Univ.)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Laura F. Edwards (Duke Univ.), chair; Daniel Dupre (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte); Honor Sachs (Western Carolina Univ.); Barbara Young Welke (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities); John Fabian Witt (Yale Law School)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Michael B. Miller (Univ. of Miami), chair; Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth Coll.); Tessie P. Liu (Northwestern Univ.)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Richard R. Drake (Univ. of Montana), AHA rep.; Areli Marina (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), ACHA rep.; Steven F. White (Mount St. Mary's Univ.), SIHS rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Allyson M. Poska (Univ. of Mary Washington), chair; A. Dirk Moses (Univ. of Sydney); Michael T. Saler (Univ. of California, Davis)

Committee on the John E. O’Connor Film Award: Theresa E. Runstedtler (American Univ.), chair; Laura E. Nym Mayhall (Catholic Univ. of America); Steven J. Ross (Univ. of Southern California);

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Jorge Canizares-Esguerra (Univ. of Texas, Austin), chair; Rebecca Earle (Univ. of Warwick); Alison F. Games (Georgetown Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Sumit Guha (Univ. of Texas, Austin), chair; Yasmin Saikia (Arizona State Univ.); Rachel L. Sturman (Bowdoin Coll.)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Deborah Dash Moore (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), chair; Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt Univ.); Matthias B. Lehmann (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media), chair and GMU rep.; Sharon Block (Univ. of California, Irvine), AHA rep.; Sharon M. Leon (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep.; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), GMU rep.; Janice L. Reiff (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), AHA rep.

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Melina Pappademos (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), chair and AHA rep.; Jarvis L. Hargrove (North Carolina Central Univ.), ASALH rep.; Erik S. McDuffie (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), AHA rep.; Jon F. Sensbach (Univ. of Florida), AHA rep.; Nikki Marie Taylor (Texas Southern Univ.), ASALH rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: G. Kurt Piehler (Florida State Univ.), chair; Paul Gardullo (Smithsonian Inst.); Mireya Loza (National Museum of American History); Jana C. Remy (Chapman Univ.); Robert B. Townsend (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Jonathan H. Earle (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge), chair; Amy Helene Forss (Metropolitan Comm. Coll.); Angela A. Lee (Weston High School); Stephen R. Morillo (Wabash Coll.); Bryant T. Ragan (Colorado Coll.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Martha E. Kinney (Suffolk County Comm. Coll., SUNY), chair and AHA rep.; Tim W. Keirn (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep.; Tracy L. Steffes (Brown Univ.), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Annual Meeting Travel Grant Committee: Bob Weinberg (Swarthmore Coll.), chair; Elizabeth A. Heath (Baruch Coll., CUNY); Kennetta Hammond Perry (East Carolina Univ.)

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), chair; R. Terry Bouton (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Emily L. Wakild (Boise State Univ.)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Konstantin Dierks (Indiana Univ.), chair; Ann M. Little (Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins); Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State Univ.)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Cathleen D. Cahill (Univ. of New Mexico), chair; Sally E. Hadden (American Soc. for Legal History); Paul D. Halliday (Univ. of Virginia)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Rhonda M. Gonzales (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio), chair; Janine M. Lanza (Wayne State Univ.); Di Wang (Univ. of Macau)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Benjamin L. Alpers (Univ. of Oklahoma), chair; Kathi Kern (Univ. of Kentucky); Kathy L. Peiss (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Committee on the NASA/AHA Fellowship: Matthew Hersch (Harvard Univ.), chair and SHOT rep.; Teasel E. Muir-Harmony (Center for History of Physics), HSS rep.; Asif A. Siddiqi (Fordham Univ.), AHA rep.

Ad Hoc Committees

2018 Program Committee: Antoinette M. Burton (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), 2018 chair; Rick Halpern (Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough), 2018 co-chair; James H. Carter (Saint Joseph's Univ.); Rita C-K Chin (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Purnima Dhavan (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Trevor Russell Getz (San Francisco State Univ.); Kristina M. Giannotta (Naval History and Heritage Command); Toby C. Jones (Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick); Jennifer L. Morgan (New York Univ.); Jose C. Moya (Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ.); Craig Perrier (Fairfax County Public Schools); Andres Tijerina (Austin Comm. Coll.); Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton Coll., Mass.); David M. Whitford (Baylor Univ.); Claire Bond Potter (New School), 2019 chair; Brian W. Ogilvie (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst), 2019 co-chair

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); Norman L. Jones (Utah State Univ.); Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First)

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

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

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

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

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

National Advisory Board of the History Teacher: Brenda J. Santos (Achievement First)

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: William G. Thomas III (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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