AHA Activities

AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2023

Compiled by Liz Townsend | Mar 2, 2023

Council

Edward W. Muir (Northwestern Univ.), AHA president; Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.), AHA president-elect; James H. Sweet (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), AHA past president; Anne Hyde (Univ. of Oklahoma), vice president, Professional Division; Ben Vinson (Case Western Reserve Univ.), vice president, Research Division; Kathleen M. Hilliard (Iowa State Univ.), vice president, Teaching Division; Simon G. Finger (Coll. of New Jersey), councilor, Professional Division; Tony A. Frazier (North Carolina Central Univ.), councilor, Professional Division; Laura E. Hostetler (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago), councilor, Professional Division; Sandra E. Greene (Cornell Univ.), councilor, Research Division; Erin Greenwald (Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities), councilor, Research Division; Pernille Roege (Univ. of Pittsburgh), councilor, Research Division; Karen Marrero (Wayne State Univ.), councilor, Teaching Division; Katharina Matro (Walter Johnson High School), councilor, Teaching Division; Charles A. Zappia (San Diego Mesa Coll.), councilor, Teaching Division; Sherri Sheu (Science History Institute), councilor, at large; William F. Wechsler (Atlantic Council), AHA treasurer; James R. Grossman (American Historical Association), executive director; Mark Philip Bradley (Univ. of Chicago), AHR editor; Alison M. Dreizen (Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP), counsel; Kenneth F. Ledford (Case Western Reserve Univ.), AHA parliamentarian

Professional Division

Anne Hyde, vice president; Tony A. Frazier; Simon G. Finger; Laura E. Hostetler

Research Division

Ben Vinson, vice president; Sandra E. Greene; Erin Greenwald; Pernille Roege

Teaching Division

Kathleen M. Hilliard, vice president; Karen Marrero; Katharina Matro; Charles A. Zappia

Nominating Committee

Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier Univ., La.), chair; Carlos Kevin Blanton (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station); Amy M. Froide (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Beatrice Gurwitz (National Humanities Alliance); Lisa Moses Leff (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum); Bianca Murillo (California State Univ., Dominguez Hills); Kaya Sahin (Indiana Univ.); Melissa Nicole Stuckey (Elizabeth City State Univ.); Philip Thai (Northeastern Univ.)

Committee on Committees

Thavolia Glymph (Duke Univ.), chair; Leo J. Garofalo (Connecticut Coll.), through July; Julie Hardwick (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Rashauna R. Johnson (Univ. of Chicago); Franziska Seraphim (Boston Coll.)

Permanent and Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Louis M. Kyriakoudes (Middle Tennessee State Univ.), chair; Celso T. Castilho (Vanderbilt Univ.); Xiaoping Cong (Univ. of Houston); Thavolia Glymph; Lionel Kimble (Illinois Freedom Project); Kriste Lindenmeyer (Rutgers Univ., Camden)

Committee on Gender Equity: Victoria A. Castillo (Coll. of William and Mary), co-chair; Sarah G. Ross (Boston Coll.), co-chair; Ernesto Chavez (Univ. of Texas, El Paso); Clare Crowston (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Lauren N. Henley (Univ. of Richmond)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Jane G. Landers (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Sana Aiyar (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology); David C. Engerman (Yale Univ.); Khaled Esseissah (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Andrew Gordon (Harvard Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession: Claire Bond Potter (New School), chair; L Heidenreich (Washington State Univ., Pullman); Amanda H. Littauer (Northern Illinois Univ.); Víctor M. Macías-González (Univ. of Wisconsin, La Crosse); Charles J. Shindo (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge)

Committee on Minority Historians: Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), chair; Sharika D. Crawford (United States Naval Academy); Antwain Kenton Hunter (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Farina King (Univ. of Oklahoma); Srijita Chaki Pal (Univ. of Southern California)

Council Committee on the Annual Meeting: James H. Sweet, chair; Simon G. Finger; Erin Greenwald; Karen Marrero

Finance Committee: Edward W. Muir, chair; Thavolia Glymph; Erin Greenwald; Noel Salinger; James H. Sweet; William F. Wechsler

Graduate and Early Career Committee: Maria Esther Hammack (McNeil Center for Early American Studies), chair; Angela Albanese (Florida International Univ.); Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchland (Univ. of California, Davis); Keyao Pan (Florida International Univ.); Sherri Sheu, Council rep.

Investment Committee: Keith Hocter (Bellwether Consulting), chair; Thavolia Glymph; Edward W. Muir; William F. Wechsler

2024 Program Committee: Amy B. Stanley (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz (Penn State Univ.), co-chair; Brittany Adams (Irvine Valley Coll.); Leandro D. Benmergui (Purchase Coll., State Univ. of New York); Joel Christenson (United States Dept. of Defense); Maurice Crandall (Arizona State Univ.); Krista Goff (Univ. of Miami); Daniel S. Gutierrez (Harvard-Westlake School); Mary Ann Irwin (California State Univ., East Bay); Aparna Kapadia (Williams Coll.); Lerone A. Martin (Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute); James R. Palmitessa (Western Michigan Univ.); James D. Ryan (Foreign Policy Research Institute); Lorelle D. Semley (Coll. of the Holy Cross); Xiaojian Zhao (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara); Tamika Y. Nunley (Cornell Univ.), 2025 chair; Gabriel Paquette (Univ. of Oregon), 2025 co-chair

2025 Program Committee: Tamika Y. Nunley (Cornell Univ.), chair; 2025 Program Committee Gabriel Paquette (Univ. of Oregon), co-chair

2024 Local Arrangements Committee: Mary Ann Irwin (California State Univ., East Bay), co-chair

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Denise Phillips (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville), chair; Megan C. Armstrong (McMaster Univ.); Hussein Fancy (Yale Univ.); Mar Hicks (Illinois Inst. of Technology); Padraic J. Kenney (Indiana Univ.)

Committee on the AHA Prize in American History: Geraldo Lujan Cadava (Northwestern Univ.); Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State Univ.); Frederick Knight (Morehouse Coll.); Will Mackintosh (Univ. of Mary Washington); Jacqueline E. Whitt (United States Dept. of State)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Richard S. Fogarty (State Univ. of New York, Albany), chair; Giuliana R. Chamedes (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison); Emma Kuby (Northern Illinois Univ.); Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Kira L. Thurman (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Jonathan P. Eacott (Univ. of California, Riverside), chair; Ananya Chakravarti (Georgetown Univ.); Hyunhee Park (John Jay Coll., CUNY); Priya Satia (Stanford Univ.); Matthew G. Stanard (Berry Coll.)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Frank Trey Proctor (Denison Univ.), chair; Celeste Day Moore (Hamilton Coll.); David B. Igler (Univ. of California, Irvine); Sylvia M. Sellers-García (Boston Coll.); Samuel Truett (Univ. of New Mexico)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: Keith N. Knapp (Citadel), chair; Marina Rustow (Princeton Univ.); Zsuzsanna Varhelyi (Boston Univ.)

Committee on the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize: Felipe Hinojosa (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station), chair; Theresa R. Jach (Houston Comm. Coll., Northwest); Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe (Northwestern Univ.)

Committee on the Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize: Nhung T. Tran (Univ. of Toronto), chair; Kathlene T. Baldanza (Penn State Univ.); He Bian (Princeton Univ.)

Committee on the John K. Fairbank Prize: Samuel H. Yamashita (Pomona Coll.), chair; James H. Carter (Saint Joseph's Univ., Pa.); Helen Hardacre (Harvard Univ.); Janet M. Theiss (Univ. of Utah); Yan Xu (Spelman Coll.)

Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize: James M. Vaughn (Univ. of Chicago), chair; Randy M. Browne (Xavier Univ., Ohio); Durba Ghosh (Cornell Univ.); Tessa Murphy (Syracuse Univ.); Gail L. Savage (Saint Mary's Coll., Md.)

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: Ian Coller (Univ. of California, Irvine), chair; Alejandra B. Osorio (Wellesley Coll.); Meghan K. Roberts (Bowdoin Coll.)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Alejandro Quintana (Saint John's Univ., NY), chair; Keisha Alexandria Brown (Tennessee State Univ.); Leah Shopkow (Indiana Univ.)

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award: Tyson Reeder (Univ. of Virginia), chair; Christopher G. Hodson (Brigham Young Univ.); Nora E. Jaffary (Concordia Univ., Can.); Laura Mason (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Karen Racine (Univ. of Guelph)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Pablo A. Piccato (Columbia Univ.), chair; Carmen R. Coury (Southern Connecticut State Univ.); James M. Krippner (Haverford Coll.); Manuella Meyer (Univ. of Richmond); Cristina Soriano (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize: Susan D. Amussen (Univ. of California, Merced), AHA rep., chair; Crystal N. Feimster (Yale Univ.), CCWH rep.; Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Univ. of California, Davis), CCWH rep.; Erin E. O'Connor (Bridgewater State Univ.), AHA rep.; Ann Waltner (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), AHA rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Neil R. Kodesh (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), chair; Priya Lal (Boston Coll.); Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch (Dartmouth Coll.)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Holly Brewer (Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park), chair; Benjamin A. Coates (Wake Forest Univ.); Torrie R. Hester (Saint Louis Univ.); Sarah E. Igo (Vanderbilt Univ.); David S. Tanenhaus (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Nimisha Barton (Princeton Univ.), chair; Michael P. Breen (Reed Coll.); Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (California State Univ., San Marcos)

Committee on the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize: Thomas C. Behr (Univ. of St. Thomas, Tex.), ACHA rep., chair; Pamela L. Ballinger (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), AHA rep.; Roy Domenico (Univ. of Scranton), SIHS rep.

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Steven C. Soper (Univ. of Georgia), chair; Elizabeth Andrews Bond (Ohio State Univ., Columbus); William J. Connell (Seton Hall Univ.); Tiffany N. Florvil (Univ. of New Mexico); Alison K. Smith (Univ. of Toronto)

Committee on the John E. O'Connor Film Award: Mark D. Steinberg (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), chair; Kathy Fuller-Seeley (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Liana Vardi (Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York)

Committee on the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize: Richard R. John (Columbia Univ.), chair; Bryna Goodman (Univ. of Oregon); Joelle Neulander (Citadel)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Heather Miyano Kopelson (Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), chair; John D. Garrigus (Univ. of Texas, Arlington); Fabricio Prado (Coll. of William and Mary); Stephanie E. Smallwood (Univ. of Washington, Seattle); Owen C. Stanwood (Boston Coll.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Manan Ahmed (Columbia Univ.); Daud R. Ali (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Sana Haroon (Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston); Robert Nichols (Stockton Univ.); Sebastian R. Prange (Univ. of British Columbia)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Mark A. Goldberg (Univ. of Houston), chair; Tatjana Lichtenstein (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Nathan A. Stoltzfus (Florida State Univ.)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Mills Kelly (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep., chair; Anne Kelly Knowles (Univ. of Maine, Orono), AHA rep.; Kristina M. Neumann (Univ. of Houston), AHA rep.; Miriam Posner (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), GMU rep.; Tom Scheinfeldt (Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), GMU rep.

Committee on the Wesley-Logan Prize: Sharla M. Fett (Occidental Coll.), AHA rep., chair; Le'Trice D. Donaldson (Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi), ASALH rep.; Jarvis Ray Givens (Harvard Univ.), ASALH rep.; Violet M. Johnson (Texas A&M Univ., Coll. Station), AHA rep.; Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (Univ. of Rochester), AHA rep.

Awards for Scholarly and Professional Distinction

Committee on the Herbert Feis Award: Sam Vong (Smithsonian Institution), chair; Laura E. Hein (Northwestern Univ.); Yolanda Chavez Leyva (Univ. of Texas, El Paso)

Committee on Honorary Foreign Member and Awards for Scholarly Distinction: Edward W. Muir; Thavolia Glymph; James H. Sweet

Committee on the John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice: Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State Univ.), chair; Alexander X. Byrd (Rice Univ.); Laura McEnaney (Newberry Library)

Committee on the John Lewis Award for Public Service to the Discipline of History: James R. Grossman; Edward W. Muir

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Sharron Wilkins Conrad (Tarrant County Coll.); LuAnn Homza (Coll. of William and Mary); Jamie A. Rinaldi (Newton South High School); Leonard N. Rosenband (Utah State Univ.); Robert D. Taber (Fayetteville State Univ.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Eileen S. Luhr (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep., chair; Maricruz Aguayo Tabor (Liberal Arts & Science Academy), AHA rep.; Bob Bain (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the NASA/AHA Fellowship: Emily A. Margolis (Smithsonian Institution), AHA rep., chair; Jordan Bimm (Univ. of Chicago), HSS rep.; Teasel E. Muir-Harmony (Smithsonian Institution), SHOT rep.

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Thomas D. Rogers (Emory Univ.), chair; Jared Ross Hardesty (Western Washington Univ.); Saje Mathieu (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Celine Carayon (Salisbury Univ.), chair; Patrick Griffin (Univ. of Notre Dame); Joshua A. Piker (Omohundro Institute)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Ariela J. Gross (Univ. of Southern California), chair; Carl Lindskoog (Raritan Valley Comm. Coll.); Lina Maria Murillo (Univ. of Iowa)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Willeke Sandler (Loyola Univ., Md.), chair; Henryatta Ballah (Washington and Lee Univ.); Timothy Yang (Univ. of Georgia)

Ad Hoc Committees

Digital History Working Group: David A. Bell (Princeton Univ.), co-chair; Jeffrey W. McClurken (Univ. of Mary Washington), co-chair; Kalani L. Craig (Indiana Univ.); Paula Findlen (Stanford Univ.); Walter 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 (George Mason Univ.)

NARA Review Committee: Richard H. Immerman (Temple Univ.), chair; Matthew J. Connelly (Columbia Univ.); Trudy H. Peterson; Christopher J. Prom (Univ. of Illinois Library); Leslie S. Rowland (Univ. of Maryland, Coll. Park); Leland J. White (National Coalition for History)

Delegates

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation: Timothy J. Naftali (New York Univ.)

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

American Council of Learned Societies: Carlos Alberto Contreras (Grossmont Coll.)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Krista Goff (Univ. of Miami)

CIA Historical Review Board: Beverly Gage (Yale Univ.)

Friends of the German Historical Institute: Tiffany N. Florvil (Univ. of New Mexico)

National Advisory Board of The History Teacher: Katharina Matro (Walter Johnson High School)

National Historical Publications and Records Commission: Kim T. Gallon (Purdue Univ.)

Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History: Sarah Shurts (Bergen Comm. Coll.)


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