Award and Prize Committees

Contact information for committee members is posted on individual awards pages when submissions are being accepted. See the AHA Awards and Prizes page for details.

Awards for Publications

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.