The Nominating Committee for 2025–26, chaired by Bianca Murillo (California State Univ., Dominguez Hills), met in February and offers the following candidates for offices of the Association that are to be filled in the election this year. The list also includes candidates nominated by petition. Voting by AHA members will begin June 1.
President
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Boyd Professor; European intellectual, history of humanities/material culture/arts, Germany and Austria 1700–1945)
President-elect
Lonnie Bunch III, Smithsonian Institution (secretary; US, museums, African American history, American presidency/sport/film)
George J. Sánchez, University of Southern California (professor and chair, American Studies & Ethnicity; Chicana/o immigration, American West)
By petition: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College (professor; 20th-century US politics, labor, immigration, women, social movements, race and migration)
Professional Division
Vice President
William Deverell, University of Southern California (professor and co-director, Huntington-USC Institute; US West, environment)
Karin Wulf, John Carter Brown Library and Brown University (director/librarian and professor; colonial America, women, family and politics)
By petition: Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara (associate professor; modern Middle Eastern capitalism, consumption, and development)
Council Member
William Kuracina, East Texas A&M University (professor; Indian socialism, Indian nationalist movement)
M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest University (associate professor and chair; South Asia, Muslims, local and urban)
Research Division
Council Member
Niko Pfund, Oxford University Press (academic publisher and president, OUP USA; publishing, scholarship, media)
Nadine Zimmerli, University of Virginia Press (editor in chief; transnational, US and German-speaking central Europe)
By petition: Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College (professor emeritus; African American struggle for citizenship, Global Cold War politics and culture)
Teaching Division
Council Member
Kelli Y. Nakamura, Kapi’olani Community College (professor; world, US, Asian American history, Hawai’i)
Amy G. Powers, Waubonsee Community College (professor; benevolent societies in New York City, prostitution regulation)
By petition: Karen Miller, La Guardia Community College, CUNY (professor; internal migration programs, settler colonization, long 20th-century US empire in Philippines)
Committee on Committees
Laura Matthew, Marquette University (associate professor; Central and Latin America, Mesoamerica, Spanish colonial Guatemala)
Laura J. Mitchell, University of California, Irvine (associate professor; colonial South African labor/slavery, African environmental, world)
Nominating Committee
Slot 1
Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso (Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Timmons Professor of Borderlands History and chair; film, sexuality, Latino)
Marc Rodriguez, Portland State University (professor and editor, Pacific Historical Review; Chicano/Mexican American civil rights, legal)
By petition: Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University (associate professor; Latin America, activism and social movements, immigration)
Slot 2
Jeffrey Ahlman, Smith College (professor and chair; African political and social, global Black intellectual)
Mariana P. Candido, Emory University (Winship Distinguished Research Professor; West Central Africa, land and property, gender, slavery/slave trade)
Slot 3
Michele Louro, Salem State University (professor; modern South Asia, world, British imperialism)
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College (professor and chair; South Asia, India, economic and social, environmental)
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 May 15 and should be sent to the AHA office at 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003 or 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.
Liz Townsend is manager, data administration and integrity, at the AHA and the staff member for the Nominating Committee.
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