AHA Council, Divisions, and Committees for 2020

Council

Mary Lindemann (Univ. of Miami), president; Jacqueline Jones (Univ. of Texas, Austin), president-elect; John R. McNeill (Georgetown Univ.), past president; Rita C-K Chin (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), vice president, Professional; Sophia Rosenfeld (Univ. of Pennsylvania), vice president, Research; Laura McEnaney (Whittier Coll.), vice president, Teaching; Mary Elliott (Smithsonian Institution), councilor, Profession; Reginald K. Ellis (Florida A&M Univ.), 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; Sara E. Georgini (Massachusetts Historical Society), councilor, Research; Shannon T. Bontrager (Georgia Highlands Coll., Cartersville), 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; Kenneth F. Ledford (Case Western Reserve Univ.), parliamentarian

Professional Division

Kevin Boyle, vice president; Mary Elliott; Reginald Ellis; Nerina Rustomji

Research Division

Sophia Rosenfeld, vice president; Melissa Bokovoy; Christopher Boyer; Sara Georgini

Teaching Division

Laura McEnaney, vice president; Shannon Bontrager; Alexandra Hui; Craig Perrier

Nominating Committee

Carin Berkowitz (New Jersey Council for the Humanities), chair; Fahad A. Bishara (Univ. of Virginia); Kathleen A. Brosnan (Univ. of Oklahoma); Daniel A. Greene (Newberry Library); Gabriel Paquette (Univ. of Oregon); Carla G. Pestana (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Akiko Takenaka (Univ. of Kentucky); Thabiti C. Willis (Carleton Coll.); Karin A. Wulf (Omohundro Institute)

Committee on Committees

Jacqueline Jones, chair; Madeline Y. Hsu (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Jennifer L. Palmer (Univ. of Georgia); Raúl A. Ramos (Univ. of Houston); Kaya Șahin (Indiana Univ.)

Permanent and Standing Committees

Committee on Affiliated Societies: Charles T. Strauss (Mount St. Mary’s Univ.), chair; Timothy D. Draper (Waubonsee Comm. Coll.); Jacqueline Jones; 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.); Pamela F. Scully (Emory Univ.)

Committee on International Historical Activities: Joel F. Harrington (Vanderbilt Univ.), chair; Gregory P. Downs (Univ. of California, Davis); Jean M. Hébrard (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Benjamin N. Lawrance (Univ. of Arizona); Manako Ogawa (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession: Tammy Ingram (Coll. of Charleston), chair; Lacy Spotswood Ferrell (Central Washington Univ.); Helmut Puff (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Andrew Israel Ross (Loyola Univ., Md.); Michael A. Ryan (Univ. of New Mexico)

Committee on Minority Historians: Laurie Arnold (Gonzaga Univ.), chair; Cara Caddoo (Indiana Univ.); Michael D. Innis-Jimenez (Univ. of Alabama); George D. Musgrove (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County); Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier Univ., La.)

Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History: Mary Lindemann; Jacqueline Jones; Barbara D. Savage (Univ. of Pennsylvania); Alan S. Taylor (Univ. of Virginia); Elliott West (Univ. of Arkansas)

Council Committee on the Annual Meeting: John McNeill, chair; Mary Elliott; Alexandra Hui; Sara Georgini

Finance Committee: Mary Lindemann, chair; Jacqueline Jones; John McNeill; Noel Salinger (Smithsonian Institution); William F. Wechsler (Atlantic Council)

Graduate and Early Career Committee: James Cantres (Hunter Coll., CUNY), chair; Sadie Bergen (Columbia Univ.); Curtis Foxley (Univ. of Oklahoma); Samuel B. Keeley Jr. (Univ. of California, Los Angeles); Sarah Mellors, Council rep.

Investment Committee: Keith Hocter (Bellwether Consulting), chair; Jacqueline Jones; Mary Lindemann; William Wechsler

2021 Program Committee: Jared Poley (Georgia State Univ.), chair; Lisa M. Brady (Boise State Univ.), co-chair; Yigit Akin (Tulane Univ.); Robert K. Batchelor Jr. (Georgia Southern Univ.); Monique Bedasse (Washington Univ., St. Louis); Keisha N. Blain (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Cristobal A. Borges (North Seattle Coll.); Cary C. Collins (Tahoma Senior High School); Emily Greenwald (Historical Research Associates); Carina L. Johnson (Pitzer Coll.); Laura E. Matthew (Marquette Univ.); Ritika Prasad (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte); Gautham Rao (American Univ.); Bob Weinberg (Swarthmore Coll.); Mark Ravina (Univ. of Texas, Austin), 2022 chair; Margaret Salazar-Porzio (National Museum of American History), 2022 co-chair; Kole Dawson (Boise State Univ.), 2021 assistant; Kailey McAlpin (Georgia State Univ.), 2021 assistant

Awards Committees

Committee on the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize: Isabel A. Moreira (Univ. of Utah), chair; Karl R. Appuhn (New York Univ.); Daniel P. Franke (Richard Bland Coll. of William and Mary); Anna Krylova (Duke Univ.); Laurie Marhoefer (Univ. of Washington, Seattle)

Committee on the George Louis Beer Prize: Maura O’Connor (Univ. of Cincinnati), chair; Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola Univ., Chicago); Wendy Morgan Lower (Claremont McKenna Coll.); Vanessa Ogle (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Michelle E. Tusan (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Committee on the Jerry Bentley Prize: Prakash Kumar (Penn State Univ.), chair; Peter C. Mancall (Univ. of Southern California); Elisabeth M. McMahon (Tulane Univ.); Laura J. Mitchell (Univ. of California, Irvine); Molly A. Warsh (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Award: Brett Rushforth (Univ. of Oregon), chair; Richard Cándida Smith (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Cheryl L. Greenberg (Trinity Coll., Conn.); Steven W. Hackel (Univ. of California, Riverside); Linda M. Rupert (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro)

Committee on the Paul Birdsall Prize: Bruno Cabanes (Ohio State Univ., Columbus), chair; Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State Univ.); Adele Lindenmeyr (Villanova Univ.)

Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize: Eric Rebillard (Cornell Univ.), chair; Touraj Daryaee (Univ. of California, Irvine); Paula J. Perlman (Univ. of Texas, Austin)

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; Eileen M. Ford (California State Univ., Los Angeles); George H. Vrtis (Carleton Coll.)

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

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

Committee on the Leo Gershoy Award: James H. Johnson (Boston Univ.), chair; Carina L. Johnson (Institute for Advanced Study); Jacob S. Soll (Univ. of Southern California)

Committee on the William and Edwyna Gilbert Prize: Andrew H. Lee (New York Univ.), chair; David Pace (Indiana Univ.); Urmi Engineer Willoughby (Murray State Univ.)

Committee on the Friedrich Katz Prize: Raymond B. Craib (Cornell Univ.), chair; Laura Rosanne Adderley (Tulane Univ.); Jerry Davila (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Lillian Guerra (Univ. of Florida); Rachel S. O’Toole (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Committee on the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize: Julie Hardwick (Univ. of Texas, Austin), AHA rep., chair; Abigail McGowan (Univ. of Vermont), AHA rep.; Jessica R. Pliley (Texas State Univ.), CCWH rep.; Katherine L. Turk (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), AHA rep.; Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac Univ.), CCWH rep.

Committee on the Martin A. Klein Prize: Rachel Jean-Baptiste (Univ. of California, Davis), chair; Mariana P. Candido (Univ. of Notre Dame); James De Lorenzi (John Jay Coll., CUNY)

Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Prize: Katrina L. Jagodinsky (Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln), chair; Rebecca McLennan (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Ajay K. Mehrotra (American Bar Foundation); William J. Novak (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Kunal M.r Parker (Univ. of Miami)

Committee on the J. Russell Major Prize: Rebecca L. Spang (Indiana Univ.), chair; Samantha K. Herrick (Syracuse Univ.); Junko Takeda (Syracuse Univ.)

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

Committee on the George L. Mosse Prize: Patricia M. E. Lorcin (Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities), chair; Peter J. Arnade (Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa); Greg Eghigian (Penn State Univ.); Carla A. Hesse (Univ. of California, Berkeley); Lisa Moses Leff (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum);

Committee on the John E. O’Connor Film Award: Kathleen DuVal (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), chair; Carma Hinton (George Mason Univ.); Laura Isabel Serna (Univ. of Southern California)

Committee on the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize: Jonathan D. Wells (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), chair; Melita M. Garza (Texas Christian Univ.); Jeremy D. Popkin (Univ. of Kentucky)

Committee on the James Rawley Prize: Abigail L. Swingen (Texas Tech Univ.), chair; Jennifer L. Morgan (New York Univ.); Philip D. Morgan (Johns Hopkins Univ.); Susanah Shaw Romney (New York Univ.); James Sidbury (Rice Univ.)

Committee on the Premio Del Rey: Adam J. Kosto (Columbia Univ.), chair; Brian A. Catlos (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder); Janina Safran (Penn State Univ.)

Committee on the John F. Richards Prize: Rajeev K. Kinra (Northwestern Univ.), chair; Ayesha Jalal (Tufts Univ.); Jayeeta Sharma (Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough)

Committee on the James Harvey Robinson Prize: Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State Univ.), chair; Christine E. Eubank (Bergen Comm. Coll.); Nancy L. Quam-Wickham (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Committee on the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize: Arie M. Dubnov (George Washington Univ.), chair; Orit Bashkin (Univ. of Chicago); Hasia R. Diner (New York Univ.)

Committee on the Roy Rosenzweig Prize: Mills Kelly (George Mason Univ.), GMU rep., chair; 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: LaShawn D. Harris (Michigan State Univ.), ASALH rep., chair; Randal M. Jelks (Univ. of Kansas), ASALH rep.; Rashauna Johnson (Dartmouth Coll.), AHA rep.; Michelle McKinley (Univ. of Oregon), AHA rep.; Quincy T. Mills (Univ. of Maryland, College Park), 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); R. Darrell Meadows (National Archives and Records Admin.)

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

Committee on the Nancy L. Roelker Mentorship Award: Ernesto Chavez (Univ. of Texas, El Paso), chair; Jinhee Lee (Eastern Illinois Univ.); Kelli Y. Nakamura (Kapi’olani Comm. Coll.); Aldo J. Regalado (Palmer Trinity School); Susan M. Yohn (Hofstra Univ.)

Committee on Teaching Prizes: Tim W. Keirn (California State Univ., Long Beach), SHE rep., chair; Michelle K. Berry (Univ. of Arizona), AHA rep.; Jonathan A. Lee (San Antonio Coll.), AHA rep.

Grant and Fellowship Committees

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship: Stephen D. Kantrowitz (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), chair; Ibram X. Kendi (American Univ.); 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.; Emily Margolis (Johns Hopkins Univ.), AHA rep.

Committee on Beveridge Research Grants: Peter F. Guardino (Indiana Univ.), chair; Christine M. Adams (Saint Mary’s Coll., Md.); Clifton Hood (Hobart and William Smith Coll.)

Committee on Kraus Research Grants: Gregory Dowd (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), chair; Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.); Mark A. Peterson (Yale Univ.)

Committee on Littleton-Griswold Research Grants: Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington Univ., St. Louis), chair; S. Deborah Kang (California State Univ., San Marcos); H. Timothy Lovelace (Indiana Univ.)

Committee on Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grants: Robyn d’Avignon (New York Univ.), chair; Matthew D. Gerber (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder); Ying Zhang (Ohio State Univ., Columbus)

Ad Hoc Committees

Ad Hoc Committee on Online Teaching:Review Committee: Jan Reiff (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), chair; Kathy Callahan (Murray State Univ.); Anne Chao (Rice Univ.); Cassandra Clark (Univ. of Utah); Carlos Contreras (Grossmont Coll.); Richard Hines (American Public Univ. System); Steven Mintz (Univ. of Texas, Austin and Hunter Coll., SUNY. Drafting Subcommittee: Jan Reiff (Univ. of California, Los Angeles), chair; Kevin Gannon (Grand View Univ.); Christina Ghanbarpour (Saddleback Coll.); Bryan McDonald (Penn State Univ.); Brandon Morgan (Central New Mexico Comm. Coll.)

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)

NARA Review Committee: Richard Immerman (Temple Univ.), chair; Matthew Connelly (Columbia Univ.); Chris Prom (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Leslie Rowland (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

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 Grossman

American Council of Learned Societies: Tyler Stovall (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: Asif Siddiqi (Fordham Univ.)

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)

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