Executive Board
Officers
Elaine Tyler May, President
David A. Hollinger, President Elect
Alice Kessler-Harris, Vice President
Robert Griffith, Treasurer
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director
Edward T. Linenthal, Editor, The Journal of American History
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio
Past Presidents
Richard White
Nell Irvin Painter
Pete Daniel
Elected Members
Philip Deloria
Kim Ibach
Martha A. Sandweiss
William Cronon
James Grossman
Theda Perdue
Doris D. Dwyer
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Mary Kelley
Executive Committee
Consists of officers of the Organization (President, President Elect, Vice President, Executive Director, Editor, Treasurer) and the Immediate Past President
Elaine Tyler May, President
David A. Hollinger, President Elect
Alice Kessler-Harris, Vice President
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director, ex officio
Edward T. Linenthal, Editor, The Journal of American History, ex officio
Robert Griffith, Treasurer
Pete Daniel, Immediate Past President
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award Subcommittee
Four senior members of the OAH Executive Board nominate an OAH member to receive the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award. The committee may also recommend an individual outside the organization to receive a similar award for public service to the historical profession.
- Members for the 2010 award are: Richard White, Chair; Philip Deloria; Kim Ibach; and Martha Sandweiss.
Finance Committee
The Finance Committee assesses the financial condition of the organization on a quarterly basis and consists of the President, President Elect, the immediate Past President, Treasurer, and ex officio members (Executive Director, Editor, Leadership Advisory Council Cochair):
Elaine Tyler May, President
David A. Hollinger, President Elect
Pete Daniel, Immediate Past President
Robert Griffith, Treasurer, ex officio
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director, ex officio
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio
Edward T. Linenthal, Editor, The Journal of American History, ex officio
Leadership Advisory Council
The council advises the Executive Office and Executive Board on development matters and funding and implementation of the Organization's strategic plan.
Edward L. Ayers
Ira Berlin
William H. Chafe, Cochair
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair
Alan Hermesch
Carroll H. Leggett
Elaine Tyler May, ex officio
Mark E. Mitchell
Victor Navasky
Valerie Paley
Paul S. Sperry
Jeffrey L. Sturchio
Geoffrey C. Ward
Barbara Winslow
Paul Martin Wolff
Nominating Board
The board nominates candidates for the annual election of the President, President-Elect, and Vice President as well as three members each of the Executive Board and the Nominating Board.
George Chauncey
Spencer R. Crew, Chair
Rosemary Kolks Ennis
Christine Leigh Heyrman
Amy J. Kinsel
Kathleen S. Kutolowski
Nancy MacLean
Kimberley L. Phillips
Daryl Michael Scott
OAH Magazine of History Editorial Board
Keith Berry
Kevin Byrne
Billie Jean Clemens
Kimberly Gilmore
Cathy Gorn
Lisa Kapp
Rita G. Koman
Stephanie Rossi
Cynthia Stout
Gideon Sanders
Laura Westhoff
Linda Sargent Wood
The Journal of American History Editorial
Board
Dee E. Andrew
Thomas Bender
Paul S. Boyer
Ann Fabian
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director, ex officio
María Cristina García
Alison Games
Kristin Hoganson
Karen J. Leong
Charlene Mires
Dylan Penningroth
Jonathan M. Schoenwald
Mark Smith
OAH Newsletter Advisory Board
The board advises the Newsletter production team, helps form basic policy for the Newsletter's operation, helps guide content matters, and explores new ideas and directions for the Newsletter
Joan C. Browning
Kristin L. Ahlberg, Chair
Clyde A. Milner II
Stephen L. Vaughn
Shirley Teresa Wajda
Committee on Committees
The purpose of the committee is to fill all regular vacancies on the service and award committees of the Organization subject to the approval of the Executive Board.
Ron Briley
Matthew Garcia
Brian Horrigan
William P. Jones, Chair
Peter A. Kraemer
María E. Montoya
Peggy Renner
Jeannie Whayne
Committee on Community Colleges
The committee's goals are to integrate community college historians into the Organization and address the professional issues and concerns that relate specifically to historians in two-year institutions.
David A. Berry
Jennifer Helton
Amy J. Kinsel
Maureen Murphy Nutting
Thomas J. Osborne
Lisa Ossian
Mark Roehrs, Chair
Melissa M. Soto-Schwartz
Andrés Tijerina
Executive Director Search Committee
Claude Clegg
James Grossman
David A. Hollinger, Cochair
Mary Kelley
Elaine Tyler May, Cochair
International Committee
The committee shall assist in carrying out the commitment of the Organization to international perspectives, collaborations, exchanges, and members.
Victor R. Greene
Maurice Isserman
Edward T. Linenthal, ex officio
G. Kurt Piehler
William C. Pratt, Chair
Ian Tyrrell
Membership Committee
The purpose of the Membership Committee shall be to encourage all persons interested in American history to join and become active members of the Organization of American Historians. It shall seek to enhance the availability of The Journal of American History to the public by encouraging institutional subscriptions, and to spread the Magazine of History as widely as possible among educators.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITEE
Stephen Kneeshaw, Chair
William D. Carrigan
Amilcar Shabazz
Cheryl A. Wells
Cary Wintz
NORTHEAST REGION SUBCOMMITTEE
CONNECTICUT CHAIR: Cecelia Bucki
MAINE CHAIR: Leigh H. Hallett
MASSACHUSETTS COCHAIR: Gary Donato
MASSACHUSETTS COCHAIR: Amilcar Shabazz
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAIR: Rebecca R. Noel
NEW YORK COCHAIR: Mary Bogin
NEW YORK COCHAIR: Michael Spear
NEW YORK COCHAIR: Margaret Susan Thompson
RHODE ISLAND CHAIR: Naoko Shibusawa
VERMONT CHAIR: Melanie Gustafson
EUROPEAN CHAIR: Axel R. Schäfer
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Christopher Brick
MID-ATLANTIC REGION SUBCOMMITTEE
DELAWARE CHAIR: David Suisman
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAIR: Adam Rothman
MARYLAND CHAIR: Elizabeth Kelly Gray
NEW JERSEY CHAIR: William D. Carrigan [Chair, Mid-Atlantic Region]
PENNSYLVANIA COCHAIR: Andrew B. Arnold
PENNSYLVANIA COCHAIR: Walter Greason
VIRGINIA CHAIR: John T. Kneebone
WEST VIRGINIA CHAIR: Joan C. Browning
AFRICAN CHAIR: Greg Cuthbertson
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE: Elizabeth A. Kessel
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Timothy Hack
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Laurie Lahey
SOUTHERN REGION SUBCOMMITTEE
ALABAMA CHAIR: Joshua Rothman
ARKANSAS CHAIR: Appointment Pending
FLORIDA CHAIR: Raymond Arsenault
GEORGIA CHAIR: Appointment Pending
KENTUCKY CHAIR: Thomas C. Mackey
LOUISIANA CHAIR: Charles Vincent
MISSISSIPPI CHAIR: Kyle F. Zelner
NORTH CAROLINA: Robert Korstad
OKLAHOMA CHAIR: Stephen H. Norwood
SOUTH CAROLINA CHAIR: Melissa Walker
TENNESSEE CHAIR: Sarah Potter
TEXAS COCHAIR: Janet Schmelzer
TEXAS COCHAIR: Cary D. Wintz [Chair, Southern Region]
LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN CHAIR: Fernando Purcell
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE: Stephen Davis
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Jessica Cannon
MIDWEST REGION SUBCOMMITTEE
ILLINOIS COCHAIR: Glennon Graham
ILLINOIS COCHAIR: Richard L. Hughes
INDIANA CHAIR: Steve Messer
IOWA CHAIR: Charles Lauritsen
KANSAS CHAIR: Christopher C. Lovett
MICHIGAN CHAIR: Kathleen P. Chamberlain
MINNESOTA CHAIR: Melodie J. Andrews
MISSOURI CHAIR: Stephen Kneeshaw [Chair, Midwest Region]
NEBRASKA CHAIR: Mark R. Scherer
NORTH DAKOTA: David Silkenat
OHIO CHAIR: Appointment Pending
SOUTH DAKOTA: Donald C. Simmons Jr.
WISCONSIN CHAIR: Eric Franco
CANADA COCHAIR: Robert MacDougall
CANADA COCHAIR: Frank Towers
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE: Edward Carroll
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Andrea Mott
WESTERN REGION SUBCOMMITTEE
ALASKA CHAIR: John W. Heaton
ARIZONA CHAIR: Linda Sargent Wood
CALIFORNIA COCHAIR: Christina Gold
CALIFORNIA COCHAIR: Curtis Martin
CALIFORNIA COCHAIR: Jane Wolford
COLORADO CHAIR: Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant
HAWAII CHAIR: Richard C. Rath
IDAHO CHAIR: Katherine Aiken
MONTANA CHAIR: Wade Davies
NEVADA CHAIR: Greta de Jong
NEW MEXICO CHAIR: Sarah E. Cornell
OREGON CHAIR: Mina J. Carson
UTAH CHAIR: Matthew Basso
WASHINGTON CHAIR: Thomas Gaskin
WYOMING CHAIR: Cheryl A. Wells [Chair, Western Region]
ASIAN CHAIR: Fusako "Sako" Ogata
COMMUNITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE: Michael Green
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE: Jill A. Horohoe
Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories
The committee considers all professional issues bearing upon ALANA historians in the historical profession as well as the study of ALANA histories.
Lionel Kimble Jr., Chair
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Lydia R. Otero
Adrienne Petty
George J. Sánchez
OAH Committee on National Park Service Collaboration
The committee assists with the cooperative agreement between OAH and the National Park Service, by consulting on the selection of projects and project participants, advising the Executive Board and OAH staff on NPS issues, and advocating for NPS within the organization.
Laura J. Feller
Kathleen Franz, ex officio
Frederick E. Hoxie
Todd Moye
Robert K. Sutton, ex officio
Jon E. Taylor
Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment
The committee's purpose is to recommend programs and services for adjunct and part-time members of the profession.
Donald W. Rogers, Chair
Donn Hall
Elizabeth Hohl
Arlene Lazarowitz
Howard Smead
Committee on Public History
The committee maintains liaison with public history organizations and institutions, including those in both public and private sectors and persons in the field of public history, and generates such proposals relating to OAH policy and program as seem suitable to its membership.
Kathleen Franz, Chair
Louis P. Hutchins
Julia Sandy-Bailey
Gregory E. Smoak
Matthew A. Wasniewski
Strategic Planning Committee
Steve D. Andrews
Pete Daniel, Cochair
Katha Kissman, Interim Executive Director, OAH, ex officio
Jay S. Goodgold
Alice Kessler-Harris
Edward T. Linenthal, Editor, The Journal of American History, ex officio
Elaine Tyler May
Linda Shopes, Cochair
David S. Trask
Committee on Teaching
The committee works to improve the teaching and understanding of history at all levels of training and in diverse venues.
Kenneth G. Alfers
Keith Berry
Kevin Byrne
Carole N. DeVito
Margaret Harris, Chair
Steven Mintz
Gideon Sanders
Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession
The committee considers all professional concerns bearing upon women in the historical profession.
David Chang
Betty A. Dessants
Elizabeth Higginbotham, Chair
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Constance B. Schulz
2010 Program Committee
The committee is responsible for the program of the Annual Meeting and such other related activities as the President may designate. The committee works closely with the Meetings staff of the Executive Office which is responsible for insuring that professional sessions for graduate students and other constituency groups are included in each program.
Tim Borstelmann, Chair
Kristin L. Ahlberg
Sharon M. Leon
Howard J. Shorr
Jon Sensbach
Margot Canaday
María Cristina García
Tiya A. Miles
2010 Convention Local Resource Committee
The Local Resource Committee consults with the meetings department to arrange tours, offsite sessions, and special events and assists with promotion of the meeting through the OAH Newsletter and local media outlets. The Local Resource Committee also assists the Program Committee with soliciting sessions that will interest local historians and the public.
Kristin L. Ahlberg
Beth M. Boland
Katrina Dodro
Kathleen Franz
Cathy Gorn
Keri Lewis, Chair
Robyn Muncy
Joseph P. Reidy
Gideon Sanders
2011 Program Committee
The committee is responsible for the program of the Annual Meeting and such other related activities as the President may designate. The committee works closely with the Meetings staff of the Executive Office which is responsible for insuring that professional sessions for graduate students and other constituency groups are included in each program.
Peter Kolchin, Cochair
Joanne Meyerowitz, Cochair
Manfred Berg
Holly Brewer
Hasia Diner
David G. Gutiérrez
Martha S. Jones
Moon-Ho Jung
Paul Kramer
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
2011 Convention Local Resource Committee
The Local Resource Committee consults with the meetings department to arrange tours, offsite sessions, and special events and assists with promotion of the meeting through the OAH Newsletter and local media outlets. The Local Resource Committee also assists the Program Committee with soliciting sessions that will interest local historians and the public.
John Boles, Chair
Carlos Kevin Blanton
Kathleen A. Brosnan
Alexander X. Byrd
David L. Davis
David G. Gutiérrez
Patrick J. Kelly
J. Kent McGaughy
Martin V. Melosi
Cary D. Wintz
Nancy Zey
2012 OAH/NCPH Program Committee
Kathleen Franz, Cochair
Nancy MacLean, Cochair
Brian Delay
Gary Gerstle
Paul Harvey
Deborah Mack
Jennifer Morgan
Samuel Roberts
Naoko Shibusawa
Carlene Stevens
Zaragosa Vargas
Marsha Weisiger
Emily Weisner
Ad Hoc Committees
Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom
Raymond Arsenault
Sara M. Evans
Kevin Gaines, Chair
Ad Hoc Committee on Ethics and Professional Standards
The committee's purpose is to advise The Journal of American History as it develops its policy on plagiarism. Once that policy has been presented and approved by the board, the Ad Hoc Committee on Ethics and Professional Standards will be dissolved.
Patrick Allitt
James D. Anderson, Chair
Kathleen Neils Conzen
Alexandra (Sasha) Harmon
Sandra Gioia Treadway
Ad Hoc Executive Director Search Committee
Claude Clegg
James Grossman
David A. Hollinger, Cochair
Mary Kelley
Elaine Tyler May, Cochair
Ad Hoc OAH-Japanese Association for American Studies Japan Historians Collaborative Committee
Juri Abe, Cochair
Andrea Geiger, Cochair
Christopher Jespersen
Kohei Kawashima
Kim E. Nielsen
Naoki Onishi
Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu
Thomas J. Sugrue
Ad Hoc Working Group on Evaluating Public History Scholarship
Jointly formed in 2007 by the National Council on Public History, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association, the working group will produce guidelines to help academic institutions define what constitutes public history work and how it should be accounted for in the academic reward system.
Members from the National Council on Public History
Bill Bryans
John Dichtl
Kathleen Franz
Members from the Organization of American Historians
Susan Ferentinos
Constance B. Schulz
Greg Smoak
Members from the American Historical Association
Kristin L. Ahlberg
Edward Countryman
Debbie Ann Doyle
OAH Representatives and Liaisons to Other Councils, Commissions, and Committees
AHA/NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History Committee
Cheryl R. Ganz
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic
Documentation
Appointment pending
American Council of Learned Societies
Sarah Deutsch
National Council for History Education
Eric R. Smith
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Julie Saville
National Museum of Afro-American History and Culture
Planning Council
OAH Representative: Kenneth W. Goings
OAH Parliamentarian
Jonathan Lurie
OAH AWARD AND PRIZE COMMITTEES
Willi Paul Adams Award Committee
For the best book on American history published in a foreign language.
Manfred Berg
Anne L. Foster, Chair
Kristin Hoganson
Jörg Nagler
Nelson Ouellet
Erik Barnouw Award Committee
For outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history and/or the promotion of history.
Elspeth H. Brown, Chair
Lary May
Gerald E. Shenk
Ray Allen Billington Prize Committee
For the best book about American frontier history, which is defined broadly to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others.
Pablo Mitchell, Chair
Kathleen DuVal
David Rich Lewis
Binkley-Stephenson Award Committee
For the best article published in The Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year.
Thavolia Glymph
Randal L. Hall
Claire Strom, Chair
Avery O. Craven Award Committee
For the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.
Carl Moneyhon
Diane C. Vecchio, Chair
LeeAnn Whites
Merle Curti Award Committee
For the best book in social and/or intellectual history.
Raymond Arsenault
Annette Atkins
Mark K. Bauman
Howard Brick
Glenda Gilmore, Chair
Distinguished Service Award Committee
For an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history.
Philip Deloria
Kim Ibach
Martha A. Sandweiss
Richard White, Chair
Ellis W. Hawley Prize Committee
For the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
Steven Hahn
Charles L. Lumpkins
Patrick G. Williams, Chair
OAH-Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grants Committee
Travel grants for three graduate students each year to be used toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS annual meeting.
Elliott Barkan
Lon Kurashige
Francille Rusan Wilson, Chair
Darlene Clark Hine Award Committee
For the best book in African American women's and gender history.
Randall K. Burkett
Wanda A. Hendricks, Chair
Barbara Ransby
Huggins-Quarles Dissertation Award Committee
The Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories serves as the selection committee for the Huggins-Quarles Award, which is given to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the Ph.D. dissertation.
Lionel Kimble Jr.
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Chair
Lydia R. Otero
Adrienne Petty
George J. Sánchez
Richard W. Leopold Prize Committee
For the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, the historical activities of the federal government or biography by a government historian.
Andy Ambrose
Lu Ann Jones
Roger D. Launius, Chair
Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize Committee
For the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history.
Heidi Ardizzone
Alecia P. Long
Linda Reed, Chair
Lawrence W. Levine Award Committee
For the best book in American cultural history.
Leslie Butler
Lewis A. Erenberg
Benjamin Filene
Geri Hastings
Robert Korstad, Chair
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Committee
For the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.
Joseph Crespino, Chair
Kenneth R. Janken
Susan E. O'Donovan
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee
For the best essay in American history written by a graduate student.
John M. Belohlavek
Margaret S. Creighton
Stephen Kercher
Edward T. Linenthal, Chair
John T. Schlotterbeck
James A. Rawley Prize Committee
For a book dealing with race relations in the United States.
Nelson Lichtenstein
Clare A. Lyons
Karin A. Shapiro, Chair
Tachau Teacher of the Year Award Committee
To recognize the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education.
Don Falls, Chair
Michael Flamm
Frederick W. Jordan
David Thelen Award Committee
For the best article on American history published in a foreign language.
Kate Delaney
Udo Hebel
Hans Krabbendam
Edward T. Linenthal, Chair
Larisa M. Troitskaia
Frederick Jackson Turner Award Committee
For an author's first book on some significant phase of American history.
Ned Blackhawk
Jonathan M. Bryant
Pete Daniel, Chair
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