Executive Board
Officers
David A. Hollinger, President
Alice Kessler-Harris, President Elect
Albert M. Camarillo, Vice President
Robert Griffith, Treasurer
Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director
Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio
Past Presidents
Pete Daniel
Elaine Tyler May
Elected Members
William Cronon
Theda Perdue
Martha A. Sandweiss
Doris D. Dwyer
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Mary Kelley
Jon Butler
Jane Kamensky
Gary W. Reichard
Executive Committee
Consists
of officers of the Organization (President, President Elect, Vice
President, Executive Director, Editor, Treasurer) and the Immediate
Past President
David A. Hollinger, President
Alice Kessler-Harris, President Elect
Albert M. Camarillo, Vice President
Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director, ex officio
Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, ex officio
Robert Griffith, Treasurer
Elaine Tyler May, Immediate Past President
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award Committee
The four members of the OAH Executive Board in their last year of
service 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 2011 award are: Theda Perdue, Chair; William Cronon; Pete Daniel; and James Grossman.
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):
David A. Hollinger, President
Alice Kessler-Harris, President Elect
Elaine Tyler May, Immediate Past President
Robert Griffith, Treasurer, ex officio
Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director, ex officio
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio
Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, 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.
Ira Berlin
William H. Chafe, Cochair
Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair
Alan Hermesch
David A. Hollinger, ex officio
Mark E. Mitchell
Victor Navasky
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
Lynn Dumenil
Rosemary Kolks Ennis, Chair
Kathleen S. Kutolowski
Nancy MacLean
Daryl Michael Scott
Marguerite "Peggy" Renner
Thomas J. Sugrue
OAH Magazine of History Editorial Board
Keith Berry
Kevin Byrne
Billie Jean Clemens
Kimberly Gilmore
Cathy Gorn
Lisa Kapp
Rita G. Koman
Laura Westhoff
Linda Sargent Wood
The Journal of American History Editorial
Board
Dee E. Andrews
Raymond O. Arsenault
Paul S. Boyer
Ann Fabian
Katherine M. Finley, OAH Executive Director, ex officio
Andrea Friedman
Alison Games
Matthew Garcia
Kristin Hoganson
Karen J. Leong
Tiya Miles
Dylan Penningroth
Jonathan M. Schoenwald
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
Kathleen Conzen
Matthew Garcia, Chair
Brian Horrigan
Laurene McClain
Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Nina Silber
Julian Zelizer
Appointment Pending
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.
DeAnna E. Beachley
David A. Berry, ex officio
Jennifer Helton
Amy J. Kinsel
June Klees
Alexandra M. Nickliss
Mark Roehrs
Andrés Tijerina, Chair
International Committee
The committee shall assist in carrying out the commitment of the
Organization to international perspectives, collaborations, exchanges,
and members.
Victor R. Greene, Chair
Edward T. Linenthal, ex officio
G. Kurt Piehler
William C. Pratt
Georg Schild
Yuka Tsuchyia
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: Jeannie Whayne
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: Appointment Pending
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: Nikki M. Taylor
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.
Michael D. Innis-Jiménez
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Jessica Millward
Lydia R. Otero, Chair
Adrienne Petty
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, Chair
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.
Stephanie Gilmore
Donn Hall
Elizabeth Hohl
Arlene Lazarowitz
Donald W. Rogers, Chair
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
Louis P. Hutchins, Chair
Julia Sandy-Bailey
Gregory E. Smoak
Matthew A. Wasniewski
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
Steven Mintz
Gideon Sanders, Chair
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
Emma Lapsansky-Werner
Constance B. Schulz
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 Annual Meeting Local Resource Committee
The
committee consults with the Meetings Department to arrange tours,
offsite sessions, and special events and assists with promotion of the
meeting through the OAH Web site and local media outlets. The Annual
Meeting Local Resource Committee also assists the Program Committee
with soliciting sessions that will interest local historians and the
public.
John B. 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
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.
Kathleen Franz, Cochair
Nancy MacLean, Cochair
Brian Delay
Gary Gerstle
Paul Harvey
Deborah Mack
Jennifer Morgan
Samuel K. Roberts
Naoko Shibusawa
Carlene Stevens
Zaragosa Vargas
Marsha Weisiger
Emily Weisner
Shane White
2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting Local Resource Committee
The
committee consults with the Meetings Department to arrange tours,
offsite sessions, and special events and assists with promotion of the
meeting through the OAH Web site and local media outlets. The Annual
Meeting Local Resource Committee also assists the Program Committee
with soliciting sessions that will interest local historians and the
public.
Margo Anderson, Cochair
Stephen Meyer, Cochair
Jasmine Alinder
Michael Gordon
Kathleen Kean
John Krugler
James Marten
Robert S. Smith
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
Kathleen Neils Conzen
Alexandra (Sasha) Harmon
Sandra Gioia Treadway
Ad Hoc OAH-Japanese Association for American Studies Japan Historians Collaborative Committee
Juri Abe
Andrea Geiger, OAH Chair
Christopher Jespersen
Kohei Kawashima
Satoshi Nakano, JAAS Chair
Kim E. Nielsen
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
Jennifer Ross-Nazzal
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic
Documentation
Laura Belmonte
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
Vivian Bruce Conger
Gerald E. Shenk, Chair
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.
Kathleen DuVal, Chair
David Rich Lewis
Pablo Mitchell
Binkley-Stephenson Award Committee
For the best article published in The Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year.
Raymond O. Arsenault
Randal L. Hall, Chair
Claire Strom
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.
Tera Hunter, Chair
Anthony E. Kaye
Hannah Rosen
Merle Curti Award Committee
For the best book in social and/or intellectual history.
Margo Anderson
Mary Kupiec Cayton
Kevin M. Kruse
Bruce Kuklick
Penny M. Von Eschen, 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.
Jennifer L. Klein
Bryant Simon, Chair
Martin Summers
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, Chair
Lon Kurashige
Dominic A. Pacyga
Darlene Clark Hine Award Committee
For the best book in African American women's and gender history.
Jennifer Morgan
Elizabeth H. Turner, Chair
LeeAnn Whites
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.
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Michael D. Innis-Jiménez
Jessica Millward
Lydia R. Otero
Adrienne Petty, Chair
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.
Brenda Gayle Plummer
Darlene Richardson, Chair
Timothy P. Townsend
Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize Committee
For the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history.
Natalia Molina, Chair
Susan S. Rugh
Jacqueline Wilkie
Lawrence W. Levine Award Committee
For the best book in American cultural history.
Brooke L. Blower
Jonathan M. Bryant
William S. Pretzer
David Steigerwald, Chair
Shirley T. Wajda
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.
Leslie Alexander
Scott Kurashige, Chair
Keith Mayes
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee
For the best essay in American history written by a graduate student.
John M. Belohlavek
Margaret S. Creighton
Jennifer Guglielmo
Edward T. Linenthal, Chair
John T. Schlotterbeck
James A. Rawley Prize Committee
For a book dealing with race relations in the United States.
José M. Alamillo
Nelson Lichtenstein, Chair
Karin A. Shapiro
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award Committee
For
an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly
enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history.
William Cronon
James Grossman
Nell Irvin Painter, Chair
Theda Perdue
Tachau Teacher of the Year Award Committee
To recognize the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education.
Michael Flamm
Frederick W. Jordan, Chair
Andrea Sachs
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.
Thomas Andrews
Leslie Brown
Elaine Tyler May, Chair
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