Committee on Academic Freedom

The mandate of the committee is to investigate reports of repressive measures having an impact on historians’ teaching, research, employment, and freedom of expression, and to report its findings to the officers and members of the OAH in ways it found most useful and appropriate. The committee refers its findings and recommendations to the executive board for any actions the board might deem appropriate.

• Kevin K. Gaines, Chair
• Raymond Arsenault
• Sara M. Evans
• Cynthia Yaudes, Staff Liaison

Committee on Disability and Disability History

The committee engages with all professional issues relevant to historians with disabilities and also promotes the study, teaching, and preservation of disability histories.

• Kim E. Nielsen, Chair
• Susan Burch, ex officio
• John M. Kinder
• Paul R. D. Lawrie
• Sarah F. Rose
• Daniel J. Wilson

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
• Kevin Marsh, Staff Liaison

OAH-Japanese Association for American Studies Japan Historians Collaborative Committee

The OAH and the JAAS, with the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, select two U.S. historians to spend two weeks at Japanese universities giving lectures, seminars, and advising students and researchers interested in American history, and participating in the life of the host institution. It is part of an exchange program that also brings Japanese graduate students to the OAH Annual Meeting.

Members from the United States

• Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, OAH Chair
• Mark Dyreson
• Andrea Geiger
• Thomas J. Sugrue
• Mari Yoshihara
• Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Executive Board Liaison
• Nancy Croker, Staff Liaison

Members from Japan

• Satoshi Nakano, JAAS Chair
• Kohei Kawashima
• Akiyo Okuda