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.

• Alexandra M. Nickliss, Chair
• DeAnna E. Beachley
• David A. Berry, ex officio
• June Klees
• James Ross-Nazzal
• Darlene Spitzer Antezana
• Christina M. Stern
• Andrés Tijerina
• Amy J. Kinsel, Executive Board Liaison
• Nancy Croker, Staff Liaison

International Committee

The committee shall assist in carrying out the commitment of the Organization to international perspectives, collaborations, exchanges, and members.

• Georg Schild, Chair
• Beth Bailey
• Avital H. Bloch
• Don DeBats
• Edward T. Linenthal, ex officio
• G. Kurt Piehler
• David A. Hollinger, Executive Board Liaison
• Stephen D. Andrews, Staff Liaison

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.

• Cary Wintz, Chair
• William D. Carrigan
• Stephen Kneeshaw
• Amilcar Shabazz
• Cheryl A. Wells
• Jane Kamensky, Executive Board Liaison
• Katherine M. Finley, Staff Liaison

Mid-Atlantic Region

• William D. Carrigan, New Jersey Representative, Mid-Atlantic Region Chair
• David Suisman, Delaware Representative
• Adam Rothman, District of Columbia Representative
• Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Maryland Representative
• Andrew B. Arnold, Pennsylvania Representative
• Walter Greason, Pennsylvania Representative
• John T. Kneebone, Virginia Representative
• David J. Trowbridge, West Virginia Representative
• Laurie Lahey, Graduate Student Representative
• (appointment pending), African Representative
• (appointment pending), Community College Representative

Midwest Region

• Stephen Kneeshaw, Missouri Representative, Midwest Region Chair
• Glennon Graham, Illnois Representative
• Richard L. Hughes, Illnois Representative
• Steve Messer, Indiana Representative
• Charles Lauritsen, Iowa Representative
• Christopher C. Lovett, Kansas Representative
• (appointment pending), Michigan Representative
• Melodie J. Andrews, Minnesota Representative
• Mark R. Scherer, Nebraska Representative
• David Silkenat, North Dakota Representative
• Nikki M. Taylor, Ohio Representative
• Donald C. Simmons Jr., South Dakota Representative
• Angela Bazan, Wisconsin Representative
• Robert MacDougall, Canada Representative
• Frank Towers, Canada Representative
• Edward Carroll, Community College Representative
• Andrea Mott, Graduate Student Representative

Northeast Region

• Amilcar Shabazz, Massachusetts Representative, Northeast Region Chair
• Cecelia Bucki, Connecticut Representative
• Leigh H. Hallett, Maine Representative
• Gary Donato, Massachusetts Representative
• Rebecca R. Noel, New Hampshire Representative
• Mary Bogin, New York Representative
• Michael Spear, New York Representative
• Margaret Susan Thompson, New York Representative
• Naoko Shibusawa, Rhode Island Representative
• Melanie Gustafson, Vermont Representative
• Axel R. Schäfer, European Representative
• Christopher Brick, Graduate Student Representative

Southern Region

• Cary D. Wintz, Texas Representative, Southern Region Chair
• Joshua Rothman, Alabama Representative
• Jeannie Whayne, Arkansas Representative
• Raymond Arsenault, Florida Representative
• Appointment Pending, Georgia Representative
• Thomas C. Mackey, Kentucky Representative
• Charles Vincent, Louisiana Representative
• (appointment pending), Mississippi Representative
• (appointment pending), North Carolina Representative
• Stephen H. Norwood, Oklahoma Representative
• Diane Vecchio, South Carolina Representative
• Sarah Potter, Tennessee Representative
• Janet Schmelzer, Texas Representative
• Fernando Purcell, Latin America/Caribbean Representative
• Stephen Davis, Community College Representative
• (appointment pending), Graduate Student Representative

Western Region

• Cheryl A. Wells, Wyoming Representative, Western Region Chair
• John W. Heaton, Alaska Representative
• Linda Sargent Wood, Arizona Representative
• Christina Gold, California Representative
• Curtis Martin, California Representative
• Jane Wolford, California Representative
• Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant, Colorado Representative
• Richard C. Rath, Hawaii Representative
• Katherine G. Aiken, Idaho Representative
• (appointment pending), Montana Representative
• Greta de Jong, Nevada Representative
• Sarah E. Cornell, New Mexico Representative
• Mina J. Carson, Oregon Representative
• (appointment pending), Utah Representative
• Thomas Gaskin, Washington Representative
• Fusako “Sako” Ogata, Asian Representative
• Michael Green, Community College Representative
• (appointment pending), Graduate Student Representative

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, Chair
• William Bauer
• Miroslava Chávez-García
• Laurene Wu McClain
• Jessica Millward
• Michele Mitchell, Executive Board Liaison
• Michael Regoli, Staff Liaison

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, Chair
• Marla R. Miller
• Todd Moye
• Robert K. Sutton, ex officio
• Jon E. Taylor
• Matthew A. Wasniewski, ex officio
• Robert Weible
• Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Executive Board Liaison
• Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Board Liaison
• Aidan Smith, Staff Liaison

Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Employment

The committee’s purpose is to recommend programs and services for part-time, adjunct, and contingent members of the profession.

• Donald W. Rogers, Chair (to contact, click name)
• Donn Hall
• Elizabeth Hohl
• Arlene Lazarowitz
• John P. Lloyd
• Howard Smead
• David W. Blight, Executive Board Liaison
• Katherine M. Finley, Staff Liaison

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.

• Matthew A. Wasniewski, Chair
• Julia Sandy-Bailey
• David H. Glassberg
• Anthea M. Hartig
• Lu Ann Jones
• Alan M. Kraut, Executive Board Liaison
• Aidan Smith, Staff Liaison

Committee on Teaching

The committee works to improve the teaching and understanding of history at all levels of training and in diverse venues.

• Ron Briley, Chair
• Joshua Ashenmiller
• Bob Bain
• Keith Berry
• Mark Brilliant
• Carole N. DeVito
• Don Falls
• Gary W. Reichard, Executive Board Liaison
• Steve Andrews (Managing Editor, Journal of American History), OAH Interim Staff Liaison (to contact, click name)

Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession

The committee considers all professional concerns bearing upon women in the historical profession.

• Susan Lee Johnson, Chair
• David Chang
• Betty A. Dessants
• Dayo F. Gore
• Constance B. Schulz
• Lori D. Ginzberg, Executive Board Liaison
• Annette Windhorn, Staff Liaison