2012-2013 OAH Executive Board
The OAH Executive Board is comprised of the OAH Officers, together with former Presidents who continue to serve for two years immediately succeeding their presidency, and nine elected members. An asterisk (*) denotes members of the OAH Executive Committee, which is composed of the officers of the OAH, and the immediate past president.
Officers of the OAH
Albert M. Camarillo *
OAH President
Professor of American History; Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor; and Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Diversity in charge of the Faculty Development Initiative of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Alan M. Kraut *
President-Elect
Department of History
American University
Washington, DC
Patricia Limerick *
Vice President
Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West, Professor of History
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
Jay S. Goodgold *
Treasurer
Independent Investor
Chicago, IL
Katherine M. Finley *
Executive Director
(nonvoting member)
Organization of American Historians
Bloomington IN
Edward T. Linenthal *
Executive Editor, Organization of American Historians
Editor, Journal of American History
(nonvoting member)
Bloomington, IN
Past Presidents
Alice Kessler-Harris *
OAH President (2011-2012)
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
New York, NY
David A. Hollinger
OAH President (2010-2011)
Term expires April 2013
Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History
University of California, Berkley
Berkley, CA
Elaine Tyler May
OAH President (2009-2010)
Term expires April 2013
Regents Professor
Department of American Studies
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Executive Board Members
Jon Butler
Term expires April 2013
Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2010
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Jane Kamensky
Term expires April 2013
Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization
Chair, Department of History
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Gary W. Reichard
Term expires April 2013
Professor Emeritus
Department of History
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Term expires April 2014
Professor of History
Howard University
Washington, DC
Peter Kolchin
Term expires April 2014
Henry Clay Reed Professor of History
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
Michele Mitchell
Term expires April 2014
Associate Professor of History
New York University
New York, NY
David W. Blight
Term expires April 2015
Class of '54 Professor of American History
Director, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Lori D. Ginzberg
Term expires April 2015
Professor of History and Women's Studies
Women's Studies Graduate Officer
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Amy J. Kinsel
Term expires April 2015
Professor of History
Shoreline Community College
Seattle, WA
Leadership Advisory Council
William H. Chafe
Co-Chair, Leadership Advisory Council (nonvoting member)
Mary Alice Baldwin Professor
Duke University
Durham, NC
Paul Sperry
Co-Chair, Leadership Advisory Council (nonvoting member)
Co-Founder and President
Sperry, Mitchell & Co., Inc.
The OAH Executive Board composition is updated each year after the annual meeting.
