Candidate Biographical Information and Personal Statements

OAH Election 2001

President-Elect

Ira Berlin

Distinguished Univ. Prof., Dept. of Hist., Univ. of Maryland and Acting Dir., David Driskell Ctr. for the Study of the African Diaspora. Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1970; B.S., Univ. of Wisconsin, 1963. Personal Statement: The president of the OAH is simultaneously a student of history, a practitioner of the historical craft, and a leader of a profession with an increasingly diverse constituency and an equally varied, rapidly expanding public audience. My chief goal as president would be to mobilize scholars, teachers, public historians, museum professionals, and interested citizens on behalf of achieving a better understanding of the past and a more knowledgeable appreciation for those engaged in the work of history in its many venues. For historians, whether working in schools, universities, museums, government or corporate offices, or as independent scholars and consultants, I would strive for appropriate compensation and respect. And I would endeavor to maximize the access of our lay constituents to the riches we historians produce. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Bancroft Prize, best book in Am. Hist., Columbia University, 1999; Frederick Douglass Prize, Gilder Lehrman Inst. for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance, best book on the hist. of slavery, 1999; Elliott Rudwick Prize, OAH, best book in African-Am. Hist., 1999; Douglas Adair Memorial Awd., Inst. of Early Am. Hist. and Culture, best article in the William and Mary Quarterly, 1998; Abraham Lincoln Prize, Lincoln and Soldiers Inst., Gettysburg Coll. for excellence in Civil War studies, 1994; The State's Outstanding Educator, Maryland Assoc. for Higher Educ., 1991; J. Franklin Jameson Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement, Am. Historical Assoc. (AHA), 1985. Professional Affiliations: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Council, 2000-06; Omohundro Inst. of Early Am. Hist. and Culture, Council, 1998- ; National Underground Railroad Freedom Ctr., Advisory Bd., 1998- ; Montgomery Coll. Humanities Inst., Advisory Bd., 1997- ; The Soc. of Am. Historians, Fellow; Slavery and Abolition, International Labor and Workingclass History, Editorial Bd., 1990, 1994; Journal of American History, Editorial Bd., 1994-99; AHA, Research Cmte., 1987-90; National Archives, Advisory Cmte., 1989-95; Am. Social Hist. Project, Bd. of Dirs., 1986-93; Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, Mbr., Bd. of Eds., 1990- . Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of African-American Slavery in Mainland North America (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998); with Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller, Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (The New Press, 1998); chief ed. with other mbrs. of the Freedmen and Southern Soc. Project, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 4 vols. 1983-90 (Cambridge Univ. Press); with Ronald Hoffman, Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1983); Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (Pantheon Books, 1974).

Executive Board

John Dittmer

Professor of Hist., Dept. of Hist., DePauw Univ. Ph.D., Indiana Univ., 1971; M.A., 1964; B.S., 1961. Personal Statement: As teachers we know that most of our students come to us with little knowledge of history, which is not a required subject in many secondary schools. Eighty percent of high school social studies teachers did not major or minor in history. The OAH cannot solve these problems, but it can and should address them by becoming more involved on the state and local level where these political decisions are made, and by reaching out to women and men who are not professors in research universities. Having previously taught in a high school and at a historically black college, I am familiar with the problems facing classroom teachers, many of whom have had little contact with organizations such as the OAH. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: NEH Fellowship, 2000-01; United Methodist/DePauw Exemplary Teaching Awd., 2000; Bancroft Prize for Local People, 1995; Lillian Smith Book Awd. for Local People, 1994; Ctr. for the Study of Civil Rights, Fellow, 1988-89. Professional Affiliations: AHA; Assoc. for the Study of Afro-American Life and Hist.; Oral Hist. Assoc., Indiana Assoc. of Historians; Mississippi Historical Soc.; Southern Historical Assoc. (SHA): Program Cmte., 1999; OAH: Rawley Prize Cmte., 1996-99. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1994), (paperback, 1995); Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1977), (paperback, 1981); George C. Wright and W. Marvin Dulaney, Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1993); "The Education of Henry McNeal Turner," in Leon F. Litwack and August Meier, eds., Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988); "The Civil Rights Movement," in Arvarh R. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr., eds., African-American Historiography (Greenwood Press, forthcoming).

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Prof. of Am. Studies, Smith Coll. Ph.D. Am. Civilization, Harvard Univ., 1969; M.A. Hist., 1965; B.A. Hist., Wellesley Coll., 1963. Personal Statement: Those of us who teach and study U.S. history need a strong organization to serve as a forum for intellectual growth and a place to confront the issues that we face as teachers, scholars, employees, and citizens. Many of us have gained insights and strength through our specialized societies and conferences. But if we do not return renewed to the OAH, we will diminish our collective force and lessen the quality of historical debate. As we anticipate an era of change in the academy, the executive board needs to seek ways to retain the loyalty of established historians and to bring in the dynamic new generation of emerging scholars. I have worked hard in the OAH on two program committees, most recently for the 2001 meeting, where I focused on panels to foreground new areas of research and writing, especially in women's history as it intersects the history of sexuality, biography, popular culture, and ethnicity. My proudest OAH accomplishment is my role in 1983-84 in reviving Teachers' Day, which saw the beginnings of the rich collaborative work of the last 16 years engaged in by teachers in schools and colleges and universities. Grants, Honors, Fellowships, & Awards: Fellowship, Radcliffe Inst. For Advanced Study, 2000-01; Mellon Fellowship, Am. Antiquarian Soc., 1999-00; Doctor of Humane Letters, honorary, Ripon Coll., 1999; Spencer Foundation Grant, 1992-93; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1992-93. Professional Affiliations: OAH: Program Cmte., 2001 Mtg., Pelzer Awd. Cmte., 1995-00; Soc. of Am. Historians: Exec. Bd., 1999- ; AHA: Nominations Cmte., 1997-00; Am. Studies Assoc. (ASA): Council, 1983-86, Budget Cmte., Women's Cmte. and liaison to Council, Program Cmte., 1998 mtg. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, and Conflict over Sex in America in the 1870s," Journal of American History (Sept. 2000); Co-Editor, Kathy Peiss, Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1996); The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994), (paperback, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999); Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987), (paperback, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998); Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1984), (paperback, Beacon Press, 1986), (second ed., Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1993).

Page Putnam Miller

Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, Hist. Dept., Univ. of South Carolina. Ph.D. Am. Hist., Univ. of Maryland, 1979; M.A. Hist., Univ. of Maryland, 1974; B.A. Hist., Mary Baldwin Coll., 1963. Personal Statement: Twenty years as Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCC) provided me with valuable experience in influencing policies and understanding trends that affect the research, teaching, and public presentation of history. Since I no longer work for the 61 member organizations of the NCC, I can now offer my expertise to the Board of the OAH. That expertise includes seeking increased funding for cultural agencies, particularly the National Endowment for the Humanities, working to ensure access to historical records, and advocating the preservation of the built environment. From the vantage points of a lobbyist in Washington and now as a part-time faculty member at a research university, I believe the three most pressing challenges facing the profession are dealing with the variety of complex choices posed by the digital age, viewing the world as full of multiple career opportunities for historians, and increasing public awareness of the methodologies and nuances of the craft of history. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Third National Conf. on Women and Historic Preservation Awd. for outstanding contribution to public policy and practice, 2000; Outstanding Service Awd., OAH, 2000; Troyer Steele Anderson Prize, AHA, 2000; Franklin D. Roosevelt Awd., Soc. for Hist. in the Fed. Govt., May 1999; Robert Kelley Memorial Awd., National Council of Public Hist. (NCPH), 1997. Professional Affiliations: OAH; AHA; NCPH; Mbr., Dept. of Energy's Openness Panel; Advisor, National Park Service (NPS) Women's Trail initiative. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "NCC Washington Update," published weekly by H-Net on the Internet (Jan. 1995 - June 2000); Developing A Premier National Institution: A Report From the User Community to the National Archives (NCC, 1989); A Claim to New Roles (Scarecrow Press, 1985); "We Can't Yet Read Our Own Mail: Access to the Records of the Department of State," chapter in A Culture of Secrecy, ed. by Athan G. Theoharis (Univ. Press of Kansas, 1998); Project Dir., Women's Hist. Landmark Project, a cooperative project of the NPS, the OAH, and the NCC, 1988-93, which included editing and writing the introductory essay to Reclaiming The Past: Landmarks of Women's History (Indiana Univ. Press, 1992).

Constance B. Schulz

Prof. of Hist. and Co-Dir., Public Hist. Prog., Dept. of Hist., Univ. of South Carolina. Academic year 2000-01: UK Fulbright Distinguished Lecture/Research Scholar, Dept. of Hist., Univ. of York, England. Ph.D., 1973; M.A., Univ. of Cincinnati, 1966; B.A., Coll. of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 1964. Personal Statement: Those elected to the main governing body of the OAH ought to have a wide experience of the needs and interests of the profession. They must be sensitive to issues that affect historians who work within the academy as well as those that concern historians who practice history in the wide variety of public settings that comprise the public history workplace. Most importantly, they have a responsibility to see those sometimes differing issues and concerns as the related needs of the historical profession as a whole. I believe that as a committed public historian whose primary occupational status is within a university I can bring an understanding to the OAH board of the multiple ways in which historians practice their craft, and of the policies and services a professional organization can provide to help all historians do good history. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Fulbright UK Distinguished Lecture/Research Scholar Awd., York Univ., 2000-01; NPS Coop. Agreements: Doctoral Dissertation Contract to write Biography of Charles Pinckney, Pinckney National Historic Site, 1999-01; Arranging the Archives for King's Mountain National Military Historical Park, 1998; South Carolina Humanities Council, Mini-Grant for "An Oral History of the Integration of Shandon Presbyterian Church," 1997; Dept. of Defense Coop. Agreement: "Legacy" project to "Inventory Cold War Historic Resources in the State of South Carolina, 1994-96," three contracts totaling $600,000 (produced 9-vol. report); South Carolina Humanities Council, "Visitors' Views: Museum Exhibit, Photography of South Carolina, 1850-1950," an exhibition at the SC State Museum, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Greenville Museum of Art, 1992. Professional Affiliations: Am. Assoc. for State and Local Hist. (AASLH): Publications Bd, 1995-present; AHA: Elected Mbr., Research Div., 1989-92, Appointed AHA Rep., NHPRC, 1993-97; NCPH: Candidate for Pres., 1999; Elected Mbr., Exec. Council, 1995-98; OAH: Mbr. and Chair, Public Hist. Cmte., 1995-98, Mbr. and Chair, Nominating Bd., 1996-98; Soc. of Am. Archivists (SAA): Mbr. and Chair, Archival Educators Roundtable, 1993-95; Southern Assoc. of Women Historians: President, 1993-94; SHA: Chair, Cmte. on the Status of Women, 1994-95. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950-1953 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1999); "Becoming a Public Historian," in James Gardner, ed., Public History Today (Krieger Publishing, 1999); Bust to Boom: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936-1939 (Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 1996); The American History Video Disc and CD-Rom (Annapolis, Maryland: Instructional Resources Corp., 1991, 1994); A South Carolina Album,1936-1948: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey Documentary Projects (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1992).

Kathleen Cochrane Kean

U.S. Hist. Teacher, Social Studies Dept., Nicolet High Sch., Glendale, WI. M.A. Hist., Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI, 1976; B.A. Am. Studies, Chatham Coll., Pittsburgh, PA, 1969. Personal Statement: For the past three decades, I have been a secondary teacher of Advanced Placement and other levels of U.S. History, and have been actively involved in the many debates over how best to teach history the classroom. I also helped found and have been a board member of a citywide historic preservation organization since 1980 where I helped design and implement a ten-week docent training program to train volunteers to give historical and architectural walking tours. From my experience with teaching history in the classroom and beyond, I have always worked to make scholarly material more accessible to a larger audience. As an active member on several OAH committees in the past ten years, and through attending several annual conventions, I have become personally enriched by my contacts with those doing new research in the discipline. As the OAH continues to reach out to the needs of a broader audience, I believe I am well positioned to offer fresh ideas from the perspective of a K-12 teacher and one who works with the general public. I have grown in my professional life through the offerings of OAH and would like to assist the leadership of the OAH in seeing that others can benefit in a similar way. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Pre-Collegiate Teaching Awd., 2000; Milwaukee County Historical Soc. Secondary Teacher Merit Awd., 1996; Nicolet High Sch. Teacher of the Year Awd., 1989; Wisconsin State Daughters of the Am. Revolution Teacher of the Year Awd., 1987; Project Dir., Teacher Training Workshop for $25,000 grant from Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1987. Professional Affiliations: OAH: Focus Group to Review National Hist. Standards in U.S. Hist. 1993-94, Mbr., Magazine of History Advisory Bd., 1993-96, Mbr., Selection Cmte. for the Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Pre-Collegiate Teaching Awd., 1993-94, Mbr., Cmte. to formulate awd. to honor the career of Dr. Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, 1991-92, Secondary teacher selected to work with constitutional scholars on the OAH Ad Hoc Cmte. on the Bill of Rights to design a book for teachers on the Bill of Rights; Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, Bd. Mbr.; Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Founder and Bd. Mbr., 1978-00; Shorewood Historical Soc., Bd. Mbr., 1999-present; AHA; National Council for Hist. Educ., Inc; National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS); National Trust for Historic Preservation. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "George Tipping, The Corcoran Irish Legion, and the Civil War," Niagara Frontier (Autumn 1977); Projects: Helped design and implement a ten-week volunteer docent training prog. in hist. and architecture to train guides for Historic Milwaukee, Inc., a non-profit historic preservation org. (1980-present); Coord. for several annual day-long historic neighborhood tours (1981-present); Consultant, Coll. Bd. Advanced Placement "Building Success" Pre-AP Prog. (1996-present).

Ted Dickson

Hist. Dept. Chair, Providence Day School, Charlotte, NC. M.A. Hist., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1991; A.B. Hist., Princeton Univ., 1983. Personal Statement: In my eighteen years of teaching I have taught every grade from 3rd to honors students in college, in locations that include Austria, Massachusetts, Michigan and North Carolina. This is my tenth year at Providence Day. One of my primary goals is to build bridges between secondary teachers and college historians. One way that I have tried to do this is by developing a presentation model which features a university-level expert talking about the themes which should be taught in a particular unit and a secondary teacher who presents lesson plans for teaching the unit. These presentations present not only a product but also model a process: intellectual discussion and dialogue about methods and content. If elected to the Executive Board, I will continue to build K-16 bridges to improve the teaching of history at all levels and to increase the level of professional respect for all teachers of history. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year, 2000; Kids Voting USA Jinx Patterson Educator of the Year, 1995; UCSB Graduate Student Assoc. Awd. for Teaching Excellence, 1991; UCSB Graduate Student Fellowship, 1989. Professional Affiliations: OAH: Magazine of History Advisory Bd., 1998-present; Coll. Bd. Faculty Consultant (AP Reader, US Hist.), 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000; NCSS; AHA; National Council for Hist. Educ.; World Hist. Assoc.; Soc. for Military Hist.; Kids Voting, Mecklenburg County, NC: Chairman, Bd. of Dirs. Publications, Presentations, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "Teaching World War II" (with Prof. David Kennedy), OAH Annual Mtg., 2000 St. Louis (Presentation will probably be repeated at NCSS 2001); "The Art Museum: Arts in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900," OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Summer 1999); "How Can I Teach the Civil War in 2 Weeks?" (with Prof. Phillip Paludan), OAH Annual Mtg., 1998 Indianapolis (Presentation was repeated with Professor Tim Haggerty at NCSS 1999); "Simulations that Stimulate Historical Thinking," OAH Annual Mtg., 1997 San Francisco; "...And you want all this covered in one term?," OAH Annual Meeting, 1995 Washington, DC.

Nominating Board

Neil Foley

Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Am. Studies, Univ. of Texas. Ph.D., Am. Culture, Univ. of Michigan, 1990; M.A., Am. Culture, Univ. of Michigan, 1985; M.A., English and Am. Literature, Georgetown Univ., 1975; B.A., English, Univ. of Virginia, 1971. Personal Statement: I seek to make the OAH as broad and diverse an organization as possible, one in which everyone should be able to stake a claim and participate comfortably in the wider world of our growing and fascinating profession. To that end I bring a diverse background of experience, which includes an award-winning book on cross-cultural and interracial history, seven years of teaching in Japan, Germany, and Spain, and scholarly interests in borderland studies, comparative race relations, and Mexican American history. I seek to nominate persons who have broad interests across many different fields and who demonstrate their commitment to making the OAH an intellectually exciting and challenging "place" for all historians. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship, Humboldt Univ., Berlin, Germany, 2000-01; Senior Fellowship, ACLS, 1998-99; Frederick Jackson Turner Awd., OAH, 1998; Pacific Coast Branch Awd., AHA, 1998; Charles Sydnor Awd., SHA, 1998; Robert G. Athearn Book Awd., Western Historical Assoc. (WHA), 1998; Green-Ramsdell Awd., SHA, for best article published in The Journal of Southern History, 1996-97. Professional Affiliations: ASA: Elected Mbr., National Council, 2000-03, Co-Chair, Program Cmte., Annual Conf., Detroit, MI, 2000; Smithsonian Ctr. for Latino Initiatives, Washington, DC: Selection Cmte., 1999 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships; Conf. on Latinos and Latinas in World War II: Advisory Cmte., 1999-00; American History and Culture (New York Univ. Press): Series Co-Ed.; AHA: Mbr., Cmte. on Minority Historians, 1995-98; WHA: Mbr., Program Cmte., St. Paul, MN, October 1997; SHA: Mbr., Program Cmte., New Orleans, LA, Nov. 1995. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "How Do You Say 'Honey' in MexAmerica?," Journal of American Ethnic History 19 (1999); "Borders and Beyond," Pacific Historical Review 68 (1999); Reflexiones: New Directions in Mexican American Studies, Edited vol. (Univ. of Texas Press, 1998); The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Univ. of California Press, 1997); "Becoming Hispanic: Mexican Americans and the Faustian Pact with Whiteness," Reflexiones: New Directions in Mexican American Studies (1998).

Kenneth W. Goings

Prof. and Chair, Dept. of Hist., The Univ. of Memphis. Ph.D. Hist., Princeton Univ., 1977; M.A. Hist., Princeton Univ., 1974; B.S. Educ., cum laude, Kent State Univ., 1972. Personal Statement: As a historian of African America I have been interested in the role not only of institutions but also of individuals in the creation of the society we call the United States. During my time in the profession I have taught at small colleges and at large universities in different regions of the country. This experience has given me the opportunity to meet and network with large numbers of historians. Whether one defines oneself primarily as a teacher or as a researcher, I believe it is the historian's responsibility to further a critical understanding of the past and present. If elected to the OAH Nominating Board, my protocol of selection would be to seek individuals of excellence who not only represent the cultural and intellectual diversity of the OAH but are also engaged, active scholars. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Dunavant Univ. Professorship, 1999-02, co-author of Rockefeller Foundation Grant, "The Making of Race and Gender: Memphis, The Delta and The Mid-South," $250,000 for 1999-02; Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (1994), Outstanding Book Awd. on the Subject of Human Rights, Gustavus Myers Ctr., 1994. Professional Affiliations: Assoc. for the Study of Afro-American Life and Hist.; SHA; Popular Culture Assoc.; OAH; AHA. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: Historian, Exhibit on the Assassination of Dr. King, Nation Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, Jan.-Aug. 2000; Editorial Bd., Journal of Urban History, 1998-03; Ed. with Raymond A. Mohl, The New African American Urban History (Sage Press, 1996); Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (Indiana Univ. Press, 1994), Outstanding Book Awd. on the Subject of Human Rights, Gustavus Myers Ctr., 1994; The N.A.A.C.P. Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker (Indiana Univ. Press, 1990), Outstanding Book Awd. on the Subject of Human Rights, Gustavus Myers Ctr., 1990.

Beth Bailey

Assoc. Prof. and Regents Lecturer, Am. Studies Dept., Univ. of New Mexico. Ph.D., Dept. of Hist., Univ. of Chicago, 1986; M.A., Dept. of Hist., Univ. of Chicago, 1981; B.A., Am. Culture Prog., Northwestern Univ., 1979. Personal Statement: I believe that the OAH can make a positive difference in the professional lives of its members and in the public life of our nation. I am proud of our principled stance against the Adam's Mark last year and excited by new online initiatives to support scholarship. I hope to work with the nominating committee to identify candidates with the knowledge, imagination, and courage to take on critical issues we face: the challenges of new media technology; the waning of the "traditional" linear career path and its implications for junior faculty; the varied needs of the OAH's diverse membership; the importance of reaching our many publics and of forging scholarly connections worldwide. Having taught in Hawai'i, Kansas, New York, Indonesia, and New Mexico, and as an active scholar with experience in new media and public history, I have broadly-based experience and professional connections to offer the nominating committee. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Regents Lecturer, Univ. of New Mexico, 2000- ; Lecturer and Convention Delegate (Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Okinawa), Japanese Assoc. for Am. Studies, ASA, 1999; J. William Fulbright Senior Lecturing Awd., Univ. of Indonesia, 1996; NEH Summer Stipend, 1995; Ann Whitney Olin Junior Fellow, Barnard Coll., 1991-94. Professional Affiliations: AHA; OAH; ASA: ASA–Japanese Assoc. for Am. Studies Project Advisory Cmte., 1999, 2000; Educause Medal (for New Media Initiatives in Educ.) Prize Cmte., 1999; NEH: Summer Stipend Prog. Referee, 1996, 1997; ACLS: Advisory Cmte. for Am. Studies Prog., 1994, 1995; Pacific Historical Review Bd. of Eds., 1998-01; Am. Studies Bd. of Eds., 1993-present; Univ. of New Mexico Press Bd., 1999-present. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: Sex in the Heartland (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), (paperback forthcoming 2001); From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1988), (paperback 1989); David Farber, The Columbia Companion to America in the 1960s, (Columbia Univ. Press, Spring 2001, in press); David Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (The Free Press, 1992), (paperback, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994); Historical Consultant, Sex in the Twentieth Century, History Channel, 2000.

Susan E. Hirsch

Prof. of Hist., Loyola Univ. Chicago. Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, 1974; M.A., Univ. of Michigan, 1970; A.B., Vassar Coll., 1966. Personal Statement: The OAH plays a vital role in advancing the goals of American historians, be they in academia, primary and secondary education, or public history. My experiences as college teacher, museum curator, journal editor, and community organizer for school reform have exposed me to the range of concerns among American historians and acquainted me with practitioners in all areas of the profession. As a member of the Nominating Board, I will work to assure that these diverse constituencies are represented on service committees and to implement the organization's commitment to racial and gender inclusion. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Fulbright Scholar, Univ. of Munich, Germany, 2001; NEH Fellowship, Newberry Lib. 1987-88; NEH and National Science Foundation Research Grants, 1982-83, 1985-87. Professional Affiliations: Assoc. Ed., Museum and Film Reviews, Journal of Urban History; Memberships: OAH; AHA; Social Science Hist. Assoc.; Urban Hist. Assoc.; Labor and Working Class Hist. Assoc.; Coordinating Cmte. of Women Historians. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (Univ. of Illinois Press, forthcoming); Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800-1860 (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1978); with Lewis Erenberg, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996); with Robert Goler, curators, A City Comes of Age: Chicago in the 1890s (Chicago Historical Soc., 1990-91).

Maureen Murphy Nutting

Instructor and Dept. Chair, Dept. of Hist., North Seattle Comm. Coll., Seattle, WA. Ph.D. Hist., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1975; M.A. Am. Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1969; B.A. Hist., Fordham Univ., 1968. Personal Statement: Since 1972, I have promoted history, excellence in teaching history, inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups on history faculty, and diverse history curricula. I have done this as an adjunct, part-timer, and full-timer in community colleges and universities from Florida to Hawaii, and as the first AHA staff member hired specifically to promote minorities' and women's interests. As someone who has networked extensively within history organizations, I would use my connections with community college and university faculty, public historians, and unaffiliated historians to help the OAH nominating committee identify and encourage outstanding candidates who represent our diverse populations and diverse activity areas to run for office and serve proactively in support of history teaching, history initiatives, and historians—tenured, untenured, academic, public, full-time, adjunct, and unemployed. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Lifetime Learning Awd. for Faculty, Seattle Comm. Coll. Dist., 1999; Participant, LOC/AHA/CCHA/ Summer Research Seminar on Globalizing Regional Studies, Lib. of Congress (Ford Foundation support), 1999; Participant, NEH Summer Institute on "Brazil at 500: Crossroads of the Atlantic" (Rio and Sao Paulo, 1998); Recipient, East West Ctr./Asian Studies Development Prog. Travel Grants for China (1996) and India (1995); NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1971-72. Professional Affiliations: OAH; Immigration and Ethnic Hist. Soc.; Comm. Coll. Humanities Assoc.: Mbr., Program Cmte., Co-Chair for the 2001 National CCHA Mtg.; AHA: Local Arrangements Cmte., 1998; Coordinating Council on Women's Hist.; Western Assoc. of Women Historians; The History Soc.; Assoc. of Washington Historians. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: "The Linked Course: A Viable Option for Teaching and Learning History," Teaching History (2000); "Transnational Identity Issues for Japanese Brazilians in the 1930s and 1940s," Community College Humanities Journal (2000); "Landing a Job in a Community College," Careers, The online magazine of the Chronicle of Higher Education (2 April 1999); "Teaching History in the Community Colleges: It's a Job for Historians," The Chronicle of Higher Education (30 October 1998); Shirley Yee, co-author, "Seattle: Where the Old and the New Meet," AHA Perspectives, Vol. 36, No. 8. (1997).

James J. Lorence

Prof. of Hist., Univ. of Wisconsin-Marathon County. Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1970; M.S., Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1964; B.S., Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1960. Personal Statement: As a member of the Nominating Board, I would work to ensure representation of all OAH constituencies, with emphasis on community college faculty and precollegiate teachers. At the same time, my long-standing ties with faculty at baccalaureate institutions would enable me to identify nominees from a wide range of campuses. Many years of experience with the History Teaching Alliance have taught me the value of K-16 collaboration. My work on the board would be dedicated to the promotion of close ties among historians at all levels. I believe that the historical profession will be strengthened by the extension of opportunities for professional development to all faculty at all institutions. As precollegiate, community college, and baccalaureate faculties work together, the quality of history instruction will be enhanced. To promote this democratization of the profession, I am also committed to the nomination and election of candidates from other previously underrepresented groups, including women and minorities. Grants, Fellowships, Honors & Awards: Governor's Awd. for Excellence in Public Humanities Scholarship (Wisconsin Humanities Council), 2000; NEH Fellowship for Coll. Teachers and Independent Scholars, 1997-98; Beveridge Family Teaching Prize (for Marathon County Hist. Teaching Alliance), 1998; Carnegie/CASE Awd., Wisconsin Prof. of the Year, 1994; Emil Steiger Awd. for Excellence in Teaching (UW System), 1970. Professional Affiliations: AHA: Mbr., Teaching Div., 1993-95; OAH; Soc. for Historians of Am. Foreign Relations; International Assoc. for Audio-Visual Media in Historical Research and Educ.; Historians of Am. Communism; Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies: Mbr., Exec. Bd.; Wisconsin Labor Hist. Soc.: Mbr., Exec. Bd.; Labor and Working Class Hist. Assoc.; State Historical Soc. of Wisconsin; National Hist. Educ. Network. Publications, Museum Exhibits & Other Projects: The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1999); Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland (SUNY Press, 1996); Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Alliance (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1994); "Teaching History at the Two-Year Institution: A Status Report and View of the Future," Perspectives (1994), (rep., Community College Historians in the United States, AHA, 1998); Organized Business and the Myth of the China Market: The American Asiatic Association, 1898-1937, Am. Philosophical Soc. (1981).