New Board Members
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Executive Board
Nominating Board
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The OAH is pleased to have an impressive group of new board members joining the executive and nominating boards this year. The former will add Doris D. Dwyer, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, and Mary Kelley, while the latter will enlist George Chauncey, Rosemary Kolks Ennis, and Kathleen Smith Kutolowski. Each member brings a unique set of talents and experiences to their respective boards that are sure to enrich the organization as we look ahead. OAH Executive Board Doris D. Dwyer, who previously served on the OAH Committee on Community Colleges (chairing the committee in 2005), is a professor of history and humanities at Western Nevada College and currently chairs the OAH Community College Advisory Board. She has received numerous teaching awards and has published several works on western history. Dwyer has expressed her admiration for the ability of the organization to adapt to new circumstances, but also finds areas for improvement. “I would like to see the OAH continue in new membership initiatives, address new challenges in teaching and research technology, and increase networking among history, humanities, and social science organizations.” Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and currently serves as director of its Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. He was the recipient of the John Hope Franklin American Studies Book Prize and the OAH James A. Rawley and Frederick Jackson Turner Awards in 1992 for his book When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. As a scholar and public intellectual, Gutiérrez holds a special concern for the declining place of history in society and the health of the profession. The final addition to the OAH Executive Board, Mary Kelley, is the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She served on the OAH Merle Curti Award Committee from 2003 to 2004 and was cochair of the OAH Annual Meeting Program in 1996. In addition, Kelley served as president of the American Studies Association from 1999 to 2000. Her latest book, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life, was published in 2006. Kelley believes that the breadth and diversity of the organization is an important asset, especially to meet the crucial challenges ahead. As a member of the executive board, she plans to devote her efforts to “protect academic freedom at sites ranging from classrooms to museums, to ensure unrestricted access to archival sources, to enhance the inclusiveness we have achieved, to make the history we practice legible to the general public, and to engage that public in conversations about the relevance of history to our lives today.” OAH Nominating Board George Chauncey, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, joins the nominating board with a vision to ensure that the OAH continue to select a distinguished, creative, and diverse leadership. A recipient of the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award and OAH Merle Curti Social History Award, he has published widely on American social history. His book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Lambda Literary Award. Chauncey has participated as an OAH Distinguished Lecturer in the past. Rosemary Kolks Ennis brings a commitment to unite historians of all practices under the OAH. As a social studies teacher at Sycamore High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ennis has a deep interest in the teaching and learning of history. She received the Ohio History Day Teacher of the Year award in 2004 and served as the chair of the OAH Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Precollegiate Teaching Award Committee from 2000 to 2001. Ennis believes that “It is critical for the OAH to build ties between educators at colleges and secondary schools and to tie the teaching community to public historians.” The third new member of the nominating board is Kathleen Smith Kutolowski. As an associate professor (and chair from 2004 to 2007) in the department of history at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, Kutolowski has been honored with several teaching awards. Her main area of research and publication has been on freemasonry and antimasonry in American history. As a member of the nominating board, she plans to “represent the large community of scholar-teachers whose careers are spent at nonresearch one institutions but who continue active scholarship.” The OAH is fortunate to have such an accomplished, talented, and dedicated group of individuals to serve on the executive and nominating boards. The diversity represented in this group is surely a source of strength for the organization. The OAH would like to thank all of its board and committee members for their commitment to the organization and the profession in general. It is only with their help that the OAH is able to advance its mission of excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history. Benjamin Aloe is the assistant editor of the OAH Newsletter.
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