Standing Committees
The committee is composed of the officers of the organization and the immediate past president. The Executive Committee acts as necessary between board meetings to make decisions to further the mission of the organization.
MEMBERS
Anthea Hartig, Smithsonian Institution, President
David Blight, Yale University, President-Elect
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, Vice President
Erika Lee, Harvard University, Past President
Jay Goodgold, Treasurer
Stephen Andrews, Journal of American History, Ex Officio
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Ex Officio
Jonathan Lurie, Rutgers University, Newark
The Committee on Committees recommends candidates to fill all regular annual vacancies on the service and awards committees of the organization subject to the approval of the Executive Board.
MEMBERS
José Alamillo, California State University Channel Islands, Co-Chair
Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside, Co-Chair
Stephen Aron, Autry Museum of the American West
Maddalena Marinari, Gustavus Adolphus College
Katherine Mooney, Florida State University
Martin Summers, Boston College
Kariann Yokota
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Joanne Freeman, Yale University, Executive Board Liaison
The Nominating Board nominates candidates for the annual election of the President, President-Elect, and Vice President, as well as three members each of the Executive Board and the Nominating Board.
MEMBERS
Julio Capo, Florida International University, Chair
Kristin Celello, CUNY, Queens College
Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University
Danny Diaz, University of California Los Angeles
Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University
Mary Lui, Yale University
Jen Manion, Amherst College
Honor Sachs, University of Colorado Boulder
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois Chicago
Philip Deloria, Harvard University, Ex Officio
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Service Committees
The board advises the editor of the Journal of American History.
MEMBERS
William Bauer, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University
Hilary Green, Davidson College
Jane Hong, Occidental College
Brian Luskey, West Virginia University
Kevin Mumford, University of Illinois
Traci Parker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
LaKisha Simmons, University of Michigan
Serena Zabin, Carleton College
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Ex Officio
The board advises the editor of The American Historian.
MEMBERS
Daniel Gorman, University of Rochester
Willie Griffin, Levine Museum of the New South
Deanda Johnson, National Park Service
Jeffrey W. McClurken, University of Mary Washington
Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Shirley Wajda
Stephen Andrews, Journal of American History, Ex Officio
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Ex Officio
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Ex Officio
Jonathan Warner, Organization of American Historians, Ex Officio
The Local Resource Committee consults with the conference department to arrange tours, offsite sessions, and special events and assists with promotion of the conference through the website and local media outlets. The Local Resource Committee also assists the Program Committee with soliciting sessions that will interest local historians and the public.
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Melissa Daggett, San Jacinto College, Texas
Randy Gonzales, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Clare Daniel, Tulane University
Alanah Odoms, ACLU Louisiana
Greg Lambousy, New Orleans Jazz Museum
Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Tulane University
Miranda Restovic, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
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.
MEMBERS
Jennifer Kerns, Portland State University, Co-Chair
Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis, Co-Chair
Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Benjamin Johnson, Loyola University Chicago
Leigh Soares, Mississippi State University
Cynthia Yaudes, Journal of American History, Staff Liaison
David Blight, Yale University, Executive Board Liaison
The committee’s purpose is to increase the membership and participation of community college historians and to integrate them into the organization. The committee addresses the professional issues and concerns that relate specifically to historians in two-year institutions and provides venues for community college historians to present their original work.
MEMBERS
Steven Moreno-Terrill, San Diego Mesa College, Chair
Marjorie Brown, Houston Community College
Todd Bryda, Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Linda Coslett, Chattanooga State Community College
Tracy Davis, Victor Valley College
Clarence Hall, Queensborough Community College / CUNY
Mary Klann, University of California, San Diego
Meredith May, Kilgore College
Ryan Pettengill, Collin College
Kevin Marsh, Journal of American History, Staff Liaison
Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington, Executive Board Liaison
The committee engages with all professional issues relevant to historians with disabilities and also promotes the study, teaching, and preservation of disability histories.
MEMBERS
Leslie Reagan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Chair
Frederick Augustyn, Library of Congress
Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School
Ryan Lee Cartwright, Universit of California, Davis
Laurel Daen, University of Notre Dame
Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo
Kathleen Brian, Western Washington University, Ex Officio
Jonathan Warner, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Karen Miller, CUNY, LaGuardia Community College, Executive Board Liaison
The committee is responsible for supporting and advising the marketing and communications goals of the OAH, as well as any related activities that the leadership may designate. The committee works closely with the staff of the executive office, to promote scholarship and collaboration within the American historians’ community and beyond.
MEMBERS
Tiffany Gonzalez, James Madison University, Chair
Evan Faulkenbury, SUNY Cortland
Charlene Fletcher, IUPUI
Carly Goodman, Made By History
Rahima Schwenkbeck, Policy Studies Organization
Nora Slonimsky, Iona University
Natale Zappia, California State University, Northridge
Christopher Brick, George Washington University, Ex Officio
Kariann Yokota, University of Colorado, Denver, Ex Officio
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Executive Board Liaison
The committee works with existing OAH committees to serve the graduate student community and co-sponsor relevant panels and workshops at the annual conference and year-round in virtual sessions. An important role of the graduate committee is to regularly survey graduate student membership as well as sponsor additional graduate student caucus meetings to continue to listen for new ideas for programming and new ways to facilitate active membership in the OAH by the wide array of graduate students studying American history.
MEMBERS
Andrew Gerstenberger, New York University, Chair
Austin Hall, University of Cincinnati
Kate Kaitcer, Texas Christian University
Annabel LaBrecque, University of California, Berkeley
Siobhan Quinn, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Brigid Wallace, Lehigh University
Abby Whitaker, Temple University
Alan Wierdak, University of Maryland
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Margot Canaday, Princeton University, Executive Board Liaison
The committee assists in carrying out the commitment of the organization to international perspectives, collaborations, exchanges, and members.
MEMBERS
Chantel Rodriguez, Minnesota Historical Society, Chair
Alvita Akiboh, Yale University
Anne-Marie Angelo, University of Sussex
Gretchen Heefner, Northeastern University
Ai Hisano, University of Tokyo
Russell Kazal, University of Toronto
Rachel Nolan, Boston University
Elliott Young, Lewis & Clark College
Georg Schild, University of Tubingen, Ex Officio
Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, University of Augsburg, Ex Officio
Stephen Andrews, Journal of American History, Staff Liaison
Erika Lee, Harvard University, Executive Board Liaison
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 Conference on American History.
MEMBERS
Judy Wu, University of California Irvine, Chair
Madeline Hsu, University of Texas
Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
Yuki Oda, Chuo University
Renee Romano, Oberlin College
Derek Taira, University of Hawai, Manoa
Shuichi Takebayashi, Tohoku University
Beth English, Organization, Staff Liaison
Philip Deloria, Harvard University, Executive Board Liaison
The committee generates ideas for new membership benefits, programming, and outreach to expand the membership of the OAH; serve as a sounding board for proposed membership marketing, benefit changes, and programming ideas proposed by the business office; when nearby, represent the OAH at history events/conferences such as the Western History Association annual meeting, the NCPH annual meeting, the Military History annual meeting, etc., as well as other national, regional, and local history events; and conduct individual and group membership outreach among peers.
MEMBERS
Judith Allen, Indiana University
Allyson Brantley, University of La Verne
Amy Essington, Cal Poly Pomona
Sandra Harvey, Lone Star College-CyFair
Valerie Jimenez, Campbell Hall
Michael McCoyer, CIA Joint Historian
Alina Mendez, University of Washington Seattle
Hilary Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Christian Paiz, University of California, Berkeley
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
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.
MEMBERS
Dennis Vasquez, Chair
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
Thomas Chambers, Canisius College
Adria Imada, University of California, Irvine
Sarah Leavitt
Sojin Kim, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ex Officio
Paul Zwirecki, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, Executive Board Liaison
The committee’s purpose is to monitor employment conditions and professional opportunities, recommend programs, services and best employment practices or guidelines, and advocate for Non-Tenure Track members of the history profession.
MEMBERS
Ryan Archibald, California State University-Dominguez Hills
Heather Daly, University of California, San Diego
Claire Goldstene
Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois
Eva Swidler, University of California, San Diego
Beth English, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Catherine Allgor, Massachusetts Historical Society, Executive Board Liaison
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.
MEMBERS
Sojin Kim, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Chair
Kimberly Alexander, University of New Hampshire
Margaret Lee, Split Rock Studios
Stephen Vider, Cornell University
Eric Zimmer, University of Montana
Paul Zwirecki, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, Executive Board Liaison
The committee considers all professional issues bearing upon ALANA historians in the historical profession as well as the study of ALANA histories.
MEMBERS
Erika Perez, University of Arizona, Chair
Kami Fletcher, Albright College
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Northeastern University
Kristy Taylor, Organization Of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Cynthia Orozco, Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso, Executive Board Liaison
The committee considers all professional issues bearing upon LGBTQ historians in the historical profession as well as the study of LGBTQ histories.
MEMBERS
Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso, Co-Chair
Evelyn Schlatter, Co-Chair
Kelsey Henry, Yale University
Paul Renfro, Florida State University
Cookie Woolner, University of Memphis
Andrew Cooper, Journal of American History, Staff Liaison
Anthea Hartig, Smithsonian Institution, Executive Board Liaison
The committee considers all professional concerns bearing upon women in the historical profession.
MEMBERS
Rachael Cassidy, University of New Mexico
Cynthia Castaneda, California State University, Fullerton
Teagan Dreyer, Oklahoma State University
Elizabeth Everton, Coordinating Council for Women in History
Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University
Rosina Lozano, Princeton University
Elisabeth Marsh, Organization of American Historians, Staff Liaison
Ashley Farmer, University of Texas at Austin, Executive Board Liaison
The committee works to improve the teaching and understanding of history at all levels of training and in diverse venues.
MEMBERS
Natalie Mendoza, University of Colorado Boulder, Co-Chair
David Thomas, Pierce College, Co-Chair
Nancy Baker, Sam Houston State University
Brian Casserly, Bellevue College
Gordon Mantler, George Washington University
Hannah Page, Raleigh Charter High School
Stephen Andrews, Journal of American History, Staff Liaison
Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College, Executive Board Liaison
Award & Prize Committees
The prize is given biennially in odd-numbered years for the best book on American history published in a language other than English.
MEMBERS
Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Cedar Crest College
Nathalie Dessens, University of Toulouse
Masako Hattori, National University of Singapore
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk
One or two awards are given annually in recognition of outstanding programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of American history.
MEMBERS
Eduardo Pagán, Chair
Malinda Lowery, Emory University
The committee is composed of three members, each appointed for a two-year term. The prize is given biennially in odd-numbered years for the best book on the history of native and/or settler peoples in frontier, border, and borderland zones of intercultural contact in any century to the present and to include works that address the legacies of those zones.
MEMBERS
Ari Kelman, University of California, Davis, Chair
Jessica Kim, California State University, Northridge
Jessica Roney, Temple University
The committee selects the best article that appeared in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year.
MEMBERS
Peter Martinez, Tarrant County College, Chair
Simon Newman, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
The award is given annually for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.
MEMBERS
Barbara Gannon, University of Central Florida, Chair
Brandi Brimmer, University of North Carolina
Gregory Mixon, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Two awards are given annually: one for the best book in American social history and one for the best book in American intellectual history.
MEMBERS
Beth Bailey, University of Kansas, Chair
Samuel Davis, Texas Christian University
Jacob Lee, Penn State University
Alaina Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
Two awards are given annually: one for the best book in American social history and one for the best book in American intellectual history.
MEMBERS
Russell Rickford, Cornell University, Chair
Nate Holdren, Drake University
Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University
The award is given annually for the best PhD dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history.
MEMBERS
Julio Capó, Jr., Florida International University, Chair
Derrais Carter, University of Arizona
Chelsea Del Rio, CUNY-LaGuardia Community College
The award is given annually to recognize an institution or organization, or an individual working primarily outside college or university settings, for outstanding support of historical research, the public presentation of American history, or the work of the OAH. Recipients will be selected by the OAH Executive Committee.
MEMBERS
Anthea M. Hartig, OAH President, Chair
David W. Blight, OAH President-Elect
Erika Lee, OAH Immediate Past President
Jay S. Goodgold, OAH Treasurer
Beth English, OAH Executive Director, ex officio
Stephen D. Andrews, Interim Executive Editor, Journal of American History, ex officio
The prize is given annually for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
MEMBERS
Kathryn Olmsted, University of California, Davis, Chair
Ernesto Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso
Sam Erman, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Hinton, Yale University
Benjamin Hoy, University of Saskatchewan
The grants are given annually to graduate students pursuing research for the PhD in American history. Thanks to the generosity of William L. and Carol B. Joyce, OAH is pleased to offer this program.
MEMBERS
Andrew Jewett, Boston College, Chair
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joel Zapata, University of Oregon
One or two awards are given annually to graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation. This award was established to promote greater diversity in the historical profession. The Committee on the Status of African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories serves as the Huggins-Quarles Award Committee.
MEMBERS
Erika Perez, University of Arizona, Chair
Kami Fletcher, Albright College
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Northeastern University
Françoise Hamlin, Brown University
The prize is given biennially in even-numbered years for the best book on foreign policy, military affairs, the historical activities of the federal government, or biography by a government historian.
MEMBERS
John Worsencroft, Louisiana Tech University, Chair
Chad Parker, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Nicole Sackley, University of Richmond
The prize is given annually for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history.
MEMBERS
Tiffany Gonzalez, James Madison University, Chair
Bridget Groat, University of Wyoming
Kumiko Noguchi, Meijigakuin University
The award is given annually for the best book in American cultural history.
MEMBERS
Erik Seeman, University of Buffalo, Chair
Cindy Ott, University of Delaware
Katrina Phillips, Macalester College
Laura Serna, University of Southern California
John Troutman, Smithsonian Institution
The award is given annually for the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present.
MEMBERS
Max Krochmal, University of New Orleans, Chair
Mia Bay, University of Pennsylvania
Felipe Hinojosa, Baylor University
The grants are supported by a bequest from the Merrill Trust and are given annually to help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH conference program and who incur expenses traveling to the annual meeting.
MEMBERS
David Blight, OAH President-Elect, Chair
Annette Gordon-Reed, OAH Vice President
Marc Stein, OAH Incoming Vice President
This committee is composed of three to five members appointed each year. The award is given annually for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. First given in 2010, the award is named for Darlene Clark Hine, a pioneer in African American and gender history and past president of the Organization of American Historians 2001-2002.
MEMBERS
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Texas A&M University, Chair
Siobhan Carter-David, Southern Connecticut State University
Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University
Jessica Millward, University of California Irvine
Traci Parker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The award is given annually by the OAH with cosponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history.
MEMBERS
Jane Berger, Moravian College
Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago
The prize is given annually for the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history.
MEMBERS
Marcia Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Chair
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of California, Davis
Veronica Tiller, Independent Historian
The award recognizes essays by students pursuing graduate degrees in any period or topic in the history of the United States. The winning essay is published in the Journal of American History.
MEMBERS
Catherine J. Denial, Knox College
Terry Anne Scott, Hood College
Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna University
The grants provide travel stipends of up to $750 for up to five graduate students and recent PhDs in history whose papers or panels/sessions have been accepted by the OAH program Committee for inclusion on the annual meeting program.
MEMBERS
David Blight, OAH President-Elect, Chair
Annette Gordon Reed, OAH Vice President
Marc Stein, OAH Incoming Vice President
The prize is given annually for a book dealing with race relations in the United States.
MEMBERS
Margaret Newell, Ohio State University, Chair
Yuichiro Onishi, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Samantha Seeley, University of Richmond
The award is given annually to an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history.
MEMBERS
Philip J. Deloria, OAH Past President, Chair
Catherine Allgor, OAH Executive Board Member
Ashley D. Farmer, OAH Executive Board Member
Joanne Freeman, OAH Executive Board Member
The award recognizes excellence in historical projects for, by, and with the National Park Service and is intended to honor projects that make the NPS exemplary in promoting civic dialogue about and appreciation of American history.
MEMBERS
Edward Hagerty, Chair
Lori Kuechler
Ray Rast, Gonzaga University
The award is given annually to recognize the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education within the field of American history.
MEMBERS
James Seymour, Lonestar College, Chair
Tiara Fourkiller, Woodhall Public School
Amy Trenkle, DC Public Schools
The prize is given biennially in even-numbered years for the best article on American history published in a language other than English.
MEMBERS
Max Paul Friedman, American University
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University
The award is given annually to the author of a first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history.
MEMBERS
Erika Lee, Harvard University, Chair
Erika Bsumek, University of Texas, Austin
Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University
Organizational Representatives
Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation
Clarence Lang, Pennsylvania State University, American Council of Learned Societies
Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University, National Historical Publications and Records Commission