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About the OAH | Governance
Updated: 07/22/2019
Page preview: The Organization of American Historians (OAH) is 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Nebraska. The OAH is governed by an executive board composed of fifteen elected volunteer leaders who fulfill the mission of the organization by setting policy, charting a course for the future, and overseeing the financial ...

Governance | Elections
Updated: 08/29/2022
Page preview: Each fall, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots for the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. Each candidate is asked to prepare brief biographical information, including some of their most important publications, grants, fellowships, honors and awards, ...

Elections | 2023 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 08/29/2022
Page preview: 2023 Candidate Biographies OAH President: Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History. OAH President-Elect: David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, and Director, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University. OAH Vice President: Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University ...

Back to School: A Teaching Issue | OAH News Items
Updated: 10/05/2021
Page preview: New OAH Staff Please join us in welcoming Elijah Beaton to the Journal of American History. He is a graduate student in the Indiana University History Department and will be working at the JAH as an Editorial Assistant. Beaton is a cultural historian specializing in late twentieth-century urban space, the ...

Elections | 2022 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 10/01/2021
Page preview: 2022 Candidate Biographies OAH President: Erika Lee, Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. OAH President-Elect: Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History. OAH Vice President: David W. Blight, Sterling ...

What Anniversaries Mean | The Ferguson Crisis in Historical Perspective
Updated: 08/03/2021
Page preview: On the evening of August 9 in a small suburb of St. Louis, a six-year veteran of the Ferguson Police Department, Darren Wilson, confronted and then killed an eighteen-year old black man, Michael Brown, who was unarmed and attempting to surrender. Over the next two weeks, the homicide provoked major disorders ...

History for Black Lives | OAH News Items
Updated: 11/17/2020
Page preview: Slate for 2021 OAH Election 2021 Slate of Candidates OAH President: Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University. OAH President-Elect: Erika Lee, Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. OAH Vice President: Anthea ...

Elections | 2021 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 09/24/2020
Page preview: 2021 Candidate Biographies OAH President: Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University. OAH President-Elect: Erika Lee, Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota. OAH Vice President: Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth MacMillan Director, ...

Elections | 2020 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 12/03/2019
Page preview: OAH President: George J. Sanchez, Professor of History, American Studies & Ethnicity and Director, USC Center for Diversity and Democracy, University of Southern California OAH President-Elect: Philip J. Deloria, Professor of History, Harvard University OAH Vice President: Erika Lee, Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Rudolph J. Vecoli ...

Elections | 2016 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: OAH President: Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University OAH President-Elect: Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond OAH Vice President: Earl Lewis, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Executive Board Pair 1: Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina, Columbia Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh Executive Board Pair 2: Sarah Deutsch, Duke University Madeline Y. ...

Elections | 2018 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: OAH President: Earl Lewis, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation OAH President-Elect: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University OAH Vice President: George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California Executive Board Pair 1: Lincoln Bramwell, USDA Forest Service Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History Executive Board Pair 2: Jonathan Scott Holloway, Northwestern University William Deverell, ...

Elections | 2017 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: OAH President: Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond OAH President-Elect: Earl Lewis, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation OAH Vice President: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University Executive Board Pair 1: Lu Ann Jones, National Park Service Jamil S. Zainaldin, Georgia Humanities Executive Board Pair 2: Daniel Okrent, Independent Scholar T. J. Stiles, Independent Scholar ...

2014 Slate of Candidates | 2014 Candidate Biographies
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: EACH FALL, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots for the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. As outlined in Article V of the OAH Constitution (https://www.oah.org/about/oah/constitution/), nominating and executive board candidates ...

Elections | 2014 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2014 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates for the OAH Nominating Board. The election will open in December, 2013. Candidates by Petition. One hundred voting members of ...

Elections | 2015 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 04/17/2019
Page preview: At its spring 2014 meeting in April, the OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2015 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates for the OAH Nominating Board. The election will open in December, 2014. Candidates by ...

Elections | 2019 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 08/28/2018
Page preview: OAH President: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University OAH President-Elect: George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California OAH Vice President: Philip J. Deloria, Harvard University Executive Board Pair 1: Joe T. Berry, City College of San Francisco (retired)/University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (retired)/Visiting Lecturer, Ton Duc Thang University (Viet Nam) Donald Rogers, ...

2011 Election Results | 2011 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 11/02/2017
Page preview: The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2011 Executive Board election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates to the OAH Nominating Board and for proposed changes to the OAH Constitution. The election opens December 1, 2010 and ...

Elections | 2013 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 07/11/2014
Page preview: The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2013 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates to the OAH Nominating Board. The election opens Monday, December 3, 2012 and closes February 1, 2013. For more information about the annual ...

2012 Election Results | 2012 Slate of Candidates
Updated: 07/11/2014
Page preview: The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2012 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates to the OAH Nominating Board. The election opens December 1, 2011 and closes February 1, 2012. For more information about the annual OAH ...