2019 AHA Election

Candidate for President

The president-elect stands unopposed for election to president. The current president is John R. McNeill, Georgetown Univ. (environmental, world).

Mary Lindemann

University of Miami (early modern Europe, medicine)

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Candidate Statement

I am a historian of early modern Europe whose geographic focus lies principally in Germany and the Low Countries, My thematic interests have included social, political, and diplomatic history; I am also a historian of medicine and public health who has participated in the construction of programs in medical humanities. More recently, I have developed a project analyzing the impact of early modern wars on the environment and infrastructures. As my research trajectory suggests, I strongly believe that history should be ecumenical, a “big tent” that welcomes historical endeavors of all kinds and promotes them in multiple settings, whether the traditional academy, historical societies, primary or secondary education, outreach, or civic engagement, and should encourage lively interactions among them and, indeed, wherever historians or those with historical interests find themselves. In addition, I deny the false, but widespread, belief that a dichotomy exists between teaching and research. In significant ways, we are all teachers and all researchers no matter where we land professionally. I have had significant administrative experience in several capacities: as chair of my Department (for eight years), on the Professional Division of the AHA, and as president of two organizations (the German Studies Association and the Society for Early Modern German Interdisciplinary Studies). In addition, I have served on several editorial boards and have been active in organizing workshops, conferences, and program panels.

In my role as AHA President I would see my principal charge as defending the humanities and social sciences vigorously. At the same time, I would avoid being defensive about their value. It is incumbent on the AHA, its officers, and staff to continue our unequivocal support for institutions, programs, and departments that are threatened with extinction or severe cuts. To do so, we must also repeatedly and forcefully underscore the fact that most of the world’s problems today will not be solved by technological or scientific advancements alone but by applying, in multiple ways, the skills historians excellently command; the foremost of these is critical thinking. Equally important is the need to ensure the future of the profession in the richness of all its forms. We must also renew and increase our efforts to foster early career historians in whatever career path they choose and must commit our energies to halting the devaluation of the humanities and history, in both structural and intellectual terms, in favor of STEM and other initiatives.

MARY LINDEMANN

Ph.D., History, University of Cincinnati, 1980

FIELDS: Early modern European history, early modern German history, history of medicine and public health

MAJOR SERVICE:

Chair, Department of History, University of Miami, 2009- President, German Studies Association, 2017-2018 Acting Director, Center for the Humanities, University of Miami, Fall 2015 Member, Professional Division of the AHA, 2004-2006. President, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, 1999-2001.

GRANTS: I have enjoyed the support of grants from numerous organizations including: NEH, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Flemish Institute for Advanced Study, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Herzog August Bibliothek.

PUBLICATIONS (single-authored):

The Merchant Republics: Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe in the series, "New Approaches to European History." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 2nd edition, 2010. Translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish.

Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Awarded the 1998 William Welch Book Prize by the American Association of the History of Medicine.

Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Named an "Outstanding Academic Book for 1990" by Choice.

RECENT CO-EDITED PUBLICATIONS:

With Jared Poley, Money in the German-Speaking Lands. New York: Berghahn, 2017.

With David Luebke, Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Early Modern Germany. New York: Berghahn, 2014 Candidate for President-elect

The president-elect serves a one-year term. At the end of the term, he or she stands unopposed for election for president. The current president-elect is Mary Lindemann, Univ. of Miami (early modern Europe, medicine).

Jacqueline Jones

University of Texas at Austin (US labor/African American/southern/women)

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Candidate Statement

I study African American labor history with a focus on women and the American South. As chair of a large history department at a flagship public university, I have faced challenges that affect many historians’ research, teaching, and working conditions—the corporatization of the university; problematic relations with the state legislature; the technological transformation of the classroom; a difficult job market for our students; and contentious debates over curriculum reform, faculty evaluation, and metrics of assessment. Our department has made strenuous efforts to halt the drop in the number of our majors, to increase the diversity of our faculty, to track the careers of our alums, and to counter the national trend of the proliferation of adjuncts and part-time instructors. Today the historical profession must contend with a general public skepticism aimed at the humanities in general—the notion that a field of study is valuable only to the extent that it leads to a particular kind of job. Still, nursing students should learn about the history of medicine, and forestry students about the history of the environment (for example). Overall, I am optimistic about the future of the study of history, which is a key component of informed citizenship. Scholars, students, and the general public have an enduring appreciation for our discipline; they look to the past for stories about their own families and communities, for background on current trends and events, and for compelling accounts of the great drama that is human history, in all its rich diversity.

Professional historians employ a variety of methodologies and labor within a variety of workplaces. The AHA must continue to serve as a robust advocate for all historians in their roles as researchers, teachers, and workers. When I was vice president for the Professional Division (2011–14), the division’s members worked to support individuals, departments, and institutions by upholding professional standards and by crafting “best practices” on a number of issues, including promoting career diversity among historians, embracing a holistic (and not metrics-driven) approach to the evaluation of faculty, maintaining databases on graduates’ career trajectories, and embargoing online PhD dissertations, to name a few. As president, I would work to enhance the AHA’s ongoing commitments to protecting academic freedom, countering efforts to eliminate History departments and cut the history curriculum, opening and preserving access to archives, advancing innovations in undergraduate teaching, expanding career opportunities for PhDs, and ensuring decent working conditions for all historians.

JACQUELINE JONES

Jacqueline Jones is Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches courses in American history and has served since 2014 as Chair of the History Department. Before coming to UT, she taught at Wellesley College (1976-1991); Brown University, 1988-90 (as the Clare Boothe Luce Visiting Professor of History); and Brandeis University, 1991-2008 (as the Harry S. Truman Professor of American History). Jones is the author of several books, including Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical (Basic Books, 2018); A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (Basic Books, 2013; pb., Basic, 2014); Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present, 25th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Updated (Basic, 2010; originally published 1985); Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War, 1854-1872 (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008; pb Vintage, 2009); Created Equal: A History of the United States with Peter Wood, Elaine Tyler May, Tim Borstelmann, and Vicki Ruiz (college text) (Prentice-Hall/Pearson, 2003; Fifth Edition, 2016) [chapters 9-18 covering the period 1790-1900]; Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (University of Delaware Press, 2001); A Social History of the Laboring Classes from Colonial Times to the Present (Blackwell Publishers, 1999); American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (W. W. Norton, 1998; pb., Norton, 1999); The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (Basic Books, 1992; pb., Basic, 1994); and Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (University of North Carolina Press, 1980; pb., University of Georgia Press, 1992), as well as numerous scholarly essays. She is currently working on a book about the African-American laboring classes in Boston during the Civil War Era (1850-1880). Her scholarly awards include the Bancroft Prize in American History; Pulitzer Prize Finalist in American History for both Labor of Love (1986) and A Dreadful Deceit (2014); Brown Memorial Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Black Women Historians; Philip Taft Award in Labor History; Finalist, Frederick Douglass Award; Honorable Mention, Lincoln Prize; Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for Best Book in Georgia History, 2008; Runner-Up, Hamilton Award, University of Texas at Austin Co-Op (for Goddess of Anarchy and Saving Savannah); E. Merton Coulter Award, Georgia Historical Society; and Julia Spruill Prize awarded by the Southern Association for Women Historians. She has received the Brandeis Dean of Arts and Sciences Graduate Mentoring Award (2008) (for teaching and mentoring), as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council, among other sources. She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1999 to 2004, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. From 2011 to 2014 she served as Vice President for the Professional Division of the American Historical Association. She has been a member of several editorial boards, including Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Massachusetts Historical Review, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Reviews in American History, and Journal of Women’s History. Candidate for President-elect

Philip Morgan

Johns Hopkins University (early America, Atlantic)

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Candidate Statement

Considerable challenges face the historical profession. The worrying signs are, to mention a few: a long-term decline in history majors; a serious imbalance between the number of graduate degrees conferred and available academic jobs; the underemployment of many of our graduates in adjunct positions; a diversion of resources away from the humanities; and questions about what constitutes scholarship. To those who value accurate reporting, the political climate is also depressing. In spite of these obstacles, the grounds for optimism are also many. Enrollments in history seem to have stabilized. Many historians are employed in a rich variety of nontraditional jobs, pursuing a diverse array of careers. The proliferation of postdoctoral fellowships is a welcome development, bridging the gap between completion of the PhD and full-time employment. Fundraising is—and should be—part of the AHA’s mission. The spread of blogs, websites, podcasts, and op-eds attest to the vibrancy of “public history.” The resilience of American institutions is also heartening. Building on strengths and confronting weaknesses will surely preoccupy the presidency. If elected, I pledge to be a serious listener, consult widely, and strive for effective advocacy.

I am honored to be nominated for this office, especially meaningful to someone like me who is the first in my family to go to college. Sharing the nomination with Jacqueline Jones, whose work I greatly respect, is also a privilege. I am an immigrant and naturalized citizen. Even now, I sometimes feel somewhat of an outsider—and I like to think that this unfamiliarity with my adopted country is helpful in gaining a sense of historical perspective. At the same time, I owe this country a great debt of gratitude for all it has done for me. If I can return even a modicum of what I have received, I would be delighted. When the AHA nominating committee came calling, I had originally thought to say (paraphrasing others): “if nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve; and if I flee—perhaps to the Celtic fringe whence I came—I will fight extradition.” All humor aside, were I to be elected, I will work as hard as I can on behalf of the whole membership for the values that I have tried to uphold within the profession, and, more generally, throughout my life.

PHILIP D. MORGAN EDUCATION: B.A. Honours History, Cambridge University, 1971 Ph.D. American History, University College London, 1977

EMPLOYMENT (recent): Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 2000-; and Harry C. Black Professor of History, 2003-2005, 2006-

PRIZES/HONORS (selective): Association of Caribbean Historians Best Article Prize for 1995-1997 Elected member, American Antiquarian Society, 1998 American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award, 1998 American Historical Association, Wesley-Logan Prize, 1998 Organization of American Historians, Elliott Rudwick Prize, 1999 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 1999 Library of Virginia Literary Nonfiction Award, 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Yale Univ., 1999 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize, Southern Historical Association, 1999 Jacques Barzun Prize, American Philosophical Society, 1999 Elected Fellow, Society of American Historians, 2001 Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society, 2001 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2002-03 Invited Participant, Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2005- Elected, Council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2008-11 Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2013 Professorial Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, 2013-15 Documenting Georgia’s History Award, Georgia Archives, 2010 Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, Georgia Historical Society, 2011

BOOKS: Colonial Chesapeake Society, co-edited with Lois Green Carr and Jean B. Russo (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1988). Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire, co-edited with Bernard Bailyn (Chapel Hill, 1991). The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in New World Plantation Societies, co-edited with Ira Berlin, (London, 1991). Cultivation and Culture: Work and the Shaping of Afro-American Culture in the Americas, co-edited with Ira Berlin (Charlottesville, 1993). Diversity and Unity in Early America, ed. (London, 1993). Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (Chapel Hill, 1998). Black Experience and the British Empire, co-edited with Sean Hawkins (New York, 2004). Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Era, co-edited with Christopher Brown (New Haven, 2006). The Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800, co-edited with Richard Kagan (Baltimore, 2009). Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, co-edited with Jack Greene (New York, 2009). African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee, ed. (Athens, 2010) Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850, co-edited with Nicholas Canny, (Oxford, 2011). Maritime Slavery, ed. (Abingdon, 2012). Early North America in Global Perspective, co-edited with Molly Warsh (New York, 2014).

Candidate for Vice President, Professional

The AHA Professional Division promotes integrity, fairness, and civility in the practice of history. Returning members are Mary Elliott, councilor, National Museum of African American History and Culture (African American, migration and community development), and Nerina Rustomji, councilor, St. John’s Univ., New York (Middle East, Islamic world).

Rita C-K Chin

University of Michigan (post-1945 Europe, immigration and displacement, race/ethnicity/gender)

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Candidate Statement

In 2016, I attended the AHA’s Career Diversity Faculty Institute in my capacity as director of graduate studies for the History Department at the University of Michigan. This opportunity convinced me of the need to think more broadly about the historical profession and where historians work, both for the sake of graduate students earning their PhDs in the discipline and for the future of the profession as a whole. Since then, I have been centrally involved in promoting change in faculty expectations around career outcomes, developing curricular innovations that simultaneously prepare graduate students for the professoriate and other career trajectories, and articulating the value of historical scholarship through its contribution to the public good. If elected, I would work to uphold the ethical standards, responsible conduct, and best practices of the historical profession as set out by the AHA. I would also strive to strengthen the profession’s commitment to a more robust and expansive vision of the historian’s work and why it matters. I welcome the opportunity to participate in shaping the direction of the profession in a period when we are confronting the limits of employment within the academy.

RITA C-K CHIN EMPLOYMENT 2018 – present Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan 2017 – present Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan 2008 – 2017 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan 2003 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan 1999 – 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oberlin College

EDUCATION 1999 Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley 1992 M.A. History, University of Washington 1990 B.A. History, University of Washington, Magna Cum Laude

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).

“Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany: Some Epistemological Obstacles around ‘Race’” in Cornelia Wilhelm, ed., Migration, Memory and Diversity in Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016).

“European New Lefts, Global Connections, and the Problem of Difference” in Howard Brick and Gregory Parker, eds., A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015).

“Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference,” Public Culture 22.3 (2010): 557-81.

After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009). Co-authored with Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann.

“Democratization, Turks, and the Burden of German History” in Warren Breckman, et al., eds., The Modernist Imagination: New Essays in Critical Theory and Intellectual History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), 242-67.

The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback, 2009).

SELECTED AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS 2018-19 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 2017 History Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Michigan 2014 Hudson Professorship, History Department, University of Michigan 2010-11 ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars 2010-11 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences, Princeton 2007-08 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1997-98 Predoctoral Minority-Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Pomona College 1995-96 Berlin Program for German & European Studies Research Fellowship, SSRC

SELECTED SERVICE  Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, University of Michigan, 2016-18  Executive Committee, History Department, University of Michigan, 2011-12  Program Committee, American Historical Association, 2016-18  Program Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 2012-14 Candidate for Vice President, Professional

Katrin Schultheiss

George Washington University (modern France, medicine, gender)

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Candidate Statement

I am a historian of modern France, medicine, and gender. Since fall 2015, I have served as departmental chair and, before that, as director of graduate studies. As chair of the AHA’s Committee on Gender Equity (2016–18), I participated actively in the AHA’s efforts to address issues related to sexual harassment and discrimination and helped to formulate the current policy on sexual harassment. While chair of the GW History Department, I launched a successful initiative to draft a Statement on Graduate Student Rights that lays out the intellectual, professional, and interpersonal treatment that graduate students should expect while in our program. As VP for the AHA’s Professional Division, I would continue to engage with gender equity issues. I also plan to make the problem of the exploitation of adjuncts a central concern. Last year, I organized colleagues to protest GW’s shamefully low part-time wages, an effort that has compelled action from the dean’s office. A third major focus would be the development of a more diverse pipeline of potential historians. This would mean collaborating with the AHA’s Teaching Division to devise strategies that put “historian” on the list of career options for a far broader sector of society.

Curriculum Vitae

Katrin Schultheiss History Department George Washington University

Recent Professional Experience: 2015-present Chair, Department of History, George Washington University 2009-present Associate Professor, Department of History, George Washington University 2002-2009 Associate Professor, Department of History and Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of History and Gender and Women’s Studies Program, UIC Education: Ph.D. Department of History, Harvard University, 1994 A.M. Department of History, Harvard University, 1989 B.A. Department of History, Yale University, 1984; summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Publications:  “The Internal Image: Mind and Brain in the Age of Charcot,” forthcoming in Modern Intellectual History.  Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001)  “Ghost Advising,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 4, 2018.  “Will Trump’s Election a Year Ago Prove to Be a Turning Point for Women’s Equality?” History News Network, Nov. 12, 2017.  “The Dreyfus Affair and History,” The Journal of the Historical Society 12 no. 2 (June 2012), pp. 189-203.  “The Ends of the Earth and the ‘Heroic Age’ of Polar Exploration,” Historically Speaking 10, no. 2 (April 2009), pp. 14-17.  "Gender and the Limits of Anticlericalism: The Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1914," French History 12, No.3 (1998): 229-245  "'La Véritable médecine des femmes': Anna Hamilton and the Politics of Nursing Reform in Bordeaux, 1880-1914," French Historical Studies 19 (Spring 1995): 183-214

Selected Service and Other Relevant Experience: 2015-present Chair, Department of History, GW 2018 Facilitator, AHA Chairs Workshop 2016-2017 Co-President, Society for French Historical Studies 2016-2018 Chair, AHA Committee on Gender Equality (formerly: Committee on Women Historians) 2010-15 Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, GW 2012-2015. International Dissertation Research Fellowship, SSRC, final selection committee; 2014-15, chair of committee.

 Advised 20 PhD dissertations  Teaches courses in European History, Gender History, History of Medicine

Candidate for Vice President, Professional

E.M. Rose (by Petition)

(medieval, early modern, religious, economic, transnational, transoceanic)

Candidate Statement

What has been accomplished since the AHA ad hoc committee report offered numerous recommendations three years ago? Very little. It is time for new perspectives, fresh ideas, and more energy on the Council. Now you can vote for someone who does not enjoy the benefits of tenure, to bring a much-needed dose of reality, especially in discussions of “career diversity” and scholarly engagement. As an award-winning scholar of the medieval and early modern world who has firsthand experience living abroad for years and working in foreign archives, I bring a traditional background and high standards to this learned society. As a journalist and new media executive for a decade before returning to academia, I also know how to engage with a broad public and get things done. In the past two years I have spoken to more than 300 AHA members and gotten their signatures in order to get on the ballot. It was an enlightening experience to speak with a wide range of historians: I would like the opportunity to bring their concerns to the Council table and a set of initiatives to revitalize the organization. Enough talk, no more patronizing advice; let’s get to work!

Author/ Historian E.M. Rose, MBA, PhD

E. M. Rose is a scholar of the Medieval and Early Modern period whose work has been hailed as “a model of thoroughgoing historical scholarship presented to a general audience and should be studied by scholars who wish to bring the humanities to the public square."*

Rose’s first book, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe was named one of the “Ten Best History Books of the Year” by the Sunday Times of London and described by the Wall Street Journal as “a landmark of historical research.” The American Historical Review called it “a significant achievement” and the AJS Review described it as “a truly excellent book.” It won the Ralph Waldo Emerson award from the Phi Beta Kappa Association* and the Albert C. Outler Prize of the American Society for Church History for the best monograph in ecumenical church history.

Rose’s current work focuses on English investment in early America related to such issues as capitalism, slavery and indigenous conflict. Preliminary articles have appeared in Parliamentary History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly and will appear in the Virginia Magazine of History and edited volumes.

2001-2019 Visiting Scholar/ Fellow/ Adjunct, Various Universities

Research: Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, Department of History; Omohundro Institute/ Jamestown Rediscovery, Visiting Fellow; Harvard University, Program in Medieval Studies, Visiting Scholar; Cambridge University, New Hall College (Murray Edwards), Visiting Scholar.

Teaching: University of Rutgers, Camden, Lecturer; Baruch College, CUNY, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Assistant Professor; Villanova University, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Princeton, University, Preceptor.

Education

Ph. D., Princeton University, History; M. A., Princeton University, History; M. B. A., Columbia University, Management; B. A., Oxford University, Honours School of Modern History; B. A., Yale University, cum laude, Distinction, Medieval & Renaissance Studies.

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers (select)

The British Library; University of Vienna (International Comparative Literature Association); New York, The Center for Jewish History; Georgetown University; Yale University; Medieval Academy of America; Johns Hopkins University; Harvard University (International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World); University of London (The International Conference on Antisemitism and English Culture); Leeds, International Medieval Conference; London, Institute for Historical Research; Oxford University; Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study.

University and Disciplinary Service (select)

Medieval Academy of America, Finance Committee; Cambridge University Library Visiting Committee, Founding Member; Yale Center for Parliamentary History Advisory Board, Chair; Princeton University, Program in Judaic Studies, Advisory Board; Princeton University Priorities Committee.

Television Executive, Cable News Network (CNN) , Tokyo, Atlanta, New York

CNN Business News, Executive and Supervising Producer, producer and writer of live, taped, weekend and weekday news programs and features. Candidate for Councilor, Professional

Paul R. Deslandes

University of Vermont (cultural history of male beauty in Britain, transatlantic cultural exchanges)

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Candidate Statement

I am a historian of gender and sexuality with a particular focus on Britain and the British Empire. I currently serve as chair of the history department at the University of Vermont, a small research university with a strong focus on undergraduate education. As a member of the Council, I would bring a range of administrative experience acquired while serving as Executive Secretary of the North American Conference on British Studies and as Chief Reader for the College Board’s AP European History program. I am thus interested in scholarship, teaching, and professional development at both the college and high school levels. In these roles, I was committed to mentoring graduate students, improving diversity and inclusion, encouraging interdisciplinarity, and thinking about the ways in which historians contribute in different professional capacities and as public intellectuals. I would continue to focus on these issues as AHA councilor while furthering the expressed goals of the Professional Division.

Paul R. Deslandes Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Vermont

EDUCATION 1996, Ph.D. in History, University of Toronto 1989, M.A. in British History, University of Toronto 1987, B.A. in History, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

PUBLICATIONS Books -The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) -Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005/Paperback Edition 2015)

Pedagogical Guides -Contributing Author, AP European History: Course and Exam Description (New York: The College Board, 2017)

Selected Recent Articles, Book Chapters, and On-Line Publications -“Pornography,” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Edited by Howard Chiang. (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019), pp. 1260-1268 -“Situational Homosexuality,” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Edited by Howard Chiang. (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019), pp. 1501- 1508 -“Hair Health and Hygiene: Meanings, Images, and Politics,” Chapter 5 in The Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age (Volume 6, 1920-2000) (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 93-109 -“Gender and Education,” in Gender: Identity and Social Change (London: Adam Matthew Digital, 2018) http://www.genderidentityandsocialchange.amdigital.co.uk/Explore/Essays/Deslandes (6,000 words) -“Selling, Consuming, and Becoming the Beautiful Man in Britain: The 1930s and 1940s,” in Erika D. Rappaport, Sandra Trudgeon Dawson, and Mark J. Crowley, eds., Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics, and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 53-70 -“Visual Victorians: A Response,” Victorian Studies 56, 3 (Spring 2014): 470-478 -“The Cultural Politics of Gay Pornography in 1970s Britain,” in Brian Lewis, ed., British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), pp. 267-296 -“Exposing, Adorning, and Dressing the Body in the Modern Era,” in Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan, eds., The Routledge History of Sex and the Body in the West, 1500 to the Present (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 179-203

SELECTED OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013-2018, Chief Reader for Advanced Placement European History Examination, The College Board and Educational Testing Services (Reading Site: Kansas City, MO)

SELECTED RECENT SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2018-Present, Member, 2020 Annual Meeting Program Committee, American Historical Association 2017-Present, Consultant Editor, Sex and Sexuality (Digital Source Collection produced by Adam Matthew, U.K.) 2013-2017, Executive Secretary, North American Conference on British Studies 2013-15, Vice President and Program Chair, Northeast Conference on British Studies 2012-2014, Member and Chair (for 2014), Committee on the Morris D. Forkosch Prize (British History Book Prize), American Historical Association Candidate for Councilor, Professional

Reginald K. Ellis

Florida A&M University (US since 1865, African American history)

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Candidate Statement

My research focus is 20th-century African American history, with an emphasis on the life and legacies of black college presidents and African American leaders during the Jim Crow era. Along with my research, I have served in various administrative capacities at Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University (FAMU). Currently, I serve as the assistant dean for the School of Graduate Studies and Research. In 2013, I was selected as one of sixty historians to serve in the American Historical Association Tuning Project. As a member of this project I enhanced the history curriculum at FAMU, with special emphasis on the skills that a history degree offers. Specifically, I have been intentional in establishing relationships with the local and state chamber of commerce to ensure that our majors have internship and externship opportunities. Since our partnership with the AHA, our majors have increased, more students are enrolling in graduate programs, and a number of our students are gaining internship opportunities in venues that were previously not available to them due to the lack of understanding of the versatility of a history degree. Therefore, I humbly accept the nomination to serve as a councilor for the Professional Division and if given the opportunity am excited to serve in this post.

Dr. Reginald K. Ellis [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/reginaldellisfamu

Faculty Appointment: Florida A&M University August 2017-Present Associate Professor of History (Tenured)

Administrative Appointment: Florida A&M University October 2017-Present Assistant Dean in the School of Graduate Studies and Research

Selected Publications:

Books:  Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017).

 The Seedtime, The Work, and The Harvest: new Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggles in America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018), co-editor.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters:

 “Florida State Normal and Industrial School for Coloreds: Thomas DeSalle Tucker and His Radical Approach to Black Higher Education,” in The Seedtime, The Work, and The Harvest: new Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggles in America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018).

 “James Edward Shepard and The Politics of Black Education, 1933-1947,” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 23 (Spring/Summer 2016), 1: 53-79.

Selected Presentations:

 January, 2019 American History Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois “How to Say Yes and When to Say No: Navigating Service Work.”

 April, 2018 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, “The Racial Politics of Black Higher Education.”

Selected Awards and Grants:

 2016-2017 Florida A&M University Teacher of the Year

 July-2013 – NEH Summer Institute at Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute on African-American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights (Harvard University)

Candidate for Councilor, Research

The AHA Research Division works to help promote historical scholarship, preserve historical documents and artifacts, ensure equal and open access to information, and foster the dissemination of information about historical records and research. Returning members are Sophia Rosenfeld, vice president, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Enlightenment, Age of Revolutions, political thought, historical methods); Melissa K. Bokovoy, councilor, Univ. of New Mexico (Yugoslavia and memory, collectivization and eastern Europe); and Christopher R. Boyer, councilor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (environmental and social history of Mexico).

Sara Georgini

Massachusetts Historical Society (early American history, religion and culture, public history)

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Candidate Statement

I am a historian of early American thought and culture, with an emphasis on religion. I serve as the series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of The Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society. For the past decade, I have worked to ensure the preservation of and access to primary sources through our team production of multiple volumes. The American Historical Association’s scholarly community has supplied the support that we need to publish authoritative editions; lead student and teacher workshops; apply for and manage grants; curate exhibits; and bring historical research to new audiences. At each step, I have relied on AHA resources and guidance, considering where the profession can set down new roots. As a councilor in the Research Division, I’d like to help the AHA tackle two challenges: 1) connecting public historians, independent scholars, and adjunct faculty with a greater array of research resources and professional opportunities to share their scholarship and 2) amplifying the rich dialogue happening between public history institutions, libraries, museums, and archives.

SARA GEORGINI

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History, 2016, Boston University, Boston, MA

Dissertation: “Household Gods: Creating Adams Family Religion in the American Republic, 1583-1927”

M.A. in History, 2009, Boston University, Boston, MA

B.L.S. in History, summa cum laude, 2007, Boston University, Boston, MA

B.S. in Journalism with Concentration in History, 1997, Boston University, Boston, MA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, November 2008 – present

Series Editor for The Papers of John Adams, The Adams Papers, 2016–present Assistant Editor, The Adams Papers, 2011–2016 Editorial Assistant, The Adams Papers, 2009–2011 Library Assistant, Reader Services, 2008–2009

Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006–2016

Research Assistant, History Department, 2006–2016; Teaching Assistant, History Department, 2008–2012

Tiffany and Company, Boston, MA, 1997–2008

Registry Manager and Sales Professional

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019) The Papers of John Adams, vols. 16–19. Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Sara Georgini et al. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012–2018 Adams Family Correspondence, vols. 10, 12, 13, 14. Edited by Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin et al. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011–2019 “John Quincy Adams at Prayer,” Church History 82 (Sept. 2013): 649–658 Contributor, Smithsonian, 2016–present

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Organization of American Historians: Chair, Marketing and Communications Committee, 2016–2019 Association for Documentary Editing: Treasurer, 2016–2017; Publications Committee, 2012–2016 Society for U.S. Intellectual History: Treasurer, 2016–2017; Conference Committee, 2016–2019; Conference Chair, 2020 Blogs: Co-founder of The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, 2012–present. Assistant Editor, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Blog, 2016–present Candidate for Councilor, Research

Robert Neer

Hult International Business School (global history of US military, global business, politics and law)

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Candidate Statement

My career combines experience in academia, international business, law, and technology. If elected, I will strive to help the AHA embrace globalization and the internet to support and expand access to professional historical analysis. I received JD and US history MA degrees from Columbia University in New York in 1991, took a 14-year leave of absence during which I started, developed, and sold media, entertainment, and internet businesses in London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Boston, and completed my Columbia history PhD in 2013. I teach undergraduate courses on global society and law as an associate professor at Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition, since 2014 I have taught a summer course on the global history of the US military—one of my primary research interests—as a lecturer in the history department at Columbia.

ROBERT M. NEER

EDUCATION

M.A., M. Phil., COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEW YORK, NY Ph.D. Dissertation “Napalm, An American Biography.” Nominated for Bancroft Dissertation Award. M.A. 1991, M.Phil. 2007, Ph.D. 2011

J.D. COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL NEW YORK, NY Recognition of Achievement with Honors in International & Foreign Law, Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law. 1991

Fulbright NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Scholar Department of Political Science graduate research in Southeast Asian politics. 1987

A.B. HARVARD COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, MA Magna cum laude. Society of the Cincinnati Award for U.S. history thesis research. 1986

PUBLICATIONS

Books NAPALM, AN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY BELKNAP PRESS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS First history of the incendiary weapon. “A ﬁrst-rate book,” American Historical Review, “Penetrating history,” Journal of American History, “Excellent and eloquent,” Journal of Military History, Cover Review, Times Literary Supplement, “Best Books of 2013,” Mother Jones, “100 Recommended Books of 2013,” San Francisco Chronicle, “Best Books of 2013,” Times Higher Education. Translated into Japanese. 2013, Paperback ed. 2015

BARACK OBAMA FOR BEGINNERS FOR BEGINNERS BOOKS Distributed by Random House. Sold over 16,000 copies: best-selling title in publisher’s history. Translated into Russian. 2008, Rev. ed. 2009

Journalism The Boston Globe. The Wall Street Journal Asia. Freelance News and Travel articles. 1985-1988. BlueMassGroup.com blog: Co-Founder, Co-Editor. 2004-2016

EMPLOYMENT

Associate HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE, MA Professor Teach undergraduate courses in global society, global business law, geopolitical risk and corporate diplomacy, and art and business. 2018-Present

Lecturer COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEW YORK, NY Teach “Empire of Liberty: A Global History of the U.S. Military.” Summers 2014-Present. Taught “Contemporary Civilization” Core Curriculum political philosophy seminar. TOMS Core Faculty Fellow Award for Teaching Excellence. Preceptor 2006-2008, Core Lecturer 2011-2014

President PROMOS.TV BOSTON Created world’s largest collection of award-winning television promotion, marketing and design videos: 19,000 users, 6,800 spots, 945,000 clips served. Donated archive to the U.S. Library of Congress to form a named collection in their Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division. 1999-2005

President SYNAPSE PACIFIC, LTD. HONG KONG Founded consulting ﬁrm to help U.S. and European media businesses expand in Asia. Managed US$5 million regional TV production business for Pearson All American TV Inc. Built US$3 million in revenue for The .tv Corporation. 1995-2003

Afﬁliations California State Bar Association. Trustee, The Harvard Lampoon. Candidate for Councilor, Teaching

The AHA Teaching Division collects and disseminates information about the training of teachers, studies and encourages innovative methods of instruction, and works to foster cooperation among faculty. Returning members are Laura McEnaney, vice president, Whittier Coll. (World War II and postwar, working class/gender/race); Alexandra Hui, councilor, Mississippi State Univ. (European science and culture, modern Germany, sensory and environment); and Craig Perrier, councilor, Fairfax County Public Schools (nationalism and education).

Shannon T. Bontrager

Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville (commemorations and public memory, death and burial of military dead)

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Candidate Statement

I am interested in the Tuning of two-year college history courses and the important opportunities that two-year institutions can create in these trying times for our discipline. I served on the Two-Year College Task Force for the American Historical Association and on the 2016 Program Committee for the AHA annual meeting in Atlanta. I was a member of the AHA-NEH Bridging Cultures program that incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds into the US History Survey. I use history to demonstrate the value of thinking critically and working collaboratively in the classroom and in preparation for a career. Serving at a two- year institution in the South has given me access to a broad network of student, parent, administrative, and civic communities to stress the importance of thinking historically about the past and the present. I would bring this mission to the AHA Teaching Division should I be fortunate enough to serve.

Shannon T. Bontrager

Education Ph.D., History, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2011 Fields of Study: 19th Century U.S. Culture, 20th Century U.S. Culture, Transnational U.S., Modern Britain, World History

M. A., History, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 2001 Thesis: “The American Gospel: Methodists in the Great War,” Advisor: Dr. David Macleod

B. A., History, Ambassador University, Big Sandy, TX, 1996

Publications (Selected)

“Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921” (Book Manuscript, forthcoming Winter 2019/20, University of Nebraska Press).

“The Means of Instilling That Spirit of Americanism”: North Carolina, Cultural Memory, and the First World War” in North Carolina’s Experience During the First World War. Ed. by Shepherd W. McKinley and Steven Sabol. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2018.

“Black Bodies, White Borders: Mapping the Color Line Inside and Outside the United States, 1902-1916,” World History Bulletin 31 (Fall 2015): 15-9.

“‘From a Nation of Drunkards, We Have Become a Sober People’: The Wyandot Experience of Borderlands in the Ohio Valley during the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 32 (Winter 2012): 603-32.

“The Imagined Crusade: An Examination of the Use of Mythology to Promote Nationalism and Christian Virtue in Britain During the First World War,” Journal of Church History 71 (December 2002): 774-98.

Works in Progress:

“Sites of War, Memories of Peace: Trans-Atlantic Memory and the Making of a ‘Community of Interests’ in the United States, Great Britain, and France, 1920-1945. (Book Manuscript).

The Smell of Empire: Recovering the Dead but not the Stench from the Spanish-Cuban-American War. (Article).

Professional Appointments

Associate Professor of History, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, GA, 2015 - Present United States History Survey World History Survey Western Civilization Survey

Institute Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities—American Historical Association, “Bridging Cultures: American History, Atlantic and Pacific, San Marino, CA; Washington, D.C.; New York, 2013-2015.

Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, “Memory and Memorialization: Representing Trauma and War,” Paris France, 2011-2012.

Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Highlands College, Cartersville, GA, 2011-2015 Memories of U.S. History (Honors Course) United States History Survey World History Survey Western Civilization Survey

Service (Selected) Member, American Historical Association Two-Year College Faculty Task Force, 2015-2016. Member, American Historical Association Program Committee for 2016 Conference. Candidate for Councilor, Teaching

Jonathan A. Lee

San Antonio College (US economic, international relations)

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Candidate Statement

As a community college instructor of history for over two decades, I am a strong advocate of the value of our discipline especially in the wider college curriculum and the importance of the community college instructor and student to our profession. I was honored to be selected as a part of the AHA’s Tuning Project, which stimulated an annual conference on teaching introductory history courses in Texas. Later I served as a LEAP-Texas fellow where I focused on translating history curriculum to a wider audience, particularly how studying history fosters marketable skills. As a Teaching Division Councilor, I would continue to advocate for greater resources and opportunities to expand and promote the AHA’s outreach towards the two-year college community, particularly nontraditional and first generation students.

Jonathan A. Lee San Antonio College 1819 N. Main San Antonio TX 78212 [email protected] 210-486-1097

Employment

Professor of History, 1997 to the Present, San Antonio College Courses Taught: History 1301: U.S. History from 1492-1877, History 1302: U.S. History since 1877, History 2321: World History to 1500, History 2322: World History since 1500

Chair, MESSH – Mexican-American Studies, Early Childhood Studies, Sociology, Social Work & History – Since 2018, San Antonio College

Education

University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., 1996: U.S. History Dissertation, "The Strength of the Currency: The Multinationalization of American Business, the Balance of Payments Problem, and United States Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s."

Other Professional Experience

LEAP Texas Fellow – 2016-2017

History and Marketable Skills at the University of Texas at San Antonio and San Antonio College: My attempt to translate history curriculum to a wider audience using the LEAP Value Rubrics and to communicate the relevance of historical inquiry to my students, particularly those who are interested in majoring in history,” LEAP Texas Developmental Hub, August 2017.

Organizer of American Historical Association “Conference on Introductory History Courses in Texas” at San Antonio College, August 2016

Member of American Historical Association’s Tuning Committee, 2012-2013

Member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board History Learning Objectives Work Group, 2011

Co-Chair, Social Science Vertical Team, Texas College Readiness Initiative, 2007- 2008

Member of the College Board’s Advanced Placement World History Redesign Commission, 2006-2007

Candidate for Committee on Committees

The Committee on Committees nominates individuals to fill vacancies on all regular Association committees. Returning members are Madeline Y. Hsu, Univ. of Texas, Austin (migration and transnationalism, international, Asian American studies, modern China); Jennifer L. Palmer, Univ. of Georgia (18th-century French slavery/race/gender); and Kaya Şahin, Indiana Univ. (early modern Ottoman).

Ari Kelman

University of California, Davis (US history)

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Candidate Statement

Ari Kelman is Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War; A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek, recipient of several national awards and honors, including the Bancroft Prize; and A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans, which won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Professor Kelman’s essays have appeared in the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, Nation, Slate, and Times Literary Supplement. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is now working on a book, For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars, and editing the journal Reviews in American History. Professor Kelman hopes to serve the AHA by helping with the organization’s ongoing efforts to become more equitable and inclusive, particularly when it comes to welcoming graduate students, scholars from underrepresented backgrounds, and public scholars.

ARI KELMAN

EDUCATION:

Brown University. Ph.D., History, May 1998. M.A., History, May 1993. University of Wisconsin-Madison. B.A., History, May 1991.

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

University of California, Davis. Assoc. Dean for Academic Programs and Planning, L&S, 2017-present. University of California, Davis. Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, 2016-present. The Pennsylvania State University. McCabe Greer Professor of History, 2014-2016. University of California, Davis. Associate Professor and Professor of History, 2005-2014. University of Denver. Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of History, 2000-2005. University of Oklahoma. Reach for Excellence Honors Professor, 1998-2000.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars. (New York: Basic Books, under contract). Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War. With Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2015). A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013). Received five national awards, including the Bancroft Prize. A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Received the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award.

SELECTED SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, REVIEW ESSAYS:

“Boundaries of Memory at Sand Creek.” In Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman (eds.), Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2019), 49-55. “Sand Creek.” In Andrew Lichtenstein and Alex Lichtenstein (eds.), Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory. (Morgantown: West Virginia University press, 2017), 61-65. “Reconstruction in the U.S. West.” In Greg Downs and Kate Masur, Reconstruction: The Official National Park Service Handbook. (Washington: Eastern National Press, 2016), 124-135. “Black Lives Mattered.” The Times Literary Supplement, (December 7, 2016), 4-7. “Lies and Steals.” The Times Literary Supplement, (February 11, 2015), 7-8. “Remembering Sand Creek, Rethinking the Civil War.” Common-place (January 2014). “Perimeters of Pain.” The Times Literary Supplement, (July 26, 2013), 8-9. “What’s in a Name? The Fight to Call Sand Creek a Battle or a Massacre.” In Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine (eds.), Battles and Massacres on the Southwest Frontier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). “The Hills are Alive.” The Nation, (July 4, 2011), 34-37. “Even Paranoids Have Enemies: Rumors of Levee Sabotage in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.” Journal of Urban History, 35 (July 2009), 627-639. “Boundary Issues: Clarifying New Orleans’s Murky Edges.” Journal of American History, 94 (December 2007), 695-703. “New Orleans’s Phantom Slave Insurrection of 1853: Racial Anxiety, Urban Ecology, and Human Bodies as Public Spaces.” In Andrew Isenberg (ed.), The Nature of Cities. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006), 3-23. “The Necropolis of the South.” Reprinted in Howard Chudacoff (ed.), Major Problems in American Urban and Suburban History. (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005), 155-161. Candidate for Committee on Committees

Raúl A. Ramos

University of Houston (19th-century US-Mexico border, transnational identity construction)

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Candidate Statement

I’m delighted to have the opportunity to support the AHA as it transforms and expands its scope and mission to engage diverse communities and audiences. My engagement with the AHA’s goals began almost a decade ago as a member for the Nominating Committee from 2011–14. I’m committed to recruiting colleagues that bring a broad range of experiences and competencies to do the heavy lifting of committee work in the organization. Most recently, I have worked to explore novel ways to implement the insights of the Tuning Project to introductory American history courses as a participant in the AHA-Gateways project.

RAÚL A. RAMOS

Department of History, University of Houston [email protected]

CURRENT POSITION 2009- Associate Professor Present University of Houston, Department of History

2019 President, University of Houston Faculty Senate

EDUCATION 1999 Ph.D., Yale University, History 1992 M.A., Yale University, History 1989 A.B., Princeton University, History with Latin American Studies

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015 OAH/AHRAC China Residency Program Fellow, Organization of American Historians 2009 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission, for Beyond the Alamo. 2000—2001 Summerfield Roberts Fellowship in Texas History, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS MANUSCRIPTS: Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

SELECT ARTICLES, EDITED VOLUMES, AND CHAPTERS: “The Alamo is a Rupture,” Guernica, February 19, 2019.

“Chicano/a Challenges to Nineteenth-Century History,” Pacific Historical Review, 82:4 (November 2013) 566-580.

“Understanding Greater Revolutionary Mexico: The Case for a Transnational Border History,” in Arnoldo de Leon, ed., War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2011).

Co-editor, with Monica Perales, Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas, (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2010), with an introduction by the editors.

“José Antonio Saucedo: At the Nexus of Change.” in J. Frank de la Teja, ed., Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2010). Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 1

The Nominating Committee makes nominations for all elective posts in the AHA, oversees the counting of ballots, and reports the results of the election to the membership. Returning members are Carin Berkowitz, Science History Institute (modern British and American medical sciences and visual culture); Kathleen Brosnan, Univ. of Oklahoma (environmental, transnational history of wine); Daniel Greene, Northwestern University and guest curator, US Holocaust Memorial Museum (public history/museums, Holocaust/American response); Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins Univ. (Spain and Portugal and their colonies, comparative imperial); Akiko Takenaka, Univ. of Kentucky (Japanese war responsibility/reconciliation, cultural heritage, gender); and Karin Wulf, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Coll. of William & Mary (early America, women and gender, family).

Herman L. Bennett

Graduate Center, CUNY (early modern freedom, African diaspora)

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Candidate Statement

How have dispossessed peoples navigated power while staking claims within the structures of dominance? This question resides at the core of my work, which engages the earliest formations of blackness. Writing the history of the West from its margins also plays a considerable role in my relationship to the historical profession. As a perspective, it has meant that I constantly search for ways to assist students and colleagues in seeing themselves as stakeholders so as to negotiate the workings of institutions, exclusionary discourses, and particular cultural formations with the ability to effect change in existing structures. We need a range of ideas and positions but also individuals prepared to take on the challenges that our profession confronts now but also in the foreseeable future. I envision working hard at being both expansive and agnostic in searching and vetting candidates for office and the sundry committees of the AHA.

Herman L. Bennett is a Professor in the Ph. D. Program in History at the Graduate Center,

City University of New York (CUNY). He has a PhD and MA from Duke University.

Some of his most notable publications include:

“The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic,”

African Studies Review, 2000;

Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness,

1570–1640, 2003;

“‘Sons of Adam’: Text, Context, and the Early Modern African Subject,” Representations,

2005;

“Genealogies to a Past: Africa, Ethnicity, and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Mexico,”

New Studies in American Slavery, 2005;

“Writing into a Void: Slavery, History and Representing Blackness in Latin America,”

Social Text, 2007

Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)

African Kings & Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in Early Modern Atlantic (Penn)

Professor Bennett has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the

Humanities Grants, a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral

Fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University, an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, Membership at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and Mellon Sawyer Seminar. He also received the American Historical Association Equity Award, for ‘excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the Historical Profession.” A member of the Social Text Editorial Collective, he has also been on the editorial board of the

American Historical Review. Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 1

Carla G. Pestana

University of California, Los Angeles (early America, Atlantic world)

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Candidate Statement

My career has carried me into a variety of scholarly enclaves: early America, the Caribbean, the Atlantic world, early modern England, the United States, and the history of religion. As a result I am acquainted with scholars who work across many subfields and various geographical areas, and that familiarity will help me to identify an eclectic selection of candidates for various AHA positions. Having taught at a range of public universities, I am deeply aware of the challenges facing the profession. I feel a powerful obligation as a historian to make historical knowledge available in all communities and to promote critical thinking. I am committed to supporting diversity within the profession and in the ways we engage with the public, educators, and our past and would nominate a diverse range of individuals committed to supporting the AHA’s work in defending and advancing the study and teaching of history.

Carla Gardina Pestana Department of History, UCLA

Current positions: Professor; Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; Department Chair, UCLA Department of History; Affiliate of the Centers for 17th and 18th century Studies, the Study of Religion, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA; President, FEEGI (Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction)

Education: Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, History, 1987; MA, 1982; B.A. Loyola Marymount University, 1980

Books: The World of Plymouth Plantation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming, 2020. The Cambridge History of America and the World, vol. 1: 1500-1825, co-editor with Eliga H. Gould and Paul W. Mapp. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2021. The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. The Early English Caribbean, with co-editor Sharon V. Salinger, 4 volumes. London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2014. Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009; paperback edition, 2011. The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661. Harvard University Press, 2004; paperback edition, 2007. Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts. Cambridge University Press, 1991; paperback edition, 2004. Inequality in Early America, co-edited with Sharon V. Salinger, Reencounters with Colonialism: New Perspectives on the Americas. University Press of New England, 1999. Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786. John Carter Brown Library, 1986 (winner of first prize, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, American Library Association, 1987)

Major Honors: Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library (2015-16); John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009)

1 Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 2

Gregory H. Maddox

Texas Southern University (Africa, environmental)

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Candidate Statement

I much appreciate being nominated for the committee. I am a historian of Africa with a particular focus on East Africa and environmental history. As a professor and administrator at an urban HBCU, I am very much aware of the pressures on scholars in institutions like mine that often inhibit engagement with the profession. I believe organizations like the AHA make their biggest impact by serving as a space to bring as widest variety as possible of perspectives to both the intellectual and practical issues facing scholars today. If elected to the committee, I will work to promote diversity, including institutional diversity and diversity across the fields of the historical profession, among those chosen to serve the organization and its membership.

GREGORY H. MADDOX Academic Appointments

Texas Southern University, assistant professor 1988-1994, associate professor 1994-2001, professor 2001-present University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Fulbright Senior Scholar, 1993-1994

Education

University of Virginia, BA, 1982 Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1988

Books

Translator and Editor, Mathias E. Mnyampala, The Gogo: History, Customs and Traditions. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance with Ernest M. Kongola (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2006). Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History (Santa Barbara: ABC/Clio, Nature and Human Societies, 2006). With with I.N. Kimambo and Salvatory Nyanto. A New History of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2017).

Edited Volumes

With I.N. Kimambo and James L. Giblin, eds. Custodians of the Land: Environment and History in Tanzania. London and Athens, OH: James Currey, and Ohio University Press, Eastern African Studies Series, 1996. With James L. Giblin, eds., In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence from Tanzania, Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, Eastern African Studies Series, 2005. With Dennis Cordell and Karl Ittmann, The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge in Africa, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010.

University Service

Director of International Programs, 2013-present Dean of the Graduate School, Texas Southern University, 2007-present Accreditation Liaison to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, September 1, 2007-present

Professional Service

Associate Editor, Environmental History, 1996-2001, Editorial Board, 2001-2011 Editorial Board, Tanzania Zamani, the journal of the Historical Association of Tanzania Editorial Board, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 2

John Thabiti Willis

Carleton College (religious encounters, African and diaspora religions)

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Candidate Statement

It is an honor and a privilege to stand for the office of Nominating Committee member. I am committed to carrying out the committee’s charge of identifying and recommending candidates whose experiences and work reflect a diverse set of approaches to the study of the past. While I am trained as a historian of Africa with a focus on West Africa and serve as an associate editor of the Journal of West African History, my research trajectory is unconventional; it includes the history of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean and Gulf regions from comparative and global perspectives. My hopes for the AHA and the discipline are to broaden and deepen understanding of the archive and the producers and interpreters of historical knowledge. I believe that it is imperative that our membership and our profession’s hiring and promotion practices reflect such an understanding.

JOHN THABITI WILLIS, Ph.D.

POSITIONS Associate Professor (with Tenure), Department of History, Carleton College, Fall 2017-present Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carleton College, Fall 2010-Spring 2017 Associate Editor, Journal of West African History, 2012-present 2019 Program Committee, 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association Post-doctoral Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 2008-2010

EDUCATION Ph.D. African History, Emory University, 2008

PUBLICATIONS Book Manuscript: Masquerading Politics: Kinship, Gender, Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

Peer Reviewed Articles: “Bridging the Archival - Ethnographic Divide: Gender, Kinship, and Seniority in the Study of Yoruba Masquerade,” History in Africa: A Journal of Method Vol. 44 (May/June 2017) “Negotiating Gender, Power, and Spaces in Masquerade Performances in Nigeria,” Gender, Place, and Culture: A Feminist Geography Journal, 21, 3 (2014): 322-336.

Contributions to Anthologies/Edited Volumes: “‘The performance of servitude’: gendered and racialized representations of citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum.” Minority Narratives. Edited by Virginie Rey. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2019. “Resilient but Disempowered: Representations of African Pearl Divers in Contemporary Heritage Discourses versus Early Twentieth-Century Manumission Records in the UAE.” Africa and Its Diasporas: Rethinking Struggles for Recognition and Empowerment. Edited by Behnaz A. Mirzai and Bonny Ibhawoh. Trenton: Africa World Press & Red Sea Press (2018) “A Visible Silence: Africans in the History of Pearl Diving in Dubai, UAE.” 34-49. Museums in Arabia: Transnational Practices and Regional Processes. Edited by Karen Exell and Sarina Wakefield. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate. (2016)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS African Studies Association American Historical Association Arts Council for the African Studies Association Association for the Study of the World Wide African Diaspora

Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 3

Fahad Ahmad Bishara

University of Virginia (Indian Ocean economic and legal, Islamic law and capitalism)

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Candidate Statement

As a historian of the Indian Ocean, much of my work has been devoted to placing the non- Western world at the center of discussions of world history—an endeavor in which I draw inspiration from my colleagues in African, Chinese, and South Asian history. In my teaching and writing, I have attempted to bring marginal actors and texts onto the forefront of the world-historical stage and to ask large questions from counter-intuitive vantage points. More recently, I have worked hard to create graduate programs that embrace racial, ethnic, and intellectual diversity—not just as a matter of principle, but as a priority in practice. I would look forward to bringing this energy to the AHA, where I would want to continue my predecessors’ commitment and efforts to diversifying the discipline of history, in both its most public face and its flagship publications.

FAHAD AHMAD BISHARA

ACADEMIC POSITIONS Rouhollah Ramazani Assistant Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies, University of Virginia, August 2018 to present Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia, Fall 2016 to present Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of William and Mary, Fall 2013 to present Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics, Joint Center for History and Economics. Harvard University, Fall 2012 to July 2015

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Ph.D. in History, Duke University. May 2012. Dissertation titled “A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Western Indian Ocean, 1850-1940.” (Supervisors: Edward Balleisen and Engseng Ho) M.A. in Arab Gulf Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, September 2006. MA Thesis title: “Partnership and Profit in Long-Distance Trade: the Evolution of an Economic Institution in the Pre-Oil Gulf.” (Supervisor: Dr. James Onley) B.A. in Print Journalism and International Relations, University of Southern California, December 2004.

PUBLICATIONS Books A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Winner, J. Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association, 2018. Winner, Peter Gonville Stein Award, American Society for Legal History, 2018. Co-winner, Bentley book prize, World History Association, 2018. Articles “Imagining Oceans of Law, circa 1910,” Itinerario, Vol. 42, Special Issue 2 (2018), pp. 168-182. “No Country but the Ocean: Reading International Law from the Deck of an Indian Ocean Dhow, c. 1900,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2018), pp. 338-366 “Ships Passing in the Night? Reflections on the Middle East in the Indian Ocean” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Roundtable on the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (December 2016), pp. 758-762. “Paper Routes: Inscribing Islamic Law Across the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean” Law and History Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2014), pp. 797-820. Awarded the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in Law and History Review, American Society for Legal History, 2015. Website/Public History Tools “An Ocean of Paper: Mapping Omani Migration in the Indian Ocean” an online archive of 3000+ debt deeds, hosted by the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (http://www.indianoceanhistory.org/oceanofpaper/).

Candidate for Nominating Committee, Slot 3

Craig Perry

University of Cincinnati; Emory University, effective August 2019 (medieval Middle East, history of slavery, global history)

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Candidate Statement

The nominating committee has the power and responsibility to shape the AHA by recommending strongly qualified people for election whose collective diversity demonstrates a commitment to inclusion. Here inclusion requires a slate of candidates that reflects both the human diversity of our profession as well as the variety of settings in which historians work. I stress that inclusion is not just about equity, but it is also a crucial strategy for ensuring the vitality, excellence, and relevance of our profession. Before I became a university professor, I taught history in public, private, and international high schools where I experienced first-hand the dynamism and innovation in secondary education and in their partnerships with museums and institutions of higher learning. More recently as a conference organizer and the co-editor of a global history volume, I have learned the necessity of intentionally reaching beyond my own immediate networks to identify and promote new collaborators.

Craig Perry

EDUCATION 2014 PhD in History, Emory University. Dissertation: “The Daily Life of Slaves and the Global Reach of Slavery in Medieval Egypt, 969 – 1250 CE.”

2001 MAT in Secondary Social Studies, Duke University.

2000 BA in Comparative Area Studies, minor in History, Duke University.

POST-DOCTORAL ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2019- Assistant Professor, Emory University, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. (Starting August 1, 2019).

2016-2019 Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of Judaic Studies.

2015-2016 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies.

2014-2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, History Department.

PUBLICATIONS 2017 “Historicizing Slavery in the Medieval Islamic World,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 49, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 133-138.

2017: “Conversion as an aspect of master-slave relations in the medieval Egyptian Jewish community,” in Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World, eds. Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli (Abingdon, U. K.: Routledge Press, 2017) 135-159.

In Process: Co-editor. Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 2: the Medieval Period. Expected submission in 2019.

AWARDS AND HONORS 2016 Dorset Visiting Fellowship, Oxford University Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Residential Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies (Trinity term). 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant (Principal Collaborator, 2014-2017) 2013 Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Emory University 2013 Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Foundation for Jewish Culture

LANGUAGES English (native); Arabic, Hebrew, and German (proficient); Judaeo-Arabic (reading knowledge); French and Aramaic (basic reading knowledge)

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