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2012 Annual Report 2012 Annual Report Table of Contents Officer’s Reports ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2 2012 Professional Division Report ................................................................................................................................................ 3 2012 Research Division Report ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 2012 Teaching Division Report ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 2012 American Historical Review Report ................................................................................................................................... 10 Committee Reports ................................................................................................................................................................15 2012 Committee on Minority Historians Report ........................................................................................................................ 16 2012 Committee on Women Historians Report ......................................................................................................................... 18 2012 LGBTQ Task Force Report .................................................................................................................................................. 20 2012 Pacific Coast Branch Report .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Council, Divisions, and Committees ........................................................................................................................................24 2012 Council, Divisions, and Committees ................................................................................................................................... 25 Members ................................................................................................................................................................................30 25-Year Members of the American Historical Association ......................................................................................................... 31 50-Year Members of the American Historical Association ......................................................................................................... 32 2012 Life Members .................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Support ..................................................................................................................................................................................38 Donors to the 125th Anniversary Fund ........................................................................................................................................ 39 Donors to the Operating Fund ................................................................................................................................................... 41 Donors to the Endowment Fund ................................................................................................................................................ 43 Donors to the Jerry Bentley Prize ............................................................................................................................................... 45 Contributing Members ............................................................................................................................................................... 46 Awards, Prizes, Fellowships and Grants ..................................................................................................................................47 Awards and Prizes ...................................................................................................................................................................... 48 Fellowships and Grants .............................................................................................................................................................. 51 Council Decisions and Actions ................................................................................................................................................53 AHA Council Decisions and Actions ............................................................................................................................................ 54 Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report .......................................................................................................57 Annual Report 2012 Page 1 Officer’s Reports Professional Division Report Research Division Report Teaching Division Report American Historical Review Report Annual Report 2012 Page 2 2012 Professional Division Report Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin Vice-President of the Professional Division The Professional Division is charged with addressing issues related to the responsibilities and working conditions of historians; and with collecting and analyzing information related to the training and employment of historians. The PD also oversees the Advisory Committee on Disability as well as the LGBTQ Historians’ Task Force. I would like to take this opportunity to thank members of the division for their hard work this year—Laura Isabel Serna, Sara Abosch, and Andrew Rotter. History graduate students and professional historians continue to face serious challenges stemming from a difficult job market, budget cuts imposed by academic administrators and state legislators, and the increasing reliance on part-time and adjunct faculty on the part of colleges and universities. The Professional Division seeks to highlight these challenges and provide relevant data so that individuals, departments, and institutions of higher learning can make informed decisions. In addition, the PD serves as an advocate for both students and employed historians confronting a transformed landscape of higher education, where online learning, the digital humanities, and the contraction of the tenure and tenure-track work force are affecting the teaching and study of history in dramatic ways. I would like to thank Rob Townsend, whose detailed studies of the lifetime trajectory and current status of the academic workforce, and historians in particular, have proved invaluable to the division’s deliberations. A prime example is Mr. Townsend’s article, “Underpaid and Underappreciated: A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty.” Published in the September, 2012 issue of Perspectives, this article is based on data collected by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey of the Contingent Workforce. This issue will be the topic of the Chairs’ luncheon at the 2013 annual meeting. In an effort to promote the history PhD as a “malleable” or “versatile” degree, the PD organized a “mini- conference” on the topic “Beyond Plan B,” held at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Individual panels featured historians who have pursued careers outside teaching. We also sponsored a panel that posed the question, how should graduate education reflect the many career options of history PhDs? Other sessions included a workshop on converting one’s CV to a resume appealing to a wide range of employers, and another on applying for jobs with the federal government. The PD also oversaw the annual interview workshop and chairs’ luncheon. The PD voted to continue to offer childcare subventions for early career scholars attending the annual meeting; this program was successful for the 2012 meeting (twelve applicants received funding), and a subcommittee of Ms. Serna and Mr. Rotter chose the recipients for 2013 meeting. This program expended $2000 each of the two years. The PD seeks to encourage history graduate programs to make their placement records accessible to all, regardless of whether their graduates find jobs in academia or other fields. Prospective students are entitled to information related to the placements of the institutions to which they are applying. Accordingly, the division wrote and council approved a document calling for transparency in graduate- program placement records-- “Best Practices on Transparency in Placement Records” published in the October 2012 issue of Perspectives. Annual Report 2012 Page 3 Responding to the increasingly common practice of history departments merging with other departments, the PD wrote and council approved a best-practices document titled “When Academic Departments Merge: First Principles, Best Practices.” This document suggests ways that historians can retain their disciplinary integrity while cooperating with colleagues from different disciplines within a departmental structure. Discussions generated within the PD, as well as responses to specific queries from members generally, ranged over a wide variety of professional issues. Among those topics were the state of the job market; workplace issues confronting non-tenured and non-tenure track faculty; the job-search problems facing PhDs who have been out of graduate school for several years without finding a tenure-track position; lay-offs of tenured faculty
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