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' . 400 A Street, $E Washington, DC 20003 1995!llnnua{ 2{f,port Compilea for tlie Counci£ 2001 Compi[etf 6y !Miriam 'E. !lfauss 'Wi.tli assistance from Cliristian J21.. :H.a£e anti !l(.icliartf '.Botui :For tlie Council, 2001 1995 Annual Report of the American Historical Association Table of Contents Report of the Executive Director .................................................................................. 2 1995 Report of the Vice President of the AHA Professional Division .......................... 7 1995 Report of the Vice President of the AHA Research Division ............................. 11 1995 Report of the Vice President of the AHA Teaching Division ............................. 14 Report of the Editor, American Historical Review ...................................................... 16 Report of the 1995 Program Committee ..................................................................... 19 Report of the 1995 Nominating Committee ................................................................ 22 1995 and 1996 Report of the Committee on Women Historians ................................ 27 Report of the 1995 Committee on Minority Historians ............................................... 29 Minutes of the Council Meeting, January 5, 1995 ...................................................... 31 Minutes of the Council Meeting, January 8, 1995 ...................................................... 44 Minutes of the Council Meeting, May 6-7, 1995 ........................................................ 52 1995 AHA Committee Structure ................................................................................ 80 Membership Report ................................................................................................... 85 25-Five Year Members of the American Historical Association ............................... 107 50-Year Members of the American Historical Association ....................................... 108 Association Acknowledges 1995 Endowment Donors ............................................. 109 Atlanta 1996: Highlights of the AHA General Meeting ............................................ 111 1995 Book Awards .................................................................................................. 117 AHA Grant and Fellowship Recipients, for 1995-96 ................................................ 121 Report of the Controller for the Year ended June 30,1995 ........................................ 122 Audit Report Contents ............................................................................................. 123 0 Report of the Executive Director Sept~ber 7, 1995 Sandria .B. Freitag,. Execntive Director This ·has been an exciting and .productive year for the AHA, signaling hew directions to explore and projects to fOme. At the headquam:ets' office, we have significantly reor~nized the way t4e staff works, and even the spaces in which we work A redistribution of oversight re/)ponsibilities among senior staff, · the creation of interdepartmental workgroups, and the devolution of management responsibilities among a larger core of staff members, has created a real sense of teamwork and high levels of energy and enthusiasm. Perhaps most noteworthy am1;mg our recent inpovatiolll) has been .the introduction of an accounting (and accountability) systell1 that plusters informatj9n around certain cost centers. The rtew system will allow us to track efficiently the res1.tlts of all decisions affecting revenue and expenditure; Working with the Coun<?il and Einan<?e Committee, the staff have also put much time and thought into preparing for the future. As. we go to pFit:).t we have just succeeded in switching to a new telephone system and have begun upgracfuig our computerized work environment; these improvements Will enable us to I:i~~e Int!;lrnet acqess, for the first time and to build :a local area network among our various workstations. Early ne]Ct caien<iar year we will harne8s these expanded technological capacities with a. ~ew networked computer program designed to integrate a wide range of association ac!ivities; .Coupl~d with, n~w staffmg arrangements, the8e improvements will position us to move into 11ew ar~s of schol!U,ily CQ.tµIllunication anti to take on additional services and activities for· the benefit qfour members. Itis an exciting time! THE PRESENT 1. Publication~: Scholarly communication lies.at the heart of many AHA activities and priorities. Developl,ll~!J.ts over the course. of 1994-95 have been very encoU.ra:ging. In preparation for the sel~ction of a new editor for the American Historical Review, a committee formed under the aegis of the Research Division evaluated the 9urrent condition of the AHR before seeking a new edifot. The committee felt strongly that David Ransel had done "a superb job" during his ten years as editor of the Review. It further commended Ransel for building an editorial board composed "of the most original and inclusive scholars in all,fields of history ... [which] has assured that the board as a whole represents the wealth ofintelleetual talent that the Review needs to sustain its position at the forefront 9f historical study in publishing." {For a retrospective look at David Ransel's very successful tenure as AHR editor, see hi.s report in this report.) The a new editor, legal historian Michael Grossberg; comes to Indiana University and the AHR from Case Westem Reserve University, where he also served ·as department chair and editor.of the Law and History Revigw. The .search committee's high enthusiasm for Professor Grossberg augurs well for the future of the journal. Qur newsletter, Perspectives, set a number of records this year. We added more pages to carry important news to the profession, and we saw an increase jn the number Qf advertisements, that presses apd others wanted to publish. The substantive topics covered in Perspectives this past year signal a renewed understanding· about the composition of the profession and 1the issues it considers significant that will proyide an important baseline for future planning: much attention was paid to the work of public historians (prompted by the debat~ over the .Enola Gay exhibition at the SmiQJsonian, but also by Disney's attempt to create a historical park and other issues). Our coverage of innovative teaching techpiqu~s continued; and we focused repeatedly on the collaborationd between K-12 and postsecondary teachers (of particular interest here 'was the debate over the National Standards in U.S. and World History, and the role played by the AHA members in helping to shape these standards). In addition, we explored the potential of various media for res~arch and teaching purposes, including both film and computers. 2 A niche of scholarly publishing in which we have specialized, and for which demand seems to be increasing dramatically, .is the overview pamphlet. We have enlisted some of the best scholars in the field to prepare pamphlets that synthesize the substance and the historiography for a variety of important subfields. Previous pamphlets still in demand include the essays on New American History edited by Eric Foner and global history edited by Michael Adas. A series currently underway tracks the literature useful in teaching diversity in America, and a new series that had been proposed will present recent scholarship on women and gendering processes. We discovered at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, held just before we went to press, that a larger international market also exists for this kind of publication, those on women and global history being especially popular. 2. International context: Placing the work of U.S.-based historians in its larger international context has provided important punctuation points during this past year. We began Fall 1994 participating in an American 'Council of Learned Societies' (ACLS) retreat on the internationalization of scholarship. The conference emphasized two important activities for the future: (a) fostering of interdisciplinary work through new forms of what traditionally have been called "area studies;'' including efforts to link these up with the disciplines; and (b) meeting the issues related to. resources and changing technology, most particularly as these affect acc'ess and communication. When, in last summer 1995, U.S.-based historians flocked to Montreal for the International Congress of Historical Societies (which meets only once every five years), they revisited many of the issues affecting internationalized scholarly. communications discussed earlier by the ACLS member societies. The organization of foreign archives and issues of access emerged as an important issue at Montreal; these topics also provided the subject matter for an important project fostered by the Research Division (see below). 3. Communication with the general public and advocacy activities: Controversies over the proposed K-12 National Standards, the.Enola Gay exhibition, and other issues brought home to historians that we have not succeeded very well in explaining what we do or why our contribution to civil society matters. These lessons, in a year dominated by efforts to drastically cut federal support for the humanities and social sciences, have prompted the AHA to expand its ongoing commitment to advocacy. We continued to work especially with the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History (NCC) on issues of importance to the organizations
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