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2017 OAH Annual Report ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL REPORT Building a Strong Community of Historians 2017 Organization of American Historians® FY2016 –17 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Organization of American Historians© The report covers OAH activities and initiatives from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 (FY2016–17). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recorded, or other means without prior written permission from the Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408. Phone: 812.855.7311. Web: oah.org. First edition: January 15, 2018. 2 ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ANNUAL REPORT JULY 1, 2016 TO JUNE 30, 2017 3 2017 AN N UAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS YEAR IN REVIEW From the OAH President 5 ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW From the OAH Executive Direc tor 7 ABOUT THE OAH 8 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW OAH Treasurer’s Report and Audited Financial Statements 9 MEMBERSHIP OVERVIEW Renewal, Recruitment, and Benefits 14 PROGRAMS OVERVIEW Distinguished Lectureship Program 15 OAH-NPS Collaboration 17 International Residencies 19 PUBLICATIONS OVERVIEW Journal, Magazine, and Blog 21 MEETING OVERVIEW 2017 OAH Annual Meeting in New Orleans 23 AWARDS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES Recognizing Achievement in American History 27 DEVELOPMENT & PHILANTHROPY 34 VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP Boards and Committees 39 FOUNDERS, PRESIDENTS, TREASURERS, EDITORS, AND STAFF 58 4 ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS YEAR-IN-REVIEW YEAR-IN-REVIEW FROM OAH PRESIDENT EDWARD L. AYERS The OAH benefits every day from…a great team who helps build our membership, promotes our work, and orchestrates our complex OAH Annual Meeting.” We are fortunate to have such allies. The Organization of American Historians has had a very good year. The finances are strong, and exciting new initiatives are in the works. The OAH benefits every day from expert leadership at the headquarters in Bloomington. Executive Director Katherine ”Finley oversees a great team who helps build our membership, promotes our work, and orchestrates our complex OAH Annual Meeting. We are fortunate to have such allies. Under Nancy Cott’s leadership, the OAH Annual Meeting in New Orleans was quite successful, with over 1,700 attendees and 360 sessions, many of them focused on the theme of “circulation.” Attendees, appropriately enough, enjoyed circulating with one another and through the historic streets of the city. The next OAH Annual Meeting, in Sacramento, also promises to be quite successful. Organized around “the forms of history” by a dynamic program committee led by William G. Thomas III, and Claudrena Harold, the program has attracted an especially large number of proposals. Using a more efficient schedule, the 2018 OAH Annual Meeting offers a wide array of sessions on history in all its varieties: public, digital, and popular, grounded in museums, institutions, and performance. Sacramento’s fascinating and multilayered history holds its own attractions. The Distinguished Lectureship Program continues to put some of our most eloquent members before the public across the country. The generous donation of speakers’ fees to the OAH is quite helpful in sustaining our association, and the special lectureship initiative on the Trump presidency has demonstrated the possibilities of the program. The OAH continues to work closely with the National Park Service, collaborating on twenty new projects around the nation. We also support and benefit from the National Coalition for History, an effective advocate in Washington for the place of history in institutions important for the health of the discipline and of the nation. TheJournal of American History has come under the editorship of Ben Irvin, who has moved from Arizona to Bloomington. An early Americanist, Ben and the excellent editorial staff of the JAH will build on the momentum the journal has attained in recent decades. The coming year will take advantage of three generous grants to the organization. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded money for the OAH’s “amplified initiative,” making the annual meeting accessible to members who cannot attend and working with partners in public and K–12 education to select audio and video from the meeting to share with their membership. The Mellon Foundation has also given the OAH a grant to strengthen historians’ connections with journalists. Finally, the National Endowment for the Humanities provided a grant to help the OAH determine how it can be more engaged in the civic life of our nation. We look forward to sharing updates on those initiatives and others with you in the coming months. 5 2017 AN N UAL REPORT 6 ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KATHERINE M. FINLEY The OAH staff and executive board are extremely dedicated to providing excellent customer service and developing innovative programs that ensure that the ” OAH will be around for many, many years to come. The other day, I went into a branch of a large national bank only to find that they had done away with all the teller windows. There were a few bankers on hand ”(for more complicated business), but for withdrawals and deposits, you had to go to a kiosk and use an automated machine. I’m sure these kiosks are the latest innovations in the banking world, but in the process of installing state-of-the-art technology, the bank seemed to have forgotten the customer service I had come to expect. Just like the bank I visited, the OAH is constantly faced with balancing innovation (most likely in the form of new technology) and providing good customer (or member) service. This past year we too have tried to keep up with technology and the digital world but also maintain the OAH’s long and rich tradition of serving and promoting those who teach, present, and interpret history. In short, we need to continue to innovate and use the latest technology tools as a means of providing excellent member service, quality programs, and outstanding publications that present the latest research in and about the field. How did we achieve this at the OAH this past year? The 2017 OAH Annual Meeting in New Orleans was very successful and incorporated a number of innovations that had been introduced in previous years. However, because many of our members and nonmember historians are unable to attend the annual meeting or work as historians outside the university or college setting, we decided that further innovations to the annual meeting were necessary. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, planning began this fiscal year for a new type of academic conference. The Mellon grant will allow the work presented at the 2018 OAH Annual Meeting (entitled “The Forms of History”) to be available to a broader audience, permitting instructors to engage with new ideas in their classrooms and researchers to access and cite the scholarship presented. Digital audio recordings of the sessions at the 2018 OAH Annual Meeting will provide the foundation for this “amplified meeting initiative” and will hopefully develop a new and innovative approach to academic meetings that will benefit all our historian members and the profession. Several other innovations at the OAH involve presenting history to those outside the academy or in the general public to make it more relevant. This past year, for example, we added a new initiative, “Historians’ Perspectives on the Rise of Donald J. Trump,” to our Distinguished Lectureship Program. The election of Donald Trump as the 45th president 7 2017 AN N UAL REPORT ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW revealed many social, cultural, and political issues dividing the nation. Developing this program was a way that the OAH can deliver service to the public (and our historians) by providing historical perspectives on these issues and show the importance and relevance of studying history. Working with the American Society for State and Local History (AASLH) and the National Humanities Center, we partnered on developing webinars for those outside the academic world. These webinars (about which you can read in detail in the report that follows) were designed for high school teachers and public history practitioners, respectively, and had a record attendance. The OAH/National Park Service Collaboration continues to grow. Last year we were able to attract 20 new projects, many of them as part of an innovative civil rights initiative developed by NPS. The OAH is working on a record number of projects with the Park Service, which means that the expertise of our historians is being utilized at the parks where important historical discussions (including issues over slavery and Confederate monuments) are occurring. There are also innovations in the works at the Publications Office with the hiring of a new executive editor, Benjamin H. Irvin., who started on July 1. The accomplishments of the Publications Office are detailed in the report by the Interim Executive Editor, Stephen Andrews. Today, organizations must be innovative and relevant to survive, but if innovation is not combined with excellent customer service to members, then the long-term survival of a nonprofit organization is questionable. Both innovation and membership service rely on the creativeness and dedication of staff. As you will see in this report, the OAH members are well served because both the OAH staff and executive board are extremely dedicated to providing excellent customer service and developing innovative programs that ensure that the OAH will be around for many, many years to come. ABOUT THE OAH The Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the world’s largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. Founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (MVHA), we became the OAH in 1965 to reflect a broader scope focusing on national studies of American history.
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