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Annual Report 2017 Program Cover.indd 1 05/10/17 7:26 PM Table of Contents Minutes of the 132nd Business Meeting ................................................................................. 2 Officers’ Reports .................................................................................................................... 7 Professional Division Report ...................................................................................................... 8 Research Division Report ......................................................................................................... 10 Teaching Division Report ......................................................................................................... 12 American Historical Review Report .......................................................................................... 15 AHR Editor’s Report ............................................................................................................. 15 AHR Publisher’s Report ....................................................................................................... 31 Pacific Coast Branch Report ................................................................................................. 48 Committee Reports .............................................................................................................. 50 Committee on Affiliated Societies Report ............................................................................... 51 Committee on Gender Equity Report ...................................................................................... 53 Committee on International Historical Activities Report ........................................................ 54 Committee on LGBTQ Status in the Profession Report ........................................................... 56 Committee on Minority Historians Report .............................................................................. 57 Graduate and Early Career Committee Report ........................................................................ 58 Council Decisions and Actions .............................................................................................. 59 Council, Division, and Committee Members ......................................................................... 65 Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants ............................................................................... 72 Awards and Prizes .................................................................................................................... 73 Fellowships and Grants ............................................................................................................ 77 Members ............................................................................................................................. 80 25-Year Members of the American Historical Association ...................................................... 81 50-Year Members of the American Historical Association ...................................................... 82 Life Members of the American Historical Association ............................................................. 87 Donors to the American Historical Association ..................................................................... 90 Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report ..................................................... 96 1 | Page AHA Annual Report 2017 Minutes of the 132nd Business Meeting 2 | Page AHA Annual Report 2017 American Historical Association 132nd Business Meeting January 6, 2018, 5:15pm Location: Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 3, Washington, DC Present: Tyler Stovall, President; Mary Beth Norton, President-elect; Pat Manning, Immediate Past President; James Grossman, Executive Director; Edmund Russell, VP Research Division; Elizabeth Lehfeldt, VP Teaching Division; Kevin Boyle, VP Professional Division; Alex Lichtenstein, AHR Editor; Dane Kennedy, Director of the National History Center; Michael Green, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA; Susannah Ottaway, Nominating Committee Stovall opened the meeting and thanked everyone for the conference. Report of the Executive Director (Jim Grossman) Grossman acknowledged that 2017 was an unusual year in the federal government and encouraged members to discuss what the AHA’s role should be amidst these unprecedented political times. Grossman reviewed AHA accomplishments over the past year, noting that the AHA’s Statement on Confederate Monuments has been invoked in a range of arenas, including classrooms, city halls, and major media. The AHA pitched membership and financial support as a means to enable the AHA to participate in civic culture, and both went up this year. Grossman continued by discussing the importance of institutional membership. He noted that the “Chairs” listserv is an active community with emphasis on advice and sharing data. A chairs lunch is now hosted at the annual meeting. An expanded definition of advocacy has allowed the AHA to provide letters to chairs who think AHA support can help them with internal issues. The vice presidents of Teaching Division and Research Division are working with AHA staff to organize a chairs workshops, with substantial interest from an informal surveys at the chairs lunch. Grossman noted that the AHA plays a leading role in many national organizations. There were about 4500 historians at AHA18. Reports of the Vice Presidents Research Division (Ed Russell) Russell thanked Research Division members as well as AHA and AHR staff. This is Russell’s last report as vice president, Research Division (RD), and he focused his report on the AHR. The AHA has benefited from decades of partnership with Indiana University concerning the AHR. The model the AHR has had, centralized in Bloomington, IN, has worked for a long time but is no longer fully suited to a changing landscape. Two editor searches failed because the candidate could not move to Bloomington and numerous promising candidates could not relocate. In its reassessment of the AHR, RD compared five different models for journals and discussed these models with the Council and IU. At its meeting on January 4, 2018, the Council decided to change the structure of the AHR. Operations will continue to be centralized at Bloomington. However, beginning in 2021, the editor can be anywhere. The editor can stay at his or her home institution 3 | Page AHA Annual Report 2017 or there may be an option for the editor to move to IU, if both the editor and IU see such a move as mutually beneficial. The AHR will also begin introducing associate review editors in 2018. The board of associate review editors will consist of about a dozen people, chosen by field of expertise. Currently, graduate student editorial assistants have faculty consultants at IU guiding them on reviewers, as complements to members of the Board of Editors. The associate review editors will allow for the diversification of this body of consultants. These changes will spread the pool of people able to be considered as editor and diversify review editors. Both IU and AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein have approved the plan. Russell introduced Sophie Rosenfeld as the new vice president, RD. Teaching Division (Liz Lehfeldt) Lehfeldt thanked Teaching Division members and AHA staff. Brenda Santos will rotate off the division and Matt Cone will join as the representative from K-12. Beginning in 2016, Teaching Division (TD) adopted addressing enrollments in history courses as a primary initiative. At AHA18, TD organized three roundtables at which department chairs discussed strategies for boosting enrollments. Attendance at the roundtables exceeded expectations and demonstrated that these efforts are speaking to an issue of interest to membership. Although money from the Tuning grant has run out, the energy around the initiative has not. The AHA hosted its third Texas Tuning conference, and continued to advance the Tuning agenda even without outside funding. Lehfeldt announced a forthcoming publication from the AHA, Careers for History Majors, which will be a valuable resource for departments, prospective students, and skeptical others. TD recruited an ad hoc committee that is working on preparing a statement promoting the value and scholarly nature of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, but was still awaiting Council approval at the time of the Business Meeting. Professional Division (Kevin Boyle) Boyle thanked Professional Division (PD) members and AHA staff. PD spent much of this year building on the work of previous year. PD proposed two additions to the AHA’s Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct related to tenure, promotion, and publicly engaged historians as well as hiring practices. Both additions were approved. PD members have written for Perspectives and are working on a best practices document related to members dealing with online harassment. PD maintained a program of subsidizing child care service for members attending the annual meeting and sponsored several meeting sessions. One of the sessions sponsored was on mental health and the profession, for which Boyle credited Russell, who organized the session last year. PD has supported the AHA’s Career Diversity program, worked on AHA’s sexual harassment policy, and is working with Grossman on next summer’s first AHA chairs workshop. Boyle thanked Valerie Paley, who is rotating off PD, and welcomed Mary Elliot from the National Museum of African American History