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2015 Annual Report Table of Contents 2015 Annual Report Table of Contents Officer’s Reports ................................................................................................................................2 Professional Division Report ..................................................................................................................... 3 Research Division Report .......................................................................................................................... 5 Teaching Division Report .......................................................................................................................... 7 American Historical Review Report......................................................................................................... 10 Minutes of the 130th Business Meeting ............................................................................................. 21 Council, Divisions, and Committees .................................................................................................. 25 Members .........................................................................................................................................32 25-Year Members ................................................................................................................................... 33 50-Year Members ................................................................................................................................... 35 Life Members .......................................................................................................................................... 39 Support ...........................................................................................................................................42 Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants ........................................................................................... 48 Awards and Prizes ................................................................................................................................... 49 Fellowships and Grants ........................................................................................................................... 53 Council Decisions and Actions .......................................................................................................... 56 Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report .................................................................. 62 Annual Report 2015 Page 1 Officer’s Reports Professional Division Report Research Division Report Teaching Division Report American Historical Review Report Annual Report 2015 Page 2 Professional Division Report Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin Vice-President, Professional Division The 2015 Professional Division (PD) consisted of four members –Mary Louise Roberts (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Catherine Epstein (Amherst College), both continuing to serve in 2015, one new member Valerie Paley (New York Historical Society), and myself, as the vice-president. Mary Louise Roberts completes her term this year. The work of the division would be severely hampered without the truly colossal support provided by AHA staff Seth Denbo, Debbie Ann Doyle, Jim Grossman, Matthew Keough, Allison Miller, Emily Swafford, Liz Townsend, Sharon K. Tune, and Dana Schaffer. We have also called upon the services of Albert Beveridge this year, and are most grateful for his always sage advice on legal matters. Their patience and good humor as well as their efficiency and wisdom have meant a lot. Thank you. The division’s principal responsibility is to monitor all areas of professional work within the discipline and to develop advisory materials to assist historians at various stages of their careers. It addresses issues related to the responsibilities and working conditions of historians, and to their training and employment. The division also responds to informal queries from AHA members seeking advice on workplace and other practices. We are not an investigatory body, and thus usually refer enquiries to the AHA’s Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, available on the Association’s web site, as well as to guidelines produced by other pertinent organizations. The Professional Division oversees the Advisory Committee on Disability. This year the division discussed the possibility of taking on adjudication of allegations of plagiarism brought to the AHA, reviving a practice abandoned over a decade ago. After a vigorous discussion as well as advice on the legal and insurance implications of adjudication, the division agreed not to pursue this change further. The division thus reaffirms the decision not to adjudicate or investigate cases. Much of the division’s time this year has been spent on considering updates both to the AHA’s Statement on Standards and the many guideline documents available on the Jobs and Professional Development section of the AHA website. The task of the division has been both to oversee that task (asking the other divisions to advise on guideline documents that lie within their domain) and also to deal with guidelines germane to its remit. We are both editing and updating existing guidelines and considering the introduction of new documents. The process is not yet complete, but we have made substantial progress. In 2014, the division launched a new initiative, introducing an occasional column in Perspectives entitled “The Ethical Historian: Notes and Queries on Professional Conduct.” This has received favorable attention from members, and during the course of 2015 we published columns on plagiarism and on service expectations for junior faculty. The topics for the column continue to be chosen in large part as a result of issues raised in correspondence from our members. The pilot program initiated in 2009 to subsidize childcare services for early-career attendees at the annual meeting continues to offer help to parents needing such services. Mary Lou Roberts and Catherine Epstein served as a selection subcommittee, reviewing 7 applications, and I thank them for their generosity in volunteering for this task. The division was able to make awards to all seven Annual Report 2015 Page 3 applicants for a total of $2,500. We were very pleased to receive the report of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Historians Task Force, jointly appointed by the PD and the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (an affiliated society of the AHA) in 2009. The report offered a thorough and thoughtful overview of the concerns of LGBTQ historians and the problems they face, and proposed concrete and practical solutions for those concerns. The AHA Council accepted the strong recommendation of the division that the AHA create a Committee on LGBTQ History and Historians to work both with the division and the organization more broadly to address issues raised by the Report. That Committee has been appointed and begins its work in 2016. We greatly look forward to working with its members, and to the panel session at the Atlanta conference in January 2016 devoted to the report. For the 2016 Annual Meeting program, the PD will sponsor sessions that include the ongoing annual interview workshop; a panel on careers beyond the academy; a session highlighting the LGBTQ report; and, for the second year in a row, a Q&A with publishers. We also decided to introduce a session to complement the interview workshop, a panel on which historians working in a diverse range of careers talk about what they do and how they came to their careers. In other actions, the division agreed not to award the Troyer Anderson Prize this year. On behalf of the continuing members of the division, and the entire Council, I would like to thank Lou Roberts, who is rotating off the division, for stellar service to the Association over the last three years. Her input has been significant and substantial. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University) who joins the division in 2016. Annual Report 2015 Page 4 Research Division Report Edmund Russell, University of Kansas Vice President, Research Division The Research Division (RD) has the duty “to help promote historical scholarship, to encourage the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, to ensure equal access to information, and to foster the dissemination of information about historical records and research.” RD carries out this responsibility by overseeing publications, research prizes, and the annual meeting. It advocates for historical research and researchers. Publications RD did the following. • Searched for the next editor of American Historical Review (AHR), who will take the reins in the summer of 2016. By statute, the vice president, research division, co-chairs the search committee. The previous vice president, John McNeill, also represents AHA on the committee. The position of editor is half time. The other half of the appointment is a faculty position in the history department at Indiana University. Mark Roseman (co-chair) and Lara Kriegel represent Indiana University on the search committee. The committee advertised the position and interviewed, by Skype, selected candidates in spring semester. At the beginning of fall semester, three finalists interviewed at Indiana. AHA committee members and the executive director traveled to Indiana for the interviews. Negotiations are underway with a candidate. • Welcomed Alex Lichtenstein as interim
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