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Executive Council and Committees

Leadership:

Jason Phillips, President

West Virginia University 

Amy Murrell Taylor, President-Elect 

University of Kentucky  

Lesley J. Gordon, Past-President

University of Alabama

 

At-Large Executive Council Members:

Sarah Gardner (2022-2026)

Hilary Green (2022-2026)

Susanna Lee (2022-2026) 

James Broomall (2024-2028)

Frances Clarke (2024-2028)

Susannah Ural (2024-2028) 

 

Additional Executive Council Member

Scott Hancock, Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee 

 

Non-Voting Executive Council Members

Lindsey Peterson, Managing Director

Andrew Lang, Secretary-Treasurer

David K. Thomson, Communications Director 

Greg Downs, Co-Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era

Kate Masur, Co-Editor of the Journal of the Civil War Era 

Jonathan Jones, Chair, Early Career Committee  

Joshua Waddell, Chair, Graduate Student Connections Committee 

2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award Committee:

  • Chandra Manning, Georgetown University (Chair) 
  • Tad Brown, Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc.
  • Edna Greene Medford, Howard University  
  • David Silkenat, University of Florida

Nominations Committee:

  • Judith Giesberg, Villanova University (Chair)  
  • Angela Diaz, University of Illinois 
  • David Gleeson, Northumbria University
  • Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee:

  • Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College (Chair) 
  • Angela Diaz, University of Illinois 
  • Emmanuel Dabney, Public Historian 
  • Paul Quigley, Virginia Tech University 

Transitions Committee:

  • Sarah Gardner, Mercer University (Chair) 
  • Margaret Storey, DePaul University 
  • Frank Towers, University of Calgary
  • Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University

Early Career Committee:

  • Jonathan Jones, James Madison University (Chair)  
  • Shae Smith Cox, Texas A&M University  
  • Amanda Laura Kleintop, Elon University 
  • Molly Mersmann, Marshall University 
  • Kathleen Thompson, Independent Scholar 
  • Megan VanGorder, Governors State University 

Graduate Student Connection Committee:

  • Joshua Waddell, University of Georgia (Chair) 
  • Omari Averette-Phillips, University of California, Davis 
  • David Kay, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 
  • Jeremy Knoll, Ohio State University 
  • Maddie Setiawan, Texas A&M University
  • Sarah West, Mississippi State University 

Outreach and Membership Committee:

  • Laura Davis, Columbus State University (Chair) 
  • Emmanuel Dabney, Public Historian 
  • Shae Smith Cox, Texas A&M University 
  • Tracy Lynn Barnett, University of Georgia 
  • Michael Green, University of Nevada Las Vegas

2024 Anne J. Bailey Dissertation Prize Committee:

  • Kevin Adams, Kent State University (Chair)  
  • Lauren Thompson, McKendree University
  • Michael Bernath, University of Miami

2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee:

  • April Holm, University of Mississippi (Chair)  
  • Ashley Towle, University of Southern Maine
  • Luke Harlow, University of Tennessee 

2023 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award Committee:

  • Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University (Chair) 
  • Paul Barba, Bucknell University 
  • Antwain Hunter, University of North Carolina