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Executive Council and Committees

Leadership:

Lesley J. Gordon, President

University of Alabama

Jason Phillips, President-Elect 

West Virginia University 

Joan Waugh, Past-President

University of California, Los Angeles

 

At-Large Executive Council Members:

Chandra Manning (2022-2024)

David Silkenat (2022-2024)

Amy Murrell Taylor (2022-2024)

Sarah Gardner (2022-2026)

Hilary Green (2022-2026)

Susanna Lee (2022-2026) 

 

Additional Executive Council Member

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

 

Non-Voting Executive Council Members

James Marten, Executive 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 

Shae Smith Cox, Chair, Early Career Committee  

Kathryn Angelica, Chair, Graduate Student Connections Committee 

 

2024 Program Committee:

  • Timothy Williams, University of Oregon (Chair) 
  • Robert Bland, University of Tennessee     
  • Kurt Hackemer, University of South Dakota 
  • Scott Hancock, Gettysburg College   
  • Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders,  University of Colorado     
  • Rebecca Toy, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park   

2024 Conference Committee:

  • Susanna Lee, North Carolina State University (Chair)
  • Hilary Green, Davidson College
  • David Silkenat, University of Edinburgh
  • Angela Zombek, University of North Carolina Wilmington
  • Brittany Hutchinson, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Ernest Dollar, Executive Director, City of Raleigh Museum 

2024 Tom Watson Brown Book Award Committee:

  • Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University (Chair) 
  • Tad Brown, Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc.
  • Susannah J. Ural, Mississippi State University 
  • Diane Miller Sommerville, Binghamton University 

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 

Nominations Committee:

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

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee:

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

Transitions Committee:

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

Early Career Committee:

  • Shae Smith Cox, Nicholls State University (Chair)  
  • Angela Diaz, Utah State University 
  • Jonathan Jones, James Madison University  
  • Arlisha Norwood, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
  • Alexandra Stern, City College of New York 
  • Kathleen Thompson, Independent Scholar 

Graduate Student Connection Committee:

  • Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut (Chair) 
  • Brian Martin, University of Alabama
  • Cameron Sauers, Pennsylvania State University 
  • Maddie Setiawan, Texas A&M University
  • Joshua Waddell, University of Georgia 
  • Sarah West, University of Southern Mississippi

Outreach and Membership Committee:

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