2025 AHA Election Ballot

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1. President
The president-elect stands unopposed for election to president. The current president is Ben Vinson III, Howard Univ. (president; African diaspora, colonial Mexico).
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Boyd Professor; European intellectual, history of humanities/material culture/arts, Germany and Austria 1700-1945)
2. President-elect
The president-elect serves a one-year term. At the end of the term, he or she stands unopposed for election for president. The current president-elect is Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Boyd Professor; European intellectual, history of humanities/material culture/arts, Germany and Austria 1700–1945).
Lonnie Bunch III, Smithsonian Institution (secretary; US, museums, African American history, American presidency/sport/film)
George J. Sánchez, Univ. of Southern California (professor and chair, American Studies & Ethnicity; Chicana/o immigration, American West)
By petition: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth Coll. (professor; 20th-century US politics, labor, immigration, women, social movements, race and migration)
3. Professional Division
Returning members are Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Council member, Rutgers Univ. (19th-century US, social, public) and Jennifer McNabb, Council member, Univ. of Northern Iowa (social and legal, medieval and early modern Europe).

Vice President
William Deverell, Univ. of Southern California (professor and co-director, Huntington-USC Institute; US West, environment)
Karin Wulf, John Carter Brown Library and Brown Univ. (director/librarian and professor; colonial America, women, family and politics)
By petition: Sherene Seikaly, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (associate professor; modern Middle Eastern capitalism, consumption, and development)
4. Council Member
William Kuracina, East Texas A&M Univ. (professor; Indian socialism, Indian nationalist movement)
M. Raisur Rahman, Wake Forest Univ. (associate professor and chair; South Asia, Muslims, local and urban)
5. Research Division
Returning members are William G. Thomas III, vice president, Montana State Univ., Bozeman (American legal, digital scholarship); Jana Lipman, Council member, Tulane Univ. (20th-century US, US foreign relations, US immigration, labor); and Cemil Aydin, Council member, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (global, modern Asia and Middle East).

Council Member
Niko Pfund, Yale Univ. Press (director; publishing, scholarship, media)
Nadine Zimmerli, Univ. of Virginia Press (editor in chief; transnational, US and German-speaking central Europe)
By petition: Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall Coll. (professor emeritus; African American struggle for citizenship, Global Cold War politics and culture)
6. Teaching Division
Returning members are Serena Zabin, vice president, Carleton Coll. (early America, American Revolution), Jennifer Baniewicz, Council member, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School (US, AP US, AP European, Western civilization) and Edward Cohn, Council member, Grinnell Coll. (Soviet Union/Russia/central Europe, policing and surveillance).

Council Member
Kelli Y. Nakamura, Kapi’olani Comm. Coll. (professor; world, US, Asian American history, Hawai’i)
Amy G. Powers, Waubonsee Comm. Coll. (professor; benevolent societies in New York City, prostitution regulation)
By petition:: Karen Miller, La Guardia Comm. Coll., CUNY (professor; internal migration programs, settler colonization, long 20th-century US empire in Philippines)
7. Committee on Committees
Returning members are Julio Capó Jr., Florida International Univ. (20th-century queer Miami, transnational Caribbean-US sexuality); Carol Harrison, Univ. of South Carolina (religion, gender, France 1750–1914); and Linh Vu, Arizona State Univ. (war dead in 20th-century China, virtue and citizenship).

Slot 1
Laura Matthew, Marquette Univ. (associate professor; Central and Latin America, Mesoamerica, Spanish colonial Guatemala)
Laura J. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Irvine (associate professor; colonial South African labor/slavery, African environmental, world)
8. Nominating Committee
Returning members are Amanda Moniz, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (early America, humanitarianism); Matthew Restall, Penn State Univ. (colonial Latin America, Maya history); Anthony Steinhoff, Univ. du Québec à Montréal (modern Germany/France, modern European religion, Wagner/operatic culture in German-speaking Europe, urban); Hiromi Mizuno, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities (cultural history of science in Japan, colonialism, environmental); Hilary Green, Davidson Coll. (Black education in Reconstruction, Civil War memory); and Dana Rabin, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Great Britain, race, 18th-century empire).

Slot 1
Ernesto Chavez, Univ. of Texas at El Paso (Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Timmons Professor of Borderlands History and chair; film, sexuality, Latino)
Marc Rodriguez, Portland State Univ. (professor and editor, Pacific Historical Review; Chicano/Mexican American civil rights, legal)
By petiton: Alexander Aviña, Arizona State Univ. (associate professor; Latin America, activism and social movements, immigration)
9. Slot 2
Jeffrey Ahlman, Smith Coll. (professor and chair; African political and social, global Black intellectual)
Mariana P. Candido, Emory Univ. (Winship Distinguished Research Professor; West Central Africa, land and property, gender, slavery/slave trade)
10. Slot 3
Michele Louro, Salem State Univ. (professor; modern South Asia, world, British imperialism)
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston Coll. (professor and chair; South Asia, India, economic and social, environmental)

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