I am very pleased to announce the new MAA committee members, recently appointed by the Council in accordance with our policies and procedures:
Conferences:
American Historical Association Program Committee: Peter Sposato (Indiana Univ. Kokomo)
Kalamazoo Program Committee: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda (Evansville African American Museum)
Leeds Program Committee: Charles Atkinson (The Ohio State Univ.)
Grants:
Olivia Remie Constable Award Committee: Wendy Scase (Birmingham Univ.)
Inclusivity & Diversity Prize Committee: Leah Parker (Univ. of Southern Mississippi), Laura Tillery (Hamilton College)
Committee for Professional Development: Elizabeth Schirmer (New Mexico State Univ.)
Schallek Committee: Anne R. Stanton (Univ. of Missouri)
Professional Support:
Advocacy Committee: Peter K. Simpson (Independent Scholar), Alejandro Granados Turrey (Univ. of Southern California, Nathanial Wallace (South Carolina State Univ.)
CARA Executive Board: Lucy Barnhouse (Arkansas State Univ.), Christina Christoforatou Konstantinis (Baruch College, CUNY), Katherine Allen Smith (Univ. of Puget Sound)
Database of Medieval Digital Resources Committee: Andrea Nanetti (Dumbarton Oaks), Lisa Reilly (Univ. of Virginia)
Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee: Monica brinzei (CNRS-IRHT)
Graduate Student Committee: Summer Block Lizer (Claremont Graduate Univ.), Novella Frasier (Rutgers Univ.), Sean Widlake (Rutgers Univ.)
Inclusivity & Diversity Committee: Leigh Ann Craig (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
K-12 Committee: Liberty Huther (Univ. of Missouri), Brad Phillis (Appalachian State Univ.)
Publications Advisory Board: Helen Fulton (Univ. of Bristol)
Publication Prizes:
Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize Committee: Lori Kruckenberg (Univ. of Oregon)
Karen Gould Prize Committee: Margaret Graves (Brown Univ.)
Monica H. Green Prize Committee: Merle Eisenberg (Oklahoma State Univ.)
Haskins Medal Committee: Heather Blurton (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Jerome E. Singerman Prize Committee: Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshive Univ.)
Governance:
MAA Program Committee Representative: Sean Gilsdorf (Harvard Univ.)
Fellows President: Anne D Hedeman (Univ. of Kansas)
Finance Committee: Grover Zinn (Oberlin College), Treasurer; Valerie Garver (Northern Illinois Univ.)
I look forward to working with these new volunteers and the continuing committee members (all of whom are listed on the MAA website: About -> Committees). I am so grateful to all of our volunteers for their service to the Academy and to our field. We could not do our work without you!
– Lisa
Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director
p.s. if you are interested in being considered for committee service next year, please fill out this form (if you have filled it out in the past, please do so again so that we are certain to have your up-to-date preferences in hand).
