Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

The 2015 Nominating Committee, consisting of Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina, chair; Charles C. Bolton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Jane Dailey, University of Chicago; Ted DeLaney, Washington and Lee University; and Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University, has made the following nominations:

• For Vice President/President-Elect:
  Jane Turner Censer, George Mason University

• For Executive Council:
  Nancy Bercaw, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
  Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University
  Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University

Jane Turner Censer, nominee for vice president/president-elect, joined the George Mason University history faculty in 1989 after receiving her master’s and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University. The author of North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800–1860 (Baton Rouge, 1984) and The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895 (Baton Rouge, 2003), Censer’s scholarship centers on southern women, gender, and family in the nineteenth century. Her edited work includes two volumes of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (Baltimore, 1977–) as well as an edition of Sherwood Bonner’s 1878 novel Like Unto Like (Columbia, S.C., 1997). Censer’s essays and prizewinning articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Journal of Legal History, Southern Cultures, and American Quarterly, among others. She has also been a fellow at the National Humanities Center and has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Virginia Historical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Nancy Bercaw received her bachelor’s degree in history from Oberlin College and her master’s and doctoral degrees in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Bercaw is the author of Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of the Household in the Delta, 1861–1875 (Gainesville, Fla., 2003); the editor of Gender and the Southern Body Politic (Jackson, Miss., 2000); and coeditor of the Gender volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill, 2009).

Craig Thompson Friend is CHASS Distinguished Graduate Professor and director of public history at North Carolina State University. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky in 1995. He is the author of Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West (Knoxville, 2005) and Kentucke’s Frontiers (Bloomington, Ind., 2010), which received the 2011 Kentucky Governor’s Award. His edited volumes include Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction (Athens, Ga., 2009); and the coedited anthology Death and the American South (New York, 2015).

Joseph P. Reidy is professor of history and an associate provost at Howard University. He is the author of From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880 (Chapel Hill, 1992) and a former editor and acting co-director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, College Park. His prizes include the Thomas Jefferson Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government, the Abraham Lincoln Prize of Gettysburg College, and the J. Franklin Jameson Outstanding Editorial Achievement Prize of the American Historical Association.

In accordance with Article IX of the SHA Constitution, these nominations will become effective following the annual meeting in St. Pete Beach this year, unless fifty members present a petition for an alternative nominee by September 1, 2016. For details on the procedure to be followed in that event, see the Constitution on the SHA website: http://sha.uga.edu/constitution_bylaws/index.htm. Council members serve a three-year term.

SHA vice president John B. Boles has appointed the following Program Committee for the 2017 meeting in Dallas: Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, co-chair; Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina, co-chair; Charles C. Bolton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; David Brown, University of Manchester; Christopher Curtis, Armstrong State University; Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University; Lorri Glover, Saint Louis University; Luke E. Harlow, University of Tennessee...