Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

The 2017 Nominating Committee, consisting of Rebecca Sharpless, Texas Christian University, chair; Beverly G. Bond, University of Memphis; Lesley J. Gordon, University of Alabama; Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College, has made the following nominations:

For Vice President/President-Elect:    Thavolia Glymph, Duke UniversityFor Executive Council:    Emily Bingham, University of Louisville    Crystal N. Feimster, Yale University    Daniel H. Usner, Vanderbilt University

Thavolia Glymph is professor of history at Duke University with appointments in both history and African and African American studies. Glymph is also a faculty affiliate of the Duke University Population Research Institute as well as the program in women's studies. In 2015 Glymph served as John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School, a position she returns to this spring. A specialist in the nineteenth-century U.S. South, Glymph is the author of the prizewinning Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York, 2008) and coeditor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Glymph has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health in support of her work on Civil War refugees.

Emily Bingham received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught at Bellarmine University, University of Louisville, St. Francis High School, and Centre College. Her books include Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham (New York, 2015), Mordecai: An Early American Family (New York, 2003), and The Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays After I'll Take My Stand (Charlottesville, 2001). Bingham has served on the board of directors of the Filson Historical Society and the American Civil Liberties Union. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and the New England Review.

Crystal N. Feimster, who received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, is associate professor of African American studies, history, and American studies at Yale University. Currently completing a project on rape during the American Civil War, Feimster is also the author of Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Cambridge, Mass., 2011), which focuses on two opposing women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.

Daniel H. Usner received his Ph.D. from Duke University and is Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Usner is the author of Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (Chapel Hill, 1992), which won the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association. His other books include Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in American History (Cambridge, Mass., 2009) and Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (Athens, Ga., 2015).

In accordance with Article IX of the SHA constitution, these nominations will become effective following the annual meeting in Birmingham this year, unless fifty members present a petition for an alternative nominee by September 1, 2018. For details on the procedure to be followed in that event, see the constitution on the SHA website: http://thesha.org/about#constitution. These council members will serve a three-year term starting in November 2019.

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SHA vice president William A. Link has appointed the following Program Committee for the 2019 meeting in Louisville: James C. Giesen, Mississippi State University, co-chair; Anne E. Marshall, Mississippi State University, co-chair; Brandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt University; Mark R. Cheathem, Cumberland University; Craig Thompson Friend, North Carolina State University; Shennette M. Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi; Hilary Green, University of Alabama; Charles J. Holden, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Tom Okie, Kennesaw State University; Tore C. Olsson, University of Tennessee; Stephanie R. Rolph, Millsaps College; Rachel A. Shelden, University of Oklahoma; Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University; William Sturkey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Susannah...