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Source: Organization of American Historians (email)
Historians in the News
9-26-16

Voting opens soon for the leaders of the OAH in 2017

Notes about the Election 
 
One hundred voting members of the Organization may present a petition for an additional candidate for any office open for election, such petition to be presented to the Executive Director by October 15. The names of persons so nominated shall be placed on the official ballot, being identified as "candidate by petition." The ballot shall also contain a space where members may suggest candidates for the following year.

Voting for the 2017 OAH Election will open December 1, 2016, and will be entirely online. 
2017 Slate of Candidates 

OAH President: Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond 
OAH President-Elect: Earl Lewis, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
OAH Vice President: Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University

Executive Board Pair 1:  
Lu Ann Jones, National Park Service 
Jamil S. Zainaldin, Georgia Humanities

Executive Board Pair 2:
Daniel Okrent, Independent Scholar 
T. J. Stiles, Independent Scholar

Executive Board  Pair 3: 
Adrienne D. Davis, Washington University in St. Louis 
Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Nominating Board Pair 1:  Jennifer M. Spear, Simon Fraser University Serena R. Zabin,Carleton College

Nominating Board Pair 2: Barbara Krauthamer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas at Austin

Nominating Board Pair 3:  Kariann Akemi Yokota, University of Colorado Denver David Sehat, Georgia State University