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THE ASSOCIATION

Nominations for 2007: The 2006 Nominating Committee, consisting of Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University, chair; Albert S. Broussard, Texas A&M University; Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University; Gail O'Brien, North Carolina State University; and Pamela Tyler, University of Southern Mississippi, met at the annual meeting in Birmingham in November and made the following nominations:

FOR VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: Jack Temple Kirby, Miami University, Emeritus

FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University Steven H. Hahn, University of Pennsylvania Joanne R. Sanchez, St. Edwards University

Jack Temple Kirby, nominee for vice president/president-elect, spent his entire teaching career at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he was the W. E. Smith Professor of American History when he retired in 2002. Among his eight books are Darkness at the Dawning: Race and Reform in the Progressive South (Philadelphia, 1972); Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination (Baton Rouge, 1977); Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (Baton Rouge, 1987); The Countercultural South (Athens, Ca., 1995); and most recently, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (Chapel Hill, 2006). Currently living in St. Augustine, Florida, Kirby is at work on a book that he describes as an "indulgent meander about the American South, my ancestors, and myself." He has served the SHA in many capacities, including the Editorial Board of the Journal (1989-1992), the Nominating Committee (1993), the Executive Council (1999-2001), and the Woodward Prize Committee (2002).

Richard J. M. Blackett is the Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. A native of Trinidad, he is the author of several books, including Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860 (Baton Rouge, 1983); Beating Back the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History (Baton Rouge, 1986); and Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (Baton, Rouge, 2001). He is currently at work on a study of communities' reactions to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He has served on the SHA's Membership Committee (1992), Program Committee (1999), Simkins Award Committee (2001), and Green-Ramsdell Award Committee (2006) and chaired last year's John Blassingame Award Committee.

Steven H. Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford, Eng., 1983); the coeditor of The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation (Chapel Hill, 1985); and most recently the author of A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Bancroft Prize in American History. Hahn has served the SHA as a member of the International Committee (19881989); the Journal's Board of Editors (1990-1993); the Program Committee (2001) and the Nominating Committee (2005); and as chair of the Mitchell Award Committee (2004).

Joanne R. Sanchez has been nominated by the SHA's European History Section (EHS) to serve as its representative on the Executive Council. She is professor of history in the New College Program at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where she has taught both European and Latin American history since 1980. Her dissertation, produced at Notre Dame, focused on the Reign of Terror in Angers, France. More recently, she has been involved in an oral history project of U.S. Latino men and women during World War II. She has served the EHS as its secretary-treasurer (1994-1999) and its president (2004) and has won its Enno Kraehe Distinguished Service Award.

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, 2007. For details on the procedure to be followed in that event, see the constitution on the SHA website: www.uga.edu/~sha.

The Nominating Committee for 2007, consisting of Gail O'Brien, North Carolina State University, chair; William W. Freehling, Virginia Humanities Foundation; Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University; George C. Rable, University of Alabama; and Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University, requests suggestions from the SHA membership for the office of vice president/ president-elect and for members of the Executive Council. The committee will make its nominations at the meeting in Richmond in November. A suggestion should take the form of a letter of recommendation detailing the significance of the individual's scholarship and service to the Association. If possible, his or her c.v. should be enclosed. Recommendations should be sent to Professor Gail O'Brien, Department of History, N.C. State University, P.O. Box 8108, Raleigh, NC 27695-8108.

The 2008 Program Committee, co-chaired by Sylvia R. Frey, Tulane University, and Nick Salvatore, Cornell University, has issued its call for papers for the seventy-fourth annual meeting of the SHA, which will most likely meet in New Orleans next year. (See the secretary-treasurer's annual report in this issue for the current status of next year's site.) For the first time, the committee has requested that all submissions be made electronically through the SHA website. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2007. According to SHA bylaws, no one who participated in the previous two programs, in either Birmingham or Richmond, is eligible for participation on the 2008 program. Because the chance of single-paper proposals being accepted is so slight, full-session proposals are strongly encouraged. Individuals interested in using the SHA website to organize a session with others of like interest may send an e-mail to Gloria Davis at [e-mail], including name, e-mail address, and proposed paper topic. She will post the information on the website, which anyone may then consult to find compatible co-panelists.

The first John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award will be named at this year's annual meeting in Richmond. The award, established by the Executive Council in 2004, will be given at four-year intervals to a scholar with a notable career in the field of southern history who has produced a distinguished body of scholarship in southern history and has exhibited outstanding qualities of citizenship through which the knowledge and understanding of southern history have been put to the service of the general public. The award committee consists of Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida, chair; Elsa Barkley Brown, University of Maryland at College Park; Theodore C. DeLaney, Washington and Lee University; and Stephanie J. Shaw, Ohio State University. The committee welcomes nominations for the prize, which should include a letter of nomination and a c.v. of the person nominated. Materials should be sent by August 1, 2007, to Professor Raymond O. Arsenault, Department of History, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, 200 Snell House, 140 7th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.