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THE ASSOCIATION

Nominations for 2003: The 2002 Nominating Committee, consisting of Waldo E. Martin, University of California at Berkeley, chair; Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida; Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University; and Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University, made the following nominations for 2003:

   FOR VICE PRESIDENT:

      Charles W. Joyner, Coastal Carolina University

   FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:

      Sylvia R. Frey, Tulane University
      Raymond Gavins, Duke University
      Michael O'Brien, Cambridge University

Charles W. Joyner, nominee for vice president, is the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He is the author of Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Urbana, Ill., 1984); Shared Traditions: Southern History and Culture (Urbana, Ill., 1999); and a forthcoming book on the biracial nature of southern music. He has served the SHA in a wide variety of roles, most notably as chair of the Owsley Award Committee (1990-91), chair of the Program Committee (1999), and a member of the Executive Council (2000-2002).

Sylvia R. Frey is professor of history at Tulane University. She is the author or editor of several books, including The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period (Austin, 1981); Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (Princeton, N.J., 1991); and Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830, co-authored with Betty Wood (Chapel Hill, 1998). She has served as chair of the SHA's Committee on Women (1991); and she has served on the Program Committee (1996), Nominating Committee (1999), and twice on the Owsley Award Committee (1994-95, 2002-2003).

Raymond Gavins is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham, N.C., 1977); and co-editor of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New York, 2001). He has served on the SHA Program Committee twice (1977, 1984), the Committee to Review the SHA Program (1991), and the Nominating Committee in 2000, which he chaired in 2001.

Michael O'Brien is University Lecturer in American History at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (Baltimore, 1979); All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South (Fayetteville, Ark., 1982); and Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History (Baltimore, 1988). He serves as series editor for the Southern Text Society's publications, now at the University of Georgia Press. He has served the SHA on the Sydnor Award Committee (1987-88), twice on the Program Committee (1990, 2000), and on the Special Committee to Study the Woodward Bequest (2000).

In accordance with Article IX of the SHA constitution, these nominations will become effective following next year's annual meeting, unless fifty members present a petition for an alternative nominee by September 1, 2003. For details on the procedure to be followed if that happens, see the constitution on the SHA website: www.uga.edu/~sha.

The Nominating Committee for 2003, consisting of Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University, chair; Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University; Charles W. Eagles, University of Mississippi; Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; and Patricia A. Sullivan, Harvard University, requests suggestions from the SHA membership for the office of vice president (president-elect) and members of the Executive Council. The committee will make its nominations when it meets at the annual meeting in Houston in November. Suggestions should be made in 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 curriculum vita should be enclosed. Recommendations should be sent to Jane G. Landers, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 351802, Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1802.

The Nominating Committee, consisting of five members, is appointed each year by the Executive Council, according to the SHA constitution (Article IX, Section 1). The three second-year members of the Council serve as a subcommittee to prepare a slate of at least eight nominees for the Council to consider. At the Council's meeting in Houston, that subcommittee will consist of Pete Daniel, Smithsonian Institution; Marion F. Deshmukh, George Mason University; and Harriet Amos Doss, University of Alabama at Birmingham. SHA members are invited to send suggestions for individuals to be considered for the Nominating Committee to the chairperson by September 1, 2003. Please address suggestions to Pete Daniel, 1367 Emerald St. NE, Washington, D.C. 20002; or e-mail: [e-mail].

The sixty-ninth meeting of the Association will take place in Houston, Texas, on November 6-9, 2003. The meeting will deviate from our normal pattern by beginning on Thursday evening and extending through midday on Sunday. The program will be mailed to members at the end of the summer; the same information, including registration and hotel reservations, will appear on the SHA website somewhat earlier in the summer.

The 2004 Program Committee has issued its call for papers and sessions for the seventieth annual meeting of the SHA, which will be held in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 3-6, 2004. Proposals for single papers and entire sessions are invited. For the first time, proposals to the committee can and are encouraged to be submitted electronically through the SHA website: www. uga.edu/~sha. To submit proposals by more traditional means, send a one-page summary of the proposed paper and a brief (single-page) curriculum vita for each presenter. According to SHA bylaws, no one who appeared on the previous two programs, those in Baltimore or Houston, should be part of the program in Memphis. Proposals should be sent to the Program Committee chair before October 1, 2003: J. Mills Thornton, Department of History, 1029 Tisch Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003.

Vice President Wayne Flynt has appointed the following to serve on the 2004 Program Committee chaired by J. Mills Thornton: James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kathryn H. Braund, Auburn University; David A. Y. O. Chang, University of Minnesota; Joel F. Dark, Tennessee State University; Charles W. Eagles, University of Mississippi; Lacy K. Ford Jr., University of South Carolina; Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University; Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University; Michael O'Brien, Cambridge University; Michael A. Morrison, Purdue University; Linda Reed, University of Houston; Marlene H. Rikard, Samford University; John Herbert Roper, Emory and Henry College; Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina; Samuel C. Shepherd Jr., Centenary College of Louisiana; and Mark W. Summers, University of Kentucky.

Vice President Flynt has also appointed the following award committees for 2004 and 2005: Francis B. Simkins Award: Neil R. McMillen, University of Southern Mississippi, chair; Maxine D. Jones, Florida State University; and Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University; Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award: Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi, chair; Nancy Smith Midgette, Elon College; and Samuel L. Webb, University of Alabama at Birmingham; C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Award: Martha H. Swain, Texas Woman's University, chair; James O. Farmer, University of South Carolina at Aiken; and Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University; William F. Holmes Award: Elizabeth Jacoway, Newport, Arkansas, chair; Brooks R. Blevins, Lyon College; and Harvey H. Jackson, Jacksonville State University.