Headquarters Staff

All staff may be reached by e-mail by clicking on their name. Or you may reach them by phone at (202) 544-2422 (their individual extensions follow their names). Click here for a map of and directions to the AHA Headquarters office. A list of American Historical Review staff in Bloomington, Indiana may be viewed at http://www.indiana.edu/~ahrweb/staff.html

  • Jim Grossman

    Executive Director. Jim moved to the AHA in 2010 from the Newberry Library, where he was Vice President for Research and Education. He has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and at the University of Chicago, where he remains Senior Research Associate in History. Jim is the author of Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration, and A Chance to Make Good: African-Americans, 1900-1929, the coeditor (with Jan Reiff and Ann Keating) of The Encyclopedia of Chicago, and editor of The Frontier in American Culture. He is currently coeditor of the Univ. of Chicago Press series Historical Studies of Urban America. His articles and short essays have focused on various aspects of American urban history, African American history, American ethnicity, and higher education.

  • Julia Brookins
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 119

    Interim Special Projects Coordinator. Julia assists in development of new projects and grant opportunities, and administers the grants, fellowships, and prizes given by the Association. Julia will receive a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in December 2011.

  • Matt Burruss
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 108

    Publication Sales/Business Office Assistant. Matt received a BA in international relations and East Asian studies with a minor in Japanese from Eckerd College in 2007. Matt works in the business office where he oversees the sales and distribution of publications and assists the business office in its daily operation.

  • Debbie Ann Doyle
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 104

    Coordinator Committees & Convention Assistant. Debbie serves as primary staff person for the Association’s standing committees and task forces, including the Committee on Minority Historians, the Committee on Women Historians, the Graduate and Early Career Committee,  the Task Force on Disability, Two-Year College Task Force, and the LGBTQ Historians Task Force. She also serves as the primary contact for public history matters for the Association. She works with the Director of Meetings on annual meeting functions and is responsible for fielding general questions and requests regarding the meeting. She is the primary liaison for the Local Arrangements Committee and works closely with the Program Committee.  She also staffs the Committee on Research Grant Awards and supervises the administration of the Association's book prizes, research grants, public history award, and film prize. She serves on the in-house editorial board for Perspectives on History. Debbie received a BA in history from Clark University in 1990, a master's degree from American University in 1993, and her PhD in American History from American University in August 2003.

  • Kelly Elmore
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 111

    Manager, Marketing and Business Operations. Kelly received her BS in Marketing Management from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. She manages marketing, advertising and development for the Association, and the exhibits and registration portions of the Annual Meeting.

  • Elisabeth Grant
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 117

    Web Editor. Elisabeth maintains and edits content on the AHA web site. She also manages and writes for the AHA's blog AHA Today, and all other social media operations at the Association (including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). In 2005, she received a BS in Psychology and a BA in English (with a concentration in Professional Writing) from Virginia Tech. She is the author of Virginia Tech: Off the Record and a contributing author to the Not for Tourists 2009 Guide to Washington DC.

  • Christian Hale
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 133

    Production Manager. Chris received his MA in American history from George Mason University in 2001 and received his undergraduate degree in history at San Francisco State University. He has been working for the Association since December 2001. Chris is responsible for the production and layout of the various AHA publications, including the print version of Perspectives on History. He also edits and produces Perspectives on History Online, videos and films for the Association, and helps maintain the AHA website.

  • Michelle Hewitt
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 123

    Assistant Membership Manager and Assistant to the Deputy Director. Michelle works primarily on processing individual memberships received through the mail and online. She also assists with general projects and programs, as feasible.

  • Vernon Horn
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 122

    Manager, Databases and Information Technology. Vernon received his MA in History from the University of Maryland, College Park.  He maintains computer systems, works on website programming, and (in general) is working to usher the AHA into the new digital world.

  • Matthew Keough
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 100

    Administrative Office Assistant. Matthew received a BA in history from Providence College in May 2006 and has been a member of the AHA staff since December 2008.  He responds to general inquiries, assists with special projects, and helps the Director of Meetings and Administrative Operations and the Coordinator Committees and Convention Assistant.

  • Nike Nivar
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 106

    Project Assistant. Nike provides staffing support for the Executive Director, Deputy Director, and the Marketing Manager; he assists with committee support and the administration of prizes and grants. In 2010 Nike received a BA in English Literature and Hispanic Studies from Vassar College. His studies were focused on Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation, and the life and works of Federico García Lorca.

  • Randy Norell
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 109

    Controller. Randy works closely with the executive director and is responsible for preparing the annual budget, monthly financial statements, supply and procurement of services, supplies, and equipment. He provides administrative support for the Association and prepares financial reports for federal government and private foundations that support the Association.

  • Pamela Scott-Pinkney
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 115

    Membership Manager. Manages the day-to-day operations of the membership department. She also overseas processing of membership and subscription dues. In addition, she assists with Annual Meeting registration.

  • Pillarisetti Sudhir
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 121

    Editor, Perspectives on History. Sudhir is responsible for the editing, design, and layout of Perspectives on History. He also edits Perspectives on History Online. Sudhir received his PhD in South Asian history from the University of London and has taught in universities in India before moving to the United States. Before joining the AHA in May 1996, he was a technical editor with Reed Technology and Information Services and taught (as an adjunct teacher) South Asian history at George Mason University and the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. Sudhir is interested in cultural history as well as computers, and coedited Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India(Calcutta: Seagull, 1993).

  • Liz Townsend

    Coordinator, Job Center and Professional Data. Liz is responsible for the employment section of Perspectives on History; edits the Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians; and manages the annual meeting Job Center. Liz also maintains the Directory of Dissertations in Progress and the Directory of Doctoral Programs. Changes to either of these web-based directories can be sent to her attention throughout the year.

  • Robert B. Townsend
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 118

    Deputy Director. Robert oversees all program activities, staffs the Association's Research and Teaching divisions, and coordinates the work of all divisions and committees. He also maintains databases and statistics on the historical profession in the U.S., and is the author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization and the Historical Enterprise, 1880–1940 (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) and over 200 articles on various aspects of history, higher education, and electronic publishing in publications ranging from Perspectives on History and AHA Today to the Chronicle Review and A Different Kind of Web. He received his PhD from George Mason University in 2009.

  • Sharon K. Tune
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 101

    Director, Meetings and Administrative Operations. Sharon received her BA, summa cum laude, in history, political science, and English from the College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, and her JD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Sharon serves as head of the Administration Department and as senior staff assistant to the Association's Professional Division, the Nominating Committee, and the Committee on Committees. In addition, she administers copyright matters for the Association and the Award for Scholarly Distinction, oversees the annual election of AHA officers, and serves on the in-house editorial board for Perspectives on History. Director, Meetings she negotiates annual meeting contracts and oversees general administration for the annual meeting, including editing the Program.

  • Tina Wang
    (202) 544-2422, ext. 110

    Tina is responsible for accounts payable and logs all accounts receivable transactions. She graduated from George Mason University in 2011 with a degree in accounting.

 

 

Last Updated: February 2, 2012 4:52 PM