Governance

S-USIH CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS

S-USIH CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

S-USIH MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH IUPUI-IAT (Aug 2 2021)

Recent Executive Committee Minutes:

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-01-20

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-02-17

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-04-28

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-05-26

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-06-27

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-07-25

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-08-22

S-UISH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2022-09-19

ARCHIVE OF MINUTES, AGENDAS, & MISC., 2011-2021


S-USIH Officers: 2022-2023


Sara Georgini, PResident

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Sara earned her Ph.D. in History from Boston University in 2016. She is Series Editor of The Papers of John Adams, part of The Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and author of Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has worked on the selection, annotation, indexing, and book production of nearly 20 scholarly editions drawn from the Adams Papers (Harvard University Press, 2009— ). Her research focuses on early American thought, culture, and religion. She is a co-founder and contributor to The Junto, as well as a S-USIH Blogger and a frequent Smithsonian contributor. Her current public history project, in process here, is “A Woman’s Work,” a new collective biography of early American women intellectuals. Follow: @sarageorgini.


Andrew Klumpp, Treasurer

Andrew Klumpp is Editor of the Annals of Iowa at the State Historical Society of Iowa. In that role, he oversees peer-review, article selection, indexing, and production for this 157-year-old publication. His research focuses on the religious and intellectual history of nineteenth-century rural America in a global context, and in addition to serving as USIH’s treasurer, he is active in a variety of other professional organizations, such as the Midwestern History Association, American Historical Association, and Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies.


Robert greene II, Chair of Publications

Robert Greene II is Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University, an historically Black university in South Carolina, and Senior Editor for Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. He previously served as Book Reviews Editor for S-USIH and has blogged for the site since 2013. Greene’s research interests include African American history, American intellectual history since 1945, and Southern history since 1945. He is the co-editor, with Tyler D. Parry, of Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press, 2021). In addition to his scholarly publications, Greene’s public history commentaries and reviews have appeared in The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, Scalawag, and Current Affairs. 


SARAH BRIDGER, SECRETARY

Sarah Bridger is an associate professor of history at the California Polytechnic State University. Her research focuses on intellectual history and the history of science and scientists in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis on competing visions of politics, economics, and ethics in times of social upheaval. She is the author of Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research (Harvard University Press, 2015), which was a co-winner of the S-USIH book prize. She is currently at work on a history of American scientists in the 1970s as they debated what counts as science and who counts as a scientist.

 

ANDREW HARTMAN, #USIH2023 conference co-chair

Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. His first book, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Hartman’s second book, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015 (second edition, 2019). He is the co-editor, along with Raymond Haberski, Jr., of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, published by Cornell University Press in 2018. Hartman currently at work on his third book, Karl Marx in America, which is contracted to be published by the University of Chicago Press.  He was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH), and he wrote for the Society’s award-winning blog from 2007 until 2018. Hartman chaired the 2015 S-USIH Conference. In addition, he is the winner of two Fulbright Awards. Hartman was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark for the 2013-14 academic year, and he was the Fulbright British Library Eccles Center Research Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year. He is an editorial advisor for the University of Chicago Press, and is an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer for the 2015-2021 period. Hartman has been published in a host of academic and popular venues, including the Washington Post, Baffler, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Historian, Journal of American Studies, Reviews in American History, Journal of Policy History, Salon, Jacobin, Bookforum, and In These Times. Hartman is co-chairing with Haberski the 2023 S-USIH Conference, which will be held in his hometown of Denver. Follow: @HartmanAndrew


RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR., Administrative Officer and #USIH2023 conference co-chair

Raymond Haberski, Jr. is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at IUPUI. The American Studies program offers a unique applied doctorate that leverages research centers and external partners for a theoretically rich, experientially vibrant experience. For the 2008–2009 academic year he held the Fulbright Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies. He helped found and still helps to run the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Haberski’s books include It’s Only a Movie: Films and Critics in American Culture (2001), Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture (2007), The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court(2008), God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945 (2012), the forthcoming in 2018, Voice of Empathy: A History of Franciscan Media in the United States distributed by Catholic University Press and published by the American Academy of Franciscan History entitled. He is the co-editor of two other books: with Andrew Hartman, No Things but in Ideas: U.S. Intellectual History; and with Philip Goff and Rhys Williams, Beyond Bellah: Essays on American Civil Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Currently he is working on a monograph that looks at the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace as a reflection of American use of just war theory and a second project on the social history of the American blockbuster film.

In May 2015, the Executive Committee formally established this position and appointed Haberski to facilitate the relationship between the Society for U.S. Intellectual History and the institution (i.e. IUPUI) that supports specific operations important to the work of the society. The position is defined below and will be added to the bylaws of the society:

  1. Appointed position with a term decided by the executive committee; serves at the pleasure of the president of the society
  2. Non-voting membership to the executive committee—invited to give reports and answer questions
  3. Responsible for providing a mailing address for society business
  4. With the approval of the executive committee, carries out society business with the institution that has agreed to provide specific kinds of support to the society
  5. Seeks and applies for funding through the institution to help support the work of the society
  6. Helps executive committee officers fulfill their duties as described in the society’s constitution

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