S-USIH Election Results

Thank you to all who voted in our 2021 S-USIH election. We are pleased to announce that the full slate has been approved as proposed. We thank Richard Cándida Smith, Publications Chair, for his years of service. We welcome Sarah Bridger as Secretary and Robert Greene II as Publications Chair. Learn more about their scholarship in U.S. intellectual history and their vision for the Society’s future in the candidate statements below. Huzzah!

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 (co-winner of the S-USIH book prize) and 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. As an intellectual historian who hasn’t always seen herself in those terms, S-USIH has connected me to a wonderful community of thoughtful and brilliant scholars, whose lively debates, discussions, conferences, and blog posts have stimulated and inspired me in so many ways. I would be honored to participate in the work of the executive board. If elected Secretary, I hope to contribute to the continued growth and diversification of S-USIH activities, including encouraging collaboration and cross-pollination with other formal and informal scholarly networks.

Robert Greene II: The Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians has nurtured me as a scholar and historian since I began blogging for its website in 2013. Then, I was only a year into my Ph.D. program at the University of South Carolina. At the time I was struggling to figure out my place in the larger scholarly world of history. But S-USIH gave me an online home to figure that out. In the process, the organization has opened numerous doors for me. It is in the spirit of scholarly camaraderie and continuing to strengthen an organization dedicated to the rich intellectual history of the United States that I am running to be Publications Chair for S-USIH. Since 2015, I have served as the Book Reviews Editor for the Society. I have had the pleasure of soliciting, editing, and posting numerous reviews for the blog. In addition, I have assisted with several roundtable discussions of cutting-edge books in the field of U.S. intellectual history. As Book Reviews Editor, I have had the opportunity to learn more about the ins and outs of the broader organization. My experience as both a blogger and a Book Reviews Editor has given me a unique perspective on what the organization can do—and where it can go in the years to come. Finally, a word about my current responsibilities elsewhere. I am also an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University, an historically Black university in South Carolina. I am also the Lead Associate Editor for Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. I list these responsibilities to showcase how I can see how our blog fits into a wider realm of public-facing scholarship that benefits many. I hope to continue enriching that tradition as Publications Chair.