Governance

Recent Executive Committee Minutes:

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-09-25

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-08-21

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-06-25

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-04-30

S-USIH Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 2024-03-27

ARCHIVE OF MINUTES, AGENDAS, & MISC., 2011-2022

Current S-USIH Officers

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.

Sarah Payne, Treasurer

Sarah Payne is an associate professor of History at Colorado State University. Her research and teaching are in public history and environmental history, with a specialty in cultural resource management and historic preservation. She has served as the principal investigator on dozens of externally funded projects for federal and state agencies, local governments, and non-profit organizations, including numerous administrative histories for the National Park Service. Her current manuscript project Screwing with Nature: An Environmental History of Birth Control in the United States explores the production, consumption, and disposal histories of contraceptives in the twentieth century.

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.

RAYMOND HABERSKI, JR., Administrative Officer

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:

Appointed position with a term decided by the executive committee; serves at the pleasure of the president of the society
Non-voting membership to the executive committee—invited to give reports and answer questions
Responsible for providing a mailing address for society business
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
Seeks and applies for funding through the institution to help support the work of the society
Helps executive committee officers fulfill their duties as described in the society’s constitution

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Emily Conroy-KRUTz, #USIH2024 Conference co-Chair

Emily Conroy-Krutz is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and the author of Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and American Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell University Press, 2024),Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2015), and a co-editor of The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the US-Mexico War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). She is currently writing a global micro-history of the 1901-1902 missionary world tour of Jennie and Arthur Judson Brown, tentatively titled Around the World with the Browns.

Benjamin Park, #USIH2024 Conference co-Chair

Benjamin E. Park is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the co-editor of Mormon Studies Review, editor of Blackwell’s Companion to American Religious History, and author of American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 (Cambridge University Press) and Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (Liveright). His most recent book, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, was published by Liveright in January 2024. USIH was one of the first academic conferences at which he presented as a graduate student, and he has remained a frequent participant ever since.