Officers
President: Denise Meringolo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Vice President: Nicole A. Moore, National Center for Civil and Human Rights and Independent Consultant
Immediate Past President: Kristine Navarro-McElhaney, Voces Oral History Center, University of Texas at Austin
Treasurer: Sharon Leon, Digital Scholar
Secretary: Ed Roach, Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Appointed Directors
Executive Director: Stephanie Rowe, National Council on Public History
Editor, The Public Historian: Sarah Case, University of California, Santa Barbara

Elected Directors
B. Erin Cole, Independent Museum Professional
Cheryl Dong, Bowling Green State University
Laura Miller, Independent Historical Consultant
Kirsten Delegard, Mapping Prejudice Project, University of Minnesota Libraries
Charlene Fletcher, IUI and Butler University
Charles Johnson, North Carolina Central University
Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University
Alannah Graves, Bowling Green State University
Donna Graves, Independent Historian / Urban Planner
Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey, Know History

More information about our current board members is listed here. You can contact the board at [email protected].  (Past officers and past members of the board are listed here).

Board of Directors

Manages the business, property, and affairs of NCPH. The board defines and advances the NCPH mission, protects its financial and human assets, ensures adequate resources to carry out the mission, supervises and supports the executive director, and promotes the interests, programs, and reputation of NCPH. The Board of Directors includes the president, vice president, immediate past president, secretary-treasurer, and nine other elected members, with the executive director and the editor of The Public Historian serving as ex officio, non-voting members. The board meets during the NCPH Annual Meeting each spring and again in the fall.

Executive Committee

Has the authority and responsibility to conduct the affairs of NCPH on behalf of the Board of Directors, including taking action on advocacy issues, between board meetings. The committee sets the terms of employment for the executive director and reviews the executive office’s financial and other records.

• Kristine Navarro-McElhaney (2020-2024), Voces Oral History Center, University of Texas at Austin and NCPH President
• Denise Meringolo (2022-2024), University of Maryland Baltimore County and NCPH Vice President
• Gregory Smoak (2018-2024), American West Center, University of Utah and NCPH Past President
• Sharon Leon (2018-2024), Digital Scholar and NCPH Treasurer
• Ed Roach (2022-2024), Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and NCPH Secretary
• Vanessa Macias Camacho (2023-2024), El Paso Community College and NCPH Member at Large
• Stephanie Rowe (2015-Present; ex officio), NCPH Executive Director

Editorial Board of The Public Historian

Provides advice and contacts to the editors and editorial staff; recommends authors, reviewers, article topics, special issue themes, and general direction and policy for the journal; and reviews manuscripts.  The Editorial Board meets in-person twice each year.

• Paige Roberts (2019-2026), Phillips Academy
• Kendall Talmadge Tryhane (2019-2026), National Museum of the American Indian
• Hilary Green (2020-2025), Davidson College
• Jerome de Groot (2022-2026), University of Manchester, UK
• Mireya Loza (2022-2026), Georgetown University
• Samantha Rosenthal (2022-2026), Roanoke College
• Joanna Wojdon (2022-2026), University of Wrocław, Poland
• Catalina Muñoz Rojas (2023-2025), Universidad de los Andes
• Jennifer Stevens (2023-2025), Boise City Department of Arts & History
• Michelle G. Magalong (2024-2026), University of Maryland, College Park
• Angela Sirna (2024-2026), National Park Service
• Stephen Vider (2024-2026), University of Connecticut

Special Editors

• Sarah Case (Editor), University of California Santa Barbara
• Shelley Bookspan (Contributing Senior Editor), LifeStory Productions, Inc.
• Lindsey Reed (Contributing Senior Editor)
• Randolph Bergstrom (Contributing Senior Editor), University of California Santa Barbara
• James F. Brooks (Contributing Senior Editor), University of Georgia
• Jennifer Dickey (Book Review Editor), Kennesaw State University
• Mika Thornburg (Assistant Review Editor)
• Teresa Barnett (Special Editor), retired, UCLA
• Jennifer Scott (Museum and Exhibitions Editor), Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem
• Taylor Stoermer (Film and Digital Media Editor), Johns Hopkins University

Nominating Committee

Identifies, determines the eligibility of, and recommends to the Board of Directors persons to be considered for elected offices of NCPH. Each October, the committee compiles the slate of candidates for the annual election.

• Kristen Hayashi (2021-2024, Co-Chair), Japanese American National Museum
• Sarah Marsom (2022-2025, Co-Chair), Heritage Resource Consultant
• Hilary Green (2022-2025), Davidson College
• Nicole Martinez-LeGrand (2023-2026), Indiana Historical Society
• Krista McCracken (2023-2026), Algoma University
• Gregory Smoak (2022-2024, Past President), American West Center, University of Utah

Governance Committee

The Governance Committee shall periodically review organization bylaws, committee structures, and committee responsibilities; orient, educate, and assess the Board; and otherwise advise the Board and committees on governance matters and best practices.

• Priya Chhaya (2021-2025, Chair), National Trust for Historic Preservation and NCPH Board Member
• Sharon Leon (2019-2024), Digital Scholar and NCPH Treasurer
• Ed Roach (2022-2025), Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and NCPH Secretary
• Denise Meringolo (2020-2024), University of Maryland Baltimore County and NCPH Vice President
• Suzanne Fischer (2021-2025), Exhibit Coach, LLC
• Krista McCracken (2019-2024), Algoma University
• Kristin Ahlberg (2019-2025), US State Department
• Daniel Vivian (2022-2024), University of Kentucky
• Teresa Goforth (2023-2025), Michigan State University
• Cassie Sade Turnipseed (2023-2025), Mississippi Valley State University
• Charles Johnson (2023-2025), North Carolina Central University

Advocacy Committee of the Board

Consists of the members of the Executive Committee plus two to three additional non-voting members with special skills and interests in advocacy issues.  The committee reports to the Board of Directors on advocacy activities, which may include issuing public statements; and  supporting other organizations that mobilize support for funding history museums, historic sites, history education, historic preservation, and accessibility of historical resources; supporting open dialogue and informed discussion about history’s relationship to contemporary debates; and asserting the importance of professional public history practice.

• Michael Brown (2020-2024, Co-Chair), Rochester Institute of Technology
• Adrienne Burke (2021-2024, Co-Chair), Community Planning Collaborative
• Stephanie Rowe (2015-Present), National Council on Public History
• Kristine Navarro-McElhaney (2020-2026), Voces Oral History Center, University of Texas at Austin and NCPH President
• Denise Meringolo (2022-2028), University of Maryland Baltimore County and NCPH Vice-President
• Gregory Smoak (2018-2024), American West Center, University of Utah and NCPH Past President
• Sharon Leon (2018-2024), Digital Scholar and NCPH Treasurer
• Ed Roach (2022-2025), Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and NCPH Secretary
• Vanessa Macias Camacho (2023-2024), El Paso Community College and NCPH Board member-at-large
• Selena Moon (2022-2024), Independent Historian
• Todd Moye (2022-2024), University of Northern Texas
• Lacey Wilson (2023-2025), Albany Institute of History and Art
• Rachel Donaldson (2023-2025), Baltimore Museum of Industry
• Christopher Cantwell (2023-2025), Loyola University Chicago

Long Range Planning Committee

The NCPH Long Range Planning Committee works in consultation with the organization’s staff, Board of Directors, and membership to draft a long range plan for the NCPH, to guide institutional decision making during the period 2017-2022.

• William F. Stoutamire (2016-2024, Co-Chair), University of Nebraska at Kearney
• Abby Gautreau (2017-2024, Co-Chair), Grand Valley State University
• Stephanie Rowe (2016-present), National Council on Public History
• Sam Opsahl (2019-2025), Indiana Humanities
• Kristen Baldwin Deathridge (2020-2024), Appalachian State University
• Andy Mach (2021-2023), University of Michigan
• Cheryl Dong (2022-2024), Bowling Green State University
• Laurel Overstreet (2022-2024), Luci Creative
• Theresa Koenigsknecht (2022-2024), Independent Consultant
• Julio Capo, Jr. (2022-2024), Florida International University
• Julius Jones (2023-2025), University of North Carolina Wilmington
• Kirsten Delegard (2023-2025), Mapping Prejudice Project, University of Minnesota Libraries

History@Work Editorial Committee

Advises the digital media editor on the matters of editorial policy and content of History@Work. Members of the Editorial Committee shall: serve as editors for the blog; recommend blog content; encourage potential authors to contact the editorial team; and keep the editors informed about interesting developments within the public history profession.

• Sarah Singh (2023-present), Publications and Marketing Coordinator, National Council on Public History
• Adina Langer (2012-2024), Lead Editor, Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University
• Modupe Labode (2016-2024), Lead Copy Editor, National Museum of American History
• Heidi Aronson Kolk (2022-2025), Lead Editor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
• Meghan Gelardi Holmes (2021-2026), Lead Editor, Gibson House Museum
• Sarah Lerch (2021-2026), Lead Editor, Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
• Richard Anderson (2015-2023), Copy Editor, Moravian University
• Amy Tyson (2011-2023), Affiliate Editor, DePaul University
• Andrea Burns (2014-2022), Affiliate Editor, Appalachian State University
• John Legg (2020-2022), Affiliate Editor, George Mason University
• Joana Arruda (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
• Rebecca Bush (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Columbus Museum (Georgia)
• Meredith Clark-Wiltz (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Franklin College
• Mekarem Eljamal (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Columbia University
• Caroline Greer (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, George Mason University
• Kaiti Hannah (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Western Development Museum (Canada)
• Sarah I. Rodriguez (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, University of West Georgia
• Madeleine Rosenberg (2021-2023), Affiliate Editor, Princeton Public Library
• Chelsea M. Cohen (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor
• Samir El Azhar (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor, University Hassan II of Casablanca, Morocco
• Taylor LaPoint (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor
• Jennifer Black (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor, Misericordia University
• Mabel Rosenheck (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor, LancasterHistory
• Katie Singer (2023-2025), Affiliate Editor
• Stephanie Rowe (2015-Present, ex officio), National Council on Public History

Finance Committee

Assists the secretary-treasurer and executive director in preparing an annual budget and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the financial activities of NCPH, including the investment and management of endowment money and processes for utilizing these and other NCPH funds.

• Amy Wilson (2013-2024, Co-Chair), Independent Consultant
• Rosalind Beiler (2017-2025, Co-Chair), University of Central Florida
• Sharon Leon (2017-2024, Treasurer), Digital Scholar
• Stephanie Rowe (ex officio), National Council on Public History
• Denise Meringolo (2022-2024, Vice President), University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Eric Nystrom (2016-2024), Arizona State University
• Caren Oberg (2021-2025), Valdez Museum and Historical Archive
• Jessica French (2021-2025), Maryland Historical Trust
• Cassandra Good (2022-2024), Marymount University
• Dee Harris (2023-2025), National Archives and Records Administration
• Tom Scheinfeldt (2023-2025), University of Connecticut
• Karen Christianson (2023-2025), The Newberry

Development Committee

Advises and assists the Board of Directors on and with fundraising activities for the organization’s Endowment, Annual Fund, and Digital Integration fund.

• Bill Bryans (2015-2024, Co-Chair), Oklahoma State University
• Joseph Cialdella (2017-2024, Co-Chair), University of Michigan
• Rebecca Conard (2015-2024), Emeritus, Middle Tennessee State University
• Marianne Babal (2017-2024), Wells Fargo
• Elyssa Ford (2017-2024), Northwest Missouri State University
• Mariaelena DiBenigno (2022-2024), William and Mary
• Kimberly Springle (2022-2024), Charles Sumner Museum and Archives
• Dee Harris (2022-2024), National Archives at Kansas City
• Erika Wilhite (2023-2025), North Carolina for Community and Justice
• Glenn Longacre (2023-2025), National Archives at Chicago

Membership Committee

Advises the Board of Directors and the Executive Office on membership matters, including marketing, assessing and serving the membership’s needs, evaluating membership trends such as retention and demographic shifts, and recruiting new members.  Committee members individually seek out prospective NCPH members at the local, state, regional, and/or national level by promoting NCPH membership when attending conferences and other professional events. The committee also helps to organize the New Member Welcome as well as other events at the annual meeting.

• Kacie Lucchini Butcher (2019-2025, Co-Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison and NCPH Instagram Manager
• Julie Peterson (2020-2024, Co-Chair), Denver Museum of Nature & Science
• Karen Miller (2018-2024), United States Strategic Command
• Hilary Miller (2021-2025), Penn State University
• RJ Ramey (2021-2025), Auut Studio
• Emma Lewis (2020-2024), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Emmanuel Mehr (2022-2024), Baltimore Histories
• Jenny Thompson (2022-2024), Independent Consultant
• Brian Whetstone (2023-2025), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• William Scott (2023-2025), Heritage Werks
• Chuck Welsko (2023-2025), Kentucky Historical Society
• Sarah Byrne (2023-2025), Jack Hadley Black History Museum
• Ariana Cieslak (2023-2025), IUPUI and NCPH Facebook Manager
• Helen Kyriakoudes (2021-2025), University of North Carolina Press and NCPH Twitter Manager
• Kate Johnson (2018-2024), University of Northern Colorado and NCPH Digital Public History Directory
• Marie Pellissier (2022-2024), William & Mary and NCPH Digital Public History Directory
• Stasia Tanzer (2020-Present, ex-officio), National Council on Public History

2024 Joint Program Committee

NCPH representatives:

• Rebecca Wingo, Chair, University of Cincinnati
• Kristen Baldwin Deathridge, Appalachian State University
• Marian Carpenter, National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Sandra Enriquez, University of Missouri – Kansas City
• Rahul Gupta, Wing Luke Museum
• Philip Levy, University of South Florida
• Perri Meldon, Boston University
• Selena Moon, Independent Scholar
• Christine Ridarsky, Rochester Office of the City Historian
• Srijan Sandip Mandal, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India (representing IFPH)
• Sierra Van Ryck deGroot, Museum Hue
• Joel Zapata, Oregon State University

Utah Historical Society representatives:

• Holly George, Chair, Utah Historical Society
• Kathleen Broeder, Southern Utah University
• Nichelle Frank, Utah State University Eastern
• Ed Muñoz, University of Utah
• Jennifer Ortiz, Utah Historical Society (Local Arrangements Co-Chair)
• Greg Smoak, University of Utah (Local Arrangements Co-Chair)
• Megan Van Frank, Utah Humanities
• Tashelle Wright, University of Utah
• Jason Young, Ancestry

2024 Local Arrangements Committee

• Jennifer Ortiz, Co-Chair, Utah Historical Society
• Gregory Smoak, Co-Chair, University of Utah
• Lisa Barr, Utah Historical Society
• Beau Burgess, Fort Douglas Military Museum
• Sasha Coles, Pennsylvania State University
• Matt Godfrey, Joseph Smith Papers Project, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Katherine Kitterman, Utah Historical Society
• Leah LaGrone, Weber State University
• Kathryn MacKay, Weber State University
• Darren Parry, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
• Brenden Rensink, Brigham Young University
• Jedediah Rogers, University of Utah Press
• Megan Weiss, Utah Humanities

Consultants Committee

Promotes the interests of NCPH members who provide historical services as consultants or contractors and assists the organization in keeping other public history practitioners informed about consulting activities and issues.  The committee organizes special sessions, workshops, and a reception during the annual conference and in other ways fosters discussion among individuals interested in consulting.

• Kathleen Conti (2019-2025, Co-Chair), Florida State University
• Heather Carpini (2017-2025, Co-Chair), S&ME, Inc.
• Jackie Gonzales (2019-2025), Historical Research Associates, Inc.
• Cheri Szcodronski (2018-2024), Firefly Preservation Consulting
• Morgen Young (2013-2024), Historical Research Associates, Inc.
• Scott Miltenberger (2018-2024), JRP Historical Consulting, LLC
• Michael Adamson (2021-2025), FTI Consulting
• Jacqueline Hudson (2021-2023), Bowling Green State University
• Richard Josey (2022-2024), Collective Journeys
• Jessika Davidson (2022-2024), Independent Consultant and Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
• James Mitchell (2022-2024), History Associates, Inc.
• Jacqueline Drayer (2022-2024), Mulberry History Advisors
• Nicole Belolan (2023-2025), Nicole Belolan Consulting
• Saskia Lascarez Casanova (2023-2025), Independent Contractor

Committee for Government Historians

Promotes the interests of NCPH members who provide work as government or federal historians.

• Rebekah Dobrasko (2018-2024, Co-Chair), TxDOT
• Jessie Kratz (2018-2024, Co-Chair), National Archives
• Mattea Sanders (2020-2024), Department of the Air Force
• Johanna Yaun (2022-2024), Orange County Historian, New York State
• Lopez Matthews (2022-2024), Government of the District of Columbia
• Brian Odom (2022-2024), NASA
• Melissa Queen (2023-2025), United States Postal Service
• Owen Rogers (2023-2025), Veterans History Project
• Alison Mann (2023-2025), National Museum of American Diplomacy
• Olivia Williams (2023-2025), Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
• Claire Jerry (2023-2025), National Museum of American History

Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA)

The Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility is charged with promoting the inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in all aspects of NCPH’s work; to support NCPH members whose identities have historically been underrepresented, discriminated against, or marginalized; and to advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility within the public history field.

• Modupe Labode (2022-2024, Co-Chair), National Museum of American History
• Alima Bucciantini (2022-2024, Co-Chair), Archmere Academy
• Mayela Caro (2022-2024), University of California, Riverside
• Kristine Navarro-McElhaney (2022-2024), Voces Oral History Center, University of Texas at Austin
• Brian Joyner (2022-2024), National Park Service
• Shakti Castro (2022-2024), Columbia University
• Nicole Orphanides (2022-2024), Office of the Historian, US Dept. of State
• Melissa Barthelemy (2022-2024), University of California, Santa Barbara
• David Terry (2022-2024), Morgan State University
• Na Li (2022-2024), Zhejiang University
• Marc Bendick (2023-2025), Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc
• Taylor Bailey (2023-2025), University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Corin Deinhart (2023-2025), Arizona State University
• Tiffany Gonzalez (2023-2025), University of Kansas

Curriculum & Training Committee

Monitors education standards and guidelines for the profession, develops ways of involving students in the functions of NCPH, and assists in promoting excellence in education and other training within the public history field. The committee organizes the Public History Educators Breakfast for the annual meeting, operates the Public History Educators email listserv, and conducts other initiatives of the organization.

• Anne Lindsay (2019-2025, Co-Chair), California State University–Sacramento
• Caroline Emmons (2022-2024, Co-Chair), Hampden-Sydney College
• Caridad de la Vega (2015-2024), National Historic Landmarks Program
• Stella Ress (2020-2024), Southern Indiana University
• Jessica Elfenbein (2020-2024), University of South Carolina
• Kami Fletcher (2021-2025), Albright College
• Kenneth Cohen (2022-2024), Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Andrea Burns (2018-2024), Appalachian State University
• Charlene Fletcher (2023-2025), Butler University
• Jared Pack (2023-2025), University of Mississippi
• Claire DuLaney (2023-2025), University of Nebraska at Omaha
• Andrew Urban (2023-2025), Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Professional Development Committee

Organizes the Speed Networking event at the annual meeting and reviews and makes recommendations about professional development and continuing education opportunities, such as workshops.

• Sarah Soleim (2018-2024, Co-Chair), Wake Forest University
• Megan Smeznik (2022-2024, Co-Chair), Kent State University and NCPH Digital Public History Lab
• Tracy Neumann (2018-2024), Wayne State University
• Vanessa Macias Camacho (2018-2024), El Paso Community College
• Laura Miller (2020-2024), Historical Consultant
• Alyssa Constad (2021-2025), The Carpenters’ Company
• Jon Taylor (2021-2025), University of Central Missouri
• Joe Tropea (2022-2024), Maryland Center for History and Culture
• Alex Piper (2022-2024), National Museum of American History
• Emma Winter Zeig (2022-2024), Historic Northampton
• Julie Davis (2022-2024), 106 Group and NCPH Digital Public History Lab
• Courtney Burns (2023-2025), University of Central Florida
• Erin Lawrimore (2023-2025), UNC Greensboro University Libraries

New Professional and Student Committee

Helps the organization consider issues, services, and questions of concern to both students and new professionals. It organizes efforts at the annual meeting, on the NCPH website, and elsewhere aimed at both of these important NCPH constituencies, as well as making resources available to facilitate the transition from student status to new professional.

• MaryKate Smolenski (2021-2025, Co-Chair), Boston University
• Michael Yee (2021-2025, Co-Chair), CSU San Marcos/Miramar College/San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
• Patrick Maguire (2021-2025), University of Chicago
• Kelsey Fritz (2022-2024), Middle Tennessee State University
• Morgan Miller (2022-2024), University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Nati Roman (2022-2024), San Antonio College
• Julia Templeton (2022-2024), Atkins
• Alyssa Moore (2023-2025), New York University
• Eleanor Shippen (2023-2025), University of Victoria
• Kathryn Morgan (2023-2025), National Endowment for the Arts
• Elliott Archer (2023-2025), University of Missouri – St. Louis
• Katherine Quigley (2023-2025), New York University
• Maddy Enlow (2023-2025), University of Kansas

Environmental Sustainability Committee

Addresses and advises on pressing environmental issues as they pertain to the work of public historians in their wide ranging venues of practice and that of the NCPH. The committee uses the broadly-accepted Buntland Commission definition of sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” as its working principle. In an era defined by climate change, a growing world population, and the need to live and work with finite natural and financial resources, the committee seeks to advance environmental sustainability as a core principle of public history practice on par with other long-recognized principles such as shared authority and community empowerment.

• Wendy Soltz (2022-2024, Co-Chair), Ball State University
• Philip Levy (2015-2025, Co-Chair), University of South Florida
• William Ippen (2015-2025), Loyola University Chicago
• Leah Glaser (2015-2025), Central Connecticut State University
• David Glassberg (2015-2025), University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Carolyn Barske (2017-2025), University of North Alabama
• Andy Kirk (2018-2024), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Alena Pirok (2018-2024), Georgia Southern University
• Maggie Ordon (2019-2025), Newfields
• Katie Macica (2019-2025), Loyola University Chicago
• Chuck Arning (2020-2024), NPS retired
• Wendy Soltz (2022-2024), Ball State University
• Donna Graves (2022-2024), Heritage, Arts, and Cultural Planning
• Aislinn Pentecost-Farren (2023-2025), University of Pennsylvania
• Sasha Coles (2023-2025), Penn State University

Advisory Committee on National Park Service Collaboration

The committee advises and assists with the cooperative agreement between NCPH and the National Park Service (NPS), by consulting on the selection of projects and project participants (but not selecting), advising the Board and NCPH staff on NPS issues, publicizing the program, and advocating for NPS within the organization.

• Ann McCleary (2021-2025, Chair), University of West Georgia
• Anne Mitchell Whisnant (2021-2025), Duke University
• Janet Ore (2021-2025), Montana State University
• Jill Titus (2022-2024), Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
• Courtney Hobson (2022-2024), Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Lynn Kronzek (2022-2024), Lynn C. Kronzek & Associates
• Stephanie Rowe (2021-current, ex officio), NCPH
• Angela Sirna (2022-current), NPS

Book Award Committee

Helps to promote the award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient and any honorable mentions.

• Charlene Fletcher (2022-2025, Chair), Butler University
• Donna Sack (2023-2026), Naper Settlement
• Jessica Taylor (2023-2026), Virginia Tech

Outstanding Public History Project Award Committee

Helps to promote the award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient.

• Cathy Gudis (2021-2024, Chair), University of California, Riverside
• Rebecca Wingo (2022-2025), University of Cincinnati
• Lauren Cohen (2023-2026), National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Callie Hawkins (2023-2026), Lincoln’s Cottage

Grassroots Public History Award Committee

Helps to promote the award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient.

• Brittani Orona (2021-2024, Co-Chair), Hoopa Valley Tribe/University of California Davis
• Mayela Caro (2021-2024, Co-Chair), University of California Riverside
• Liz Ševcenko (2021-2024), Humanities Action Lab – Rutgers University-Newark
• Romeo Guzmán (2021-2024), Claremont Graduate University/South El Monte Arts Posse
• Lauren O’Brien (2023-2026), African American Historic Places Los Angeles Project
• Mariana Brandman (2023-2026), University of Chicago

G. Wesley Johnson Award Committee

Helps to promote the award, and in conjunction with the Editorial Office of The Public Historian, evaluates all articles from the eligible volume year, and selects and reports on the recipient.

• Steven Mooradian (2022-2025, Chair), Queen’s University Belfast
• Kaiti Hannah (2021-2024), Western Development Museum
• Sarah Fling (2022-2025), White House Historical Association
• Sarah Case (ex officio), University of California, Santa Barbara

Excellence in Consulting Award Committee

Helps to promote the “Excellence in Consulting” award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient(s).

• Kayla Blackman (2022-2025, Chair), Historical Research Associates
• Lisa Zevorich Susner (2021-2024), McGraw Hill Education
• Taylor Brookins (2023-2026), National Park Service

NCPH and HRA New Professional Awards Committee

Helps to promote the awards, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipients.

• Taylor Voltz (2022-2025, Chair), Historic Mobile Preservation Society
• Morgen Young (2021-2024), Historical Research Associates, Inc.
• Susan Asbury (2023-2026), Middle Georgia State University

Robert Kelley Award Committee

Helps to promote the award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient.

• Bill Peterson (2021-2024, Chair), State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Bill Willingham (2023-2026), Independent Consultant
• Sharon Babaian (2023-2026), Ingenium: Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis

Helps to promote the award, evaluates biennial submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient.

• Christine Lamberson (2020-2023, Chair), Federal Judicial Center
• Kenneth Cohen (2021-2024), University of Delaware
• Chris Haley (2022-2025), Maryland State Archives

Student Project Award and Graduate Student Travel Award Committee

Helps to promote the awards, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipients.

• Ari Green (2022-2025, Chair), University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
• Porchia Moore (2022-2025), University of Florida
• Tamara Feinstein (2023-2026), Murray State University
• Monica Mercado (2023-2026), Colgate University
• LaQuanda Walters Cooper (2023-2026), George Mason University

Board-Led Subcommittee on Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

• Kristen Baldwin Deathridge (2019-present, Co-Chair), Appalachian State University
• Lara Kelland (2019-present, Co-Chair), University of Missouri – St. Louis
• Mary Rizzo (2019-present), Rutgers University – Newark
• Modupe Labode (2019-present), National Museum of American History
• Joan Zenzen (2019-present), Independent Historian
• Tyler Putman (2019-present), Museum of the American Revolution
• Gregory Samantha Rosenthal (2019-present), Roanoke College
• Kristyn Scorsone (2019-present), Rutgers University – Newark
• Hope Shannon (2019-present), Loyola University Chicago
• Nicole Moore (2020-present), National Center for Civil and Human Rights & Independent Consultant
• Chel Rose Miller (2020-present), Government Law Center at Albany Law School
• B. Erin Cole (2022-present, Board Rep), Independent Historian

Council of Past Presidents

Advises NCPH Officers, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Office on a variety of matters involving the organization’s past and its future direction.

Chairs

• Jack Holl (1984-1985)
• Arnita Jones (1987-1988)
• Barbara Howe (1988-1989)
• Ted Karamanski (1989-1990)

Presidents

• Brit Allan Storey (1991-1992)
• Martin Melosi (1992-1993)
• Philip Scarpino (1993-1994)
• Patricia Mooney-Melvin (1994-1995)
• Jeffrey Brown (1995-1996)
• Dwight Pitcaithley (1998-1999)
• Michael Devine (1999-2000)
• Alan Newell (2000-2001)
• Patrick O’Bannon (2001-2002)
• Rebecca Conard (2002-2003)
• James Gardner (2003-2004)
• Sharon Babaian (2004-2005)
• Robert Weible (2005-2006)
• Bill Bryans (2006-2008)
• Marianne Babal (2008-2010)
• Martin Blatt (2010-2012)
• Robert Weyeneth (2012-2014)
• Patrick Moore (2014-2016)
• Alexandra Lord (2016-2018)
• Marla Miller (2018-2020)

REPRESENTATIVES TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

• Stephanie Rowe (NCPH), National Coalition for History
  
• Stephanie Rowe (NCPH), American Association for State and Local History, US 250 Task Force
• William F. Stoutamire (University of Nebraska at Kearney), American Council of Learned Societies Delegate (1/2023-12/2026)
• Greg Smoak (American West Center, University of Utah), International Federation for Public History 2024 Annual Meeting Program Committee