Sarah Case, continuing lecturer of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara and current managing editor of The Public Historian (TPH), is taking over for James F. Brooks as the next editor of The Public Historian on March 1, 2021. Brooks was appointed editor in September 2015, steered the journal through design transitions, and helped to draw greater attention in its pages to the practice of public history outside the United States. Case is the author of Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Illinois, 2017), along with articles and exhibitions on women and education. She looks forward to featuring new and innovative public scholarship in TPH.

Please join us in thanking James F. Brooks for his years of service and welcoming Sarah Case to the role!