New Members Elected to AAS

AAS was founded not only as an independent research library but also as a learned society. Members are nominated by existing members, staff, and other friends, and are elected at twice-yearly members meetings. Members encompass a wide variety of scholars, both academic and independent, librarians and curators, collectors of Americana, booksellers and others who deal in manuscripts, newspapers, graphic arts, and ephemera, as well as those who have achieved distinction in a range of fields. AAS members range from history buffs working in finance to poets who engage with the American past to local Worcesterites who value a local resource.

The following individuals have accepted membership in the Society after their election at the Annual Meeting on October 21, 2022.

Kevin C. Butterfield, director, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress

James T. Campbell, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University

Marlene L. Daut, professor of French and African diaspora studies, Yale University

Lindsay E. DiCuirci, associate professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Carolyn E. Eastman, professor of history, Virginia Commonwealth University

Juliet Feibel, executive director, ArtsWorcester

Ellen G. Garvey, professor emerita of English, New Jersey City University

Sarah B. Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and professor of history, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Daniel Greene, president and chief executive officer, Newberry Library

Stephen G. Hall, editor and publisher, Historianspeaks.org

Elizabeth H. Hawley, chair, special collections and area studies collection department, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Melanie A. Hernandez, associate professor of English and department chair, Fresno State University

Petrina Jackson, Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library, and librarian of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Gavin P. Jones, oncologist, Tufts Medical Center

Alexandra Kennedy, executive director, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Donald Lassere, Edgar D. and Deborah R. Jannotta President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago History Museum

Susan Liebegott, owner, Enchanted Books

Charmaine A. Nelson, Provost Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Beppy L. Owen, attorney

Todd Pattison, conservator, New England Historic Genealogical Society

Kirk Savage, William S. Dietrich II Professor in the history of art and architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Brenda E. Stevenson, Nickoll Family Endowed Chair and Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History, St. John’s College, University of Oxford

Elizabeth Svendsen, owner, Walkabout Books

Nikki M. Taylor, professor of history and department chair, Howard University

Kathryn Walkiewicz, assistant professor of English literature, University of California, San Diego

Adrian C. Weimer, professor of history, Providence College

Heather A. Williams, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, department of Africana studies, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Witmore, director, Folger Shakespeare Library