It is committed to the following principles:
*Scholarship: Upholding a primary commitment to serious, academic scholarship.
*Interdisciplinarity: Understanding American thought in its broadest terms and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual history.
*Inclusiveness: Encouraging the participation of anyone with an interest in the intellectual history of the United States, not only professional historians and scholars who work in other fields but also teachers, public historians, journalists, policy analysts, artists, and free-lance critics.
*Outreach: Actively welcoming members who embody the wide range of experiences and cultures that define and enrich our society.
*Media: Using all forms of media to reach broad audiences and engender vital debate and exchange of ideas.
We encourage scholars and others interested in its mission to join S-USIH.
A membership form can be found here. (*Please go under "file" to download the document in order to fill it out as an active pdf). We will soon have a dedicated S-USIH website which will allow you to join online and pay your membership fee via PayPal. As soon as this is set up, we will note it here.
Our complete Constitution and Bylaws can be found here.
The current Executive Committee of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is:
President: Andrew Hartman
Secretary: Ray Haberski
Treasurer: Mike O'Connor
Conference Committee Chair (2012): David Sehat
Publications Committee Chair: Ben Alpers
S-USIH Election Process
- The voting process will be explained through email and on the organization’s website (not yet running) and blog
- All S-USIH members are eligible to run for the offices listed in the organization’s constitution
- Members who wish to run for office will be encouraged to self-nominate.
- The executive committee and ad hoc committees appointed by the president should actively encourage a diverse array of members to self-nominate
- If a member is nominated by another member, nominators are encouraged to consult the nominee before making the nomination. The S-USIH secretary will confirm those nominations made by a second party.
- The nomination process will open on February 15 and close March 15.
- Candidates will not be notified who they are running against until the nomination period closes
- The secretary will send out two reminders regarding the nominating process
- The secretary will make the ballot public on March 20.
- Candidates will be encouraged to submit brief statements to the secretary, no more than 200-250 words, explaining their professional service and vision for S-USIH. These statements can include links to other pages with information on the candidates (such as personal and professional webpages.
- The secretary will post these statements to the organization’s website (not yet ready) and send them out by email
- Official voting will open April 15 and close May 7
- The voting will be done electronically (more information to follow)
- Elections results will be posted to the organization’s website by May 15
- New office holders will take their positions on June 1
Election Calendar
February 15: Nominating and voting process sent out through email and posted on the blog. Nominations open and accepted
March 15: Nomination period closes
March 20: Secretary send will ballot out by email
March 20-April 14: Candidate statements will be sent out by email and posted on the organization’s website if ready
April 15-May 7: Electronic voting for S-USIH officers
May 15: Results of election sent out by secretary
June 1: Newly elected officers begin one-year terms
