The association is governed by its members who elect a president, president-elect, council, and nominating committee. The latter consists of five members, each serving a two-year term. The council consists of the president, president-elect, executive director, seven regularly elected members (serving three-year terms). Past presidents and executive directors serve two years succeeding their terms of office.
Constitution
President
- Albert Hurtado (2014)
- University of Oklahoma
- Office: 405-325-6002
- ahurtado@ou.edu
President-Elect
- Donald Worster (2015)
- University of Kansas
- Office: 785-864-9474 (or 7828)
- dworster@ku.edu
Executive Director
- Kevin Fernlund (2014)
- University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Office: 314-516-7282
- wha@umsl.edu
Council
- Dan Flores (2012)
- University of Montana
- Office: 406-243-4234
- dan.flores@mso.umt.edu
- Karen Merrill (2012)
- Williams College
- Office: 413 – 597-4261
- karen.merrill@williams.edu
- John Wunder (2012)
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Office: 402-472-3254
- jwunder@unlserve.unl.edu
- Louis Warren (2013)
- University of California, Davis
- Office: 530-752-1633
- lswarren@ucdavis.edu
- Sandra Schackel (2013)
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Home: 208-921-6797
- schackel@icehouse.net
- George Miles (2013)
- Beinecke Library
- Office: 203-432-2958
- george.miles@yale.edu
- Quintard Taylor (2013)
- University of Washington
- Office: 206-543-5698
- qtaylor@u.washington.edu
- Mark Fiege (2014)
- Colorado State University
- Office: 970-491-6468
- mark.fiege@colostate.edu
- Marsh Weisiger (2014)
- University of Oregon
- Office: 541-346-4824
- weisiger@uoregon.edu
Publications
- David Lewis (Ex-Officio Member of Council)
- Western Historical Quarterly
- Office: 435-797-1301
- david.r.lewis@usu.edu
- Molly Holz
- Montana The Magazine of Western History
- Office: 406-444-0090
- mholz@mt.gov
Parliamentarian
- Thomas Alexander
- Brigham Young University
2013 Tucson Program Committee
Kathleen Brosnan, Co-Chair, University of Houston
KBrosnan@UH.EDU
Douglas Sackman, Co-Chair, University of Puget Sound
dsackman@pugetsound.edu
Benny Andres, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
bandres@uncc.edu
William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
wbauer@unlv.edu
Barb Berglund, University of South Florida
bberglund@usf.edu
Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University
g-cadava@northwestern.edu
Jon Christensen, Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University
jonchristensen@stanford.edu
Lori Cox-Paul, National Archives in Kansas City
lori.cox-paul@nara.gov
Mark Goldberg, University of Houston
magoldbe@uh.edu
Marianne Keddington-Lang, University of Washington Press
mkedlang@u.washington.edu
Paul Kelton, University of Kansas
pkelton@ku.edu
Modupe Labode, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
mlabode@iupui.edu
Cali McCullough, Arizona State University
cali.mccullough@asu.edu
Amy Scott, Bradley University
alscott@bradley.edu
Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego
nbshah@ucsd.edu
Adam Sowards, University of Idaho
asowards@uidaho.edu
Jay Taylor, Simon Fraser University
taylorj@sfu.ca
Cecilia Tsu, University of California, Davis
cmtsu@ucd.edu
Lissa Wadewitz, Linfield College
lwadewi@linfield.edu
Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon
weisiger@uoregon.edu
Sponsors
- ALIC Archives Library Information Center
- A. K. Smiley Public Library – Redlands, California
- Amon Carter Museum – Fort Worth
- Arizona Historical Society
- Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records
- Autry Museum of Western Heritage – Los Angeles
- Bancroft Library – University of California, Berkeley
- Boise National Forest
- Center for Transportation Studies – University of Missouri-St. Louis
- Center for Western Studies, Dr. Harry Thompson – Augustana College
- Charles Redd Center for Western Studies – Brigham Young University
- Coldwell Banker Heart of Oklahoma – Norman, Oklahoma
- Colorado Historical Society
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
- DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
- Denver Public Library
- Godfrey Memorial Library – Middletown, Connecticut
- History Compass, LLC
- The Huntington Library
- John & LaRee Caughey Foundation
- JRP Historical Consulting
- Longmont Museum & Cultural Center – Longmont, Colorado
- Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies – Joslyn Art Museum
- Montana Historical Society
- Mormon History Association
- Nebraska State Historical Society
- Nevada Historic Preservation
- New Mexico State Records Center & Archives
- Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society
- Oklahoma State University, Department of History
- Saint Louis Mercantile Library
- Society of California Pioneers
- Stark Museum of Art
- Theodore Roosevelt Nature & History Association
- True West Publishing, Inc. – True West Magazine
- University of Missouri-St. Louis, School of Education
- University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of History
- University of New Mexico, Department of History
- University of Oklahoma, Department of History
- University of Oklahoma Libraries
- University of Utah Press
- University of Washington, Department of History
- University of Wyoming Libraries
- Utah State University
- Western Writers of America
2012 Denver Local Arrangements
Tom Noel, Co-Chair, University of Colorado, Denver
Tom.Noel@ucdenver.edu
Jim Kroll, Co-Chair, Western History & Genealogy, Denver Public Library
jkroll@denverlibrary.org
Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder
William Convery, History Colorado State Historian
Derek Everett, Colorado State University
James Fell, Colorado Mountain Club
Mark Fiege, Colorado State University
Steve Friesen, Buffalo Bill Museum
Ernest House, Jr., Ute Mountain Utes
Rebecca Hunt, University of Colorado, Denver
Anne Hyde, Colorado College
Holly Arnold Kinney, The Fort Restaurant
Patty Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder
Matt Makley, Metropolitan State College of Denver
John Monnett, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Ed Nichols, CEO, History Colorado
Jared Orisi, Colorado State University
Duane Smith, Fort Lewis College
Jim Walsh, Regis University
Steve Weil, CEO, Rockmount Western Wear
WHA Financial Advisory Board
- Janet Fireman, Chair
- California History
- jfireman@nhm.org
- Lynn Roper
- Merrill Lynch – Lincoln, Nebraska
- lynn_roper@ml.com
- Greg Thompson
- University of Utah
- greg.thompson@library.utah.edu
WHA Nominating Committee
- Alessandra Tamulevich, Chair (2012)
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Office: 650-993-8314
- jacobi@ou.edu
- Durwood Ball (2012)
- University of New Mexico
- Office: 505-277-7847
- lball@unm.edu
- Thomas Andrews (2012)
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Office: 303-556-4830
- thomas.andrews@colorado.edu
- Kathleen Brosnan (2013)
- University of Houston
- Office: 713-743-3120
- Kbrosnan@uh.edu
- Margaret Jacobs (2013)
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Office: 402-472-2417
- mjacobs3@unl.edu
Membership Committee
- Francis Flavin, Chair, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
- Gordon Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
- Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Holly Arnold Kinney, Tesoro Foundation/ The Fort Restaurant, Denver, Colorado
- David Lewis, Utah State University/Western Historical Quarterly
- Patricia Loughlin, University of Central Oklahoma
- Sterling Fluharty, Graduate Student Representative
WHA Technology Committee
- Douglas Seefeldt, Chair, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Paula Petrik, Chair, George Mason University
- Nathan Wilson , University of Tulsa
- Leslie Working, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Francis Flavin, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
- David Long, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Committee on Teaching and Public Education
- Brian Collier, Co-Chair, University of Notre Dame
- Lindsey Passenger Wieck, Co-Chair, University of Notre Dame
- Peter Blodgett, The Huntington Library
- John Bieter, Boise State University
- Paivi Hoikkala, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- William Destefano, Tucson, Arizona
- Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Berta Simic, Our Lady of Lourdes, Washington, Missouri
- Annette Atkins, St. John’s University
- Leisl Carr Childers, Northern Arizona University
- Linda Sargent Wood, Northern Arizona University
Committee on Race in the American West
Regular Committee:
- Maria Montoya, Chair, New York University
- Karen Leong, Arizona State University
- Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College
Advisers to CRAW:
- Katie Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University
- Karl Jacoby, Brown University
- Kevin Leonard, Western Washington University
- Ernie Chavez, University of Texas, El Paso
- Modupe Labode, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Kent Blansett, University of Minnesota, Morris
- Barbara Reyes, University of New Mexico
- Emma Pérez, University of Colorado, Boulder
WHA Staff
- Kevin Fernlund, Executive Director
- University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Office: 314-516-7282
- wha@umsl.edu
- Betty Ditmeyer
- Membership Coordinator
- Office: 314-516-7270
- wha@umsl.edu
- Ashley Lock
- Graduate Research Assistant
- wha@umsl.edu
- Aaron Bashirian
- Graduate Research Assistant
- wha@umsl.edu
