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PHS Executive Board Nominees for 2013–2017
Harriet Alonso, Professor of History, City College of New York, halonso@ccny.cuny.edu
I have been a member of PHS since the late 1980s and have had the pleasure of serving the organization in many ways: as Vice-President, as a member of the board, as co-guest editor and guest editor of three issues of Peace & Change, as a member of several committees including the DeBenedetti and Bills prizes, nominations, the lifetime achievement award, and one of the early conferences. I’ve also written extensively on peace. I have five books including Peace as a Women’s Issue and the just now published Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist. I love my colleagues in PHS and would love to serve on the board again.
Andrew Barbero, doctoral student, Southern Illinois University; adjunct professor, University of Southern Indiana, ab78@siu.edu
I am currently a doctoral student in history at Southern Illinois University, and an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Indiana. My research focuses on local movements for peace and justice in the Depression Era United States. I am serving as program co-chair of the 2013 PHS conference, and have held leadership positions in several academic and professional organizations, including two terms as chief steward and membership director of GA United, the graduate assistants union at SIU. If elected, I pledge to work to expand membership and promote professional development, particularly among graduate students and newly emerging scholars.
Rod Coeller, independent historian, rodcoeller@gmail.com
Rod Coeller completed his Ph.D. in American History in 2012 at American University. His work focuses on United States-Latin American foreign relations with his dissertation entitled Beyond the Borders: Radicalized Evangelical Missionaries in Central America from the 1950s through the 1980s. His first foray at the Peace History Conference was in 2011 when he presented a segment of his dissertation research, focusing specifically on the complex conflicts that ensued between missionaries and their sending groups. His current project explores the evangelical left in the United States and Central America, gender theory and family structures among missionaries, and transnational networks.
Sandi E. Cooper, Professor of History, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Sandi.Cooper@csi.cuny.edu
Sandi Cooper was among the original founders of the Council on Peace Research in History (now Peace History Society) in the wake of the Kennedy's assassination and the looming expansion of the Vietnam War. She has published largely in the history and impact of European peace movements, women and peace movements and higher education policy. Currently she is working on a survey of women and peace thinking/ movements from the 19th century through the 1930s. Besides CUNY, she has taught at Douglass College - Rutgers and New York University.
Ian Christopher Fletcher, Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University, icfletcher@gsu.edu
I teach British and world history and my research concerns social movements and contentious politics in the early twentieth century. I enjoyed attending the 2011 PHS conference, where it struck me that peace historians have been doing global, international, and cross-cultural history long before these approaches became mainstream. I would be glad to help with the work of the PHS; I can bring some useful experience on book prize and conference program committees and on an editorial board. The 2014-2018 centenary of the First World War may be an opportunity to promote peace history in both academic and public settings.
Kathleen Kennedy, Professor of History, Missouri State University, KathleenKennedy@MissouriState.edu
I have been active in the Peace History Society since graduate school and have served as the Co-Executive Editor of Peace and Change. I have been appreciative of the support I have received from the Peace History Society and its members and I am honored to be nominated to once again serve on its board. My research interests are in gendered and racial constructions of violence. Recently I have begun to explore issues of mourning, trauma and grief in historical writings about violence and war.
Robert Shaffer, Professor of History, Shippensburg University, roshaf@ship.edu
The PHS plays an important role in increasing the visibility of antiwar sentiment and providing a critical analysis of militarism, past and present, among historians and in the broader academy. I served on the PHS board from 2007 to 2011, and I chaired the DeBenedetti Prize Committee (twice) and the Lifetime Achievement Award committee. I was guest editor of Peace & Change for an issue on the Iraq War, and frequently review books for the journal. I have taught at Shippensburg University since 1998. My research focuses on American internationalist criticism of U.S. policy in Asia from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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