Committees

A list of our committees is presented below:
Manages the business, property, and affairs of NCPH. The board defines and advances the NCPH mission, protects its financial and human assets, ensures adequate resources to carry out the mission, supervises and supports the executive director, and promote the interests, programs, and reputation of NCPH. The Board of Directors includes the president, vice president, immediate past president, secretary-treasurer, and nine other elected members, with the executive director and the editor of The Public Historian serving as ex officio, non-voting members. The board meets during the NCPH Annual Meeting each spring and again in the fall.
In anticipation of the 40th anniversaries of the 1979 Montecito meeting and the organization’s founding, the NCPH will convene an ad hoc committee responsible for planning how the organization in 2018-2020 will commemorates its founding, as well as its forty-year history as the intellectual and professional home of public history practice.
Consists of the members of the Executive Committee plus two to three additional non-voting members with special skills and interests in advocacy issues. The committee reports to the Board of Directors on advocacy activities, which may include issuing public statements; and supporting other organizations that mobilize support for funding history museums, historic sites, history education, historic preservation, and accessibility of historical resources; supporting open dialogue and informed discussion about history’s relationship to contemporary debates; and asserting the importance of professional public history practice.
In an effort to further the work of the NCPH Diversity & Inclusion Task Force and their 2018 Report of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in the field, the NCPH Board voted in spring 2019 to convene a group led by current board members with additional voices from the membership.
Helps to promote the NCPH Book Award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient and any honorable mentions.
Addresses and advises on pressing environmental issues as they pertain to the work of public historians in their wide ranging venues of practice and that of the NCPH. The committee uses the broadly-accepted Buntland Commission definition of sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” as its working principle. In an era defined by climate change, a growing world population, and the need to live and work with finite natural and financial resources, the committee seeks to advance environmental sustainability as a core principle of public history practice on par with other long-recognized principles such as shared authority and community empowerment.
Promotes the interests of NCPH members who provide historical services as consultants or contractors and assists the organization in keeping other public history practitioners informed about consulting activities and issues. The committee organizes a breakfast or lunch meeting during the annual conference and in other ways fosters discussion among individuals interested in consulting.
Advises NCPH Officers, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Office on a variety of matters involving the organization’s past and its future direction.
Monitors education standards and guidelines for the profession, develops ways of involving students in the functions of NCPH, and assists in promoting excellence in education and other training within the public history field. The committee organizes the Public History Educators Breakfast for the annual meeting, operates the Public History Educators email listserv, and conducts other initiatives of the organization.
Provides advice and contacts to the editors and editorial staff; recommends authors, reviewers, article topics, special issue themes, and general direction and policy for the journal; and reviews manuscripts. The Editorial Board meets in-person twice each year.
Helps to promote the “Excellence in Consulting” award, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient(s).
Has the authority and responsibility to conduct the affairs of NCPH on behalf of the Board of Directors, including taking action on advocacy issues, between board meetings. The committee sets the terms of employment for the executive director and reviews the executive office’s financial and other records.
Assists the secretary-treasurer and executive director in preparing an annual budget and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the financial activities of NCPH, including the investment and management of endowment money and processes for utilizing these and other NCPH funds.
Helps to promote the award, an in conjunction with the Editorial Office of The Public Historian, evaluates all articles from the eligible volume year, and selects and reports on the recipient.
The Governance Committee shall periodically review organization bylaws, committee structures, and committee responsibilities; orient, educate, and assess the Board; and otherwise advise the Board and committees on governance matters and best practices.
Advise the digital media editor on the matters of editorial policy and content of History@Work. Members of the Editorial Committee shall: serve as editors for the blog; recommend blog content; encourage potential authors to contact the editorial team; and keep the editors informed about interesting developments within the public history profession. The President shall appoint members of the editorial committee to three-year terms.
Advises the Board of Directors and the Executive Office on membership matters, including marketing, assessing and serving the membership’s needs, evaluating membership trends such as retention and demographic shifts, and recruiting new members. Committee members individually seek out prospective NCPH members at the local, state, regional, and/or national level by promoting NCPH membership when attending conferences and other professional events. The committee also helps to organize the New Member and First-time Participant Breakfast as well as other events at the annual meeting.
Helps to promote the award, evaluates biennial submissions, and selects and reports on the recipient.
Helps to promote the awards, evaluates submissions, and selects and reports on the recipients.
Helps the organization consider issues, services, and questions of concern to both graduate students and new professionals. It organizes efforts at the annual meeting, on the NCPH website, and elsewhere aimed at both of these important NCPH constituencies, as well as making resources available to facilitate the transition from graduate student status to new professional.
Identifies, determines the eligibility of, and recommends to the Board of Directors persons to be considered for elected offices of NCPH. Each October, the committee compiles the slate of candidates for the annual election.
 
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