海角社区 History Professor Elected President of the American Historical Association
September 9, 2024
海角社区 Boyd Professor of History Suzanne Marchand海角社区
BATON ROUGE鈥敽＝巧缜� Boyd Professor of History Suzanne Marchand has been elected to serve as president of the (AHA) for 2026. The AHA is the largest professional association for historians in the world. Prior to this appointment, she will serve as vice president for 2025.
Founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889, the AHA promotes historical work and the importance of historical thinking in public life. The organization鈥檚 mission to enhance the work of historians also encompasses professional standards and ethics, innovative scholarship and teaching, academic freedom, and international collaboration. With 11,000 members worldwide, the AHA serves historians in a wide variety of professions and represents every historical era and geographical area.
Marchand鈥檚 research interests include the history of the humanities, with a focus on classical studies, art history, anthropology, history, and theology in modern Europe. She is the author of the award-winning book, 鈥淧orcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe,鈥� which explores the history and culture of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe from the eighteenth century to the present.
She is also the author of 鈥淒own from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1870鈥� (1996) and 鈥淕erman Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Race, Religion, and Scholarship鈥� (2009), which won the George Mosse Prize of the American Historical Association.
Marchand was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for intellectual and cultural history in 2022, and most recently the Old Dominion Fellowship from The Humanities Council at Princeton University. She has also received fellowships from the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, the Max Planck Institut f眉r Wissenschaftgeschichte also in Berlin and Harvard鈥檚 Villa I Tatti in Florence.
She joined the 海角社区 Department of History faculty in 1999, and received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from U.C. Berkeley and both her master鈥檚 and PhD in history from the University of Chicago.