Southern Historical Association

Founded November 2, 1934, the Southern Historical Association encourages the study of history in the South, with emphasis on the history of the South. The Association maintains two permanent offices: the editorial offices of the Journal of Southern History located at Rice University, and the Secretary-Treasurer's office located at the University of Georgia.

SHA Activities

• Journal of Southern History

The Journal of Southern History, which is published in February, May, August, and November, circulates to nearly 4,000 members and libraries in the United States and foreign countries. The Journal focuses on southern history, broadly interpreted. Issues contain scholarly articles, historical notes, book reviews, and news of historical interest. Contributors to the Journal include almost everyone who is doing or has done significant work in the field of southern history.

• The Annual Meeting

The Association normally holds its annual meeting near the anniversary date of its founding in the first or second week of November. Sessions devoted to the fields of American, European, Latin American, and public history bring together the most recent scholarship by historians in the South and historians of the South.

Future locations and dates for the annual meeting are

2010	November 4–7	Charlotte	Westin Charlotte
2011	October 27–30	Baltimore	Sheraton Baltimore City Center
2012	November 1–4	Mobile	Renaissance Riverview Plaza
2013	Oct. 31–Nov. 3	St. Louis	Millennium Hotel St. Louis
2014	November 13–16	Atlanta	Hilton Atlanta

• Awards for Scholarship in Southern History

Charles S. Sydnor Award and Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award
Granted in alternate years in recognition of distinguished books in southern history.

Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award
Granted every two years for the best article published in The Journal of Southern History during the preceding two-year period.

Francis B. Simkins Award
Granted every two years for the best first book by an author in the field of southern history over a two-year period.

H. L. Mitchell Award
Granted every two years in recognition of distinguished books concerning the history of the southern working class, including but not limited to industrial laborers and/or small farmers and agricultural laborers.

William F. Holmes Award
Granted annually for the best paper presented at the annual meeting by a graduate student or junior faculty member (anyone who received his or her Ph.D. within three years of the time of presentation).

Bennett H. Wall Award
Granted every two years for the best book published in southern business or economic history over a two-year period.

C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize
Granted annually to the best dissertation in southern history completed and defended during the previous calendar year.

Blassingame Prize
Presented in even-numbered years to honor distinguished scholarship and mentorship in African American history.

John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented every four years to an individual who has had a distinguished career in southern history and contributed significantly to the scholarship in the field; who has served the SHA in meaningful and multiple ways; and who has exhibited outstanding qualities of citizenship through which the knowledge and understanding of southern history have served the general public.

James A. Rawley Award
Granted every two years in recognition of a distinguished book dealing with secession and/or the sectional crisis.

Each award carries a certificate for the author, another for the publisher (if applicable), and a cash prize. For more information on nominations for these awards, please see the Southern Historical Association.

Officers

PRESIDENT

William J. Cooper Jr., Louisiana State University

VICE PRESIDENT

Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SECRETARY-TREASURER

John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia 

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (in addition to the officers named above)

    Former Presidents (for two years following expiration of their terms)

Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley

    Editor, Journal of Southern History

John B. Boles, Rice University

    Elected Members

Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University (2010)
Steven H. Hahn, University of Pennsylvania (2010)
Sherry Johnson, Florida International University (2010)
Joanne R. Sánchez, St. Edward's University (2010)
Raymond O. Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (2011)
Paul D. Escott, Wake Forest University (2011)
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University (2011)
Laura F. Edwards, Duke University (2012)
Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia (2012) 
Linda Reed, University of Houston (2012)