ALAN LESSOFF - PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

 

Current University Service:
Student Code Enforcement Hearing Panel
University Curriculum Committee
Arts and Sciences Faculty Status Committee

 

                                                                                                          

Professional Activities:
Editor, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2004-present
Advisory board, H-DC network, 2003-present
Executive board, History Cooperative, 2008-present
Board of Directors, Conference of Historical Journals, 2008-present

Editorial board, Journal of Urban History, 2002-07
Newsletter editor, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1999-2003


Board of Directors, Urban History Association, 2006-present
Program committees: Urban History Association, 2002, 2004, 2008 meetings;
National Conference on American Planning History, 1999-2001 (Assistant Chair, 2001)
Prize committee for non-North American books, Urban History Association, chair 1999; member 2001
Exhibit consultant, Adolf Cluss: From Germany to America, Sumner School Museum, Washington, and Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Germany, fall 2005, <www.adolfcluss.org> (Award of Merit, AASLH, 2006)

Manuscript evaluations for American Nineteenth Century History; Journal of Illinois History; Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Journal of Urban History; Michigan Historical Review; Oral History Review; Southwestern Historical Quarterly; Bedford/St. Martin's; Duke University Press; Norton Books; Oxford University Press; Prentice-Hall; Scholarly Resources; Texas A&M University Press; University of California Press.


Professional Organizations:
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
British American Nineteenth Century Historians
Netherlands American Studies Association
Society for American City and Regional Planning History
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Texas State Historical Association

Urban History Association