Greetings:
I am placing my name in nomination for re-election to the H-Net Council.
I have served on the Council for the past year, during which time I have been privileged to work with fellow Council members and officers to undertake new initiatives, engage in a fairly successful fundraising program, admit even more and widely diverse discussion lists to the H-Net family and help create new initiatives for expanding collegiate/pre-collegiate partnerships to further secondary education teaching of the social sciences and humanities and help provide a better-educated student body at the college freshman level.
I have been involved with H-Net almost from inception. I was one of the first list members of H-High-S, then joined the editing team as book review editor in 1996 and accepted an invitation to become a co-editor for the list in 1998. I served as the last pre-H-Net constitution chair of the ad-hoc Elections Committee, a member of three successive post-constitution Elections Committees, and I have served as the Interim Editor of HNET-STAFF under the leadership of both Sara Tucker and Melanie Shell-Weiss. I hold a BA in History and an MAT in History and Social Sciences Education from Rhode Island College, where I am also currently a candidate for an MFA in Theatre and Theatre Education.
I believe that as a representative of pre-collegiate history education, I have an obligation to serve H-Net both as representative of secondary education as well as a bridge between the pre-collegiate and collegiate portions of the social sciences and humanities profession. I have tried to be a thoughtful and engaged Council member in all matters that have come before the Council over this past year. Given the challenges facing H-Net over the next several years (including the growing pains of being what is arguably the largest professional social sciences and humanities organization in the world) I would like the opportunity to continue the work I have been privileged to begin over the past year. I hope to be allowed to work with the officers and Council members to expand pre-collegiate, collegiate and independent scholar outreach in order to keep the organization a growing and vital voice for the academic profession. I would like to see H-Net become a resource for pre-collegiate lesson plans and teaching aids to help our student base become better and more inquisitive researchers. I want to continue helping to secure the funding necessary to keep H-Net independent and maintain it as a free resource for all members. I ask the support of every editor, every advisory board member and staffer who shares my vision of an even more vital H-Net to support my candidacy and to cast their vote for my continued service on the H-Net Council. In return, I promise my honesty, integrity, creativity and my devoted work ethic now and in the future.
