The Alliance for Texas History will be electing a full slate of officers this spring including a President, Vice President, Secretary-Treasurer, and eight directors to constitute its Board of Directors. Members of the Nominating Committee are assembling a slate of candidates for an online election in which all members will vote.

The nominations process is underway. If you have any questions email ATXHnominationscommittee@outlook.com.

Light T. Cummins is an interim board member of the Alliance for Texas History and chair of its Bylaws Committee and Nominations Committees. The Guy M. Bryan Professor of History Emeritus at Austin College, he is the author or editor of fourteen books, several dozen book chapters and journal articles, and two textbooks. He is a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas, he has served as the official historian of the State of Texas, a non-partisan post. In 2012 the Princeton Review named him one of the 300 most outstanding university professors in the United States for all disciplines and levels from undergraduate to graduate and professional schools.

Al is professor of history at Texas A&M University. Professor Broussard’s books include Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners (2012), African American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963 (1998), and Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (1993). He is past president of the Oral History Association and of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Broussard is currently writing a history of racial activism and civil rights in the American West from World War II to the present. Al is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Bobby Cervantes is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. A historian of poverty and inequality in modern America, he earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Kansas and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and government from the University of Texas at Austin. His journalistic work has appeared in the Houston Chronicle and Texas Monthly, and his academic research has been published in The American Historical Review and Early American Studies. He was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley. Bobby is a member of the ATxH interim Board, the JTxH Editorial Board, and the Digital Communications Committee.

Jelain Chubb joined the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in June 2010 as director of the Archives and Information Services Division and Texas state archivist. She previously served as state archivist of Ohio and held positions with the Missouri State Archives and state historical societies in Kansas and South Carolina. Jelain earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of Charleston, and master’s degrees in library and information science and applied history with a specialization in archival administration, both from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. In 2015 she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

Andrew R. Graybill is professor of history at Southern Methodist University, where he also served Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies from 2011-24. He is a historian of the North American West, with particular interest in borders, expansion, race, violence, and the environment, and he has written or edited four books. With Benjamin H. Johnson, he established and edits the David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press.  He is a member of the Alliance’s development and finance committee and serves on the program committee for the spring 2025 conference.

Uzma is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. A historian of the twentieth-century United States, she specializes in Asian migrations, race and place, and the Cold War. Her work includes the award-winning book, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War. She is a former fellow of the Clements Center at SMU and the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School. Currently, she is working on a diplomatic history of U.S. Cold War propaganda in South Asia, and a study of immigrant neighborhoods in the United States. Uzma was a presenter at the ATxH 2024 Symposium and is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Rebecca Sharpless is an eighth-generation Texan and a professor of history at Texas Christian University. She teaches and writes about Texas and the South, particularly women, work, and food. Her current book project is “People of the Wheat: Commodity and Culture in North Texas.” From 1993 to 2006, Sharpless directed the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. She is a Foodways Texas board member and past president of the Oral History Association and the Southern Association for Women Historians. She earned her BA and MA from Baylor and her PhD from Emory University. Rebecca is a member of the interim board of directors and co-editor of the JTxH.