Board

The present board was elected at the Annual Meeting of the association on October 7, 2023, at the GSA conference in Montréal, QC, Canada. It was updated at the Annual Meeting of the association on September 28, 2024, at the GSA conference in Atlanta, GA..

President (2023–2025):

Lorely FRENCH, Professor of German, Pacific University of Oregon, Forest Grove, OR

Vice President (2023–2025):

Frances TANZER, Assistant Professor of History, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA

Immediate Past President (2023–2025):

Matthew Paul BERG, Professor of history, John Carroll University, Cleveland / University Heights, OH


Secretary/Treasurer:

Eric GRUBE, Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College, Boston, MA
(appointed for the term 2023 – 2028)


Present members of the board:

Betsy ANTHONY, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
(until 2025)

Mikkel DACK, Assistant Professor of history, Rowan University Glassboro, NJ
(until 2026)

Gabriela GREILINGER, doctoral student at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA
(until 2026)

Maureen HEALY, ass. professor of history, Lewis & Clark college, Portland, OR
(until 2027)

Emely MARKER, professor of history, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
(until 2027)

Laura MOROWITZ, Professor of Art History, Wagner College and Senior Research and Programming Associate, Wagner College Holocaust Center, New York City, NY
(until 2025)

Katya MOTYL, Assistant Professor of History, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
(until 2027)

Sarah PAINITZ, Associate Professor of German, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
(until 2026)

Gerald J. STEINACHER, James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE
(until 2025)

And, ex officio (without voting privileges):

Andreas KRANEBITTER, Director, Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna, Austria

Susanne KEPPLER-SCHLESINGER, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum New York


Luza Prize Committee

Gerald FETZ, Professor of German emeritus, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
(until 2026)

Benjamin FROMMER, Associate Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University
(until 2026)

Margarete LAMB-FAFFELBERGER, Professor Emerita of German and Director of the Max Kade Center for German Studies, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
(until 2026)

Brett E. STERLING, Associate Professor of German, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
(until 2026)

And, ex officio (without voting privileges):

Winfried GARSCHA, Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna, Austria


(Informal) WEB SITE COMMITTEE
(appointed without fixing a term)

Matthew Paul BERG, Professor of History, John Carroll University, Cleveland / University Heights, OH

Mikkel Dack, Assistant Professor of History, Rowan University Glassboro, NJ

Winfried GARSCHA, Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna, Austria