The International Federation for Public History was created in 2010 and aims at encouraging, promoting, and coordinating research, practice, and teaching in Public History. Public History is a field in the historical sciences made up of professionals who undertake historical work in a variety of public and private settings for different kinds of audiences. Public historians base their research on a wide range of material culture, visual, oral, aural, digital, written and other traditional and non-traditional forms of historical evidence. Individuals, societies, institutes, and academic programs, as well as other organizations primarily concerned with public history activities, may become members of the Federation.
The Federation wishes to elect its Steering Committee which consists of six positions to be held for a six-year period: a Chair, Vice-Chair, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and two additional at-large delegates (for a description of the corresponding responsibility, see the attached By-Laws). The new Steering Committee will meet at the 2012 Digital Humanities Symposium in Luxembourg in March 2012 and will further define the roles and responsibilities. It is critical to hold the elections by the end of January 2012. Therefore, candidates should make themselves known by the 9 January 2012. They should contact Thomas Cauvin (member of the Nominating Committee) (thomas.cauvin@eui.eu), highlighting the position(s) they wish to apply for and include a short biography (less than 200 words). Finally those who wish to become more involved in the Federation but do not intend to serve in the Steering Committee can also contact Thomas Cauvin for further details.
