The AEJMC History Division’s leadership team is proposing a series of Constitution and Bylaws amendments for the membership to vote on at the member business meeting in Toronto (6:30 p.m. on Aug. 9).

This document contains all proposed amendments in red type, with review notes explaining each change.

Book Award Chair Lisa Burns suggested that the division create language outlining the duties and makeup of the award committees, and she drafted a section on the Book Award Committee that the division’s officers used as a template for sections on the Covert and Dicken-Garcia awards.

Discussion regarding language in the document specifying two membership chairs led to the creation of new language outlining the duties and makeup of a membership committee. The division has three membership chairs this year, and the graduate student liaisons have worked closely with them on membership initiatives. Therefore, the new proposed article on standing committees also includes a section for a newly formed membership committee, containing the two student members and up to three faculty members. The division’s newsletter remains a charge of the membership committee, but the committee chair(s) may not be the Clio editor(s), so references to the membership chair(s) as Clio editor(s) have been deleted.

The section on the Publications Committee created last year has been moved to the new article on standing committees, and that section has been slightly modified with minor clarifications.

Finally, Publications Committee Chair Terry Lueck noted that the document contained multiple references to polling the executive committee by mail or phone, which seldom occurs anymore. Typically division business takes place by email, but rather than specifying a specific mode of communication (which may change in the future), we chose to simply delete the “by mail or phone” references.

Other changes are minor grammatical corrections.

The leadership team encourages all members to review the document carefully and contact us with any questions at aejmchistory@gmail.com. We will discuss the proposed amendment and modify as needed during the Aug. 9 meeting before voting to accept.