Officers and Board of Directors

Executive Committee

President: Matthew Downs, University of Mobile
Vice President: Laura Hill, Encyclopedia of Alabama

Secretary: Mark Wilson, Auburn University

Membership Secretary: Maiben Beard, Auburn University

Treasurer: Gayle Thomas, Abbeville

Immediate Past President: Richard Bailey, Montgomery

At-large Members: Laura Anderson and Shari Williams

Click here to read biographies of the first fifty presidents.

Board of Directors

2025 - 2028 Term

Felisha Anderson, Baldwin County Archives & History

Laura Anderson, Alabama Humanities Alliance

Valerie Burnes, University of West Alabama

Joseph Lee, Black Heritage Council

Rebecca Minder, Alabama Heritage

Brian Murphy, Florence Arts and Museums

Jen Stewart, Madison, GA

Dorothy Walker, Montgomery, AL

2024 - 2027 Term

Haley Aaron, Alabama Department of Archives and History

Caity Bell, Landmarks of DeKalb County

Mike Bunn, History Blakeley State Park

Beth Hunter, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Theo Moore, Hiztorical Vision Productions

Howard Robinson, Alabama State University

Christine Sears, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Jarrod Smitherman, J.B. Pennington High School

2023 - 2026 Term

Amber Broadhead, Edgewood Elementary School

Blake Busbin, Alabama State Department of Education

Deidre Dees, University of South Alabama

Ashley Dumas, University of West Alabama

Hannah Garmon, City of Birmingham

Josephine Bolling McCall, Elmore Bolling Initiative

Anna Mullican, Oakville Indian Mounds

Shari Williams, Ridge Macon County Archaeology Project

The Alabama Review

Matthew Downs, Editor

Michael Robinson, Book Review Editor

Mark Wilson, Auburn University

Parliamentarian/Counsel

Chriss Doss, Birmingham