Coordinator: Committees & Meetings. Debbie serves as primary staff person for the Association’s standing committees and task forces, including the Committee on Minority Historians, the Committee on Women Historians, the Graduate and Early Career Committee, and the LGBTQ Historians Task Force. She also serves as the primary contact for public history matters for the Association. She works with the Director of Meetings on annual meeting functions and is the primary liaison for the Local Arrangements Committee and the Program Committee. She also staffs the Committee on Research Grant Awards and supervises the administration of the Association's book prizes, research grants, public history award, and film prize. She serves on the in-house editorial board for Perspectives on History. Debbie received a BA in history from Clark University in 1990, a master's degree from American University in 1993, and her PhD in American History from American University in August 2003.