A huge thank you to all our departing members for their hard work and innovation shaping BAAS strategy over the course of their tenure:
@dr_mjcollins (outgoing Publications chair)
@ejwestuk (Early Career Representative)
@Parkesland (web management and Development and Education)
Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM this afternoon – and a warm welcome to our newly elected Executive Committee members:
@HHuxley and Mark McLay (Co-Treasurers)
@gavandtonic @racheledini1 Rachel Farebrother, and Andrew Fearnley (Ordinary Members)
Looking forward to our AGM later today – there’s still time to register! View post on X
Come along to the BAAS AGM, 1-3pm BST, Tuesday June 8th, to hear more about our 2021 activities and new initiatives for 2022, and welcome our newly elected Committee Members. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EzKnjtDWQvGYWi5G57vKEA
BAAS Chair @CaraRodway will be speaking about the role of learned societies during the pandemic this Friday as part of a special @EngSharedFuture session. Come along! View post on X
NOMINATIONS now open for our 2021 Executive Committee! We are looking for enthusiastic colleagues to stand for Treasurer, Early Career Rep, and Ordinary Members – visit http://baas.ac.uk to find out more and download the nomination form (deadline: May 14th 2021)
All right, that’s a wrap for 2021. Apologies for the typos if there are some 😬 (we’re still figuring out this whole twitter thing) & congrats again to all our winners!
Next year this could be YOU!! Find out more about our prizes & awards on our website https://www.baas.ac.uk/
And last but not least, the 2021 Arthur Miller Institute Prize for Best Journal Length Article went to Elizabeth Evens for “Plainclothes Policewomen on the Trail: NYPD Undercover Investigations of Abortionists and Queer Women, 1913-1926” (Modern American History). Congrats!

The 2021 Arthur Miller First Book Prize went to Gavan Lennon, for “Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction (EUP)”.
Congratulations @gavandtonic !
