WHA 2002
President Elect - Iris H. W. Engstrand
| According to the WHA constitution, the Executive
Director shall notify the membership of the Nominating Committee’s selection
for President-Elect. Members may then nominate additional candidates by
petition containing not fewer than fifty signatures of Association members.
The constitution allows the Executive Director until August 1 to receive
any such nominations with the fifty-member signature petition.
The Nominating Committee’s selection for President is Iris H. W. Engstrand. Iris H. W. Engstrand is Professor of History at the University of San Diego. She received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern California, where her major fields were California and the West, Mexico, Latin America and the Spanish Southwest. She has taught a variety of courses at USD since 1968 including California history, Mexico and the Spanish Borderlands, History of Spain, Architectural History, and Museum Studies. She is author of 18 books, including William Wolfskill: Frontier Trapper to California Ranchero: 1798-1866; Spanish Scientists in the New World: The Eighteenth Century Expeditions; Arizona Hispánica; and Inspired by Nature: The San Diego Natural History Museum after 125 Years; 28 contributions to books as separate chapters; and numerous articles in both English and Spanish on these subjects. She served as president of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch in 1999. As a member and promoter of the Western History Association since its founding, Dr. Engstrand has served on the Council, as chair of the nominating committee, chair of the Rundell and Bolton/Kinnaird Award committees, chair of local arrangements and participant in the Endowment Fund dinners. Her academic honors include the University of San Diego’s distinguished University Professorship, the Davies Award for Faculty Achievement; Awards of Merit from the San Diego Historical Society, California Historical Society, Southern California Historical Society, Western History Association, and Orange Coast College; fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, American Philosophical Society and Huntington Library; and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the California Council for the Humanities. She received the 2001 Bolton/Kinnaird Award from the Western History Association and the 2001 California Design Award in Historic Preservation for the Rancho Los Cerritos Master Plan. Former students serve as directors, curators of collections, archivists, librarians and editors at the Coronado Historical Society, San Diego Hall of Champions, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Timken Museum of Art, California State Library, California State Archives, and the San Diego Zoo. Others are high school and college teachers of history throughout the country. |
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