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Steering Committee

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Steering Committee

President, Olwen Purdue, Professor of Social History and Director of the Centre for Public History at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) (January 2026 – December 2029).

Secretary, Michel Kobelinski, Public Historian and permanent professor in the Master’s Program in Public History at UNESPAR, Brazil (January 2026 – December 2029).

TreasurerJoëlla van Donkersgoed, Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg (January 2026 – December 2029).

Delegate, Igor Pizzirusso, Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri – Network of the Italian Institutes for the Study of the Liberation Movement and Contemporary Italy. Member of the Executive Board of the Associazione Italiana di Public History, AIPH (Mandate January 2026 – December 2029).

Delegate, Joanna Wojdon (POL), University of Wroclaw, Poland (Mandate 2022-2026)

Delegate, Jimena Perry (USA), Iona University, United States (Mandate 2021-2028)

Delegate, Na Li (SGP), National University of Singapore (Mandate 2024-2028)

Delegate, Joana Dias Pereira (POR), a representative of IN2PAST: Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability, and Territory (Mandate 2025-2028)


Former members of the Steering Committee

From the bylaws: former members of the IFPH Steering Committee will form a Consultative Committee to help the Steering Committee when requested by its President. This advisory committee will write a report for the Annual General Assembly of the Federation.

Tanya Evans (President, 2022-2025)

Irmgard Zündorf (Treasurer, 2022-2025)

Srijan Sandip Mandal (Secretary, 2022-2025)

Anita Lucchesi
(Treasurer, 2018-2024)

David Dean (Delegate 2018-2024)

Catalina Muñoz Rojas (Delegate, 2016-2020)

Jean-Pierre Morin (Vice President, 2012-2014) (Office has been replaced with a Member mandate for 2015-2018)

Arnita Jones (Secretary, 2012-2015)

Michael J. Devine (Treasurer, 2012-2016)

Anna Adamek (Delegate, 2012-2014)

Serge Noiret (President, 2012-2017)

Andreas Etges (Delegate, 2012-2018)

Thomas Cauvin (President (2018-2021)

Chantal Kesteloot (Secretary (2015-2021)