The SEA and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

From David S. Shields, President, Society of Early Americanists (SEA), 1999.

Dear colleagues:

With the annual eighteenth-century studies conference, ASECS,
coming up in Philadelphia, mid-April 2000, the following details should be especially helpful for members of the SEA and for our colleagues whose interests touch on matters early American.

Last year the Society of Early Americanists became ASECS's
early-Americianist affiliate when we merged with the smaller
organization that had been a part of ASECS since 1990, the Society for Eighteenth-Century American Studies. Last fall the SEA appointed a three-member "committee of correspondence" to smooth this transition and to maintain a strong, healthy liaison with the larger community of scholars working in the long--and wide--eighteenth century:

Dennis Moore, Florida State, chair

Julia Stern, Northwestern

Thomas Krise, U.S. Air Force Academy

(Prior to this merger, all three were officers of SECAS, and many of that group's members were also SEA members anyway.)