Report of the Executive Director

Annual Reports, 2007 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The one-hundredth annual meeting of the Pacifi c Coast Branch, American Historical Association, took place at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2426, 2007. Executive Director Janet Farrell Brodie, Council members Mina Carson, Noriko Kawamura, Henry Yu, Samuel Truett, Colleen ONeill, Paul Spickard, Pacifi c Historical Review Managing Editor David Johnson, Co-editor Carl Abbott, and Associate Editor Susan Wladaver-Morgan, past-President Elizabeth Jameson, incoming President David Wrobel, and 2009 President-elect Rachel Fuchs. The W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize (chosen by the editors from among articles submitted by graduate students) went to Matthew Morse Booker, North Carolina State University, for Oysters and Oyster Pirates: Property and Inequality on San Francisco Bay, which appeared in the February 2006 PHR as part of the forum on water and western cities. Andrew Wiese (San Diego State University), Lisa Forman Cody (Claremont McKenna College), and Kevin Allen Leonard (Western Washington University) for Council positions 1, 2, and 3, respectively, while Jessica Weiss (California State University, East Bay), Douglas C. Sackman (University of Puget Sound), and Mona Siegel (California State University, Sacramento) were elected for Nominating Committee positions 1, 2, and 3, respectively.