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Events
May. 20 | 2013 Gabriel Prize
Nominations for 2013 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2013 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2013 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2013 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2013 Turpie Prize for Outstanding Teaching, Advising, and Program Development in American studies due
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Officers and Committees
American Studies Association, 2012-2013
The term end date is June 30 of the year indicated in parentheses.
Officers
President: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
President-elect: Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Past President: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, American Studies Association
Editor of American Quarterly: Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California
Editor of Encyclopedia of American Studies Online: Simon J. Bronner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Executive Committee
President: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
President-elect: Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Past President: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Council Member: Karen Leong, Arizona State University
Council Member: Chandan Reddy ,University of Washington, Seattle
Council Member: Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
Council Member: Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University
Council
Juri Abe, international councilor, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013)
Sarah Banet-Weiser ex officio, University of Southern California, editor of American Quarterly
Jennifer Devere Brody, Stanford University (2014)
Simon J. Bronner ex officio, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, editor of Encyclopedia of American Studies Online
Jeremy Dean, secondary schools councilor, University of Texas, Austin (2014)
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside (2013)
Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara (2014)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University, president (2014)
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University (2015)
Robert Lee, Brown University (2013)
Karen Leong, Arizona State University (2015)
Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego, president elect (2015)
Sarah Melton, student councilor, Emory University (2013)
Roya Rastegar, student councilor, University of California, Santa Cruz (2014)
Chandan Reddy , University of Washington, Seattle (2015)
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, New York University (2014)
Nayan Shah, University of Southern California (2013)
Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University (2014)
John F. Stephens,ex officio, American Studies Association, executive director
Priscilla Wald, Duke University, past president (2013)
Cynthia Young, Boston College (2013)
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
David Eng, University of Pennsylvania (December 2014)
Office of the Executive Director
John F. Stephens, executive director
Lawrence McMahon, Georgetown University, research coordinator
Nathan Packard, Georgetown University, publications coordinator
T’Sey-Haye Preaster, University of Maryland, convention coordinator
Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund
Chair: Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, City University of New York Graduate Center (2014)
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University (2016)
Priscilla Wald, Duke University (2015)
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, ex officio, American Studies Association
Finance Committee
Chair: Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Council Member: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
Council Member: Karen Leong, Arizona State University
Council Member: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington, Seattle
Council Member: Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego
Council Member: Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University
Executive Director:John F. Stephens, ex officio, American Studies Association
Council Member: Priscilla Wald, Duke University
Nominating Committee
Chair: Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin College (2013)
Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona (2015)
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania (2014)
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2013)
Julie Sze, University of California, Davis (2015)
Deborah Vargas, University of California, Irvine (2014)
Committee on American Studies Programs and Centers
Chair: Lorraine Morales Cox, Union College (2014)
Chair: Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University (2013)
Lynne Adrian, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2014)
Sarika Chandra, Wayne State University (2013)
Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University (2015)
Karen Midori Inouye, Indiana University (2015)
Councilor: Matthew Frye Jacobson, ex officio, Yale University (2014)
Matthew Mancini, Saint Louis University (2015)
Mark Rice, St. John Fisher College (2015)
Nick Selby, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (2014)
Ethnic Studies Committee
Chair: Ricardo Ortiz, Georgetown University (2013)
Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College (2013)
Councilor: E. Patrick Johnson, ex officio, Northwestern University (2015)
Ralina Joseph, University of Washington (2015)
Gina Pérez, Oberlin College (2014)
Belinda Rincon, John Jay College, City University of New York (2015)
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College (2014)
Graduate Education Committee
Chair: Susan Smulyan, Brown University (2013)
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico (2015)
Chad Heap, George Washington University (2014)
Councilor: Matthew Frye Jacobson,ex officio, Yale University (2014)
Augusta Rohrbach, Washington State University (2015)
Michael Steiner, California State University, Fullerton (2014)
Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (2013)
International Committee
Chair: Udo Hebel, University of Regensburg, Germany (2014)
Chair: Boris Vejdovsky, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2013)
International Councilor: Juri Abe, ex officio,, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
Hans Bak, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013)
Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri-St. Louis (2014)
Deborah Cohn, Indiana University (2015)
Ira Dworkin, American University of Cairo, Egypt (2015)
Carmen Méndez‐García, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain (2015)
Linda Gordon, New York University (2013)
Sharon P. Holland, Duke University (2014)
Jacqueline Modeste, The Global Roundhouse (2015)
Matthias Oppermann, Bielefeld University, Germany (2014)
Carl George Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (2013)
Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming (2013)
Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai , Tamkang University, Taiwan (2014)
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University (2014)
K-16 Collaboration Committee
Chair and Councilor: Jeremy Stuart Dean, ex officio, University of Texas, Austin (June 2014)
Chair: Kerry Kretchmer, Carroll University (June 2014)
Jason Chi Chou Chang The Bentley School, California (June 2014)
Laura Hymson, Bard High School Early College, New York (2015)
Damien Schnyder, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013)
Eve Tuck, State University of New York, New Paltz (2015)
K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego (June 2014)
Minority Scholars’ Committee
Chair: Lisa Thompson, University of Texas, Austin (2013)
Councilor: Jennifer Devere Brody, ex officio, Stanford University (2014)
Gregory Carter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2014)
Kandace Chuh, City University of New York Graduate Center (2015)
John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University (2015)
Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland, College Park (2014)
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University (2014)
Regional Chapters’ Committee
Chair: Brett Mizelle, California ASA, California State University, Long Beach (2014)
Chair: Mark Metzler Sawin, Eastern ASA, Eastern Menonite University (2013)
Elizabeth Abele, Metropolitan New York ASA, SUNY Nassau Community College (2014)
Kreg Abshire, Rocky Mountains, Johnson & Wales University, Denver Campus (2015)
Ruben Flores, Mid-America ASA, University of Kansas (2015)
Charity Fox, Chesapeake ASA, University of Baltimore (2015)
Patricia Hart, Pacific Northwest ASA, University of Idaho (2014)
Aaron Lecklider, New England ASA, University of Massachusetts, Boston (2015)
Dennis Moore, Southern ASA, Florida State University (2013)
Councilor: Nayan Shah, ex officio, University of California, San Diego (2013)
Mari Yoshihara, Hawai’i ASA, University of Hawai’i, Manoa (2013)
Students’ Committee
Chair: Amy J. Johnson, Brown University (2013)
Chair: Christopher Kramaric, Yale University (2014)
Kathleen M. Brian, George Washington University (2013)
Julia Kaziewicz, College of William & Mary (2013)
Student Councilor: Sarah Melton, ex officio, Emory University (2013)
Hillary Miller, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg (2014)
Phonshia Nie, Northwestern University (2014)
Student Councilor: Roya Rastegar, ex officio,University of California, Santa Cruz (2014)
Rachel Marie Wasko, University of California, Berkeley (2013)
Women’s Committee
Chair: Nicole Hodges Persley, University of Kansas (June 2013)
Chair: Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, University of Iowa (2014)
Birgit Bauridl, Universitat Regensburg, Germany (2015)
Amy L. Brandzel, University of New Mexico (2014)
Nihad M. Farooq, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014)
Asimina Karavanta, University of Athens, Greece (2014)
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University-Purdue University (2015)
Fusako Ogata, Tezukayama University, Japan (2014)
Councilor: Priscilla Wald, ex officio, Duke University (2013)
Bode-Pearson Prize Committee for 2013
Chair: Miles Orvell, Temple University
Irene Ramalho Santos, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University
Angela Davis Prize Committee for 2013-2015
Chair: Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland, College Park
Michelle Mitchell, New York University
David Roediger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of Texas, San Antonio
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee for 2013
Chair: Alex Weheliye, Northwestern University
Helen Jun, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jeffrey Melnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee for 2013
Chair: María Cotera, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Theresa Runstedtler, State University of New York at Buffalo
Gayle Wald, George Washington University
Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee for 2013
Chair: Edward Blum, San Diego State University
Margot Canaday, Princeton University
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke University
Constance Rourke Article Prize Committee for 2013-2014
Chair: Franny Nudelman, Carleton University
Rick Baldoz, Oberlin College
Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania
Yasuo Sakakibara International Scholar Paper Prize Committee for 2013-2014
Chair: Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Christina Klein, Boston College
Jean Pfaelzer, University of Delaware
Gene Wise-Warren Susman Student Paper Prize Committee for 2013-2014
Chair: Magdalena Zaborowska, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Beth Piatote, University of California, Berkeley
Carlo Rotella, Boston College
Mary C. Turpie Award Committee for 2013
Chair: Eva Cherniavsky, University of Washington
Gary Holcomb, Ohio University
Lois Rudnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Program Committee for the 2013 Annual Meeting
Co-Chair: Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota
Co-Chair: Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
Co-Chair: Jodi Melamed, Marquette University
Abigail Boggs, University of California, Davis
Rachael Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sarika Chandra, Wayne State University
Arlene Davila, New York University
Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia
Naomi Paik, University of Texas, Austin
Shelley Streeby , University of California, San Diego
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
Site Resource Committee for the 2013 Annual Meeting
Co-Chair: Christina B.Hanhardt, University of Maryland, College Park
Co-Chair: James A. Miller, George Washington University
American Quarterly Editors
Editor: Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California
Associate Editor: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz
Associate Editor: Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine
Associate Editor: Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego
Associate Editor: Daniel Widener, University of California, San Diego
Book Review Editor: Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College
Event Review Editor: Karen Tongson, University of Southern California
Managing Editor: Jih-Fei Cheng, University of Southern California
American Quarterly Board of Managing Editors
Macarena Gómez-Barris, University of Southern California
Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California
Josh Kun, University of Southern California
George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
Eric Porter, University of California, Santa Cruz
Julie Sze, University of California, Davis
Richard Yarborough, University of California, Los Angeles
American Quarterly Board of Advisory Editors
Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia
Bruce Burgett, University of Washington, Bothell
Carolyn de la Peña, University of California, Davis
Sharon P. Holland, Duke University
Min-Jung Kim, Ewha Woman’s University, Korea
Melani McAlister, George Washington University
María E. Montoya, New York University
Roopali Muhkerjee, City University of New York, Queens
Jos Muñoz, New York University
Kent Ono, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
Marita Sturken, New York University
Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Encyclopedia of American Studies Online Board of Editors
Editor-in-Chief: Simon J. Bronner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas-San Antonio
Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress
Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi
Steven Hoelscher, University of Texas at Austin
Deborah Madsen, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Michele Mitchell, New York University
Miles Orvell, editor emeritus: Temple University
Mark Pittenger, University of Colorado at Boulder
Benjamin Railton, Fitchburg State University
Juwen Zhang, Willamette University
American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project Advisory Committee
Chair: Nikhil Singh, New York University
Chair: Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine
Juri Abe, ex officio ASA International Committee, Rikkyo University, Japan
Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University
Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego
Gail Nomura, University of Washington
Stephen H. Sumida, University of Washington
Chia Youyee Vang, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Meg Wesling, University of California, San Diego
Regional Chapter Officers
California ASA
President: Adam Golub, California State University, Fullerton
Vice President: Edward Blum, San Diego State University
Secretary: Elaine Lewinnek, University of California, Fullerton
Treasurer: Jackie Donath, California State University, Sacramento
Regional Rep: Brett Mizelle, California State University, Long Beach
Website: http://amst.fullerton.edu/casa.asp
Chesapeake ASA
President: Jo B. Paoletti, University of Maryland, College Park
Vice President:
Regional Rep: Charity Fox, University of Baltimore
Website: http://www.amst.umd.edu/chasa/
Eastern ASA
President: Lisa Jarvinen, LaSalle University
Vice President: John Haddad, Penn State, Harrisburg
Sec/Treasurer: Louise Stevenson, Franklin & Marshall College
Regional Rep: Mark Metzler Sawin, Eastern Mennonite University
Website: http://hbg.psu.edu/research/easa/
Hawai’i
President:
Vice President:
Sec/Treasurer:
Regional Rep: Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Website: http://www.mllora.com/HASA_website/
Kentucky-Tennessee
President: Cawood McIntyre, Middle Tennessee State University
President-elect: Anne-Leslie Owens, Middle Tennessee State University
Executive Director: John Dougan, Middle Tennessee State University
Website: http://ktasa.onefireplace.com
Mid-America
President: John Kinder, Oklahoma State University
Vice President: Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska
Treasurer: Jane Simonsen, Augustana College, Rock Island
Secretary: Matthew Calihman, Missouri State University
Regional Rep: Ruben Flores, University of Kansas
Website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~maasa/
New England
President: Sara Sikes, Massachusetts History Society
Vice Presidents: Elif Armbruster, Suffolk University, Akeia Benard, Wheelock College
Sec/Treasurer: Gretchen Sinnett, Salem State University/ Wheaton College
Regional Rep: Aaron Lecklider, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Website: http://www.neasa.org/
New York Metro
President: Sophie Bell, St. John’s University
Vice President: Jean Murley, Queens Community College, CUNY
Treasurer: Sarah Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY
Secretary: Krystyna Zamorska, CUNY
Regional Rep: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
Website: http://www.nymasa.org/index
Pacific Northwest
President: John Trombold, North Idaho College
Vice President: Chris Schedler, Central Washington University
Sec/Treasurer: Patricia Rasmussen, Eastern Washington University
Regional Rep: Patricia Hart, University of Idaho
Website: http://www.pnasa.org/
Rocky Mountains
President: Melody Graulich, Utah State University
Vice President: Nancy Cook, University of Montana
Treasurer: Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming
Regional Rep: Kreg Abshire, Johnson & Wales University, Denver Campus
Website: http://www.colostate.edu/orgs/rmasa
Southern
President: Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University
Vice President:
Secretary-Treasurer: Lynne Adrian, University of Alabama- Tuscaloosa
Regional Rep: Dennis Moore, Florida State University
Website: http://www.cas.gsu.edu/sasa/index.html
Texas
Co-Presidents: Kathleen A. Hudson, Schreiner University
Vice President: Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
Sec/Treasurer: Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
Regional Rep:
Website: http://www.asatexas.org
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