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January 25, 2008
ASA Committee Nominations
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
The Executive Committee of the American Studies Association invites self-nominations and suggestions for the committee positions listed below. Candidates must be association members and should possess expertise appropriate to the committee’s work. Applications from minorities and women are particularly invited.
Applicants must submit a brief statement outlining their qualifications and experience and a one to two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment.
Letters suggesting or recommending a candidate should also relate the candidate’s experience to the committee’s work. In addition to the letter, nominations must include the nominee’s brief statement outlining his or her qualifications and experience and the one to two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment for each candidate. Do not submit multiple nominations in a single document.
Materials are DUE ON OR BEFORE APRIL 1, 2008. Send to the Executive Committee, American Studies Association, E-mail:
Standing Committees:
Committee on American Studies Programs and Centers: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments and programs, and has the responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional membership. Two positions, three-year terms, one of which is for an international member (non-U.S.) of the ASA.
Committee on Ethnic Studies: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and professional concerns affecting Ethnic Studies programs, departments, and scholars; to act as a liaison among association standing committees; to be responsible for liaison with other ethnic studies organizations, and to have responsibility for special tasks involving Ethnic Studies scholars and scholarship. Two positions, three-year terms.
Committee on Graduate Education: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current issues affecting graduate education in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and other interdisciplinary graduate-level instruction; to act as a liaison between the association and national organizations concerning graduate education in the field, such as, but not limited to, the National Research Council; to act as a liaison among association standing committees on issues concerning graduate education; and shall have responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional members that have Ph.D. and M.A. degree granting programs concerning graduate education. Two positions, three year terms.
Committee on Regional Chapters: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and needs of the regional chapters; acts as a liaison between the association and the regional chapters; and has responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s regional chapters. Four positions (one each from the California, Metropolitan New York, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific Northwest regions), three-year terms. Nominees are also presented by the chapters.
Committee on K-16 Collaboration: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional orientations of K-16 educators involved with American Studies programs or curricula. Two positions, three-year terms.
Crossroads Project Advisory Board: Assists and advises the Crossroads Project Director with the development and maintenance of the American Studies Crossroads Project, its intellectual organization, the online tools, publications, and resources its develops, and its outreach activities. Three positions, three-year terms.
International Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting international scholars and students in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving international scholars and students in the membership. Four positions, three-year terms, all of which are for international members (non-U.S.) of the ASA.
Minority Scholars’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting minority scholars in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving minority scholars in the membership. Two positions, three-year terms.
Students’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and orientations of American Studies students. Four positions, two-year terms.
Women’s Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting women in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving women in the membership. Four positions, three-year terms, one of which is for an international member (non-U.S.) of the ASA.
The Women’s Committee is committed to creating coalitions between feminist, queer, anti-racist, transnational, working-class, and dis/ability studies scholarship and organizing within (and occasionally outside) the ASA. The Women’s Committee carries out advocacy, theory, and praxis through membership recruitment and placement, selection of co-chairs, program planning, coalition building, and involvement in the administration of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars. In the process and content of these activities, the Women’s Committee explores and practices possibilities for anti-racist feminist organizing by attending to intersecting identities of gender, race, geographic location, sexuality, class, and dis/ability. Attending to these intersections, the Women’s Committee seeks to make space at the association for discussions about anti-racist feminist scholarship and strategies.
Prize Committees (2009):
The Prize Committees for 2009 start work during the fall of the 2008-2009 academic year and complete their work by September 2009:
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee: Selects the best-published book in American Studies submitted each year to the Committee by authors and publishers. Three positions, one-year terms.
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee: Selects a person for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. Three positions, one-year terms.
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee: Selects the best completed dissertation in American Studies submitted to the Committee by graduate programs in American Studies. Three positions, one-year terms.
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