Officers and Committees
Officers of the ASA include both elected and appointed members of the association.
The president-elect, who becomes president, then past president during their three-year term, is selected by a vote by ASA members during the annual election, while the executive director and the editor of the American Quarterly are appointed by the Executive Committee and ratified by the National Council.
2025-2026 Officers
President: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
President-Elect: Tanisha C. Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Immediate Past President: Mishuana Goeman, University at Buffalo (on leave from UCLA)
Editor of American Quarterly: Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
2025-2026 Committees
Executive Committee
National Council
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund
Finance Committee
Nominating Committee
Prize Committees
Program Committee
American Quarterly Editors
American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project Advisory Committee
For the officers listed below, the term end date is June 30 of the year indicated in parentheses.
Please browse Committees and Chapters for the officers of specific committees and chapters.
Executive Committee
President: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
President-Elect: Tanisha C. Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Immediate Past President: Mishuana Goeman, University of Buffalo (on leave from UCLA)
Councilors:
Aren Aizura, University of Minnesota
Emily Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno
Marisol Negrón, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Koritha Mitchell, Boston University
Eric Stanley, University of California, Berkeley
Jason Ruiz, Univeristy of Notre Dame, ex-officio
National Council
Aren Aizura, University of Minnesota (2026)
Lisa Bhungalia, University of Wisconsin (2028)
Angelica Camacho, San Francisco State University (2028)
micha cárdenas, University of California Santa Cruz (2027)
Kate Drabinski, contingent faculty representative, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2026)
Tanisha Ford, President-Elect, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2028)
Mishuana Goeman, Immediate Past-President, University at Buffalo (2026)
Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University (2026)
Emily Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno (2026)
tala khanmalek, Independent/CSU Fullerton (2028)
Alex Lubin, President, Penn State University (2027)
Hannah Manshel, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa (2028)
Koritha Mitchell, Boston University (2027)
Marisol Negrón, University of Massachusetts Boston (2027)
Dalena Ngo, Student Representative, Yale University (2028)
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Pratt Institute (2026)
Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside(2028)
Eric Stanley, University of California Berkeley (2027)
Amanda Tovar, Student Representative, University of Texas at Austin (2027)
Chih-ming Wang, International Representative, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (2026)
Kate Griffin, ex officio, American Studies Association, Executive Director
Jason Ruiz, ex officio, University of Notre Dame, editor of American Quarterly
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
Robert Warrior, University of Kansas (2026)
Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund
President-Elect and Chair: Tanisha Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2028)
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside (2026)
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Texas at Austin (2027)
Sharon P. Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2028)
Finance Committee
President-Elect and Chair: Tanisha Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2028)
Marisol Negrón, University of Massachusetts Boston (2027)
Nominating Committee
Chair: A. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois at Chicago (2026)
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico (2026)
Sam C. Tenorio, Penn State University (2027)
Maya Wind, University of British Columbia (2027)
Jorge Cuéllar, Dartmouth University (2028)
Rosie Uyola, Bard College (2028)
Prize Committees
Bode-Pearson and Turpie Prize Committee for 2025-2027
Chair: Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland, College Park
Alicia Camacho-Schmidt, Yale University
David Yoo, University of California, Los Angeles
Angela Y. Davis Prize Committee for 2024-2025
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno
Jill Doerfleur, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Emily Thuma, University of Washington
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee for 2025
Chair: Nicole R. Fleetwood, NYU
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nihad M Farooq, Georgia Tech University
Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico
Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee for 2025
Chair: Raul Coronado, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Rifkin, University of Buffalo
Sarah Haley, Columbia University
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee for 2025
Chair: Juliana Hu Pegues, Cornell University
Francisco Galarte, University of New Mexico
Suyapa Portillo, Pitzer College
Elizabeth Ault, Duke university
Constance Rourke Article Prize Committee for 2025-2026
Chair: Kandace Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center
Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College
V Varun Chaudhry, Brandeis University
Yasuo Sakakibara International Scholar Paper Prize Committee for 2024-2025
Chair: Brian Roberts, Brigham Young University
Keith Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
Chih Ming (Andy) Wang, Academia Sinica
Gene Wise-Warren Susman Student Paper Prize Committee for 2024-2025
Chair: Mercy Romero, University of California, Irvine
Lilia Soto, San Diego State University
Jovonna Jones, Boston College
Program Committee for the 2025 Annual Meeting
Chair : Alex Lubin, President, Penn State University
Committee Members
Sara Awartani, University of Michigan
Emily K. Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno
Gina Dent, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University
Marisol Lebron, University of California, Santa Cruz
Uahike Maile, University of Chicago
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Omar Zahzah, San Francisco State University
Jasbir Puar, University of British Columbia
Amira Rose Davis, University of Texas at Austin
Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
American Quarterly Editors
Editor: Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
Associate Editor: Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend
Associate Editor: Korey Garibaldi, University of Notre Dame
Associate Editor: Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame
Book Review Editor: Selina Lai-Henderson, Duke Kunshan University
Book Review Editor: Patrick McKelvey, University of Notre Dame
Event Review Editor: Sarah Leavitt, Capital Jewish Museum
Event Review Editor: Susette Min, University of California, Davis
Digital Projects Review Editor: Kim Brillante Knight, San Jose State University
Digital Projects Review Editor: Kevin C. Winstead, University of Florida
Managing Editor: Celgiz Salman, University of Notre Dame
Associate Review Editor: Marie Shelton, University of Notre Dame
Editorial Assistant: Razan Bayan, University of Notre Dame
American Quarterly Board of Managing Editors
Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University South Bend
Sarika Chandra, Wayne State University
Joseph Darda, Michigan State University
Korey Garibaldi, University of Notre Dame
Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame
Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, University of Michigan
Jinah Kim, University of California, Merced
Kate Marshall, University of Notre Dame
Francisco Robles, University of Notre Dame
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Joshua Specht, University of Notre Dame
American Quarterly Board of Advisory Editors
Tanja Aho, University at Buffalo
Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University
Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Bianet Castellanos, University of Minnesota
Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress
Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Richard Rath, University of Hawai‘i at M ̄anoa
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Kate Griffin, Executive Director, American Studies Association
Chih-ming Wang, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Henry Yu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project Advisory Committee
Chair: Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut
Chair: Patricia Ventura, Spelman College
Martin Manalansan, Rutgers University
William Nessly, West Chester University
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego
Jolie A. Sheffer, Bowling Green State University