The Role of President

The president of the American Studies Association is elected to a three-year commitment by the voting members of the association. After an initial year as president-elect with participation in the Executive Committee, the president serves a one-year term. The president presides over meetings of the National Council, the Executive Committee, and the association. The president also formulates policies and projects for presentation to the Council and to fulfill the vision and goals of the association. A one-year term as past president completes the three-year commitment.
 

Dr. Mishuana Goeman, daughter of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Hawk Clan, is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo (on leave from UCLA’s Gender Studies and American Indian Studies). Her monographs include Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Settler Aesthetics: The Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World (University of Nebraska Press) in Fall 2023. She is also part of the feminist editorial collective for Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press 2021) which won the Choice award in 2021. Read more
 

Dr. Alex Lubin is a professor of African American Studies and History at Penn State University. His teaching and research are interdisciplinary and centered around transnational American Studies, racial capitalism, and Black radicalism. These concerns come together in scholarship on 20th century Black radicalism, with a particular focus on Black internationalism located in the Middle East and North Africa. He is also interested in the role of counterterrorism under racial capitalism. He is the author of Never-Ending War on Terror (UC Press, 2021), Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary (UNC Press, 2014), and Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 (UP Mississippi, 2004), and the co-editor (or editor) of Duse Mohamed Ali’s 1934 novel, Ere Roosevelt Came (Pluto Press, 2024, with Marina Bilbija), Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso Books, 2017, with Gaye Theresa Johnson), American Studies Encounters the Middle East (UNC Press, 2016, with Marwan Kraidy), Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left (UP Mississippi, 2007), and Setter Colonialism (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2008, with Alyosha Goldstein). Read more
 

Dr. Sharon Patricia Holland (she/her) works across the fields of Black, Feminist, Critical Race and Queer Studies. Currently, she is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill. She has served on almost every genre of committee at ASA, from the International Scholars Committee to the Academic Council and she has been part of the Program committee for two ASA Presidents and the Nominating committee. She is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1992). Read more

Past Presidents

Shana L. Redmond, 2022-2023
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, 2021-2022
Dylan Rodríguez, 2020-2021
Scott Kurashige, 2019-2020
Roderick A. Ferguson, 2018-2019
Kandice Chuh, 2017-2018
Robert Warrior, 2016-2017
David Roediger, 2015-2016
Lisa Duggan, 2014-2015
Curtis Marez, 2013-2014
Matthew Frye Jacobson, 2012-2013
Priscilla Wald, 2011-2012
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 2010-2011
Kevin K. Gaines, 2009-2010
Philip J. Deloria, 2008-2009
Vicki L. Ruiz, 2007-2008
Emory Elliott, 2006-2007
Karen Halttunen, 2005-2006
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 2004-2005
Amy Kaplan, 2003-2004
Stephen H. Sumida, 2002-2003
George Sanchez, 2001-2002
Michael Frisch, 2000-2001
Mary C. Kelley, 1999-2000
Janice Radway, 1998-1999
Mary Helen Washington, 1997-1998
Patricia Nelson Limerick, 1996-1997
Elaine Tyler May, 1995-1996
Paul Lauter, 1994-1995
Cathy N. Davidson, 1993-1994
Cecelia Tichi, 1992-1993
Alice Kessler-Harris, 1991-1992
Martha Banta, 1990-1991
Allen F. Davis, 1989-1990
Linda K. Kerber, 1988-1989
Lois W. Banner, 1986-1987
Michael Cowan, 1984-1985
Sacvan Bercovitch, 1982-1983
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr., 1980-1981
Wilcomb E. Washburn, 1978-1979
Leo Marx, 1976-1977
William H. Goetzmann, 1974-1975
Daniel Aaron, 1972-1973
Robert H. Walker, 1970-1971
Daniel J. Boorstin, 1969
Norman Holmes Pearson, 1968
John Hope Franklin, 1967
Russel Blaine Nye, 1965-1966
Ralph Henry Gabriel, 1963-1964
William Charvat, 1962
Ray Allen Billington, 1960-1961
Willard Thorp, 1958-1959
George Rogers Taylor, 1956-1957
Robert E. Spiller, 1954-1955
Charles Barker, 1953
Carl Bode, 1951-1952