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.
2026-2027 Officers (Effective July 1, 2026)
- President: Tanisha C. Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- President-Elect: Alexander G. Weheliye, Brown University
- Immediate Past-President: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
- Editor of American Quarterly: Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
For the officers listed below, the term end date is June 30 of the year indicated in parentheses.
Please browse Committees and Chapters for their officers.
Executive Committee
- President: Tanisha C. Ford, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- President-Elect: Alexander G. Weheliye, Brown University
- Immediate Past President: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
Councilors:
- Dayo F. Gore, Georgetown University
- Hannah Manshel, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
- Marisol Negrón, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Koritha Mitchell, Boston University
- Eric Stanley, University of California, Berkeley
- Jason Ruiz, ex officio, University of Notre Dame, editor of American Quarterly
National Council
- Sophia Azeb, University of California, Santa Cruz (2029)
- André Brock, Georgia Institute of Technology (2029)
- Lisa Bhungalia, University of Wisconsin (2028)
- Angelica Camacho, San Francisco State University (2028)
- micha cárdenas, University of California Santa Cruz (2027)
- Nadia Elia, Western Washington University (2029)
- Emmiyan Ferro, Contingent Faculty Representative, California State University, Sacramento (2029)
- Tanisha Ford, President, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2028)
- Nattie Golubov, International Representative, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México (2029)
- Dayo F. Gore, Georgetown University (2029)
- tala khanmalek, Independent/CSU Fullerton (2028)
- Alex Lubin, Immediate Past-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)
- Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside (2028)
- Eric Stanley, University of California Berkeley (2027)
- Amanda Tovar, Student Representative, University of Texas at Austin (2027)
- Alexander G. Weheliye, President-Elect, Brown University (2029)
- Kate Griffin, ex officio, American Studies Association, Executive Director
- Jason Ruiz, ex officio, University of Notre Dame, editor of American Quarterly (2029)