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.
2018-2019 Officers
President: Roderick Ferguson, Yale University
President-elect: Scott Kurashige, University of Washington, Bothell
Past President: Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, American Studies Association
Editor of American Quarterly: Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2018-2019 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: Roderick Ferguson, Yale University
President-elect: Scott Kurashige, University of Washington, Bothell
Past President: Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Councilor: Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University
Councilor: Eng-beng Lim, Dartmouth College
Councilor: Deborah Vargas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
National Council
Hōkūlani K. Aikau (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi), University of Utah (2021)
Kandice Chuh, immediate past president, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University (2021)
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota (2021)
Nick Estes, student representative, University of New Mexico (2020)
Roderick Ferguson, president, Yale University
Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, contingent faculty representative, Colby College (2020)
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico (2020)
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Georgetown University (2020)
Miranda Joseph, University of Minnesota (2019)
Laura Kang, University of California, Irvine (2019)
Scott Kurashige, president elect, University of Washington, Bothell
Eng-beng Lim, Dartmouth College (2019)
Michelle Stephens, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2019)
Lisa B. Thompson, University of Texas, Austin (2020)
Shirley Thompson, University of Texas, Austin (2019)
Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Pomona College (2021)
Rosie Uyola, student representative, Trevor Day School (2019)
Deborah Vargas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2020)
Rinaldo Walcott, international representative, University of Toronto, Canada (2020)
John F. Stephens, ex officio, executive director, American Studies Association
Mari Yoshihara, ex officio, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, editor of American Quarterly
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
Roderick Ferguson, Yale University (December 2023)
Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund
President-elect and Chair: Scott Kurashige, University of Washington, Bothell (2024)
Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2022)
David Eng, University of Pennsylvania (2019)
David Roediger, University of Kansas (2020)
Robert Warrior, University of Kansas (2021)
President: Roderick Ferguson, ex officio, Yale University (2023)
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, ex officio, American Studies Association
Finance Committee
President-elect and Chair: Scott Kurashige, University of Washington, Bothell
Past President: Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
President: Roderick Ferguson, Yale University
Councilor: Soyica Colbert, Georgetown University
Council Member: Eng-Beng Lim, Dartmouth College
Council Member: Deborah Vargas, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Executive Director: John F. Stephens, ex officio, American Studies Association
Nominating Committee
Chair: Ernesto Javier Martínez, University of Oregon (2019)
Jennifer Doyle, University of California, Riverside (2021)
Mishuana Goeman, University of California, Los Angeles (2019)
Karen Inouye, Indiana University (2021)
C. Riley Snorton, University of Chicago (2020)
Sandra Ruiz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2020)
Prize Committees
Bode-Pearson Prize Committee for 2019
Chair: Lisa Duggan, New York University
Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University
Fred Moten, University of California, Riverside
Angela Y. Davis Prize Committee for 2019-2021
Chair: Jodi Melamed, Marquette University
Kara Keeling, University of Chicago
A. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mary C. Turpie Award Committee for 2019
Chair: Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
Philip Deloria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee for 2019
Chair: Kimberly Juanita Brown, Mt. Holyoke College
Sarika Chandra, Wayne State University
Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College
Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee for 2019
Chair: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Brown University
Evren Savci, Yale University
Harrod J Suarez , Oberlin College
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee for 2019
Chair: Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego
Christian Ravela, University of Central Florida
Constance Rourke Article Prize Committee for 2019-2020
Chair: Neda Atanasoski, University of California, Santa Cruz
Miriam Petty, Northwestern University
Magdalena Zaborowska,, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Yasuo Sakakibara International Scholar Paper Prize Committee for 2019-2020
Chair: Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University of Ohio
Chien-ting Lin, National Central University, Taiwan
Miglena Todorova, University of Toronto
Gene Wise-Warren Susman Student Paper Prize Committee for 2019-2020
Chair: Cindy I-Fen Cheng, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Habiba Ibrahim, University of Washington, Seattle
Dean Saranillio, New York University
Program Committee for the 2019 Annual Meeting
Co-Chair: Hōkūlani K. Aikau (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi), University of Utah
Co-Chair: Macarena Gómez-Barris, Pratt Institute
Co-Chair: David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
Jessica Cowing, College of William and Mary
Jaskiran Dhillon, The New School
Elizabeth Esch, University of Kansas
Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, Colby College
Sarita Gaytan, University of Utah
Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland, College Park
Scott Kurashige, president-elect, University of Washington, Bothell
Samir Meghilli, The Smithsonian Institution
Judy Rohrer, Eastern Washington University
Lynnell Thomas, University of Massachusetts, Boston
American Quarterly Editors
Editor: Editor: Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Associate Editor: Vernadette Gonzalez, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Associate Editor: Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Associate Editor: Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
Book Review Editor: Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Book Review Editor: Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Event Review Editor: Theodore Gonzalves, Smithsonian Institution
Event Review Editor: Laura Kina, DePaul University
Digital Projects Review Editor: Micha Cárdenas, University of Washington, Bothell
Digital Projects Review Editor: Scott Nesbit, University of Georgia
Digital Projects Review Editor: Miriam Posner, University of California, Los Angeles
Managing Editor: Katherine Achacoso, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Editorial Assistant: Logan Narikawa, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Editorial Assistant: Brooke Newell, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
American Quarterly Board of Managing Editors
Marie Alohalani Brown, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Marcus Daniel, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Jonna Eagle, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Jane Haggis, Flinders University, Australia
Ju Young Jin, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea
Ikue Kina, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
Brandy Nālani McDougall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Colin Moore, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
American Quarterly Board of Advisory Editors
Tanja Aho, University at Buffalo
Hokulani Aikau, University of Utah
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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
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: Daryl Joji Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
Chair: Meg Wesling, University of California, San Diego
Rachel Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Kandice Chuh, ex officio, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Anita Mannur, Miami University of Ohio
Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington