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.

To view elected officers who will begin their term in 2024, please click here

2024-2025 Officers

President: Mishuana Goeman, University at Buffalo (on leave from UCLA)
President-Elect: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
Past President: Sharon P. Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
Editor of American Quarterly: Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame

2024-2025 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: Mishuana Goeman, University of Buffalo (on leave from UCLA)
President-elect: Alex Lubin, Penn State University
Past President: Sharon Patricia Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
Councilors: 
Aren Aizura, University of Minnesota
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College
Monica Huerta, Princeton University
Koritha Mitchell, Boston University
Elliott Powell, University of Minnesota

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National Council

Aren Aizura, University of Minnesota (2026)
micha cárdenas, University of California Santa Cruz (2027)
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College (2025)
Kate Drabinski, contingent faculty representative, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2026)
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Michigan State University (2025)
Mishuana Goeman, President, University at Buffalo (2026)
Rebecca Hill, Kennesaw State University (2026)
Emily Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno (2026)
Sharon Patricia Holland, Past-President, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2025)
Monica Huerta, Princeton University (2025)
Alex Lubin, Penn State University (2027)
Koritha Mitchell, Boston University (2027)
Marisol Negrón, University of Massachusetts Boston (2027)
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2025)
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Pratt Institute (2026)
Olivia Polk, Student Representative, Yale University (2025)
Elliott Powell, University of Minnesota (2025)
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)
Jason Ruiz, ex officio, University of Notre Dame, editor of American Quarterly

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Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies

Robert Warrior, University of Kansas (2026)

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Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund

President-elect and Chair: Alex Lubin, Penn State University (2027)
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside (2026)
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Texas at Austin (2027)
Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University (2028)

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Finance Committee

President-elect and Chair: Alex Lubin, Penn State University (2027)
Councilor 1: 
Councilor 2: 
Councilor 3: 

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Nominating Committee

Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University (2025)
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, New York University (2025)
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico (2026)
A. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois at Chicago (2026)
Sam Tenorio, Penn State University (2027)
Maya Wind, University of British Columbia (2027)

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Prize Committees

Bode-Pearson and Turpie Prize Committee for 2025-2027

Chair: Cathy 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: Mishuana Goeman, University of Buffalo
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

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Program Committee

Program Committee for the 2024 Annual Meeting

Chair 

Mishuana Goeman, President-Elect, University at Buffalo

Co-Chairs

Joe Genitiwa-Pila, George Mason University
Magdalena Barrera, San José State University
Tina De Lisle, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Committee Members

Courtney Baker, University of California Riverside
Jodi Byrd, Cornell University
Karma Chavez, University of Texas Austin

Laura De Vos, Radboud University in Nijmegen
Soyica Diggs, Georgetown University
Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Grace Hong, University of California Los Angeles
Jodi Kim, Dartmouth College
Paul Joseph López Oro, Bryn Mawr College

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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: 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: 
Editorial Assistant: 
Editorial Assistant: 

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

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American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project Advisory Committee

Chair: Jolie A. Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
Chair: Meg Wesling, University of California, San Diego
Martin Manalansan, Rutgers University
William Nessly, West Chester University
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut
Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego
Patricia Ventura, Spelman College

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