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.
2022-2023 Officers
President: Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University
President-elect: Sharon Patricia Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Past President: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Texas at Austin
Editor of American Quarterly: Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2022-2023 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: Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University
President-elect: Sharon Patricia Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Past President: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Texas at Austin
Councilor: Marisol LéBron, University of California, Santa Cruz
Councilor: Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
National Council
Bayan Abusneineh, student councilor, University of California at San Diego (2023)
Christiana Ares-Christian, contingent faculty councilor, Southern New Hampshire University (2023)
Courtney R. Baker, University of California at Riverside (2023)
Darius Bost, University of Utah (2024)
Kimberly Juanita Brown, Dartmouth College (2024)
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College (2025)
Iyko Day, Mt. Holyoke College (2024)
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Michigan State University (2025)
Monica Huerta, Princeton University (2025)
Sharon Patricia Holland, president-elect, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2025)
Ronak K. Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago (2023)
Marisol LeBrón, University of California, Santa Cruz (2023)
Eid Mohamed, international councilor, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies/University of Guelph (2023)
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2025)
Yumi Pak, Occidental College (2024)
Olivia Polk, student representative, Yale University (2025)
Elliott Powell, University of Minnesota (2025)
Shana L. Redmond, president, Columbia University (2024)
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, past-president, University of Texas at Austin (2023)
Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University (2023)
Mari Yoshihara, ex officio, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, editor of American Quarterly
Scott Kurashige, ex officio, executive director, American Studies Association
Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies
Roderick Ferguson, Yale University (December 2022)
Board of Trustees Trust and Development Fund
President-elect and Chair: Sharon Patricia Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2028)
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside (2025)
Past President: Cathy Schlund-Vials, ex officio, University of Texas at Austin (2026)
President: Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University (2027)
Roderick Ferguson, Yale University (2023)
Scott Kurashige, American Studies Association (2024)
Finance Committee
President-elect and Chair: Sharon Patricia Holland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
President: Shana L. Redmond, Columbia University
Past President: Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Texas at Austin
Councilor: Marisol LéBron, University of Texas at Austin
Councilor: Amber Musser, Georgetown University
Councilor: Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Nominating Committee
Chair: Aimee Bahng, Pomona College (2023)
Christina Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park (2023)
Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University (2025)
Shanté Paradigm Smalls, St. Johns University (2025)
Greta LaFleur, Yale University (2024)
Mireya Loza, Georgetown University (2024)
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Prize Committees
Bode-Pearson Prize Committee for 2020-2022
Chair: Sandra Soto, University of Arizona
Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah
Robert Warrior, University of Kansas
Angela Y. Davis Prize Committee for 2022-2024
Chair: Dayo Gore, Georgetown University
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University
H.L.T. (HQ) Quan, Arizona State University
Mary C. Turpie Award Committee for 2020-2022
Chair: Alyosha Goldstein, University of New Mexico
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College
Juliana Hu Pegues, University of Minnesota
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee for 2022
Chair: Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia
Jodi Kim, University of California, Riverside
Rebecca Wanzo, Washington University in St. Louis
Laura Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee for 2022
Chair: Adam Green, University of Chicago
María Elena Cepeda, Williams College
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee for 2022
Chair: Alisha Gaines, Florida State University
Adrian DeLeon, University of Southern California
Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota
Constance Rourke Article Prize Committee for 2021-2022
Chair: Alex Lubin, Pennsylvania State University
Juliet Nebolon, Trinity College
Sandhya Shukla, University of Virginia
Yasuo Sakakibara International Scholar Paper Prize Committee for 2022-2023
Chair: Eve Tuck, University of Toronto
Ethan Blue, University of Western Australia
Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University
Gene Wise-Warren Susman Student Paper Prize Committee for 2022-2023
Chair: Susie Woo, California State University, Fullerton
Sarah Jane Cervenak, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Teresa Gonzales, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Program Committee
Program Committee for the 2023 Annual Meeting
Co-Chairs:
Jodi Byrd - Cornell University
Lisa Marie Cacho - University of Virginia
Heidi Kim - UNC Chapel Hill
Committee Members:
GerShun Avilez - University of Maryland
Stefanie Dunning - Miami University
Chad B. Infante - University of Maryland
Soo Ah Kwon - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Koritha Mitchell - The Ohio State University
Dory Nason - University of British Columbia
Nitasha Tamar Sharma - Northwestern University
Ruby Tapia - University of Michigan
American Quarterly Editors
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: Jolie A. Sheffer, Bowling Green State University
Chair: Meg Wesling, University of California, San Diego
Jay Garcia, New York University
Daryl Joji Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
William Nessly, West Chester University
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign