The ACLA Board is comprised of two main committees: the Executive Committee and Advisory Committee.
ACLA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Karen Emmerich, Princeton University, President, 2024-2025
- Karyn Ball, University of Alberta, Vice President, 2024-2025
- Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston, Second Vice President, 2024-2025
- Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia, Secretary-Treasurer, 2020-2028
ACLA ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Ranjana Khanna, Duke University, Past President, 2024-2025
- Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University, Nominations Committee Chair 2022-2025
- Robert Meister, University of California, Santa Cruz, Finance Committee Chair, 2022-2025
- Jini Kim Watson, University of Melbourne, Program Committee Chair, 2023-2026
- Harris Feinsod, Johns Hopkins University, Publications Committee Chair, 2024-2027
- Tze-Lan Sang, Michigan State University, Conference Committee Chair, 2024-2027
- Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, ADPCL Representative, 2024-2025
- Xena Amro, Northwestern University, Graduate Student Committee Chair, 2023-2025
- Ipek Sahinler, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Student Representative, 2024-2025
- Lilika Kukiela, University of Toronto, Graduate Student Representative, 2024-2025
Board members chair various standing committees. Chairs of each committee are noted with an asterisk:
STANDING COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP 2024-2025
- Finance Committee: Robert Meister* (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lenora Hanson (New York University), Rei Terada (University of California Irvine)
- Nominations Committee: Jennifer Wenzel* (Columbia University), Karyn Ball (University of Alberta), Anjuli Raza Kolb (Dartmouth University)
- Publications Committee: Harris Feinsod* (Johns Hopkins), Karyn Ball (University of Alberta), Preetha Mani (Rutgers University), Rossen Djagalov (New York University)
- Program Committee: Jini Kim Watson* (University of Melbourne), Ben Tran (Vanderbilt), Nathan Gorelick (Barnard), Christopher Bonner (Texas A&M University)
- Conference Committee: Tze-Lan Sang (Michigan State University), Karen Emmerich (Princeton University), Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University)
- Graduate Student Committee: Xena Amro* (Northwestern University), Lilika Kukiela (University of Toronto), Ipek Sahinler (University of Texas at Austin), Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas)
AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
- Development Committee: Brigid Kennedy* (ACLA), Daniel Pratt (McGill University)
PAST PRESIDENTS
2023-2024 Ranjana Khanna, Duke University
2022-2023 Rei Terada, University of California Irvine
2021-2022 Shu-mei Shih, University of California Los Angeles
2020-2021 Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
2019-2020 Waïl Hassan, University of Illinois
2018-2019 David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
2017-2018 Emily Apter, New York University
2016-2017 Joey Slaughter, Columbia University
2015-2016 Yopie Prins, University of Michigan
2014-2015 Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles
2013-2014 Eric Hayot, Penn State University
2012-2013 Lois Zamora, University of Houston
2011-2012 Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles
2009-2011 Haun Saussy, University of Chicago
2007-2009 Sandra Berman, Princeton University
2005-2007 Kathleen Komar, University of California, Los Angeles
2003-2005 Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut
2001-2003 David Damrosch, Harvard University
1999-2001 Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
1997-1999 Susan Suleiman, Harvard University
1995-1997 Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University, Lingnan University
1993-1995 Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
1991-1993 Stuart McDougal, University of Michigan
1989-1991 Mary Ann Caws, City University of New York
1987-1989 Frederick Garber, State University of New York at Binghamton
1985-1987 Thomas M. Greene, Yale University
1977 Haskell M. Block, State University of New York at Binghamton
1974 Horst Frenz, Indiana University