Board of Directors
2024 Board
Executive Committee
- Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas - President
- Adrienne Edgar, UC Santa Barbara - President-Elect/Vice President
- Juliet Johnson, McGill U - Immediate Past President
- Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois U - Treasurer, 2021-2026
- Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State U - Member-at-large, 2022-2024
- Eugene Avrutin, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Editor, Slavic Review
- Lynda Park, U of Pittsburgh - ASEEES Executive Director (ex officio)
The Vice President is elected annually by ASEEES members and is designated President-Elect. After serving one year as Vice President, the Vice President becomes President the following year. After one year in the presidency, the President is designated Immediate Past President and serves an additional year as a member of the Board of Directors
Six (6) elected Members-at-large
- Antonina Berezovenko, National Technical U of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," 2024-2026
- Kristen Ghodsee, U of Pennsylvania, 2023-2025
- Andrew Janco, U of Pennsylvania, 2022-2024
- Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Texas A&M U, 2024-2026
- Alison Smith, U of Toronto, 2023-2025
- Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State U, 2022-2024
Two members-at-large are elected each year by ASEEES members, to hold office for three (3) years.
One (1) elected graduate student representative
- Brian Yang, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024-2025
Candidates for graduate student representative can self-nominate or be nominated by a faculty member who is a member of ASEEES. The Nominating Committee will review all nominations and select two to be candidates. One is elected by ASEEES members to hold office for two (2) years.
One (1) member designated by the Council of Regional Affiliates
- Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M U-Commerce; Council of Regional Affiliates representative, 2023-2025
One (1) member designated by the Council of Institutional Members
- Alexandra Vacroux, Harvard U; Council of Institutional Members representative, 2022-2024
One (1) member designated by the ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR)
- Anna Arays, Yale U; CLIR representative, 2023-2025
One (1) member from the following seven (7) organizations or disciplinary fields
- Cynthia Buckley, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sociology (American Sociological Association) representative, 2023-2025
- Karen Evans-Romaine, U of Wisconsin, Madison; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) representative, 2022-2024
- Krista Goff, U of Miami; American Historical Association (AHA) representative, 2023-2025
- Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College; Economics (American Economics Association) representative, 2022-2024
- Edward Holland, U of Arkansas; Association of American Geographers (AAG) representative, 2022-2024
- Sarah Sokhey, U of Colorado; American Political Science Association (APSA) representative, 2024-2026
- Chelsi West Ohueri, U of Texas at Austin; American Anthropological Association (AAA) representative, 2024-2026
Organization/disciplinary representative must be a member of good standing in both ASEEES and the representing organization and holds office for three (3) years. AATSEEL representative is nominated by the AATSEEL Executive Committee.
Board History
For historical board information, please see the lists of Current and Past Members of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors.