Governance
Board of Directors
2024 Board
The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is composed of the President, the Vice President/President-Elect, the Immediate Past President, the Executive Director, the Treasurer, the Editor of the Slavic Review, and one Member at Large.
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 Elected Members at Large
Two members-at-large are elected each year by ASEEES members, to hold office for three (3) years.
Antonina Berezovenko
National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” 2024-2026
Kristen Ghodsee
University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2025
Andrew Janco
University of Pennsylvania, 2022-2024
Stephen Badalyan Riegg
Texas A&M University, 2024-2026
Alison Smith
University of Toronto, 2023-2025
Kimberly Zarecor
Iowa State University, 2022-2024
One Elected Graduate Student Representative
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.
Brian Yang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024-2025
Three Council/Committee Representatives
Sharon Kowalsky
Texas A&M University-Commerce; Council of Regional Affiliates representative, 2023-2025
One (1) Member Designated by the Council of Regional Affiliates
Alexandra Vacroux
Harvard University; Council of Institutional Members representative, 2022-2024
One (1) member designated by the Council of Institutional Members
Anna Arays
Yale University; CLIR representative, 2023-2025
One (1) member designated by the ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR)
Seven Disciplinary Representatives
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.
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
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.