Governance
Board of Directors
2025 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
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Adrienne Edgar
President 2025
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Oxana Shevel
President-Elect/Vice President 2025
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Vitaly Chernetsky
Immediate Past President 2025
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Christine D. Worobec
Treasurer, 2021-2026
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Stephen Badalyan Riegg
Member-at-Large
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Eugene Avrutin
Slavic Review Editor
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Lynda Park
Executive Director
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
Sarah Cameron
University of Maryland, 2025-2027
Kristen Ghodsee
University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2025
Paul Goode
Carleton University, 2025-2027
Stephen Badalyan Riegg
Texas A&M University, 2024-2026
Alison Smith
University of Toronto, 2023-2025
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
Anna Arays
Yale University; CLIR representative, 2023-2025
One (1) member designated by the ASEEES Committee on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR)
Sharon Kowalsky
Texas A&M University-Commerce; Council of Regional Affiliates representative, 2023-2025
One (1) Member Designated by the Council of Regional Affiliates
Jeff Pennington
University of California Berkeley, 2025-2027
One (1) member designated by the Council of Institutional Members
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 Michigan; Sociology representative, 2023-2025
Krista Goff
U of Miami; American Historical Association (AHA) representative, 2023-2025
Barry Ickes
Pennsylvania State University; Economics representative, 2025-2027
Vera Kuklina
George Washington University; Association of American Geographers (AAG) representative, 2025-2027
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
José Vergara
Bryn Mawr College; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) representative, 2025-2027
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.