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AAS Board of Directors and Officers

President
K. (SHIVI) SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, Yale University, k.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu

Vice President
GAIL HERSHATTER, University of California, Santa Cruz, gbhers@ucsc.edu

Past President
ROBERT HEFNER, Boston University, rhefner@bu.edu

Past Past President
ROBERT BUSWELL, University of California, Los Angeles, buswell@humnet.ucla.edu

China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Chair
MATTHEW SOMMER, Stanford University, msommer@stanford.edu

Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Chair
WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI, Southern Methodist University, btsutsui@smu.edu

South Asia Council (SAC) Chair
RAMYA SREENIVASAN, SUNY-Buffalo, rs75@buffalo.edu

Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) Chair
JUSTIN MCDANIEL, University of Pennsylvania, jmcdan@sas.upenn.edu

Council of Conferences (COC) Chair
JOHAN ELVERSKOG, Southern Methodist University, johan@smu.edu

Journal of Asian Studies Editor
JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM, UC-Irvine, jwassers@uci.edu

2011 Annual Conference Program Chair
ALLEN HICKEN, University of Michigan, ahicken@umich.edu


China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

Chair: Matthew Sommer, Stanford University, msommer@stanford.edu

Robert Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis, rhegel@wustl.edu
Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh, tgrawski@pitt.edu
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, yangm@religion.ucsb.edu
Stephen Bokenkamp, Arizona State University, stephen.bokenkamp@asu.edu
Valerie Hansen, Yale University, valerie.hansen@yale.edu
Jonathan Lipman, Mount Holyoke College, jlipman@mtholyoke.edu
Paul Smith, Haverford College, psmith@haverford.edu
Gray Tuttle, Columbia University, gwt2102@columbia.edu


Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

Chair: William M. Tsutsui, Southern Methodist University, btsutsui@smu.edu

Hyaeweol Choi, Australian National University, Hyaeweol.Choi@anu.edu.au
Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado, Faye.Kleeman@colorado.edu
Namhee Lee, UCLA, nlee@humnet.ucla.edu
Clark Sorensen, University of Washington, sangok@u.washington.edu
Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University, gennifer.weisenfeld@duke.edu
Ken Ito, University of Michigan, kenkito@umich.edu
Kyung Hyun Kim, University of California, Irvine, kyunghk@uci.edu
Christine Yano, University of Hawaii, cryano@hawaii.edu
Michael Pettid, SUNY Binghamton (CKS Chair, ex officio), mpettid@binghamton.edu


South Asia Council (SAC)

Chair: Ramya Sreenivasan, SUNY-Buffalo, rs75@buffalo.edu

Elora Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Elora.Chowdhury@umb.edu
Matthew Nelson, SOAS, University of London, mn6@soas.ac.uk
Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine, vinayak@uci.edu
Anupama Rao, Barnard College, arao@barnard.edu
Wendy Singer, Kenyon College, singerw@kenyon.edu
Meena Khandelwal, University of Iowa, Meena-khandelwal@uiowa.edu
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, manring@indiana.edu
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu


Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

Chair: Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, jmcdan@sas.upenn.edu

Meredith Weiss, University at Albany, SUNY, mweiss@albany.edu
Penny Edwards, UC-Berkeley, pennyedwards@berkeley.edu
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, et54@cornell.edu
Jeffrey Hadler, University of California, Berkeley, hadler@berkeley.edu
Chie Ikeya, National University of Singapore, seaci@nus.edu.sg
Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University, kun1@niu.edu
Celia Lowe, University of Washington, lowe@u.washington.edu
Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, thvu@uoregon.edu


Council of Conferences (COC)

COC Chair: Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, johan@smu.edu

ASIAN STUDIES ON THE PACIFIC COAST (ASPAC)
E. Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University, ereynold@mail.sjsu.edu

ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN (ASCJ)
Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University, watson@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp

MID-ATLANTIC REGION—ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (MAR/AAS)
Shigeru Osuka, Seton Hall University, osukashi@shu.edu

MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN AFFAIRS (MCAA)
Kai-wing Chow, University of Illinois, kchow1@illinois.edu

NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE (NEC/AAS)
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College, ezimmerm@wellesley.edu

NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (NYCAS)
Patricia Welch, Hofstra University, Patricia.M.Welch@hofstra.edu

SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE (SEC/AAS)
Susan Walcott, UNC-Greensboro, smwalcot@uncg.edu

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (SWCAS)
Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University, johan@smu.edu

WESTERN CONFERENCE (WCAAS)
Akiko Hirota, California State University, Northridge, ahirota@csun.edu

For a listing of AAS Regional Conferences, please visit the AAS Regional Conferences pages.


AAS PAST PRESIDENTS

Robert Hefner, 2009
Robert Buswell, 2008
Elizabeth J. Perry, 2007
Anand Yang, 2006
Barbara Watson Andaya, 2005
Mary Elizabeth Berry, 2004
James Watson, 2003
David Ludden, 2002
Charles Keyes, 2001
Peter Duus, 2000
Susan L. Mann, 1999
Wendy Doniger, 1998
James Scott, 1997
Carol Gluck, 1996
Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, 1995
Barbara Daly Metcalf, 1994
David K. Wyatt, 1993
Tetsuo Najita, 1992
Albert Feuerwerker, 1991
Barbara Stoler Miller, 1990
Stanley J. Tambiah, 1989
Robert J. Smith, 1988
Rhoads Murphey, 1987
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 1986
Frank H. Golay, 1985
James William Morley, 1984
G. William Skinner, 1983
Ainslee T. Embree, 1982
Paul Wheatley, 1981
Eleanor Jorden, 1980
Benjamin I. Schwartz, 1979
Richard L. Park, 1978
John M. Echols, 1977
Marius B. Jansen, 1976
Ping-ti Ho, 1975
Richard D. Lambert, 1974
George T. Kahin, 1973
Robert E. Ward, 1972
C. Martin Wilbur, 1971
Cora DuBois, 1970
W. Theodore deBary, 1969
Holden Furber, 1968
John W. Hall, 1967
Karl J. Pelzer, 1966
Knight Biggerstaff, 1965
Arthur F. Wright, 1964
William W. Lockwood, 1963
Earl H. Pritchard, 1962
Lauriston Sharp, 1961
W. Norman Brown, 1960
George B. Cressey, 1959
John K. Fairbank, 1958
Hugh Borton, 1957
L. Carrington Goodrich, 1956
Edwin O. Reischauer, 1955
Kenneth S. Latourette, 1954
Felix M. Keesing, 1953
Rupert Emerson, 1952
Robert B. Hall, 1951
Harold S. Quigley, 1950
Charles S. Gardner, 1949
Arthur W. Hummel, 1948