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AAS Board of Directors and Officers

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

Vice President
ROBERT HEFNER, Boston University; rhefner@bu.edu

Past President
ELIZABETH J. PERRY, Harvard University; eperry@latte.harvard.edu

Past Past President
ANAND A. YANG, University of Washington; aay@u.washington.edu

China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Chair
PAOLA ZAMPERINI, Amherst College, pzamperini@amherst.edu

Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Chair
BARBARA BROOKS, CUNY, bbrooks@gc.cuny.edu

South Asia Council (SAC) Chair
DAVID MAGIER, Columbia University, magier@columbia.edu

Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) Chair
MEREDITH WEISS, East-West Center, merweiss@gmail.com

Council of Conferences (COC) Chair
PARKS COBLE, University of Nebraska, pcoble1@unl.edu

Journal of Asian Studies Editor
KENNETH M. GEORGE, University of Wisconsin-Madison; jas@intl-institute.wisc.edu (through May 2008)
JEFFREY WASSERSTROM, UC-Irvine, jwassers@uci.edu (effective June 2008)

2009 Annual Meeting Program Chair
CYNTHIA TALBOT, University of Texas, ctalbot@mail.utexas.edu


China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

Chair: Paola Zamperini, Amherst College, pzamperini@amherst.edu

Robert Hymes, Columbia University, hymes@columbia.edu
Jonathan Unger, Australian National University, unger@coobs.anu.edu.au
R. Bin Wong, UCLA, wong@history.ucla.edu
Madeline Yue Dong, University of Washington, yuedong@u.washington.edu
Robert Hegel, Washington University, St. Louis, rhegel@wustl.edu
Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia, tcheek@interchange.ubc.ca
Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh, tgrawski+@pitt.edu
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, University of Sydney, mayfair.yang@usyd.edu.au


Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

Chair: Barbara Brooks, CUNY, bbrooks@gc.cuny.edu

Martin Collcutt, Princeton University, colcutt@princeton.edu
Susan Napier, University of Texas, snapier@mail.utexas.edu
Rebecca Copeland, Washington U.-St. Louis, copeland@wustl.edu
Laura Miller, Loyola University, Chicago, lmille2@luc.edu
Edward Shultz, University of Hawaii, shultz@hawaii.edu
Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University, Hchoi@asu.edu
Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado, Faye.Kleeman@colorado.edu
William Tsutsui, University of Kansas, btsutsui@ku.edu
Seungsook Moon, Vassar College, semoon@vassar.edu (ex-officio)


South Asia Council (SAC)

Chair: David Magier, Columbia University, magier@columbia.edu

Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky, srimati.basu@uky.edu
Durba Ghosh, Cornell University, dg256@cornell.edu
Bernard Bate, Yale U., bernard.bate@yale.edu
Husain Haqqani, Boston University, haqqani@bu.edu
Cabieri D. Robinson, University of Washington, cdr33@u.washington.edu
Elora Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Elora.Chowdhury@umb.edu
Ajay Sinha, Mount Holyoke College, asinha@mtholyoke.edu
Ramya Sreenivasan, SUNY-Buffalo, rs75@buffalo.edu


Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

Chair: Meredith Weiss, East-West Center, merweiss@gmail.com

Anne Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, arhansen@uwm.edu
Christopher Goscha, University of Quebec, Montreal, christopher.goscha@sympatico.ca
Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley, pzinoman@berkeley.edu
E. Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University, ereynold@email.sjsu.edu
Hjorleifur Jonsson, Arizona State University, hjonsson@asu.edu
Mary Zurbuchen, Ford Foundation, mzurbuchen-fordifp@iie.org
Penny Edwards, UC-Berkeley, pennyedwards@berkeley.edu
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, et54@cornell.edu


Council of Conferences (COC)

COC Chair: Parks Coble, University of Nebraska, pcoble1@unl.edu

ASIAN STUDIES ON THE PACIFIC COAST (ASPAC)
Linda Walton, Portland State University, waltonl@pdx.edu

ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN (ASCJ)
Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University, caprio@rikkyo.ne.jp

MID-ATLANTIC REGION—ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (MAR/AAS)
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania, lchance@sas.upenn.edu

MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN AFFAIRS (MCAA)
Parks Coble, University of Nebraska, pcoble1@unl.edu

NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE (NEC/AAS)
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College, dennis.washburn@dartmouth.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, elversk@mail.smu.edu

WESTERN CONFERENCE (WCAAS)
Claudia Brown, Arizona State University, claudia.brown@asu.edu

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


PAST PRESIDENTS

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