Leonardo Arriola
Vice President – Serving through 2026
Dean of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced
Merced, CA
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Nwando Achebe
President – Serving through 2026
University Distinguished Professor and Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History,
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
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Elizabeth Schmidt
Past President – Serving through 2026
Professor Emeritus of History
Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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Prinisha Badassy
Serving through 2028
Professor of History
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Claudia Gastrow
Serving through 2026
Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
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Jennifer Hart
Serving through 2026
Professor and Chair of Department of History
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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Lisa Lindsay
Serving through 2027
Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
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Timothy P. Longman
Treasurer – Serving through 2026
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Boston University
Boston, MA
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Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Serving through 2026
Associate Professor at the Department of African Cultural Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI
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James Ogude
Serving through 2028
Director at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
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Anita Plummer
Serving through 2027
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African Studies
Howard University
Washington, DC
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James Yékú
Serving through 2027
Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies
University of Kansas
Lawrance, KS
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Seulgie Lim
Emerging Scholars Rep
Serving through 2026
Assistant Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
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