ASA Board of Directors

President – Serving through 2022
Professor, Linguistics and African Studies
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literature
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Ousseina D. Alidou Bio

Vice President – Serving through 2022
School of Art, Design and Art History
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
Dr. Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà Bio

Past President – Serving through 2022

Department of History
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Carolyn A. Brown Bio

Serving through 2022
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana, Legon
Accra, Ghana

Akosua Adomako Ampofo Bio

Serving through 2023
Center for Policy Studies
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana

Nana Akua Anyidoho Bio

Serving through 2023
Interim Dean, School of Policy and Global Studies
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Rita Kiki Edozie Bio

Serving through 2022
Department of History
Indiana University School of Liberal Arts
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

Didier Gondola Bio

Serving through 2023

School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies
FSS Building, University of Ottawa
120 University Place
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abdoulaye Gueye Bio

Serving through 2023
Department of Anthropology
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Ombudsperson

Adeline Masquelier Bio

Serving through 2022
Executive Dean: Faculty of Humanities University of North West, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Dumi Moyo Bio

Serving through 2024

Visiting Assistant Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies
Emory College
Atlanta, GA

Yacine Daddi Addoun Bio

Serving through 2024
Director & Chair, Professor of African American and African Studies
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Robert Trent Vinson Bio

Treasurer – Serving through 2026
Professor; Dir Ad Interim, African Studies Center and Director
on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Timothy P. Longman Bio