ASA Board of Directors

President – Serving through 2019
Research Scientist
African Studies Program
Indiana University
mgrosz@indiana.edu
Maria Grosz-Ngate Bio

Vice President – Serving through 2019
Department of English
New York University
New York, NY
Ato Quayson Bio

Past President – Serving through 2019
Center for the Humanities
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1071
208 Umrath Hall
1 Brookings Dr.
St. Louis, MO  63130
Jean Allman Bio

Serving through 2019
Professor of History
Michigan State University
506 E. Circle Drive
East Lansing, MI 48824

Nwando Achebe Bio

Serving through 2021
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Center for African Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Leonardo Arriola Bio

Serving through 2020

Serving through 2020
Associate Professor
The New School
220 Dekalb Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205

Sean Jacobs Bio

Serving through 2020
Professor of Sociology
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045

Ebenezer Obadare Bio

Serving through 2019
African Peacebuilding Network (APN)
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
I Pierrepont Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Cyril Obi Bio

Serving through 2021
History of Art and Architecture
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Sylvester Ogbechie Bio

Serving through 2019
Department of History
University of Michigan
1029 Tisch Hall
435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Derek R. Peterson Bio

Serving through 2021
Institute for the Study of International Migration
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20007

Lahra Smith Bio

Treasurer – Serving through 2021
Office of the Provost
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Ave
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

Mary Osirim Bio

Emerging Scholar Representative – Serving through 2020

Yusuf Serunkuma Kajura Bio