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ASA Board of Directors

Nwando Achebe

Nwando Achebe

Vice President – Serving through 2025

Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
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Elizabeth Schmidt

Elizabeth Schmidt

President – Serving through 2025

Professor Emeritus of History
Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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Gretchen Bauer

Gretchen Bauer

Past President – Serving through 2025


Department of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
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J. Jarpa Dawuni

J. Jarpa Dawuni

Serving through 2025

Associate Professor of Political Science
Howard University
Washington, DC
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Claudia Gastrow

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

Jennifer Hart

Serving through 2026

Professor and Chair of Department of History
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Serving through 2025

Department of History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
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Lisa Lindsay

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

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

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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Mucha Musemwa

Mucha Musemwa

Serving through 2025

Dean of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Anita Plummer

Anita Plummer

Serving through 2027

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Howard University
Washington, DC
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James Yékú

James Yékú

Serving through 2027

Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies
University of Kansas
Lexington, KY
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Seulgie Lim

Seulgie Lim

Emerging Scholars Rep
Serving through 2026

Assistant Professor of Politics Department of Politics
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
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