Elizabeth Schmidt
Vice President – Serving through 2024
Professor Emeritus of History
Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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Gretchen Bauer
President – Serving through 2024
Department of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
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Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà
Past President – Serving through 2024
School of Art, Design and Art History
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
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Yacine Daddi Addoun
Serving through 2024
Visiting Assistant Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies
Emory College
Atlanta, GA
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J. Jarpa Dawuni
Serving through 2025
Associate Professor of Political Science
Howard University
Washington, DC
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Rita Kiki Edozie
Serving through 2024
Interim Dean, School of Policy and Global Studies
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, MA
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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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Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Serving through 2025
Department of History
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
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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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Mucha Musemwa
Serving through 2025
Dean of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Robert Trent Vinson
Serving through 2024
Director & Chair, Professor of African American and African Studies
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
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Bright Nkrumah
Emerging Scholars Rep
Serving through 2024
Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Studies
Florida Gulf Coast University
Fort Myers, FL
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