
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
President – Serving through 2025
Professor Emeritus of History
Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
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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
Serving through 2025
Associate Professor of Political Science
Howard University
Washington, DC
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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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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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Mucha Musemwa
Serving through 2025
Dean of Humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Anita Plummer
Serving through 2027
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate 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
Lexington, KY
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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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