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
ASA Board of Directors
Ousseina D. Alidou

Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

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

Past President – Serving through 2022
Department of History
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Carolyn A. Brown Bio
Akosua Adomako Ampofo

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

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

Serving through 2023
Interim Dean, School of Policy and Global Studies
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Rita Kiki Edozie Bio
Didier Gondola

Serving through 2022
Department of History
Indiana University School of Liberal Arts
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
Didier Gondola Bio
Abdoulaye Gueye

Serving through 2023
School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies
FSS Building, University of Ottawa
120 University Place
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Abdoulaye Gueye Bio
Adeline Masquelier

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

Serving through 2022
Executive Dean: Faculty of Humanities University of North West, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Dumi Moyo Bio
Yacine Daddi Addoun

Serving through 2024
Visiting Assistant Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies
Emory College
Atlanta, GA
Robert Trent Vinson

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

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