AAS Election Results

NOVEMBER 2011: The polls have closed and the ballots counted for the AAS fall 2011 elections. We are pleased to announce that Thongchai Winichakul was elected as the next Vice President. Voting results were compiled electronically and 1,855 ballots were cast, representing about 24% of the membership. As usual, most races were very close across the board.

Elected candidates officially take office after the upcoming conference in Toronto, but typically are invited to attend the meetings as observers. We would like to sincerely thank all candidates for agreeing to run for election. Their willingness to devote considerable time and energy in serving the AAS is greatly appreciated and indispensable.

Also this year there were three proposed revisions to the AAS constitution and bylaws on the ballot pertaining to the Annual Membership Meeting during the annual conference; nomination and electoral processes; and the Publications Committee. All were approved by about 90% of voters, with the remaining 10% being mostly abstentions. We will update the bylaws to reflect the approved changes as soon as possible.

Listed below are the newly elected council and board members.

President

Ted Bestor (Harvard) moves automatically into the Presidency after the Toronto conference.

Vice President

Thongchai Winichakul (U. of Wisconsin, history)

China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

Haiyan Lee (Stanford U., literature)
Shu-mei Shih (UCLA, language and cultures)
Dorothy Solinger (UC-Irvine, political science)

Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

Sabine Fruhstuck (UC-Santa Barbara, ethnography, history)
Laurel Rodd (U. of Colorado, literature)
Jordan Sand (Georgetown U., history)

South Asia Council (SAC)

Thomas Barfield (Boston U., anthropology)
Anne Feldhaus (Arizona State U., religious studies)
Shelley Feldman (Cornell U., sociology)

Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

Yoko Hayami (Kyoto U., anthropology)
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung (U. of Massachusetts, Lowell, political science)
Nhung Tuyet Tran (U. of Toronto, history)

Council of Conferences (COC)

Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
Mark Caprio (Rikkyo U., history)

Mid-Atlantic Region (MAR)
A. Maria Toyoda (Villanova U., political science)

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)
Katherine Bowie (U. of Wisconsin, anthropology)