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AAS Board of Directors and Officers

President
THEODORE C. BESTOR , Harvard University, ted_bestor@harvard.edu

Vice President
THONGCHAI WINICHAKUL, University of Wisconsin, twinicha@wisc.edu

Past President
GAIL HERSHATTER, University of California, Santa Cruz, gbhers@ucsc.edu

Past Past President
K. (SHIVI) SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, Yale University, k.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu

China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Chair
DAVID STRAND, Dickinson College, strand@dickinson.edu

Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Chair
CHRISTINE YANO, University of Hawaii, yanoneac2012@gmail.com

South Asia Council (SAC) Chair
SAMIRA SHEIKH, Vanderbilt University, samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu

Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) Chair
GEORGE DUTTON, UCLA, dutton@humnet.ucla.edu

Council of Conferences (COC) Chair
E. BRUCE REYNOLDS, San Jose State University, bruce.reynolds@sjsu.edu

Journal of Asian Studies Editor
JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM, UC-Irvine, jwassers@uci.edu

2013 Annual Conference Program Chair
ARJUN GUNERATNE, Macalester College, guneratne@macalester.edu


China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC)

Chair: David Strand, Dickinson College, strand@dickinson.edu

Jonathan Lipman, Mount Holyoke College, jlipman@mtholyoke.edu
Paul Smith, Haverford College, psmith@haverford.edu
Gray Tuttle, Columbia University, gwt2102@columbia.edu
Eugene Wang, Harvard University, eywang@fas.harvard.edu
Chun-fang Yu, Columbia University, cy2126@columbia.edu
Haiyan Lee, Stanford University, haiyan@stanford.edu
Shu-mei Shih, UCLA, shih@humnet.ucla.edu
Dorothy Solinger, UC-Irvine, dorjsoli@uci.edu


Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

Chair: Christine Yano, University of Hawaii, yanoneac2012@gmail.com

Ken Ito, University of Hawaii at Manoa, kenkito@hawaii.edu
Kyung Hyun Kim, University of California, Irvine, kyunghk@uci.edu
Charles Armstong, Columbia University, cra10@columbia.edu
Susan Orpett Long, John Carroll University, long@jcu.edu
Patrica Maclachlan, University of Texas, pmaclachlan@mail.utexas.edu
Sabine Fruhstuck, UC-Santa Barbara, fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado, laurel.rodd@colorado.edu
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University, sandj@georgetown.edu
Todd Henry, University of California-San Diego, tahenry@ucsd.edu (ex-officio)


South Asia Council (SAC)

Chair: Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu

Meena Khandelwal, University of Iowa, Meena-khandelwal@uiowa.edu
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, manring@indiana.edu
Farina Mir, University of Michigan, fmir@umich.edu
Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington, novetzke@u.washington.edu
John D. Rogers, American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, rogersjohnd@aol.com
Thomas Barfield, Boston University, barfield@bu.edu
Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University, anne.feldhaus@asu.edu
Shelley Feldman, Cornell University, rf12@cornell.edu


Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

Chair: George Dutton, UCLA, dutton@humnet.ucla.edu

Celia Lowe, University of Washington, lowe@u.washington.edu
Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, jmcdan@sas.upenn.edu
Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, thvu@uoregon.edu
Patricio Abinales, Kyoto University, abinales@gmail.com
Andrew Willford, Cornell University, acw24@cornell.edu
Yoko Hayami, Kyoto University, yhayami@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell, ardeth_thawnghmung@uml.edu
Nhung Tuyet Tran, University of Toronto, nhungtuyet.tran@utoronto.ca


Council of Conferences (COC)

COC Chair: E. Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University, bruce.reynolds@sjsu.edu

ASIAN STUDIES ON THE PACIFIC COAST (ASPAC)
E. Bruce Reynolds, San Jose State University, bruce.reynolds@sjsu.edu

ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN (ASCJ)
Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University, caprio@rikkyo.ac.jp

MID-ATLANTIC REGION—ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (MAR/AAS)
A. Maria Toyoda, Villanova University, amaria.toyoda@villanova.edu

MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN AFFAIRS (MCAA)
Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin, kabowie@wisc.edu

NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE (NEC/AAS)
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley College, ezimmerm@wellesley.edu

NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (NYCAS)
Michael Pettid, Binghamton University, mpettid@binghamton.edu

SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE (SEC/AAS)
James A. Anderson, UNC-Greensboro, jamie_anderson@uncg.edu

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES (SWCAS)
Paul Clark, West Texas A&M University, pclark@mail.wtamu.edu

WESTERN CONFERENCE (WCAAS)
Akiko Hirota, California State University, Northridge, ahirota@csun.edu

For a listing of AAS Regional Conferences, please visit the AAS Regional Conferences pages.


AAS PAST PRESIDENTS

Gail Hershatter, 2011
K. Sivaramakrishnan, 2010
Robert Hefner, 2009
Robert Buswell, 2008
Elizabeth J. Perry, 2007
Anand Yang, 2006
Barbara Watson Andaya, 2005
Mary Elizabeth Berry, 2004
James Watson, 2003
David Ludden, 2002
Charles Keyes, 2001
Peter Duus, 2000
Susan L. Mann, 1999
Wendy Doniger, 1998
James Scott, 1997
Carol Gluck, 1996
Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, 1995
Barbara Daly Metcalf, 1994
David K. Wyatt, 1993
Tetsuo Najita, 1992
Albert Feuerwerker, 1991
Barbara Stoler Miller, 1990
Stanley J. Tambiah, 1989
Robert J. Smith, 1988
Rhoads Murphey, 1987
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 1986
Frank H. Golay, 1985
James William Morley, 1984
G. William Skinner, 1983
Ainslee T. Embree, 1982
Paul Wheatley, 1981
Eleanor Jorden, 1980
Benjamin I. Schwartz, 1979
Richard L. Park, 1978
John M. Echols, 1977
Marius B. Jansen, 1976
Ping-ti Ho, 1975
Richard D. Lambert, 1974
George T. Kahin, 1973
Robert E. Ward, 1972
C. Martin Wilbur, 1971
Cora DuBois, 1970
W. Theodore deBary, 1969
Holden Furber, 1968
John W. Hall, 1967
Karl J. Pelzer, 1966
Knight Biggerstaff, 1965
Arthur F. Wright, 1964
William W. Lockwood, 1963
Earl H. Pritchard, 1962
Lauriston Sharp, 1961
W. Norman Brown, 1960
George B. Cressey, 1959
John K. Fairbank, 1958
Hugh Borton, 1957
L. Carrington Goodrich, 1956
Edwin O. Reischauer, 1955
Kenneth S. Latourette, 1954
Felix M. Keesing, 1953
Rupert Emerson, 1952
Robert B. Hall, 1951
Harold S. Quigley, 1950
Charles S. Gardner, 1949
Arthur W. Hummel, 1948