Past Officers

Kia Caldwell
(2023 - 2025)
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity
Professor of African and African-American Studies
Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St Louis

Robert Trent Vinson
(2019 - 2023)
Director & Chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies 
University of Virginia
Research Associate
Stellenbosch University in South Africa

Leslie Alexander
(2015 - 2019)
Associate Professor of History
University of Oregon

Kim D. Butler
(2011 - 2015)
Associate Professor of History
Department of Africana Studies
Rutgers University

Abena Busia
(2007 - 2011)
Professor of Literature
Rutgers University

Michael A. Gomez, Founder
(2000 - 2007)
Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies
New York University

Vice Presidents

Rashauna Johnson 
(2023 - 2024)
Associate Professor of History
University of Chicago

Jason Young
(2021 - 2023)
Associate Professor of History
University of Michigan

Walter C. Rucker
(2019 - 2021)
Professor of African American Studies and History
Emory University

Erik McDuffie
(2017 - 2019)
Associate Professor
University of Illinois

Elisa Joy White
(2015 - 1017)
Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies
University of California, Davis

Leslie Alexander
(2011 - 2015)
Associate Professor of History
University of Oregon

Treasurers

Sonya Maria Johnson

(2019 - 2023)
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and ACM-Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow
Beloit College

(2015 - 2019)
Professor of African American Studies and History
Emory University

Tanya Huelett
(2011 - 2015)
New York University

Jean Allman
(2007 - 2011)
Professor of History
Washington University in St. Louis

Barbara Krauthamer
(2003 - 2007)
Assistant Professor of History
New York University

Robin D.G. Kelley
(2000 - 2003)
Professor, Department of History
New York University

Secretaries

Laurie Lambert
(2019 - 2021)
Associate Professor
African American and African American Studies
Fordham University

Laura Rosanne Adderley
(2015 - 2019) Associate Professor of History
Director of African and African Diaspora Studies
Tulane University

Laurie Lambert
(2011 - 2015)
Assistant Professor African American and African Studies
University of California, Davis

Erik McDuffie
(2007 - 2011)
Associate Professor
African AmericanStudies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Yvonne Daniel
(2000 - 2005)
Professor of Dance and Afro-American Studies
Smith College

Membership Managers

Natasha Issa Shivji
Graduate Assistant
New York University

Joan Flores-Villalobos
Graduate Assistant
New York University

Ebony P. Jones
Graduate Assistant

Diana Lachatanere
Project Manager

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