NOMINATIONS INVITED FOR 2009 SLATE

Deadline: June 1, 2008

LASA members are invited to suggest nominees for Vice President and three members of the Executive Council, for terms beginning May 1, 2009. Criteria for nomination include professional credentials and previous service to LASA. Each candidate must have been a member of the Association in good standing for at least one year prior to nomination. Biographic data and the rationale for nomination must be sent by June 1, 2008, to:

Milagros Pereyra-Rojas
LASA Executive Director
LASA Secretariat
416 Bellefield Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

E-mail: lasa@pitt.edu

The winning candidate for Vice President will serve in that capacity until October 31, 2010, and then as President for an additional eighteen months. Executive Council members will serve a three-year term from May 1, 2009, to April 30, 2011.

Members of the Nominations Committee are Laurence Whitehead, chair, Oxford University, Nuffield College; Laurence Prescott, Penn State University; Marcelo Ridenti, Universidade de São Paulo; Candace Slater, University of California, Berkeley; Irene Silverblatt, Duke University; Barbara Stallings, Brown University and Deborah Yashar, Princeton University who will serve as the liaison with the LASA Executive Council.