Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

About LASA

Governance

The Association is directed by the Executive Council, which consists of ten elected members with voice and vote, plus three ex-officio members with voice but no vote. Elected members include the president, immediate past president, vice president/president-elect, treasurer and six others. Ex-officio members are the LASA executive director, the editor of LARR and the Congress program chair.

Executive Council

President

John Coatsworth
jhc2125@columbia.edu
Columbia University

Vice President

Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida
Universidade de São Paulo

Past President

Eric Hershberg
Simon Fraser University

Treasurer

Kevin Middlebrook
University of London

For term ending October 2010:

Jonathan Hartlyn
University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill

Teresa Valdés
Center for the Study and Development of Women (CEDEM)

Deborah Yashar
Princeton University

For term ending April 2012:

Roberto Blancarte
Colegio de México

Gwen Kirkpatrick
Georgetown University

Kimberly Theidon
Harvard University

Ex Officio members

Program Co-Chair

Javier Corrales
Amherst College

Program Co-Chair

Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Tufts University

Executive Director

Milagros Pereyra-Rojas
University of Pittsburgh

Editor of LARR

Philip Oxhorn
McGill University
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