The 2025 Board has five officers and eleven board members (including two graduate student representatives). The Board listing below also includes ex-officio members and ad hoc members, such as the AATSEEL liaison.

Officers

President: Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; president.awss@gmail.com

Vice-President/President Elect: Sharon Kowalsky, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Past-President: Sara Dickinson, University of Genoa, Italy

Secretary: Jenifer Presto, University of Oregon 

Treasurer: Sara Ruiz, University of Michigan; Email: treasurer.awss@gmail.com

Clerk: Valerie Sperling, Clark University

Investment Officer: Rochelle Ruthchild, Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard 

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Communications

AWSS-L Representative: Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University

WEW Co-editors: Colleen Moore, James Madison University and Anna Müller, University of Michigan-Deaborn; Editorial Assistant: Ethell Gershengorin

Facebook Moderator: Christine Worobec, Northern Illinois University; Website: Melissa Bokovoy, University of New Mexico; Instagram Moderator: Laurel Tollison, Brown University

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2025 Board Members

Yelena Furman, University of California, Los Angeles   

Siobhán Hearne, University of Manchester

Julie Hemment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Oksana Kis, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine  

Maria Mayerchyk, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Colleen Moore, James Madison University           

Anna Muller, University of Michigan, Dearborn         

Laurie Stoff, Arizona State University     

Jessica Zychowicz, Institute of International Education, Kyiv Office and Fulbright Ukraine    

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Graduate Student Representatives

Oksana Dudko, University of Toronto

Agnieszka Pindera, University of Warsaw

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Liaisons & Committees – 2024

AATSEEL Liaison: Melissa Miller

ASEEES Diversity Liaison: Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

AWSS Travel Grants:  Jenifer Presto (chair), Knar Abrahamyan, Oksana Kis,

Graduate Essay Prize Committee: Sara Dickinson (chair), Ema Hrešanová, Jessica Zychowicz

Patricia Herlihy Graduate Research Prize Committee: Dr. Julie Hemment, Chair (chair), Magda Moskalewicz, Tetiana Vodotyka

Heldt Book Prize Committee: Sharon Kowalsky (chair), Nicole Monnier, Janine Holc, Aida A. Hozić, Daria Mattingly

Heldt Article Prize Committee: Lee Horvat (chair), Jill Massino, Jānis Ozoliņš, Natalia Plagmann

Heldt Translation Prize 2025: Sharon Kowalsky (chair), Natasa Kovacevic, Alex Niemi, Nicole Monnier

Mary Zirin Prize Committee: Darya Tsymbalyuk (chair), Aleksandra Jakubczak, Olga Makarova, Elena Trubina

Membership and Publicity: Siobhán Hearne

Mentoring committee: Karen Petrone (chair), Fiona Bell, Maria Mayerchyk, Catherine Wanner,

Nominating committee: Choi Chatterjee (chair), Iryna Skubii, Laurie Stoff

Outstanding Achievement Award Committee: Michele Rivkin-Fish (chair), Sara Dickinson (past-president); Sharon Kowalsky (Vice-President/President Elect)

Ad Hoc Finance Committee (pending by-law changes):  Sara Ruiz (Treasurer), Rochelle Ruthchild (Investment Officer), Sara Dickinson (President), Michele Rivkin-Fish (President-elect)