{"id":30,"date":"2023-01-03T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:57:10","slug":"governance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"

2025-2026 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OFFICERS<\/b><\/p>\n

\n

Immediate Past President: Joseph Bangura
\nbangurajjoseph@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

President: Sabella Abidde
\nsabidde@alasu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

VP\/President Elect: Ryan Alexander
\nralex006@plattsburgh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Secretary: Philip Szmedra
\nszmedra001@gannon.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Treasurer: Danielle Smith
\ndaniellesmith@georgiasouthern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Executive Director: Lauren Eastwood
\nlauren.eastwood@plattsburgh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Position #1: Alwen Yeung
\nalwen.yeung@gsw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Position #2: Assefaw Bariagaber
\nassefaw.bariagaber@shu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Position #3: Yassaman Saadatmann
\nysaadatmand@georgiasouthern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Nominations & Elections Committee [chair]: Michael R. Hall
\nmrhall@georgiasouthern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Information Services Committee [chair]: Brian Parkinson
\nbrian.parkinson@gsw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching Committee [chair]: Cathy Skidmore-Hess
\ncskid@georgiasouthern.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Journal of Global South Studies [editor]: Carolina Rocha
\ncmrocha@illinois.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Call for Nominations was from 1\u00a0June<\/span><\/span>\u00a02025<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to 1 August 2025<\/span><\/span>. Elections were conducted from 15\u00a0August\u00a0<\/span><\/span>2025\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to 15 September<\/span><\/span>\u00a02025<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The new VP\/President Elect is\u00a0Ryan Alexander.\u00a0 Representing Position #2 is Assefaw Bariagaber.\u00a0 In addition,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the Executive Council appointed\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Brian Parkins<\/span><\/span>on\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>fill\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the vacant position of chair of the Information Services Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>On 6 January 2026 we welcomed Carolina Rocha as the new Editor of the\u00a0Journal of Global South Studies<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>If you are interested\u00a0in serving on the Executive Council, please contact the chair of the Nominations\u00a0and Elections committee at any time throughout the year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025-2026 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OFFICERS Immediate Past President: Joseph Bangura bangurajjoseph@gmail.com President: Sabella Abidde sabidde@alasu.edu VP\/President Elect: Ryan Alexander ralex006@plattsburgh.edu Secretary: Philip Szmedra szmedra001@gannon.edu Treasurer: Danielle Smith daniellesmith@georgiasouthern.edu Executive Director: Lauren Eastwood lauren.eastwood@plattsburgh.edu EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS Position #1: Alwen Yeung alwen.yeung@gsw.edu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}