The APA board of officers is pleased to announce the committee appointments for terms starting July 1, 2022. Committee members serve three-year terms ending June 30, 2025, unless otherwise noted. Associate chairs serve a one-year term, followed by a three-year term as chair of the committee. Congratulations to the appointees and thanks to all who were willing to serve!
Academic Career Opportunities and Placement
Lauren Ashwell (Bates College) — Associate Chair
Megan Altman (Cornell College)
Michael Nelson (UC Riverside)
Kelly Trogdon (Virginia Tech)
Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies
Kisor Chakrabarti (Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University) — special vacancy beginning immediately
Jing Hu (Concordia University – Montreal)
Jonathan Kwan (Santa Clara University)
Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers
Melissa Zinkin (Binghamton University) — Associate Chair
(Lendell) Chad Horne (Northwestern University)
Dale Miller (Old Dominion University)
Hispanics/Latinxs
Robert Sanchez (Occidental College) — Associate Chair
Rocio Alvarez (Texas A&M University) — special vacancy beginning immediately
Miguel Gauldron Ramirez (University of North Texas)
Manuela Gomez (El Paso Community College)
Denise Meda Calderon (Texas A&M University)
Inclusiveness in the Profession
Sahar Heydari Fard (UNC Chapel Hill)
Taylor Rogers (Northwestern University) — special vacancy beginning immediately
International Cooperation
Lydia Amir (Tufts University)
Hsiang-Yun Chen (Academia Sinica)
Lectures, Publications, and Research
Mark van Roojen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) — Associate Chair
Annalisa Coliva (University of California, Irvine)
Heimir Geirsson (Iowa State University)
Patricia Glazebrook (Washington State University)
Eric Wilson (Georgia State University)
Cory Wright (CSU Long Beach)
LGBTQ People in the Profession
Quill Kukla (Georgetown University)
Nico Orlandi (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Heather Stewart (Oklahoma State University)
Native American and Indigenous Philosophers
Joseph Len Miller (Elon University) — Associate Chair
Brian Burkhart (University of Oklahoma)
Sterling Knox (Marquette University) — special vacancy beginning immediately
Shelbi Meissner (Georgetown University) — special vacancy beginning immediately
Non-Academic Careers
Carlin Romano (University of Pennsylvania)
William Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges
Timothy Davis (Community College of Baltimore County)
Sahar Joakim (St. Louis Community College, Meramec)
Kristen Zbikowski (Hibbing Community College)
Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy
Nic Jones (University of Washington)
Erik Kenyon (Friends Academy)
Public Philosophy
Thom Brooks (Durham University) — Associate Chair
Leslie Aarons (City University of New York) — special vacancy beginning July 1, 2022
Michael Deem (University of Pittsburgh)
Tyler Doggett (UVM)
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (UNC Chapel Hill)
Status and Future of the Profession
Helga Varden (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Christopher Zurn (UMass Boston)
Status of Black Philosophers
Gertrude Gonzalez De Allen (Spellman College)
Dominique Greene-Sanders (University of South Florida)
Ryan Hayes (University of California San Diego) — special vacancy beginning immediately
William Paris (University of Toronto) — special vacancy beginning immediately
Status of Disabled People in the Profession
Maeve O’Donovan (Notre Dame of Maryland University) — Associate Chair
Sean Aas (Georgetown University)
Christine Wieseler (California State University Pomona)
Status of Women
Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph)
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
Teresa Robertson (UC Santa Barbara)
Teaching of Philosophy
Brett Fulkerson-Smith (Harper College)
Charlotte Thomas (Mercer University)
