Terms conclude at the close of AAA meetings
2019-2022: Yolanda Covington-Ward (Umass Amherst)
2016-2018: Jennifer Coffman (James Madison University)
2012-2016: Anita Spring (University of Florida)
2010-2012: Mwenda Ntarangwi (Calvin College)
2008-2010: Maria G. Cattell (Field Museum of Natural History)
2004-2008: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (University of California, San Diego)
2002-2004: Gracia Clark (Indiana University)
2000-2002: Betty Harris (University of Oklahoma)
1998-2000: Parker Shipton (Boston University)
1996-1998: Sally Falk Moore (Harvard University)
1994-1996: George Bond (Columbia University)
1992-1994: Gwendolyn Mikell (Georgetown University)
NOTE: the AfAA officially became a section of the AAA in 2003.
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Please consider making a donation to the AfAA to support our multiple programs including graduate student conference travel grants, our distinguished lecturer and conversation series, the AfAA mentoring program, the Nancy “Penny” Schwartz undergraduate and Bennetta Jules-Rosette graduate student paper awards, and our Elliot P. Skinner Book Award for Africanist Anthropology. Your support will go a long way in supporting students and elevating Africanist anthropology within the AAA.