Committees


Steering Committee
Nominating Committee
Awards Committee
Membership Committee
Teaching Committee
Past Chairs and Presidents of the Society for Utopian Studies

2024-2025 Steering Committee

Ed Chan, President   
Peter Sands, Past President and Past Chair
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Treasurer
Ellen Rigsby, Secretary
 
Ex-Officio (with vote)
Jill Belli, Web Site Liaison
Claire Curtis, Nominating Committee
Brian Greenspan, Nominating Committee
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Editor, Utopian Studies
Mark Allison Awards Chair (2023-)
Peter Sands, Past President (2024-2026)
Thomas Horan, Membership Committee Chair
 
Conference Chairs
2024: Stephanie Tavera, local chair; Allison Hammer, program chair

2025: Peter Stillman, local chair; Mark Jendrysik, program chair
2026: John Barberet, local chair; Toby Widdicombe, program chair

At-Large Members
Phil Wegner
Branden Hammer
Ken Roemer
Patricia Ventura
Eric Smith
 

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Nominating Committee

Claire Curtis, Chair (2023-)
Brian Greenspan, Co-Chair (2023-)
Jared Rusnak
 

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Awards Committee

Mark Allison, Current Chair
Eric Smith, upcoming Awards Committee Chair
Carter Hanson
Allison Hammer
L. Lamar Wilson

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Membership Committee

Tom Horan, Chair (2023-)
Phillip Wegner
Stephanie Tavera, 2023 and 2024 local chair (2022-2025)
Allison Hammer, 2024 program chair (2024-2025)
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Editor of Utopian Studies
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Treasurer

Ellen Rigsby, Secretary
Donald Zarante
 

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Teaching Committee

Ellen Rigsby (-2018; -2024)
Jill Belli (-2024)
Ron Haag (2023-)
Robert Scafe (2023-)

 

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Past Chairs and Presidents of the Society for Utopian Studies

2018 – 2024: Peter Sands
2014 – 2018: Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
2010 – 2014: Phillip E. Wegner
2006 – 2010: Carrie Hintz
2002 – 2006: Kenneth Roemer
1998 – 2002: Naomi Jacobs
1994 – 1998: Peter Fitting
1990 – 1994: Lyman Tower Sargent
1986 – 1990: Lawrence E. Hough
1984 – 1986: Carol Farley Kessler
1981 – 1984: Arthur O. Lewis
1980: Arthur O. Lewis; Mickey Abrash
1979: Michael Cummings
1978: Arthur O. Lewis
1977: Gorman Beauchamp; Alexandra Aldridge
1976: Mickey Abrash

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