Committees


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

2019-2020 Steering Committee

Peter Sands, President and Chair (2018-2020)       
Gib Prettyman, Treasurer (NOMINATION OF Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers)
 
Ex-Officio (with vote)
Jill Belli, Web Site Liaison
Corina Kesler, Nominating Committee Chair (-2020)
Diana Palardy, Secretary (-2020)
Nicole Pohl, Editor, Utopian Studies
Ellen Rigsby, Teaching Committee Chair (-2018; -2020)
Mark Tabone, Awards Chair (-2018, -2020)
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (-2022)
 
Conference Chairs
Claire Curtis, 2020 Local Chair
Carrie Hintz, 2020 Program Chair
 
At-Large Members
Andrew Byers (-2020)
Kel Martin (-2020)
Francesca Russo (-2020)
Jennifer Wells (-2020)
 

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Nominating Committee

Corina Kesler (-2018; Chair -2020)
Brian Greenspan (-2020)
Dominic Ording (-2018, -2020)
 

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Awards Committee

Mark Tabone, Chair (-2018; -2020)
Clint Jones (-2020)
Justin Nordstrom (-2020)
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (-2021)
Phil Wegner (-2021)

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Membership Committee

Carrie Hintz, Chair; 2020 local chair (-2021)
 
Andrew Byers  (-2020)
Claire Curtis, 2020 local chair (-2021)
Diana Palardy, Secretary (-2020)
Nicole Pohl, Editor of Utopian Studies
Gib Prettyman (-2021)
Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers, Treasurer
 

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Teaching Committee

Ellen Rigsby, Chair (-2018; -2020)
Jill Belli (-2021)
Frank Crocco (-2018; -2020)

Beate Rodewald (-2018; 2020)

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Past Chairs and Presidents of the Society for Utopian Studies

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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