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Executive Committee

• President: Kathleen M. Bailey, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
• First Vice President: Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne
• Second Vice President: Linda Harklau, University of Georgia
• Immediate Past President: Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University
• Secretary/Treasurer: Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University (term ends March 2017)
• Member at Large: Lucy Pickering, Texas A&M-Commerce (term ends March 2017)
• Member at Large: Peter De Costa, Michigan State University (term ends March 2018)
• Member at Large: Steven Thorne, Portland State University (term ends March 2019)
• Ex-Officio AAALetter Editor: Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala, INTO Colorado State University (term ends 2019)
• Ex-Officio Graduate Student Council Chairs:
  • Mengying Liu, University of Minnesota
  • Lindsey Kurtz, Pennsylvania State University

Standing Committees

Budget Committee

• Chair: Kathleen Bailey, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (President)
• Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne (1st Vice President)
• Linda Harklau, University of Georgia (2nd Vice President)
• Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University (Secretary/Treasurer)
• Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University (Immediate Past President)
• Sarah Berke, AAAL Business Office (ex officio)

FFAL Trustees

• Chair: James Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University (term ends March 2018)
• Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University (term ends March 2017)
• Jo Ann (Jodi) Crandall, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (term ends March 2019)

Nominating Committee

• Chair: Fredricka L. Stoller, Northern Arizona University
• Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University (ex officio, Immediate Past President)
• Meg Malone, Georgetown University
• Rosa Manchon, University of Murcia
• Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University
• Wayne Wright, Purdue University

Resolutions Committee

• TBD

Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award Committee

• Chair: Christina Higgins, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  
• Merrill Swain, OISE/University of Toronto
  
• Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University
  
• James Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University (ex officio: 2016 awardee)
• Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University (ex officio: Immediate Past President)

Graduate Student Award Committee

• Chair: Lynn Goldstein, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)
  
• Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota
• Christian Chun, University of Massachusetts - Boston
• Joyce Kling, University of Copenhagen
• Maricel Santos, San Francisco State University

Book Award Committee

• Chair: Francis Hult, Lund University (appointed; term ends March 2018)
• Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country (appointed; term ends March 2017)
• Steven Talmy, University of British Columbia (elected; term ends March 2019)
• Peter De Costa, Michigan State University (elected; term ends March 2019)
• Steven Thorne (Member-at-Large, Executive Committee; term ends March 2019)

Dissertation Award Committee

• Chair: Jamie Schissel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (appointed; term ends March 2017)
• Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia (appointed; term ends term ends March 2018)
• Diane Belcher, Georgia State University (elected; term ends March 2019)
• Karen E. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University (elected; term ends March 2019)
• Lucy Pickering, Texas A&M (Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, term ends March 2017)

Research Article Award Committee

• Chair: Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University (appointed; term expires March 2018)
• Robert DeKeyser, University of Maryland  - (elected; term expires March 2019)
• Sandra McKay, San Francisco State University - (elected; term expires March 2019)
• Lawrence Zhang, University of Auckland, New Zealand (appointed; term expires March 2017)
• Peter De Costa, Michigan State University (Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, term ends March 2018)

Outreach Award Committee

• Chair: Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University (appointed; term expires March 2019)
• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania (appointed; term expires March 2019)
  
• Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota (elected; term expires March 2020)
  
• Christian Chun, City University of Hong Kong (elected; term expires March 2020)
• Steven Thorne (Member-at-Large, Executive Committee; term ends March 2019)

The Graduate Student Council

• Co-Chair: Mengying Liu, University of Minnesota
• Co-Chair: Lindsey Kurtz, Pennsylvania State University
• Member at Large: Elena Shvidko, Purdue University
• Member at Large: Rayoung Song, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
• Secretary: Laura Hamman, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Representatives on External Boards/Associations

AILA

• International Committee - Jeff Connor-Linton, Georgetown University
• Executive Committee - Shawn Loewen, Michigan State University (Member-at-Large)

JNCL (Joint National Committee for Languages)

• Meg Malone, Georgetown University (term ends March 2017)

Cambridge University Press/Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

• Editor: Alison Mackey, Georgetown University
• 2 board-appointed editorial directors:
  • Kendall King, University of Minnesota (term ends December 2016)
  • Laura Collins, Concordia University (term ends December 2017)
    

History

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