SVA Executive Committee

Effective January 1, 2025

Executive Officers

Board Members

  • Antonio Coello

    (year 2)
    Mexican Endowment for Culture and Arts

  • Elena Guzman

    (year 1)
    Indiana University

  • Nell Hayes

    (year 2)
    Saint Mary’s College

  • Kate Hennessy

    (year 1)
    Simon Fraser University

  • Emily Hong

    (year 1)
    
Haverford College

  • Fiona McDonald

    (year 1)

    University British Columbia

  • Camilo León-Quijano

    (year 3)
    CNRS

  • Steven Rousso-Schindler

    (year 2)
    California State University Long Beach

  • Stephanie Sadre-Orafai

    (year 3)
    University of Cincinnati

  • Gwyneth Talley

    (year 3)
    American University in Cairo

  • Alex Vailati

    (year 3)
    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

  • Matthew Raj Webb

    (year 2)
    New York University

 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS & DESIGNEES

FILM AND MEDIA FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTORS

Anna Neumann (2025)

Dickinson College
anna.neumann.22@gmail.com

Mariam Abazeri (2025)

Arizona State University
mariam.abazeri@gmail.com

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW CO-EDITORS

Narges Bajoghli 

John Hopkins University
narges.bajoghli@jhu.edu

Alison Feser

Clarkson University
afeser@clarkson.edu

 

VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZERS

Jerome Crowder

University of Houston
anthro@jeromecrowder.com

Gaurav Datta

University of North Dakota
gaurav.datta@und.edu

Kate Hennessy (Multimodal Curatorial Committee)

Simon Fraser University
hennessy_kate@sfu.ca

HISTORIANS

Tami Blumenfield (incoming)

The University of New Mexico
tami.blumenfield@gmail.com

Joanna Cohan Scherer (outgoing)

Emeritus Anthropologist, Smithsonian Institution
schererj@si.edu

 

CoMMPCT

Nat Nesvaderani

Laval University
Natalie.Nesvaderani@ant.ulaval.ca

Stephanie Sadre-Orafai

University of Cincinnati
sadreose@ucmail.uc.edu

Emiko Stock

Cornell University
eas426@cornell.edu

Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS-CDMX
zamoranog@gmail.com

 

PAST PRESIDENTS

Jack Rollwagen, 1984-1985

Tom Blakely, 1986-1987

Karl Heider, 1988-1989

Richard Chalfen, 1990-1991

Joanna Scherer, 1992-1993

Fadwa El Guindi, 1994-1995

Emilie de Brigard, 1996-1997

Malcolm Collier, 1998-1999

Harald Prins, 2000-2001

Carol Hermer, 2002-2003

Peter Biella, 2004-2005

Anne Zeller, 2006-2007

Mary Strong, 2008-2009

Karl Heider, 2010-2011

Liam Buckley, 2012-2013

Jonathan Marion, 2014-2015

Stephanie Takaragawa, 2016-2017

Matthew Durington, 2018-2019

Jerome Crowder, 2020-2021

Ashley Stinnett, 2022-2024