MGSA Officers: 2006-2008
President: Stathis Gourgouris, Comparative Literature, University of California Los Angeles
Vice-President: Vassilios Lambropoulos, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Secretary: Martha Klironomos, Modern Greek Literature, San Francisco State University
Treasurer: Gregory Jusdanis, Modern Greek Studies, Ohio State University
Executive Board
Victor Papacosma, Executive Director, History, Kent State University
Peter Allen, Anthropology, Rhode Island College
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Modern Greek Studies, Ohio State University
Eleni Bastea, Architecture, University of New Mexico
Vangelis Calotychos, Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Yiorgos Chouliaras, Press Counselor, Embassy of Greece, Washington, D.C.
Franklin Hess, Film and Popular Culture, Indiana University
Neovi Karakatsanis, Political Science, Indiana University South Bend
George Syrimis, Comparative Literature, Yale University
Graduate Representative: Evdoxios Doxiadis, History, University of California Berkeley
MGSA Administration
As defined in its constitution, the MGSA’s governance consists of a twelve-member Executive Board that is elected by the members every three years. The Executive Board in turn elects, from among its own ranks, the Association's officers: the President, the Vice President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer. In the selection of candidates for the Executive Board, every effort is made to provide representation for both the principal academic fields active in the Association and the different geographic regions of the United States in which members live and work. Executive Board members may serve up to two consecutive terms. After completing two terms, however, they must sit out for at least three years before standing for election again.
The Executive Board is aided in their administrative duties by the Executive Director of the Association. The Executive Director, who is appointed by the Executive Board, oversees the day-to-day administration of the property, assets, affairs, and business of the Association.
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Affiliations
In order to promote access to information about activities of possible interest to its members and to provide for jointly sponsored meetings focusing on shared themes the MGSA has become affiliated with other professional organizations. Currently these include:
- the Modern Language Association of America
- the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- the American Historical Association
- the American Philological Association
- the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- the Canadian Academic Institute in Athens
- the International Studies Association
Standing Committees
In order to facilitate the Association’s business, the Constitution allows the Executive Board to establish both standing and ad hoc committees that are entrusted to oversee specific aspects of the Association’s business. Each committee contains at least one Executive Board member, who generally serves as the chair. The chair recruits other members, from both the Executive Board and the general membership, and convenes the committee.
Currently, the Executive Board mandates the following committees:
The Administration Committee: Chair, Neovi Karakatsanis
The Computers and the Technology Committee: Chair, Franklin L. Hess
The Fund Raising and Long-Term Planning Committee: Chair, Stathis Gourgouris, ex officio
The Graduate Studies Committee: Chairs, Vangelis Calotychos and Evdoxis Doxiades
The Membership and Publicity Committee: Chair, Yiorgos Chouliaras
The Nominations Committee: Chair, Neovi Karakatsanis
The Publications Committee: Chair, Gregory Jusdanis
The Undergraduate Studies Committee: Chair, George Syrimis
The Transnational Studies Committee: Chair, Yiorgos Anagnostou
The Library Committee: Chair, George Paganelis
Committee mandates and details can be viewed here.