Elected Officers
To contact APLA officers, please email: APLA (at) politicalandlegalanthro (dot) org and include the relevant officer you’re seeking to reach in the subject line.
You can find a complete list of past APLA presidents here.
President
President, Elif Babul (2025-27, 2-year term)
Secretary
Secretary, Leo Coleman (2025-27, 3-year term)
Treasurer
Treasurer, Will Garriott (2023-26, 3-year term)
President-Elect
President Elect, Nicole Fabricant (2025-27, 2-year term)
Board Members At Large
Hayal Akarsu (2023-2026)
Jeffrey Kahn (2025-28)
Anna Offit (2023-2026)
Ayşe Parla (2025-2028)
Chika Watanabe, (2025-2028)
Appointed Officers
Editors of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
Editor in Chief
Deepa Das Acevedo (2024-2027)
PoLAR Online Editor
Jennifer Curtis
Book Review Editors
Jeffrey Omari (“Omari”) (2024-2027)
Neil Kaplan-Kelly (2024-2027)
AN Contributing Editor
Jessica Olivares (2025-2027)
Çağrı Yoltar (2025-2027)
APLA Graduate Student Representatives
SJ Dillon (2024-26)
Ana Marrugo (2024-2026)
APLA Web Editor
SJ Dillon
APLA Communications Liaison and Listserv Manager
Ana Marrugo
APLA Committees:
AAA Program Committee:
Meghan Morris, Chair, mlmorris@temple.edu
Deniz Yonucu, deniz.yonucu@newcastle.ac.uk
Events Committee
Nicole Fabricant
TBD
Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee
Leo Coleman (chair), mschuller@niu.edu
Jeffrey Kahn, jskahn@ucdavis.edu
Chika Watanabe, chika.watanabe@manchester.ac.uk
Early Career Mentoring Committee
Deepa Das Acevedo
Sahana Ghosh
Nominations Committee
Sahana Gosh
Chika Watanabe
Book Prize in Critical Anthropology Committee
Ayse Parla (Chair)
Sandhya Fuchs, sandhya.fuchs@bristol.ac.uk
TBA
AAA Program Coordinators 2025
Anand Vaidya, (2024-2025) (chair)
Meghan Morris (2025-2026)
Events Committee 2025
Elif Babül (chair)
Anand Vaidya
Dilan Yildirim
Ana Marrugo
SJ Dillon
Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee 2025
Mark Schuller (chair)
Taras Fedirko
Hayal Akarsu
Nominations Committee 2025
Bilge Firat
Simanti Dasgupta
Book Prize in Critical Anthropology Committee 2024
Sahana Ghosh (chair)
Mahmoud Keshavarz
Narges Bajoghli
Katherine Lemons
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