APLA Officers

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

Shalini Iyengar (2026-28)

Arielle Reich (2026-28)

Hongyun Yu (2026-28)

APLA Web Editor

SJ Dillon

APLA Communications Liaison and Listserv Manager

Ana Marrugo

APLA Committees:

AAA Program Committee:

Meghan Morris, Chair

Deniz Yonucu

Events Committee

Nicole Fabricant

Jessica Katzenstein

Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee

Leo Coleman (chair)

Jeffrey Kahn

Chika Watanabe

Early Career Mentoring Committee

Deepa Das Acevedo

Sahana Ghosh

Nominations Committee

Sahana Gosh

Chika Watanabe

Book Prize in Critical Anthropology Committee

Ayşe Parla (Chair)

Sandhya Fuchs

Yağmur Nuhrat

Sa’ed Atshan

Jessica Cooper

AAA Program Coordinators 2025

Anand Vaidya, (2024-2025) (chair)

Meghan Morris (2025-2026)

Events Committee 2025

Elif Babül (chair)

Anand Vaidya

Dilan Yildirim