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1998)
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1999)
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1999)
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PIOTR MICHALOWSKI, President; MICHAEL G. CARTER, Immediate Past President; RICHARD SALOMON, Vice-President; JONATHAN RODGERS, Secretary-Treasurer; STEPHANIE W. JAMISON, Editor-in-Chief; Directors-at-Large: STEVEN GARFINKLE (2015); SULEIMAN MOURAD (2015), JOEL BRERETON (2016); RICHARD AVERBECK, President, Middle West Branch; JOEL BRERETON, President, Southwest Branch; MICHAEL FULLER, President, Western Branch; Sectional Chairs: NA'AMA PAT-EL (Ancient Near East, 2015), MATTHIAS L. RICHTER (East Asia, 2014), DEVIN DEWEESE (Inner Asia, 2015); BEATRICE GRUENDLER (Islamic Near East, 2014; Program Chair, 2014), STEVEN LINDQUIST (South and Southeast Asia, 2015)
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PAUL W. KROLL, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado,
Campus Box 279, Boulder, CO 80309 USA (2012)
Delegate to the International Association for Sanskrit Studies
JOEL BRERETON, Dept. of Asian Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin, WCH 4.134, Mail Code G9300, Austin TX 78712-1194
Delegate to the International Union of Orientalists
JACK M. SASSON, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 37240-2701
Delegate to the Lidzbarski Prize Committee
WOLFHART HEINRICHS, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, 6 Divinity St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Representative to the Board of the American Schools of Oriental Research
PETER MACHINIST, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, 6 Divinity St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Committee on Nominations
SETH RICHARDSON (Chair, 2014), The Oriental Institute, 1155 East 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637 USA; DAVID BRICK (2015), South Asian Studies Council, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, P. O. Box 208206, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8206 USA; DEVIN DEWEESE (2014), Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Goodbody Hall 343, Indiana University, 1011 East 3rd St., Bloomington, IN 47405-7005, JOSEPH LOWRY (2014), Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, 847 Williams Hall, 225 South 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA;
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OFFICERS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BRANCH, 2010-2012
President
RICHARD AVERBECK, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2065 Half Day Rd, Deerfield, Il 60015-1241
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JOANN SCURLOCK, Dept. of History, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3296
Executive Committee
RICHARD AVERBECK, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2065 Half Day Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015; RICHARD H BEAL, Chicago Hittite Dictionary, Oriental Institute, Or 226A, 1155 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637; WAYNE T. PITARD, Program for the Study of Religion, 3080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-160, 707 South Matthews, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801; K. LAWSON YOUNGER, Trinity International University, 2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
OFFICERS OF THE SOUTHWEST BRANCH, 2009-2010
President
JOEL BRERETON, Dept. of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, WCH 4.134, Mail Code G9300, Austin TX 78712-1194
Vice-President
STEPHEN H. PHILLIPS, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Secretary-Treasurer
HAROLD LIEBOWITZ, Dept. of Oriental and African Languages and Literatures, University
of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
Executive Committee
JOHN G. BORDIE, University of Texas; HAROLD LIEBOWITZ, University of Texas
OFFICERS OF THE WESTERN BRANCH, 2001-2016
President
MICHAEL FULLER (2011-2013) , Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of California, Irvine, 475 HIB, Mail Code: 6000, Irvine, CA 92697
Vice-President
DANIEL BRYANT (2011-2013), University of Victoria Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria; P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P4 Canada
Secretary-Treasurer
ANTJE RICHTER (2011-2016), Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado, Campus Box 279, Boulder, CO 80309
Executive Committee
MICHAEL FARMER (2010-2013), University of Texas at Dallas; ANNA SHIELDS (2010-2013), University of Maryland Baltimore County; MADELINE SPRING (2011-2014), Arizona State University; WANG PING (2011-2014), Princeton University; RICHARD VON GLAHN (Immediate Past President 2011-2013) , University of California Los Angeles; ANTJE RICHTER (2011-2016), University of Colorado
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