Please contact the LSA if you would like to serve on any of the LSA's open committees. Open committees are open to any current LSA member.

Click on individual committees below to see descriptions and membership lists. Committee chairs welcome input from all members of the Society.

Read more about the committee nominations process.

Subcommittees of the Executive Committee

• Audit Committee
• Committee and Delegate Appointments
• Finance

LSA Standing Committees

• Advisory to Programs (ATP)
• Editors of Linguistics Journals (CELxJ)
• Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP)
• Ethics Committee
• Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL)
• First Generation Access and Equity (FGAE) Committee
• Gender Equity in Linguistics (COGEL)
• Honorary Members (HMC)
• Linguistics in the School Curriculum (LiSC)
• Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics (COZIL)
• Linguistics in Higher Education (LiHEC)
• Linguistic Institutes and Fellowships (CLIF)
• Nominating
• Program (PC)
• Public Policy (CoPP)
• Public Relations (PRC)
• Publications
• Scholarly Communication in Linguistics (CoSCiL)
• Student Issues and Concerns (COSIAC)

LSA Standing Committees -- Awards

• Awards Committee
• C.L. Baker Award Committee
• Bloomfield Book Award
• Elizabeth Dayton Award Committee
• Halle Award & Fromkin Prize Committee

Ad-hoc Committees/Workgroups

• Centennial Planning
• Committee on Materials Return
• Demographic Data Issues
• Future of the Annual Meetings (FOAM)
• Mentoring Workgroup
• Ombuds Committee

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

About Special Interest Groups

• Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group
• Natives4Linguistics Special Interest Group
• Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics