LSA Officers and Executive Committee - 2019
Subcommittees
Constitution and Bylaws of the LSA
Conflict of Interest Statement
Financial and Administrative Policies and Procedures

LSA OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE - 2019

OFFICERS
President: Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University
Vice President/President-Elect: Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Secretary-Treasurer: Lenore Grenoble, University of Chicago

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University, Past President
Yining Nie, Bloch Fellow, New York University (2019)
Marlyse Baptista, University of Michigan (2020)
Anne Charity Hudley, University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles (2020)
Robin Queen, University of Michigan (2019)
Arthur K. Spears, City University of New York (2021)
Rebecca Scarborough, University of Colorado Boulder (2021)
Alan Yu, University of Chicago (2019)

Mandate

See the LSA Constitution, Article IV, No. 1.

Responsibilities

Elects new members and honorary members. Recommends the amount of dues to be paid by regular and student members. Approves requests for emeritus membership. Approves appointments to the various committees as recommended by the Committee on Committee and Delegate Appointments. Determines the time and place of the Annual Meeting of the Society. May call special meetings of the Society. Nominates the Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor, and six persons for vacant positions on the Nominating Committee. Names an investment counselor. Appoints the Associate Editors of Language, in consultation with the Editor.

Membership

The Nominating Committee nominates two people for each vacant position on the Executive Committee. The President of the Society serves as the Chair.

SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

FINANCE
Lenore Grenoble, Chair, University of Chicago (2022)
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University (2019)
Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University (2020)
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara (2021)
Alyson Reed, Executive Director, Linguistic Society of America (ex officio)

AUDIT COMMITTEE
Colleen Fitzgerald, Chair, University of Texas at Arlington (2019)
David Silva, Salem State University, (2020)
Alan Yu, University of Chicago (2019)
At-large LSA Member (TBD)

COMMITTEE AND DELEGATE APPOINTMENTS
Lenore Grenoble, Chair, University of Chicago (2022)
Marlyse Baptista, University of Michigan (2019)
Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University (2019)
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles (2019)
David Robinson, Director of Membership and Meetings, Linguistic Society of America (ex officio)

ADVISORS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

ARCHIVIST
Margaret Thomas, Boston College
LSA Archives

PARLIAMENTARIAN
Vacant

PUBLICATIONS ADVISOR
Patrick Farell

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT

It is the intention of the LSA that the following Conflict of Interest policy be signed annually by the editors of LSA journals, and by the members of the Executive Committee. [pdf]

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (1925 - 2018)

Previous Executive Committees from 1925 - 2018

FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

This manual describes the various policies and procedures governing the financial and administrative operations of the LSA. [pdf]