Section Officers

Executive Committee (Elected Officers)

Section Chair
David Bateman
Cornell University
dab465@cornell.edu

Financial Director
Chris Witko
Penn State University
Cxw877@psu.edu

Communications Director 
Simon Weschle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
weschle@unc.edu

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director
Patricia Posey
University of Chicago
pdposey@uchicago.edu

2025 Program Chairs
Serena Laws
Trinity College
serena.laws@trincoll.edu

Mallory SoRelle
Duke University
mallory.sorelle@duke.edu


Section Council/Board

Nominations Committee

Ben Ansell
Oxford University
ben.ansell@politics.ox.ac.uk

Laura Bucci
Saint Joseph’s University
laura.c.bucci@gmail.com

Christopher Ojeda
University of California Merced
cojeda5@ucmerced.edu

Appointed Officers

Award Chair
Bill Franko
West Virginia University
william.franko@mail.wvu.edu

Outreach Chair 
Jake Grumbach
University of Washington
grumbach@uw.edu

Teaching and Learning Chair
Laura Bucci
Saint Joseph’s University
laura.c.bucci@gmail.com