Executive Committee

THE COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

DR. JERVETTE R. WARD

PRESIDENT

Chair & Associate Professor of Black Studies

The City College of New York (CCNY)

The City University of New York (CUNY)
president@clascholars.org

DR. JANAKA B. LEWIS

VICE PRESIDENT

Associate Dean, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Department of English
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
vicepresident@clascholars.org

DR. RONDREA DANIELLE MATHIS

SECRETARY & COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Assistant Professor of English
Department of Arts and Humanities
Albany State University
secretary@clascholars.org

DR. MCKINLEY E. MELTON

MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT

DIRECTOR

Associate Professor
Chair of Africana Studies
Rhodes College
membership@clascholars.org

DR. CONSTANCE BAILEY

TREASURER

Assistant Professor of African American Literature/Folklore
Department of English
Georgia State University
treasurer@clascholars.org

DR. DONOVAN L. RAMON

ASSISTANT TREASURER

Associate Professor
Department of English
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
assisttreasurer@clascholars.org

DR. DANA A. WILLIAMS

CLAJ EDITOR IN CHIEF

Dr. Dana A. Williams
Howard University
Washington, DC
editor@clascholars.org

DR. KENDRA R. PARKER

ENGLISH
AREA REPRESENTATIVE

Associate Professor of African American Literature

Department of English
Georgia Southern University
englishrep@clascholars.org

DR. DAWN DUKE

WORLD LANGUAGES
AREA REPRESENTATIVE

Professor
Department of World Languages and Cultures
University of Tennessee

worldlangrep@clascholars.org

PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR

contact@clascholars.org

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

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