AFS Elections

In the 2007 election balloting, the following Society members were elected to AFS office:

Executive Board:

Timothy H. Evans, Western Kentucky University

Carl Lindahl, University of Houston

Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State University Museum

Nominating Committee:

Juwen Zhang, Willamette University

Our congratulations go to the newly elected officers. Our thanks go to all of the candidates for their willingness to serve the Society, and to the 2007 Nominating Committee (Amy Kitchener, chair; Mario Montaño, Solimar Otero, and Elaine Thatcher) for their work to identify candidates and prepare a slate.

The February issue of the AFS News will contain nomination information for the 2008 election. Mario Moñtano will chair the Nominating Committee in 2008.

AFS Nominating and Election Process and Schedule

Each year, the AFS Nominating Committee assembles a slate of candidates, from among the Society's members, for the offices that are available in the Society's annual election: three seats on the Society's governing body, the Executive Board; one seat on the Nominating Committee itself; and, in even-numbered years, the four-year office of AFS President (one year as President-Elect, two years as President, and one year as Past President).

The February issue of the AFS News invites members to submit names of possible candidates for the committee's consideration by May 1. Once the Committee has assembled its slate and publicized it in the August issue of the AFS News, any ten AFS members have the additional opportunity to add names to this slate by means of a written petition.

The final candidates prepare biographical sketches as well as platform statements outlining their sense of the challenges and opportunities facing the Society, and the responses they would make to these challenges and opportunities. We post these sketches and statements on this page of the AFS web site in September. The candidates then appear in a Candidates' Forum at the Society's annual meeting each October. Shortly after the annual meeting members receive election ballots, along with copies of candidates' biographies and platform statements, and completed ballots are due by December 31. Those elected take office on January 1.