President (incoming > dates below as current president > past )
Ted Bestor 2001-2003
Laura Miller 2003-2005
Yunxiang Yan 2005-2007
Laurel Kendall 2007-2009
Jennifer Robertson 2009-2011
Eriberto P. Lozada Jr. 2011-2013
Li Zhang 2013-2015
Gordon Mathews 2015-2017
Glenda Roberts 2017-2019
Sonia Ryang 2020, 2021
Ellen Oxfeld 2022, 2023
Christine Yano 2024, 2025
Secretary
Fuji Lozada 2002-2004
Susan Long 2004-2006
Lisa Hoffmann 2006-2008
Sabine Frühstück 2008-2010
Gabriella Lukacs 2010-2012
Amy Borovoy 2012-2015
Carolyn Stevens 2015-2018
Satsuki Kawano 2019-20-21
Teresa Kuan 2022-23-24
Treasurer
Sarah Soh 2001-2003
Joseph Bosco 2003-2005
Glenda S. Roberts 2005-2007
Sandra Hyde 2007-2009
Beth Notar 2009-2011
Jennifer Hubbert 2011-2013
Anru Lee 2013-2016
Susan Brownell 2016-2019
Isaac Gagne 2019-2022
Jun Zhang 2023-25
Councilors
Jerry Eades 2003
Laura Nelson 2003
Yunxiang Yan 2003
Avron Boretz 2002-2005
Gordon Mathews 2002-2005
Millie Creighton 2003-2006
Sonia Ryang 2003-2006
Li Zhang 2004-2007
Ian Condry 2005-2008
Louisa Schein 2005-2008
Bonnie Adrian 2006-2009
Sara Friedman 2006-2009
Anru Li 2007-2010
Guven P. Witteveen 2007-2010
Charlene Makley 2008-2011
Tomomi Yamaguchi 2008-2011
Susan Greenhalgh 2009-2012
Jesook Song 2009-2012
Elise Edwards 2010-2013
C. Julia Huang 2010-2013
Haeng-Ja Chung 2011-2014
Akiko Takeyama 2011-2014
Matthew Korhman 2012-2015
Jong Bum Kwon 2012-2015
Nancy Chen 2013-2016
Akihiro Ogawa 2013-2016
Sealing Cheng 2014-2017
Joshua Roth 2014-2017
Eleana Kim 2015-2018
Priscilla Song 2015-2018
Shao-hua Liu 2016-2019
Ayako Takamori 2016-2019
John Cho 2018-2020
Gavin Whitelaw 2018-2020
Nicholas Harkness 2019-2021
Andrew Kipnis 2019-2021
Marvin Sterling 2020-2022
Jie Yang 2020-2022
Jennifer Prough 2021-2023
Yi Wu 2021-2023
Zachary Howlett 2022-2024
Beata Świtek 2022-2024
Former SEAA Student Board Members
Pearl Chan 2001-2003
Dawn Grimes-MacLellan 2002-2004
Priscilla Song 2003-2005
Tami Blumenfield 2004-2006
Shana Fruehan 2005-2007
Teresa Kuan 2006-2008
June Mee Kim 2007-2009
Junko Teruyama 2008-2010
Susan McArver 2009-2011
Xia Zhang 2010-2012
Seoyoung Park 2011-2013
Neal Akatsuka 2012-2014
Yi Zhou 2013-2015
Sarah Chee 2014-2016
Tianyu Xie 2015-2017
Jing Wang 2016-2019
Yukun Zeng 2019-2020
Yifan Wang 2020-2021
Tim Quinn 2021-2022
Yookyeong Im 2022-2023
Sojung Kim 2023-2024
Former Program Committee for Annual Meetings
Jerry Eades 2004
Susan Blum 2005-2006
Gordon Mathews 2007-2008
Anru Lee 2009
Tomomi Yamaguchi 2010
Unclear 2011-2014
Jung Bum Kwon 2015
Akihiro Ogawa 2016
Sealing Cheng 2017
Priscilla Song 2018
Ayako Takamori (chair), John Cho, Andrew Kipnis, Jing Wang 2019
Sonia Ryang (chair), Paul Christiansen, Satsuki Kawano 2021 [Covid cancellation of 2020]
Ellen Oxfeld (chair), Zach Howlett, Jie Yang 2022
Ellen Oxfeld (chair), Kunisuke Hirano, Beata Switek, Jun Zhang 2023
Isaac Gagné (chair), Sojung Kim, Teresa Kuan, Jun Zhang 2024
Former SEAA Column Co-editors (AAA Newsletter) (appointed by President)
Fuji Lozada 2003
Bonnie Adrian and Ann Frechette 2004
Carolyn Stevens and Chris Yano 2005-2007
Carolyn Stevens and Jennifer Hubbert 2008
Jennifer Hubbert and Gordon Mathews 2009
Anru Li and Bridget Love 2010
Unclear 2011-2015
Heidi Lam and Yi Zhou 2016-2017
Heidi Lam and Shuang Frost 2018-2019
Shuang Frost and Hanna Pickwell 2019-2020
Hanna Pickwell and Elizabeth Rodwell 2020-2021
Jieun Cho and Aaron Su 2022-2024
Former SEAA webmanagers (appointed by President)
David Wiggins 2003-2008
New manager hired, 2010, name not provided
Unclear 2011-2013
Guven P. Witteveen 2014-
*basis for compiling in February 2017 the SEAA chronicle of positions served – thanks to Gordon Mathews for drafting the name list.
This is a list of previous Board Members with terms, derived from the Annual Reports from the Society for East Asian Anthropology since 2003. Because we have no records before 2003, the initial years are not clear; as I recall, terms of office were staggered then for councilors, but I cannot go back and see. The Annual Reports are also very confusing because new officers assume duties in Nov. or Dec. of a given year [NB: rectified in late 2020 decision to make terms commence January 1 of the year after election results made]; some reports (which are written by Presidents of SEAA each year, but in response to changing AAA instructions over the years) state that a new electee begins office in the year of the AAA meeting, but others indicate the year thereafter. This is particularly confusing for councilors, since there are several each year. This is also difficult because in some years, the Board is not specified in the Annual Report. Added to this is that the terms of officers, particularly of treasurers and secretaries, have apparently varied over the years, although I am not entirely sure of this: this is not written in our by-laws. I am confident that the names in the listing below are accurate. I am not so confident that the dates are right, but I can’t reconstruct this from the existing data. What we need, aside from the Annual Reports, are the Minutes of the Board Meetings every year over the years, but we don’t have that, so we can’t know some crucial data, such as the names of the editors of the AA News column every year, and the webmaster. The list below is largely accurate, but there remain significant holes, particularly in terms of program editors, webmasters and column editors in recent years.
Send edits to Guven Witteveen at anthroview[atgmail].com