SSA Board

  • President (2024-25): Reem Bailony

    Assistant Professor, Agnes Scott College

  • President Elect (2026-27): Beverly Tsacoyianis

    Associate Professor of History, University of Memphis

  • Past President (2024-2025): Edith Szanto

    Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama

  • Treasurer (2nd term, 2023-25): Faedah Totah

    Associate Professor of International Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Prize Committee Chair (2024-25): Michael Provence

    Professor of Modern Middle East History, University of California, San Diego

  • Junior Member at Large (2024-25): Basileus Zeno

  • Bulletin Editor: Joel Veldkamp

    PhD in history, Graduate Institute, Geneva. International Communications Officer, Christian Solidarity International.

  • Graduate Student Representative (2024-25): Yasmeen Mobayed

    Graduate student, University of Chicago

  • Webmaster (2021-24): Andrea Stanton

    Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Denver (CO)

  • Lebanon Liaison

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  • Syria Liaison

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  • Book Reviews Editor: Geoffrey Schad

    Historian and scholarly editor

Presidents

Edith Szanto, 2022-2023

Elyse Semerdjian, 2020-2021

Andrea Stanton, 2019-2020

Graduate Student Rep

Mohammed Kadalah

Past Board Members

Members at Large

Michael Provence

Stephennie Mulder

Reem Bailony

Prize Committee Chair

Dawn Chatty

Treasurer (formerly Sec/Treas)

Geoffrey Schad

Fred Lawson

Stacy Fahrenthold

Bulletin Editor

Edith Szanto

Andrea Stanton

Steve Tamari