Affiliates and Regional Societies Information
Listed below are links to the webpages for the Regional and Affiliate Societies of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and information about: officers/contacts; publications; awards; and dues.
This page, like the schedule of Affiliate Societies conference dates, is updated as needed. Please help keep information current by sending updates to:
Rivka Swenson
Affiliates Coordinator, ASECS
Department of English
Virginia Commonwealth University
900 Park Ave, Hibbs Bldg., Room 306
P.O. Box 842005
Richmond, VA 23284-2005
Email: rswenson@vcu.edu
OFFICERS: President: Ellen Dunlap
Vice President of External Affairs: Matthew Shakespeare
Marcus McCorison Librarian: Thomas Knoles
Vice President for Programs and Outreach: James David Moran
PUBLICATIONS: Common-Place: the journal of early American life, editors Anna Mae Duane and Walter Woodward; newsletter, Almanac; staff blog, Past is Present
AWARDS: Long-term and short-term visiting fellowships
Bibliographical Society of America
OFFICERS: President: Martin Antonetti
Vice President: Michael T. Ryan
Secretary: Barbara Heritage
Treasurer: G. Scott Clemons; Brown Brothers Harriman
Executive Director: Michèle E. Randall
PUBLICATIONS: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, editor David L. Grants; BibSite, webmaster/editor Donna Sy
AWARDS: ($1000) William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers; ($3000) Justin G. Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books; ($2000) St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for work on American printing history and bibliography ($3000-$6000); fellowships; New Scholars Program
DUES: $65 individual; $20 graduate student; $100 contributing $100; $250 sustaining; lifetime membership $1250
OFFICERS: President: Elaine Bander
Vice President: Stewart Cooke
Treasurer: Roberta Brody
Membership/Secretary: Cheryl D. Clark
PUBLICATIONS: The Burney Journal (annual), editor Marilyn Francus (Marilyn.Francus@mail.wvu.edu); The Burney Letter (semi-annual), editor, Lorna Clark
AWARDS: Hemlow Prize ($250), awarded to the best essay written by a graduate student on any aspect of the life and writings of Frances Burney. The winning essay is published in The Burney Journal
DUES: $20 individual
OFFICERS: President: Peter Sabor
Chairperson: Miriam Al Jamil
Communications and Minutes Secretary: Trudie Messent
Membership Secretary, and Treasurer: Deborah Jones
Committee Members: Sophie Coulombeau, Margaret Tarplee, Cassie Ulph, Francesca Saggini, Gillian Skinner, Helen Cooper
PUBLICATIONS: See above under Burney Society North America
DUES: £15 individual, ₤25 joint membership
OFFICERS: President: Armelle St-Martin
Secretary: Isabelle Tremblay
Treasurer: Greg Morgan
Conference Presidents: Betty Schellenberg and Diana Solomon
Webmaster: Allison Muri
Graduate Student Representatives: Nevena Martinovic Dedicated ASECS Delegate: Don Nichol
PUBLICATIONS: Lumen, editors Nicolas Dion and Corinne Harol
AWARDS: D. W. Smith fellowship; ($250 and publication) Mark-Madoff Prize, best graduate paper from conference
DUES: Create account for access to dues structure
OFFICERS: Past President: Max Novak
President: John Richetti
Vice President: Katherine Ellison
Director: Andreas Mueller
Project Coordinator: Kit Kincade
Secretary: Ben Pauley
Treasurer: Sharon Alker
Liaison Officer: Rivka Swenson
At-Large Members: Nicholas Seager, Stephen Gregg, Manushag Powell, Dwight Codr
Graduate Student Representative: Carol Guarnieri
Listserv master: Sharon Alker
PUBLICATIONS: Digital Defoe, editors Christopher Loar and Adam Sills; book review editor, Jason Pearl; technical editor, Nicole Keller
AWARDS (Biannual, $200 each): Max Novak Prize for best article/essay/book chapter on Defoe; J. Paul Hunter Prize for best graduate student paper at the conference; Sharon Alker, Katherine Ellison, and Holly Faith Nelson Prize for best essay in Digital Defoe
DUES: $35 individual, or $60 for 2 years; $15 for graduate students, or $20 for two years; $250 lifetime membership
OFFICERS: President: Richard Frohock
Vice President: Kelly Wisecup
Secretary-Treasurer: Cassander L. Smith
PUBLICATIONS: digital project, The Early Caribbean Digital Archive, project managers Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Nicole Aljoe
DUES: $30 individual; $10 graduate students, independent scholars; $20 staff at historic sites, museums, libraries
East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ECASECS)
OFFICERS: Executive Secretary: Peter Staffel
President: Eugene Hammond
Vice President: Matt Kinservik
Past President: Eleanor Shevlin
Webmaster: Susan C. Beam
Elected Board Members: John Heins, Joanne Myers, Ellen Moody
PUBLICATIONS: The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, editor Jim May
AWARDS ($150, second place $100): S. Eric Molin Award for best graduate student conference paper
DUES: $25 individual, $40 joint membership; $15 student; $250 lifetime membership
Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
OFFICERS: President: Leith Davis
Vice President: Craig Smith
Executive Secretary: Richard B. Sher (973) 596-3377
Members at Large: Michael Amrozowicz and Katherine Nicolai
Executive Board: John Cairns, Leith Davis, Jack Hill, Catherine Jones, Ned Landsman, Craig Smith, Mark Spencer, Mark Towsey
PUBLICATIONS: Eighteenth-Century Scotland; and multi-author volume series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Bucknell UP), general editor, Richard Sher; newsletter, editor Richard B. Sher
AWARDS: Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship at IASH, U of Edinburgh; graduate student conference bursaries
DUES: $35 or £21, individual; $18 or £11, graduate student, unwaged, or retired; $60 or £36, supporting; $240 or £144, 5-year supporting
Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies
OFFICERS: President: Stephanie Genand
Vice President: Michel Delon
Secretary: Blandine Poirier
Treasurer: Aline Hodroge
Board: Fabienne Bercegol, Laura Broccardo, Leonard Burnand, Michel Delon, Catherine Dubeau, Stephanie Genand, Aline Hodroge, Blandine Poirier, Catriona Seth
PUBLICATIONS: Cahiers staëliens
DUES: 30 €, individual; 15 €, student
Goethe Society of North America
OFFICERS: President: Daniel Purdy (814-865-1353)
Vice President: Catriona MacLeod
Executive Secretary: Birgit Tautz
Directors at Large: Heidi Schlipphacke, John H. Smith
Secretary-Treasurer: Christian Weber
Editor of the Book Series: Karin Schutjer
Editor of the Newsletter & Webmaster: Burkhard Henke
PUBLICATIONS: The Goethe Yearbook, editors Patricia Ann Simpson and Birgit Tautz; newsletter, Goethe News and Notes; book series New Studies in the “Age of Goethe” (Bucknell UP), general editor Karin Schutjer
AWARDS ($500 each, annually): two GSNA Essay Prizes for best essays on Goethe and his times and/or contemporaries; Richard Sussman Essay Prize for best essay on Goethe and science/history of science
AWARDS (triannually): Gloria Flaherty Scholarship, awarded to graduate students for dissertation workshop participation at the GSNA’s international Atkins conferences
DUES: $36.35, tenured; $26.05, non-tenured; $10, graduate students and emeriti; $100, patrons; institutions, $41.50
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
OFFICERS: President: Amelia Rauser
Treasurer: Christina Lindeman
Newsletter Editor: Craig Hanson
18-AAS Listserv: contact jplax@uarizona.edu
PUBLICATIONS: newsletter, Enfilade
AWARDS: Wiebenson Prize for best graduate student paper presented at a scholarly conference or a sponsored lecture; Mary Vidal Memorial fund for research travel, conference presentation, and image permissions)
DUES: $25 individual; $5 graduate student
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IASECS)
OFFICERS: President: Madeline Sutherland-Meier
Vice President: Renee Gutiérrez
Secretary/Treasurer: Catherine Jaffe
Members-at-Large: Elena Deanda, Clorinda Donato, Mehl Penrose
Immediate Past President: Kathleen Fueger
PUBLICATIONS: Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, editor David T. Gies
AWARDS: ($250) Pilar G. Sáenz Student Essay Prize; (up to $400) María Salgado Student Travel Grants; 2 ASECS Registration Fee Grants
DUES: $20 individual; $10 graduate students
International Adam Smith Society
OFFICERS: President: Sandra Peart
Secretary-Treasurer: Christopher Martin
PUBLICATIONS: The Adam Smith Review, editor Fonna Forman-Barzilai,
DUES: $80 individual; $90 non-U.S.
The International Herder Society
OFFICERS: President: Liisa Steinby
Vice President: Nigel DeSouza
Secretary-Treasurer North America: Johannes Schmidt
Secretary-Treasurer Europe, Africa, Asia: Heinrich Clairmont
PUBLICATIONS: Herder Yearbook, editors Rainer Godel and Joannes Schmidt; volumes of conference proceedings; newsletter
DUES: $50 individual; $25 students, emeriti, independent scholars
Lessing Society
OFFICERS: President and Managing Director: Carl Niekerk
Vice President: Ortrud Gutjahr
Committee: John A. McCarthy, Monika Fick, Willi Goetschel, Steven D. Martinson, Monika Nenon, Herb Rowland
Executive Secretary: Carl Niekerk
Secretary Treasurer: Mary Helen Dupree
Book Review Editor: Monika Nenon
PUBLICATIONS: Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch; Novelties; newsletter, Notes and Notices
DUES: $35 individual or institution; $25 graduate student; $75 sustaining membership
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS)
OFFICERS: President: Jennifer Frangos
Past President: Susan Spencer University
Treasurer/Secretary: Jeanne Hageman
Webmaster: Geremy Carnes
Lexi Stuckey (University of Tulsa)--Web Manager
Members at Large: Scott Breuninger, Sheila Hwang, Sharon Smith
DUES: $10 individual, joint membership $17
OFFICERS: President: Paul Corneilson
Vice President: Edmund J. Goehring
Secretary: Beverly Wilcox
Treasurer: Matthew Leone
PUBLICATIONS: newsletter, editor Christopher Lynch, review editor Emily Wuchner
AWARDS: ($500) Marjorie Weston Emerson Award for the best edition, book, or article about Mozart published during the preceding 2 years
DUES: $50 individual or institution; $30 graduate students, emeriti
North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA)
OFFICERS: President: Eric Saylor
Vice President: Linda Austern
Secretary: Danielle Ward-Griffin
Treasurer: Therese Ellsworth
Board of Directors: Christina Baade, Jenny Doctor, K. Dawn Grapes, Alison Mero, Imani Mosley, Christopher Scheer
PUBLICATIONS: NABMSA Reviews; blog; newsletter
AWARDS: Diana McVeagh Book Prize; Nicholas Temperley Student Paper Prize; Ruth Solie Prize for Outstanding Article on British Music
DUES: $25 individual; graduate student $12.50
OFFICERS:
President: Andrew Chignell
Vice President: Huaping Lu-Adler
Treasurer: Anne Margaret Baxley
PUBLICATIONS: NAKS Newsletter (members only)
PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES (virtual): Virtual NAKS (ongoing)
AWARDS: Wilfred Sellars Essay Prize for junior scholars; Senior Prize for senior scholars (alternating between essay and book prizes)
DUES: FREE for graduate students; $1,200 for lifetime membership; other levels ranging from $20 to $165
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS)
OFFICERS: President: Joseph Bartolomeo
First Vice President: Todd Gilman
Second Vice President: Katherine Mannheimer
Executive Board: Catherine Gallouet, Eric Klaus, Nancy Johnson, Sonia, Kane, Kristin O'Rourke, James Caudle, Paul Young, Claire Baldwin, Robert De Maria
Secretary-Treasurer: Melissa Bissonette
Newsletter Editor: John H. O’Neill; email: joneill@hamilton.edu
DUES: $25 individual; $20 graduate student, emeriti, independent scholars
AWARDS: Travel grants for graduate students presenting papers (up to 6 for $300) and Edna Steeves Prize ($300) for best graduate paper delivered at the annual conference.
Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NWSECS)
OFFICERS: Chief Officer: Marvin Lansverk
OFFICERS: President: Ourida Mostefai
Vice President: Brigitte Weltman-Aron
Secretary-Treasurer: Jason Neidleman
Webmaster: Michael O’Dea
Board Members: Robin Doglass, Nathan Martin, Dennis Rasmussen, Zev Trachtenberg, Masano Yamashita
PUBLICATIONS: Volumes published with Voltaire Foundation and Rodopi
DUES: $20 individual; $10 graduate students, emeriti
OFFICERS: President: Emily Friedman
Samuel Johnson Society of the Central Region
OFFICERS: Secretary/Treasurer Stephen Karian
DUES: $3
Samuel Johnson Society of the West
OFFICERS: Secretary: Myron Yeager
DUES: $25
OFFICERS: President: Gordon Sayre
Vice President: Patrick M. Erben
Executive Coordinator: Ralph Bauer
List serv Moderator (EARAM-L): Raymond Craig
PUBLICATIONS: Newsletter, SEAN, editor Mary M. Balkun;
AWARDS: ($100) Annual Essay Competition, best Americanist paper from conference, ASECS, or any ASECS affiliate society conference
DUES: option levels range from $40 to $104
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
OFFICERS: President: Sarah Eyerly
Secretary-Treasurer: Evan Cortens
PUBLICATIONS: newsletter, editor Alison C. DeSimone
DUES: $30 individual; $15 institutional members, graduate students, emeriti, reduced income
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
OFFICERS: President: Sydney Shep
Vice President: Shef Rogers
Membership Secretary and Coordinator of North American Membership Secretary, North American Liaison, Dedicated ASECS Liaison: Eleanor F. Shevlin
Treasurer: James Wald
Recording Secretary: Corinna Norrick
Director of Transnational Affairs: Simon R. Frost
Director for Publications and Awards: Claire Squires
Member at Large: Martyn Lyons
Director of Electronic Resources: Jason Ensor
Acting Director for Conferences: Josee Vincent
PUBLICATIONS: Book History, editors Jonathan Rose, Greg Barnhisel, and Beth Le Roux; SHARP News, editor Padmini Murray; Lingua Franca, editors Martyn Lyons, Susan Pickford; SHARP News
AWARDS: ($400 and publication) Book History Essay Prize, best graduate student submission; ($1000) DeLong Book History Prize; Award for Distinguished Achievement
DUES: $62 individual, $85 joint membership; $38 graduate students, independent scholars, emeriti
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
President: Kevin Cope
Vice President: Kristen Hague
Past President: Ashley Bender
Director of Media and Internet Services: Susan Spencer
Secretary/Treasurer: Kathryn Duncan
Venues Committee Chair: Kevin Cope
Members at Large: John J. Burke, Jr., James Thorson, Connie Capers Thorson, Gloria Eive, Phyllis Thompson, Joyce Palmer
Asian and European Liaisons: Samara Cahill, Jessika Wichner
Member at Small: David Paxman
PUBLICATIONS: newsletter
AWARDS: ($200) Prizes for best conference paper, best graduate student paper; SCSECS Presidential Prize for publication of best conference paper in the next issue of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, editor Kevin Cope; The Noel Foundation Fellowship for study of printed texts of “the (very) long 18th century”
DUES: $15 individual
Southeast Asian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
OFFICERS: President: Anne Thell
Vice President: Sam Cahill
Treasurer: Wing Sze Leung
Web Manager: Emily Kugler
Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS)
EMAIL: seasecsofficial@gmail.com
OFFICERS:
President: Jonathan Mercantini, mercant@kean.edu (History, Kean Univ., 2023)
Secretary: Shea Stuart (English, Gardner-Webb, 2022), lstuart@gardner-webb.edu
Archivist: Bryan Rindfleisch (History, Marquette, 2023), bryan.rindfleisch@marquette.edu
Past President: Marta Kvande (English, Texas Tech Univ., 2023) marta.kvande@ttu.edu
Journal Editor: Joe Johnson (French, Clayton State), joejohnson@clayton.edu
Vice President: Patty Hamilton (English, Union University, 2023), phamilto@uu.edu
Treasurer: Arthur Kölzow (French, ETSU, 2023), kolzow@exchange.tamu.edu
PUBLICATIONS: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, editor Joe Johnson, SEASECS Gazette
AWARDS: ($500) Annibel Jenkins Prize in Performance and Theater Studies; ($500) Percy G. Adams Prize; ($1000) Undergraduate Teaching Prize; ($300) Graduate Student Essay Prize; Graduate Student Travel Grants
DUES: $30 individual; $40 contributing; $10 student
OFFICERS: Director of the Board: Nicholas Cronk
Secretary of the Board: Alexis Tadié
General Editor and Senior Research Fellow: Gregory S. Brown
Publisher and Director of Business Development: Clare Fletcher
OFFICERS: President: John R. Iverson
Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
OFFICERS President: Timothy Erwin
Vice President: Gregory S. Brown
Treasurer/Secretary: Treadwell Ruml
Committee Members: Jennifer Bent, Jonathan Lee
AWARDS: ($250) Helene W. Koon Memorial Prize for best conference paper by graduate student or junior faculty member
DUES: Folded into conference registration fee
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