Guides: ALC : Africana Librarians Council: ALC Past Chairs

Past and Current Chairs, ALC

The ALC Chairperson serves for one year, elected at the Fall meeting as Deputy Chairperson / Chairperson Elect.

Term	ALC Chairperson	Affiliation
2019-2020	Jessica Achberger Martin	Michigan State University
2018-2019	Atoma Batoma	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2017-2018	Jason Schultz	Vanderbilt University
2016-2017	Miki Goral	UCLA
2015-2016	Charles Riley	Yale University
2014-2015	Araba Dawson-Andoh	Ohio University
2013-2014	Marion Frank-Wilson	Indiana University
2012-2013	Esmeralda Kale	Northwestern University
2011-2012	Timothy Johnson	New York University
2010-2011	Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol Songolo	University of Wisconsin-Madison
2009-2010	Deborah LaFond	University at Albany, State University of New York
2008-2009	Mattye Laverne Page	Library of Congress
2007-2008	Miki Goral	UCLA
2006-2007	Peter Limb	Michigan State University
2005-2006	Lauris Olson	University of Pennsylvania
2004-2005	Marieta Harper	Library of Congress
2003-2004	Gretchen S. Walsh	Boston University
2002-2003	Alfred Kagan	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2001-2002	Gregory A. Finnegan	Harvard University
2000-2001	Jill Young Coelho	Harvard University
1999-2000	Ruby Bell-Gam	UCLA
1998-1999	Joanne Zellers	Library of Congress
1997-1998	David L. Easterbrook	Northwestern University
1996-1997	Joseph Caruso	Columbia University
1995-1996	Helene Baumann	Duke University
1994-1995	Gregory A. Finnegan	Dartmouth College / Harvard University
1993-1994	Alfred Kagan	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1992-1993	Nancy J. Schmidt	Indiana University
1991-1992	Onuma Ezera	Michigan State University
1990-1991	Peter Malanchuk	University of Florida
1989-1990	Phyllis B. Bischof	University of California, Berkeley
1988-1989	John Bruce Howell	University of Iowa
1987-1988	Mary Alice Kraehe	University of Virginia
1986-1987	Gregory A. Finnegan	Dartmouth College
1985-1986	Doris M. Hull	Howard University
1984-1985	Joseph J. Lauer	UCLA
1983-1984	Gretchen S. Walsh	Boston University
1982-1983	Maidel K. Cason	Northwestern University
1981-1982	Leon P. Spencer	Talladega College
1980-1981	Daniel A. Britz	Northwestern University
1979-1980	Elizabeth A. Widenmann	Columbia University
1978-1979	David L. Easterbrook	Syracuse University
1977-1978	Yvette H. Scheven	University of Illinois
1975-1977	Corinne E. Nyquist	SUNY College at New Paltz
1971-1974	R. Gordon Collier	Center for Research Libraries
1968-1970	Hans E. Panofsky	Northwestern University
1968	Conrad C. Reining	Catholic University of America
1966-1967	Alan R. Taylor	Indiana University
1965	Daniel F. McCall	Boston University
1964	Robert D. Baum	U.S. Department of State
1963-1964	William A. Hance	Columbia University
1962-1963	Peter J. Duignan	Hoover Institution
1959-1961	Robert D. Baum	U.S. Department of State
1957-1958	D. Vernon McKay	Johns Hopkins University

Compiled from:

Recent ALC Business Meeting minutes.
"The Africana Librarians Council and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project since 1989" / Gregory Finnegan, in: Africanist librarianship in an era of change / edited by Victoria K. Evalds and David Henige. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005, pages 31-47.
"The Archives-Libraries Committee and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project: a brief history" / David L. Easterbrook, in: Africana resources and collections: three decades of development and achievement, a festschrift in honor of Hans Panofsky / edited by Julian W. Witherell. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989, pages 18-38.