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2017-2018 Officers

President — Jessica de Villiers, University of British Columbia
Vice-President — Robert Orr, Independent Scholar, Ottawa
Secretary-Treasurer — Renison J. Gonsalves, Brooklyn College
Program Chair
/ Webmaster — Douglas Coleman, University of Toledo
Publications Director — Bill Sullivan, U Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej

Publications Secretary -- Dan Mailman, Studio MindStride



Board of Directors

Sheila Embleton, York University, Chair
Helen Chau Hu, Cal State U, Long Beach (16-19)
Magda Stroinska, McMaster University (16-19)
Kara Van Dam, University of Maryland University College (15-18)
Hui Yin, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (15-18)
Svetlana Kaminskaia, University of Waterloo (17-20)
Yuri Yerastov, Facebook (17-20)


Founding Board Members

Jean-Luc Garneau, Lake Forest College
Sydney Lamb, Rice University
J. Peter Maher, Northeastern Illinois University
Adam Makkai, University of Illinois at Chicago
Valerie Becker Makkai, University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter Reich, University of Toronto




Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States / Association de Linguistique du Canada et des États-Unis