Executive Committee
The role of the IASCL Executive Committee is to run our Association. There are 11 ex-officio members and 15 elected members.
First off, more than half of the ex-officio members are part of the Board. They do the "daily" work, so to speak. The immediate Past President is also an ex-officio member (post held by Annick De Houwer, 2024-2027). The Child Language Bulletin editor, appointed by the President, likewise is an ex-officio member. The editors of the IASCL-affiliated journals First Language and the Journal of Child Language are the last 3 ex-officio members (currently, respectively: Chloe Marshall, Elma Blom, and Melanie Soderstrom).
The Board is helped by 15 elected members. These elected members are the pool of possible members for the working Committees of IASCL. These include the following committees:
Nominating and Appointing Committee (chaired by an elected member appointed by the President): responsible for the preparation of the ratification of new Board Members and for the election of new Executive Committee members
Roger Brown Committee (chaired by the President): responsible for eliciting nominations for and selecting the winner of the Roger Brown Award
Early Career Award Committee (chaired by the Vice President): responsible for eliciting nominations for and selecting the winner of the Early Career Award
Travel Award Committee (chaired by the President): responsible for soliciting applications for and selecting recipients of Travel Awards to attend the tri-annual IASCL Congress
Additional Committees may be formed as needed.
Apart from serving on a working Committee, elected members may be asked to vote on a range of issues in the three years between Business Meetings. Any member of the Executive Committee can ask for an issue to be voted on, but only elected members have voting privileges. At the initiative of the Nominating and Appointing Committee, elected Executive Committee members play an important role in deciding which nominations for Board members are put forward for ratification by the membership.
The elected members of the Executive Committee for the period 2024-2027 are:
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Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla
Spain
2024-2030 -
Alejandra Auza
Mexico
2024-2030 -
Elena Babatsouli
United States
2024-2030 -
Daniela Gatt
Malta
2021-2027 -
Natalia Meir
Israel
2024-2030 -
Celia Rosemberg
Argentina
2021-2027 -
Meredith Rowe
United States
2021-2027 -
Alessandra Sansavini
Italy
2024-2030 -
Sabine Stoll
Switzerland
2021-2027 -
He Sun
Singapore
2024-2030 -
Mele Taumoepeau
New Zealand
2021-2027 -
Sharon Unsworth
the Netherlands
2024-2030 -
Katie Von Holzen
Germany
2024-2030 -
Marleen Westerveld
Australia
2024-2030 -
Gillian (Jill) Wigglesworth
Australia
2021-2027
Past Executive Committee members
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(1) Elected Members with voting privileges, time of service: 2021 - 2027
Daniela Gatt, University of Malta, Malta, daniela.gatt@um.edu.mt
Celia Rosemberg, National Science & Technology Research Council, Argentina, crrosem@hotmail.com
Meredith Rowe, Harvard University, United States, meredith_rowe@gse.harvard.edu
Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich, Switzerland, sabine.stoll@uzh.ch
Mele Taumoepeau, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, Mele.taumoepeau@vuw.ac.nz
Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne, Australiag.wigglesworth@unimelb.edu.au
(2) Elected Members with voting privileges, time of service: 2024 - 2030
Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, eva.aguilar@uib.es
Alejandra Auza, Hospital General Dr Manuel Gea Gonzalez, Mexico, alejandra.auza@yahoo.com
Elena Babatsouli, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States, elena.babatsouli@louisiana.edu
Natalia Meir, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, natalia.meir@gmail.com
Alessandra Sansavini, University of Bologna, Italy, alessandra.sansavini@unibo.it
He (Sabrina) Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, he.sun@nie.edu.sg
Sharon Unsworth, Radboud University, the Netherlands, sharon.unsworth@ru.nl
Katie Von Holzen, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, katie.m.vonholzen@gmail.com
Marleen Westerveld, Griffith University, Australia, m.westerveld@griffith.edu.au
(3) Ex-officio members without voting privileges:
Shanley Allen (ex-officio, IASCL President), Germany, shanleyallengermany@gmail.com
Aliyah Morgenstern (ex-officio, IASCL Vice President), France, aliyah.morgenstern@gmail.com
Filip Smolik (ex-officio, IASCL Secretary), Czech Republic, Smolik@praha.psu.cas.cz
Gary Morgan (ex-officio, IASCL Treasurer), United Kingdom, gmorgan0@uoc.edu
Letitia Naigles (ex-officio, IASCL Conference Liaison), United States, letitia.naigles@uconn.edu
Brian MacWhinney (ex-officio, IASCL Assistant Secretary), United States, macw@andrew.cmu.edu
Annick De Houwer (ex-officio, IASCL Immediate Past President), Belgium, annick.dehouwer@habilnet.org
Chloe Marshall (ex-officio, Editor, First Language), United Kingdom, chloe.marshall@ucl.ac.uk
Elma Blom (ex-officio, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Child Language), the Netherlands, W.B.T.Blom@uu.nl
Melanie Soderstrom (ex-officio, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Child Language), Canada, melsod@babylanguagelab.org
Angel Chan (ex-officio, Editor, Child Language Bulletin), Hong Kong (China), angel.ws.chan@polyu.edu.hk
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(1) Elected Members with voting privileges, time of service: 2017 - 2024
(elected in 2017, at the Lyon Business Meeting; they stop being an elected member at the 2024 Prague Business Meeting):
Reili Argus, Tallinn University, Estoniareili.argus@tlu.ee
Sharon Armon-Lotem, Bar Ilan University, Israelsharon.armon-lotem@biu.ac.il
Laura Bosch, Universitat de Barcelona, Spainlaurabosch@ub.edu
Patricia Brooks, The City University of New York, United Statespatricia.brooks@csi.cuny.edu
Lourdes de Léon, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexicolourdesdeleonp@gmail.com
Yuki Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japanhirose@boz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Francealiyah.morgenstern@gmail.com
Ciara O'Toole, University College Cork, IrelandC.OToole@ucc.ie
Filip Smolik, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, Smolik@praha.psu.cas.cz
(2) Elected Members with voting privileges, time of service: 2021 - 2027
(elected in 2021, at the Philadelphia online Business Meeting)
Daniela Gatt, University of Malta, Maltadaniela.gatt@um.edu.mt
Celia Rosemberg, National Science & Technology Research Council, Argentinacrrosem@hotmail.com
Meredith Rowe, Harvard University, United Statesmeredith_rowe@gse.harvard.edu
Sabine Stoll, University of Zurich, Switzerlandsabine.stoll@uzh.ch
Mele Taumoepeau, Victoria University Wellington, New ZealandMele.taumoepeau@vuw.ac.nz
Gillian Wigglesworth, University of Melbourne, Australiag.wigglesworth@unimelb.edu.au
(3) Ex-officio members without voting privileges:
Chloe Marshall (ex-officio, Editor, First Language), United Kingdomchloe.marshall@ucl.ac.uk
Johanne Paradis (ex-officio, Editor, Journal of Child Language), Canadajparadis@ualberta.ca
Angel Chan (ex-officio, Editor, Child Language Bulletin), Hong Kong (China)angel.ws.chan@polyu.edu.hk
Annick De Houwer (ex-officio, IASCL President), Belgiumannick.dehouwer@habilnet.org
Letitia Naigles (ex-officio, IASCL Vice President), United Statesletitia.naigles@uconn.edu
Vicky Chondrogianni (ex-officio, IASCL Secretary), United Kingdomv.chondrogianni@ed.ac.uk
Brian MacWhinney (ex-officio, IASCL Assistant Secretary), United Statesmacw@andrew.cmu.edu
Gary Morgan (ex-officio, IASCL Treasurer), United KingdomG.Morgan@city.ac.uk
Shanley Allen (ex-officio, IASCL Conference Liaison), Germanyshanleyallengermany@gmail.com
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole (ex-officio, Past IASCL President), United Stateswalesgin@gmail.com