The Executive Council (EC) approved the slate presented by the Nominations Committee for next year’s EC members. You may include any additional write-in names that are not included on the slate below before the final ballot is presented to the membership for a vote.
To be included as a write-in candidate, the individual must be a member of LASA in good standing and must meet the conditions of the Constitution and By-laws, and meet the required level of the LASA Service Path. Please include the curriculum vitae of each candidate and determine beforehand that they are willing to have their names included on the ballot.
Signatures of a minimum of 4% of the membership in good standing will be required for each write-in. The membership for the 2025 calendar year as of November 21 is 9,875, which means that 395 signatures are required for each candidate. Please assemble all signatures in a PDF file and send them with the information about your write-in candidate to lasa@lasaweb.org.
You have six weeks to respond to this request, or until midnight EST of January 6, 2026. The final ballot will then be assembled and presented to the membership for a vote. It will also indicate which candidates were on the approved slate and which are write-ins.
Slate approved by the Executive Council
Vice President / President-Elect
Claudio Barrientos, History
Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)
Paola Cortes-Rocca, Literature
Universidad Nacional de las Artes / CONICET (Argentina)
Executive Council Members
Enrique Desmond Arias, Political Science
Baruch College, City University of New York (USA)
Flavia Freidenberg, Political Science
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Mneesha Gellman, Political Science
Emerson College (USA)
María Rosa Olivera, Literature
University of Notre Dame (USA)
Guillermo de los Reyes, Gender, Sexualities and Women's Studies
University of Houston (USA)
Sections Representative
Marcial Garcia Suarez, International Relations and Global Studies
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
Yamile Silva, Latin American Studies
The University of Scranton (USA)
Student Representative
Dayri Jaruny Flores Ramírez, Political Science
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico)
Fernando Valcheff-García, Literature
University of Michigan (USA)