Dr. Janis H. Jenkins, Ph.D.
President (2023-2025)
Dr. Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego and Director of the UCSD Center for Global Mental Health
Dr. C. Jason Throop, Ph.D.
President-Elect (2025-2027)
Dr. Throop is Department Chair of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Bridget Haas, Ph.D.
Secretary (2023-2025)
Dr. Haas is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western University
Dr. Lesley Jo Weaver, Ph.D.
Treasurer (2023-2025)
Dr. Weaver is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health Program Director at the University of Oregon
Dr. Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Ph.D.
Board Member (2023-2025)
Dr. Ozawa-de Silva is Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology at Emory University
Dr. Whitney Duncan, Ph.D.
Board Member (2023-2025)
Dr. Duncan is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Northern Colorado
Dr. Edward Lowe, Ph.D.
Board Member
Dr. Lowe is Professor of Anthropology at Soka University of America
Dr. Vincent Laliberté, MD, M.A.
Student Representative
Vincent is a Psychiatrist and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University
Dr. Hua (Miranda) Wu, Ph.D.
Communications
Dr. Wu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki
Sara Fragione, B.A.
Communications
Sara is a Graduate Student in the Department of Anthropology at The University of California at San Diego.
Former SPA Presidents
| 2021-23 | Laurence J. Kirmayer |
| 2019-21 | Rebecca Lester |
| 2017-19 | Jill Korbin |
| 2015-17 | Carol M. Worthman |
| 2013-15 | Byron Good |
| 2011-13 | Claudia Strauss |
| 2009-11 | Douglas Hollan |
| 2007-09 | Tanya Luhrmann |
| 2005-07 | Tom Weisner |
| 2003-05 | Dorothy Holland |
| 2001-03 | Geoff White |
| 1999-2001 | Bradd Shore |
| 1997-99 | Philip Bock |
| 1995-97 | Lee Munroe |
| 1993-95 | Naomi Quinn |
| 1991-93 | Vincent Crapanzano |
| 1989-91 | Richard Shweder |
| 1987-89 | Theodore Schwartz |
| 1986-87 | Robert Edgerton |
| 1985-86 | George DeVos |
| 1984-85 | Lewis Langness |
| 1983-84 | Beatrice Whiting |
| 1982-83 | Douglass Price-Williams |
| 1981-82 | Robert LeVine |
| 1980-81 | Melford Spiro |
| 1979-80 | John Whiting |