Special NAS Members Meeting: Board Nominations

National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars is pleased to announce four nominations for our Board of Directors. They are each being nominated for four year terms, beginning January 1, 2024. The nominees will be voted on at a virtual membership meeting in June, with the date soon to be announced. At this meeting, nominees may also be made from the floor if that nominee has the support of 300 or more members.

The nominees are:

Dr. Elizabeth Weiss, Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University. She received her BA in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, her MA in anthropology from California State University, Sacramento, and her PhD in environmental dynamics from the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Joshua Katz, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously taught at Princeton where he was Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics, and a faculty associate of the James Madison Program. Dr. Katz holds a BA in linguistics from Yale, an MPhil from the University of Oxford, and a PhD from Harvard.

Mr. Adam Kissel, Visiting Fellow in Higher Education Reform at the Heritage Foundation and Senior Fellow at the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy. Adam previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education, and he has held senior roles at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the Philanthropy Roundtable. He received his BA in English and American Literature from Harvard and his MA at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Alexander Riley, Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University and Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. Professor Riley earned his Ph. D. from the University of California, San Diego. In 2013-14, he received a Fulbright Scholar Award from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Franco-American Commission to do archival research in France related to the biographies and work of a group of 20th century French intellectuals including Michel Leiris and Roger Caillois.


Photo by photosoup on Adobe Stock

  • Share

Most Commented

July 12, 2023

1.

Scott Gerber’s Case in Context

Ohio Northern University seems intent on chiseling into granite its protocol for getting rid of a faculty member who disagrees with the institution’s woke ideology, even when the......

July 19, 2023

2.

On Collegiality

Increasingly, collegiality is being added to the traditional triad of excellence that wins professors tenure. And now, the issue of collegiality is a fraught minefield, and has become&#......

June 20, 2023

3.

Letter: Academic Freedom Requires More Than Words

There is still no word from Ohio Northern University administrators after their removal of Professor Scott Gerber without due process—a clear violation of Gerber's rights......

Most Read

April 14, 2023

1.

Faculty Fight for Academic Freedom at Harvard

While many faculty quietly endorse views they privately disagree with, Harvard faculty band together to resist administrative overreach, overzealous students, and protect academic freedom....

May 15, 2015

2.

Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

October 12, 2010

3.

Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...