CSA National Leadership Election Results Announced

Costume Society of America is pleased to announce the results of the recent election for the Class of 2027 National Board of Directors. These five directors will be inducted at the 2024 Annual Meeting during the National Symposium in Washington DC (May 21 through 25, 2024). Don’t forget that early bird registration for the symposium ends on April 5, 2024. You can learn more and find the registration link by clicking here.

The Class of 2027 National Board of Directors includes:

Melissa Gamble is an Assistant Professor in the Fashion Studies Department at Columbia College Chicago. Arti Sandhu is currently an Associate Professor in the Fashion Program in the School of Design, Art Architecture, and Planning, University of Cincinnati. Joshua D. Simon is the Assistant Curator of Exhibits at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum in Grand Haven, Michigan. Juanjuan Wu is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Lynda May Xepoleas is an Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Kent State University. 

Michael Mamp, Director & Curator of the Textile & Costume Museum and Associate Professor of Textiles, Apparel Design, and Merchandising at Louisiana State University, and Michele Riley, associate dean of the School of Multidisciplinary and Professional Studies at Purdue University Global, will serve as alternates. Class of 2025 and 2026 directors are: Karen DePauw, Clarissa Esguerra, Susan Hannel, Michaele Thurgood Haynes, Adam MacPhàrlain, Jaleesa Reed, Clare Sauro, Arlesa Shephard, Ginger D. Stanciel, and Graham Wetzbarger.

CSA’s student members elected Sofia Beraldo, a master of arts candidate in fashion at Toronto Metropolitan University, as Student Liaison to serve from 2024 to 2026. Paige E. Tomfohrde, PhD student, researcher and Dean’s Scholar at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, currently serves as Student Liaison through 2025.

CSA also announces several new or renewed appointments to the Executive Committee, who will begin their terms at the 2024 Annual Meeting and serve until the 2026 Annual Meeting:

President Leon Wiebers is Chair of Theatre Arts Program and Professor of Costume Design at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Past President Lalon Alexander teaches at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.  President Elect Adam MacPhàrlain is the Curator of Clothing and Textiles at the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, Missouri. Treasurer Danielle Reaves is an adjunct instructor of apparel design and fashion retailing in the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Interior Design at The University of Alabama.  Secretary Theresa Alexander is an associate professor of fashion management with the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.  Vice President for Awards and Honors Colleen Pokorny is an assistant professor in apparel design at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Vice President for Internal Relations Katie Baker Jones is an associate professor and serves as the program coordinator in the Fashion, Dress and Merchandising department in the School of Design and Community Development at West Virginia University.  Vice President for Education and Programs Monica Sklar is an assistant professor & director/coordinator of the Historic Clothing and Textiles Collection at the University of Georgia in Athens. They join current Executive Committee members who are serving until the 2025 Annual Meeting: Deborah Miller, Vice President for External Relations; Patty Edmonson, Vice President for Grants and Projects; Julia Petrov, Vice President for Publications; Graham Wetzbarger, Vice President for Technology; and Heidi Cochran, Vice President for Symposia.

You can learn more about CSA Leadership by visiting this page. Nominations for the Class of 2028 Board of Directors and 2025-2027 Executive Committee positions will open in July of 2024 and will be open through November of 2024.

Pictured from left to right, top row: Melissa Gamble, Arti Sandhu, Joshua D. Simon, Juanjuan Wu, Lynda May Xepoleas, Sofia Beraldo
Pictured from left to right, middle row: Leon Wiebers, Lalon Alexander, Adam MacPhàrlain, Danielle Reaves
Pictured from left to right, bottom row: Theresa Alexander, Colleen Pokorny, Katie Baker Jones, Monica Sklar