ASA Announces New Members of Committee on DHRB

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce three new members of  the Committee on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behaviors for three year terms from January 1, 2022  - December 31, 2024.

• Jennifer Judkins, Assistant Director of Bands and Adjunct Professor of Music, UCLA (retired)
• Jayson Miller, Professor of Philosophy, Warren Wilson College
• J. Lenore Wright, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Core, Baylor University

Nominations, including self-nominations, were invited in September 2021. The applications were reviewed by the Feminist Caucus Committee and the Diversity Committee. Their recommendations were made to the Board of Trustees, which made the final appointments at its December 13, 2021 meeting.

The terms of three members expire December 31, 2021: Theodore Gracyk, Andrew Kania, and Carolyn Korsmeyer. All were eligible for a second term, but declined. The newly elected members will join Remei Capdevila-Werning, Alexandra King, and Charles Peterson, whose terms of membership are January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022. They will be eligible for re-appointment at that time.

They all join the ASA Ombudsperson, Jeanette Bicknell, who chairs the Committee and attends all ASA divisional and annual meetings.

The ASA revised policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior were announced on July 12, 2019, and supersede previous policies. The policies were revised based on extensive work by the ASA Committee on Respectful Behaviors and the Board of Trustees. A draft was sent to all ASA members for comment and thirteen members responded with suggestions, most of which were adopted. 

The complete policies are available on the ASA Web site under ASA Policies: 

https://cdn.ymaws.com/aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/ASA_policies_on_discriminati.pdf