Bacharach and Judkins Elected as ASA Trustees

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that Sondra Bacharach and Jennifer Judkins have been elected as ASA Trustees for a three-year term, February 1, 2022 - January 31, 2025.

The two trustees completing their terms on January 31, 2022, are Keren Gorodeisky and Monique Roelofs.

Sondra Bacharach is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. She been an active member of the aesthetics community since 1999, having served as the ASA Newsletter Editor, a Trustee, program committee member, Feminist Caucus co-chair, mentor for ASAGE, and a regular member of the Diversity Caucus. She’s published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Monist and the Journal of Aesthetic Education, on topics like authorship, collaboration, street art, and hair and appropriation. She is grateful to the ASA for welcoming her into the aesthetics community. As a Trustee, she would like (1) to help the ASA be more inclusive in terms of its members and its research; (2) to increase the visibility of aesthetics to the broader philosophical community; (3) to support aestheticians whose jobs are at risk.

Jennifer Judkins is newly retired from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where she was Adjunct Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Musical Performance. An orchestral percussionist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New Music Group, and the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, among other ensembles. Her ASA experience includes co-chairing an ASA Pacific Division meeting, serving on the Finance Committee (2015-2020) and on a National Program Committee (Toronto 2017), in addition to two separate terms as a National Trustee. Recently, she had the pleasure of co-editing (with Jeanette Bicknell and Carolyn Korsmeyer) Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials (Routledge 2020). Her goals for the ASA include maintaining our commitment to diversity in substance and membership, and in particular increasing our engagement with the performing arts.

ASA will elect three new trustees and a Vice-President in December 2022. Information on the election process will be publicized this fall on this web site, the ASA Newsletter, and other venues.

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