ASA Trustees Appoint Ivan Gaskell as ACLS Delegate

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees has appointed Ivan Gaskell as the ASA Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies for 2023-2026. 

Gaskell is Professor of Cultural History at Bard Graduate Center, and has been an active member of the ASA since 1998. He is a long-term member of the Feminist Caucus Committee, and joined the Diversity Committee at its inception. He is a trustee (through 2024) having previously served as a trustee between 2004 and 2007. The author of numerous articles and chapters in philosophy, history, and art history, he has published sixteen books, including Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art (2019), and, with Sarah Anne Carter, The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture (2020). In 2016 Gaskell was appointed a Permanent Fellow of the Advanced Study Institute of the Georg-August University, Göttingen.

The Board also appointed Jennifer Judkins as the alternate, should Gaskell be unable to attend any of the ACLS meetings.

The ACLS, founded in 1919, is a federation of 79 scholarly organizations representing American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. The ASA was admitted to the ACLS in 1948.