Membership Information

American Society for Aesthetics

Membership is open to all interested persons. All print members (Regular, Emeritus, Student) receive print and electronic subscriptions to the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Green members (Regular, Emeritus, Student, Unemployed) receive an electronic subscription to JAAC, but no print copies.

To join the Society, click "Join ASA" at the top of the page to join with a credit card. To join with a check, please mail the check with the appropriate form (below). You can renew your membership up to 150 days before expiration by using the link that will appear on your profile page.

The American Society for Aesthetics Board of Trustees, at its meeting October 23, 2024, voted to increase membership rates for 2025.

Green membership. The Trustees strongly encourage all members to consider Green membership.

Green members receive all benefits of ASA membership except that they do not receive a print copy of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JAAC).
Green members have access to all on-line issues of JAAC with this membership.

All memberships (Regular, Emeritus, Student, unemployed) will increase by $5 per year, commencing on January 1, 2025.
Members are encouraged to renew their membership no later than December 31, 2024 (EST) to take advantage of the 2024 rates.
Members are also encouraged to take advantage of two-year and three-year member discounts.
Renewals can be completed on-line with a credit card on the ASA web site.
Renewals with a paper check through the mail must be postmarked no later than December 31, 2024, to take advantage of the 2024 rates.

Lifetime memberships: For green lifetime membership, the price remains at $2000. For those wishing to receive the print Journal, lifetime memberships remain at $2500.

Membership rates

Forms for mail-in membership (with a check in US dollars) showing all rates:

2025

The ASA membership year is January 1 - December 31. We regret that we are unable to pro-rate membership dues. When a new member joins in the last three months of the year, that membership is extended through 12/31 of the following calendar year. We caution that persons who expect to need print copies of JAAC in the future should decline the Green membership option. ASA will not be able to provide print copies to authors published in JAAC.

Benefits of Membership

Print members (Regular, Emeritus, Student) get print copies of JAAC (four per year).
All members (both Print and Green) get immediate access to the latest issues of JAAC via the publisher's web site. (Databases such as JStor have a four-year delay in availability.)
The Newsletter is published on the ASA Web site and is available to all Print and Green members.
ASA members receive a 20% discount on all Oxford University Press hardcover titles.
Student members are eligible for travel support to the annual meeting if they have a paper accepted.
Only ASA members are eligible for the Dissertation Fellowship, the Outstanding Monograph Prize, the John Fisher Memorial Prize, the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, the Somaethetics Research Award, Feminist Research Prize, the Arthur Danto/ASA Prize, Major Grants, and other opportunities.
Only ASA members are eligible for the Irene H. Chayes Travel grants to the annual meeting and divisional meetings for people with no institutional access to travel funds to present their work.
Only ASA members can serve as editors, trustees, or officers of the Society.
Only ASA members may present papers, commentaries, or panel presentations at the annual meeting.
All divisional meetings require that program participants be ASA members.
Only members can access the Members section of the new web site, which includes current and historic records of the ASA.
Only members can vote in elections for trustees and officers.