Antony Aumann

Antony Aumann is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University. He has published articles on aesthetics in venues such as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Synthese, and Journal of the American Philosophical Association. His 2019 monograph was titled Art and Selfhood (Lexington Books).

Aumann is a former president of the Rocky Mountain Division of ASA and co-organizer of the 2024 Existential Aesthetics Conference. He is also currently co-organizing the Eastern Division Meeting of the ASA. His goals as trustee are to create more opportunities for underfunded members of the profession, including graduate students, and to increase engagement with aestheticians outside the discipline of philosophy.

Garry Hagberg

ASA member since 1982, Garry Hagberg, the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, gave his first paper that year. In the ensuing four decades he has given many papers, comments, and panel sessions, and had book sessions on three of his books. He has held all offices in the Eastern Division, hosted Eastern meetings at Penn State and Bard, was co-editor of the newsletter, was National Program Chair in 1997 in Santa Fe and on National program committees in 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1999, served as search committee chair for the ASA Secretary, served on the Finance Committee for some years, served on ASA prize committees, guest-edited a special issue on "Improvisation in the Arts", and is on the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism editorial board.

In recent years Hagberg delivered the Wollheim and Beardsley lectures, and is a recipient of the Kivy prize. A trustee from 1999-2002, he is invited to run again to keep long-term ASA experience on the Board, which he is happy to provide while looking forward to the future. A jazz guitarist, Hagberg is eager to strengthen connections between the ASA and the performing arts, and especially eager to support younger philosophers getting started.

Shelby Moser

Shelby Moser is an Associate Professor (Lecturer) in the Division of Games at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on games and aesthetics. Her publications include “The Heaviness of Play in Heavy Metal Music” (forthcoming) and "Videogame Ontology: Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms" (2018). She earned her PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury (2018).

Shelby’s been an active member of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) since 2016. She'll serve as the annual meeting chair (2026), has served as co-editor of the ASA Newsletter (2017–2022), reviewed for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, co-chaired the Pacific Division meetings (2019, 2020), and has participated in two ad hoc committees. With Tony Chackal, she received ASA support to organize a conference on the philosophy of street art (Fall 2025). She's also presented papers and joined panels at numerous Annual and Divisional meetings.

Shelby would be honored to serve as Trustee. The Humanities face unprecedented challenges, and she is committed to helping the ASA respond in creative and practical ways. Having benefited from the ASA’s support when game-focused research was not yet widely recognized, she aims to ensure the ASA continues to support emerging scholarship and develop new practices to sustain its success.

Panos Paris

Panos is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Philosophy at Cardiff University, working in aesthetics, specifically where aesthetics intersects with other values. Currently, he is developing a theory of beauty comprising both an aesthetic psychology and an axiology of taste that reveals beauty’s inextricability from what we most care about. He has published widely in both specialist and generalist journals, and won the 2017 ASA outstanding student essay prize. For more information on his work, please visit www.panosparis.com.

As a Trustee of the ASA, Panos will harness his experience with the Society, which includes regularly attending its conferences and caucus meetings, as well as his role as a long-term Trustee of the British Society of Aesthetics, to contribute to the ASA’s work to the best of his abilities. Specifically, he’d like to help foster stronger links between the ASA and its counterparts in the UK (BSA), Europe (e.g., ESA, NSAE), and beyond (e.g., IAA). He also hopes to encourage greater interdisciplinarity with a view of highlighting the centrality of aesthetics across all sorts of domains of theory and practice. He looks forward to the opportunity to serve the Society, and to work with the new Secretary-Treasurer to help forge the ASA’s future direction.

Elisabeth Schellekens

Elisabeth Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at the Philosophy Department of Uppsala University, where she is currently Department Head. She received her PhD from Kings College London, holding appointments in London, Manchester and Durham before moving to Uppsala in 2014. Schellekens has published on conceptual art, aesthetic understanding, objectivism and subjectivism, Kant, intelligible beauty, and more. She currently leads the interdisciplinary research program, “Aesthetic Cognitivism and the Prospects of Criticism” (Templeton).

Formerly Co-Editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics, she served 11 years on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. A regular participant at ASA meetings since 2002, Schellekens delivered the Richard Wollheim Memorial Lecture in 2023. Having overseen a period of considerable growth of the Aesthetics division at Uppsala, Schellekens has nurtured an environment in many respects unique in the subject. She has led numerous externally funded research projects and built a teaching syllabus which offers over a dozen Aesthetics courses every year. As trustee, she would put her experience of strengthening Aesthetics environments at the service of the ASA, and aim to build collaborations between the Society, its members and European grant infrastructure. Her primary goals include improving the visibility of Aesthetics within academic philosophy and the wider community.

Nicholas Wiltsher

Nicholas Wiltsher is a lecturer in philosophy at St Andrews. He's also worked in Uppsala, Antwerp, Auburn, Porto Alegre, and Leeds. He has published on a range of topics in aesthetics, including gendered aesthetic practices, expression theory, and the status of the sub-discipline. He is a frequent attendee of ASA events and a supporter of various initiatives to make them more welcoming and accommodating. As a trustee, he would hope to encourage: (1) exploration of possible institutional links with other learned societies in the arts; (2) extension of efforts to make attending the annual conference a practical financial possibility for a wide range of people; and (3) reflection on whether the ASA should primarily see itself as an American institution with global reach, or as a global institution with an American base.