Published: July 30, 1999
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Loree D. Jones has been appointed as Executive Director of the African Studies Association (ASA), the largest scholarly association for the study of Africa in the world. The appointment was announced in June 1999 by David Wiley, ASA President.
Wiley commented, "Ms. Jones brings to the position an outstanding record of interest in Africa, graduate study about Africa, experience in West Africa, involvement in African studies in the U.S., and proven administrative experience in NGOs. After an exhaustive search, she was the unanimous choice of our ASA Search Committee."
Jones holds a B.A. in History (Magna Cum Laude) from Spelman College (1990) and an M.A. with concentrations in Twentieth Century African History, African American Studies, and Twentieth Century American History from Princeton University (1993). She studied in Dakar with the Kalamazoo College Program in 1988-89 and later completed her doctoral research in Senegal in 1993-94 at Cheikh Anta Diop Universite in Dakar. She also interned with Africare in Senegal, where she worked in French and Wolof. Since 1995, Jones established and managed a resort development company in Philadelphia.
Jones has been an instructor on Africa in the Department of Sociology at Rider University and a consultant to the Office of African and African American Studies of the School District of Philadelphia. Her community service activity includes serving on the Board of Directors of Operation Understanding in Philadelphia and, since 1996, its vice president.
Wiley also noted, "Jones is an energetic and dynamic person with a strong background in African Studies. We believe that her administrative career and her background in Africa, African studies, and African American studies are an excellent match for the Association. At this time when Africa needs the focused attention of the United States, which owes so much of its culture and history to the peoples of that continent, Loree Jones has an immense task of bringing leadership and democratic administration to the growing body of U.S. scholars of Africa in our association."
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