Officers 2021 - 2023 ↗

President: Klára Papp, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Vice-President: Helga Lénárt-Cheng, St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, California.
Secretary: Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Treasurer: Kálmán Magyar, American Hungarian Folklore Centrum, New Jersey.
Immediate Past President: James P.  Niessen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Members-at-Large
Nóra Deák, ELTE SEAS Library.
András Ludányi, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Membership Development Chair
Katalin Kádár Lynn, Helena History Press, Reno, Nevada.

Ex Officio: Nominating Committee Chair, Judith Kesserű Némethy, New York University.
Ex Officio: Editor-in-Chief, Hungarian Cultural Studies, e-Journal of the AHEA, Paul Olchváry, Publisher, New Europe Books.
Ex Officio: AHEA Webmaster, Katalin Vörös, University of California, Berkeley.

Board of Directors of the Association is made up of the Officers, the Members-at-Large, the Membership Development Chair and the three appointed Ex Officio members. 

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

Membership Development Committee:

Chair: Katalin Kádár Lynn, Helena History Press, Reno, Nevada
Advisor: Louise O. Vasvári, Stony Brook University & New York University
Members:   Andrew Behrendt, Missouri S&T
                 Nóra Deák, ELTE SEAS Library, Budapest, Hungary
                 Andrew Lee, Northern VA Community College
               Jeffrey Pennington, University of California, Berkeley
                 Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland
                 Elizabeth Vos, Magyar Marketing, Evansville, Indiana     

Standing Program Committee: 
Program Committee Guidelines

Cultural Studies: Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. 
                           Mari Réthelyi, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 
Education: Viktoria Batista,  University of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 
                  Andrea Parapatics University of Pannonia, Veszprém. 
History/Political Science: Péter Kristián Zachar, National University of Public Service, Budapest.
                                        James P. Niessen, Rutgers University. New Jersey.
Language/Literature: Ákos Farkas, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary. 
                                 Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Music/Folklore: Sarah Lucas, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas.
                         Judith Olson, American Hungarian Folklore Centrum, New Jersey.

Science/Economics: Andrew Lee, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia.
                                 Katalin Vörös, University of California, Berkeley

Past Presidents:

1974-1975               Interim president Enikő M.  Basa
1975-1978               Enikő M.  Basa, two terms
1978-1982               Barbara Lotze, two terms
1982-1984               János Horváth
1984-1988               Martha Pereszlényi-Pinter, two terms
1988-1992               Enikő M.  Basa, two terms
1992-1996               Katherine Gatto, two terms
1996-2000               Péter Pastor, two terms
2000-2004               Martha Pereszlényi-Pinter, two terms
2004-2008               Susan Glanz, two terms
2008-2012               Judith Kesserű Némethy, two terms
2012-2014               Julia Bock
2014-2018               James P. Niessen, two terms
2018-2023               Klára Papp
2023-                       Helga Lénárt-Cheng