2026 CHAIRS COORDINATING COUNCIL (CCC)

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The Chairs Coordinating Council takes responsibility for (a) monitoring the activities of ASOR’s eight other standing committees, by receiving monthly reports about the committees’ discussions and business; (b) discussing and coordinating programs and policies that cut across the purview of two or more of the CCC’s constituent committees (e.g., policies regarding ethical issues or professional standards) and also adjudicating, if need be, between competing claims regarding jurisdiction or resource allocation among the CCC’s constituent committees; (c) annually receiving, from the Program Committee, recommendations regarding the plenary speaker for the ASOR Annual Meeting and then recommending to the ASOR President the name of an individual to invite; and (d) transmitting, through its chair (the ASOR Vice-President) reports regarding the work of the CCC, and its constituent committees, to the Board of Trustees, at the Board’s biannual meetings.

Kevin McGeough, ASOR Vice President and Chair
Jane DeRose Evans, ASOR President
Susan Ackerman, Co-Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee
Georgia Andreou, Chair of the Committee on Archaeological Research and Policy
Debra Foran, Co-Chair of the Program Committee
Eric Kansa, Co-Chair of the Publications Committee
Sarah Kansa, Co-Chair of the Publications Committee
Katherine Larson, Co-Chair of the Committee on Growth, Innovation, and Visibility
Laura Mazow, Chair of the Membership and Outreach Committee
Kiersten Neumann, Co-Chair of the Program Committee
Luiza Osorio G Silva, Co-Chair of the Early Career Scholars Committee
Rocco Palermo, Co-Chair of the Honors and Awards Committee
Avary Taylor, Co-Chair of the Early Career Scholars Committee
Julia Troche, Co-Chair of the Committee on Growth, Innovation, and Visibility
Andy Vaughn, ASOR Executive Director (ex officio, non-voting)
Frederick Winter, Chair of the Cultural Heritage Committee