2024-2025 Doctoral Consortium Committee

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Charge


Plan and hold the annual AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium should provide a forum for stimulating participating doctoral students to pursue research in significant subject areas. Specifically:

  • The Committee will plan an informal orientation meeting, large-group presentations, small discussion groups, and informal lounge sessions conducive to relaxed discussions among students and faculty.

Membership

  • New Committee members are appointed prior to the Annual Meeting by the AAA Management Team.
  • The committee consists of nine members, including the Chair, Chair-Elect and Past Chair, serving staggered three-year terms.
  • Three committee members constitute the leadership group -- a Chair, Past Chair, and Chair-Elect.
  • One new committee member each year is named Chair-Elect by the AAA Management Team and this person serves one year each as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair of the committee (a three-year term in all).

Meetings

  • The committee meets at the discretion of the Chair.
  • The Doctoral Consortium is held in the summer, but at a different time than the Annual Meeting.
  • The Doctoral Consortium will be held June 2025.

Responsibilities

  • To fulfill the committee charge as above.
  • The Chair must submit at least one report per year to the Board of Directors by September 30. The report should include an overview of highlights of the event, a description of the program and list of participants, actual expenditures compared with the budget and the effectiveness of the program as evaluated by the Chair or Co-Chairs, Faculty, and the student participants. The report should be sent to the AAA President, the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison, and Governance Manager, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org)
  • If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison.

Members

Name / Affiliation

Contact

Term Length

Term Expires

Chair
Teri Lombardi Yohn
Emory University


tyohn@emory.edu

 
1

 
08/2025

Chair-Elect
Steve Smith
Brigham Young University


stevesmith@byu.edu


1

 
08/2025

Past Chair
Carolyn Callahan
University of Louisville


cmcall04@louisville.edu

 
1


08/2025

Jason Brown
Indiana University-Bloomington

browjaso@indiana.edu

3

08/2025

Edgard Cornacchione
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

edgardbc@usp.br

3

08/2026

Lisa Gaynor
University of South Florida

lgaynor@usf.edu

3

08/2026

Christoph Feichter
WU Vienna University

christoph.feichter@wu.ac.at

3

08/2027

Lori Shefchik Bhaskar
Indiana University - Bloomington

lbhaskar@indiana.edu

3

08/2027

Eric Weisbrod
University of Kansas

eric.weisbrod@ku.edu

4

08/2028

Board of Directors Liaison
Audrey A. Gramling
Oklahoma State University
2024-2025 AAA President


audrey.gramling@okstate.edu

 
1


08/2025

Professional Staff Liaison
Beverly Collins
Director, Special Projects

 
Beverly@aaahq.org