Board of Directors Election
2020 Board of Directors Election
The Election is now open for four Councilor (board member) positions on the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) Board of Directors.
To vote, Log In to your account and click “Vote in the 2020 Board of Directors Election.” You must be a current member to vote. If your membership is not current, you may renew it by clicking the “Renew” link on your account home page. If you do not have an SNL Account, please Create An Account.
Voting closes on October 1, 2020.
Positions
Each year, four directors are elected: Chair-Elect, Treasurer-Elect, Secretary-Elect and Program Committee Chair-Elect. Directors are elected for a three-year term. Every two years, a Student/Postdoc Representative is elected to a two-year term. Responsibilities associated with all positions can be found in the bylaws.
The 2020 candidates were selected by an independent Nominating Committee from candidates nominated by SNL members.
Candidates
Chair-Elect
Julius Fridriksson Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR), University of South Carolina
Sharon Thompson-Schill Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer-Elect
Jonathan R. Brennan Associate Professor of Linguistics & Psychology, University of Michigan
Ingrid Johnsrude Department of Psychology and School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario
Saloni Krishnan Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Secretary-Elect
Velia Cardin Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre & Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL London
Kristof Strijkers Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Aix-Marseille Université (AMU); Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) & Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB)
Patrick Wong Department of Linguistics and Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Program Committee Chair-Elect
Tali Bitan Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel, and Department of Speech Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada
Michele T. Diaz Department of Psychology & the Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, Pennsylvania State University
William Graves Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
Current Board
CHAIR: Sonja Kotz, Maastricht University
TREASURER: Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego
SECRETARY: Jamie Reilly, Temple University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: Emily Myers, University of Connecticut
STUDENT/POSTDOC REPRESENTATIVE: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University and Harvard University
2020 PUBLICATION OFFICER : Matt Davis, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
CHAIR-ELECT: Matt Lambon Ralph, University of Cambridge
TREASURER-ELECT: Tamara Swaab, University of California, Davis
SECRETARY-ELECT: Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko, MIT
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR-ELECT: Carolyn McGettigan, University College London
PAST CHAIR: Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)
PAST TREASURER: Mairéad MacSweeney, University College London
PAST SECRETARY: Brenda Rapp, Johns Hopkins University
PAST PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: Marina Bedny, Johns Hopkins University
PAST STUDENT/POSTDOC REPRESENTATIVE: Angela Grant, Concordia University