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Today I am pleased to
announce that at its meeting last month, the APA board of
officers elected Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes the association’s next
board chair. Lopes, who will succeed Dr. Cheshire Calhoun of
Arizona State University, will begin his three-year term on July
1, 2020.
Dominic McIver Lopes is distinguished university
scholar and professor in the Department of Philosophy at the
University of British Columbia. He was secretary-treasurer of the
Pacific Division from 2008 until 2016; he has served on and
chaired the Pacific Division program committee; and he previously
chaired the communications and publications task force and the ad
hoc subcommittee on National Office IT operations. Lopes has also
served on the Pacific Division executive committee; the committee
on lectures, publications, and research; the governing committee
of the Journal
of the American Philosophical Association; and the
2011 executive director search committee. In 2018, he was awarded
the APA’s Quinn Prize. Lopes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada, president of the Canadian Philosophical Association, past
president of the American Society for Aesthetics, and a member of
the editorial boards of the Journal
of the American Philosophical Association, the Journal of Aesthetics and
Art Criticism, Estetika,
Cognitive
Semiotics, and Imaginations.
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Dominic McIver
Lopes as the incoming chair of the APA board of officers.
All the best,
Amy E. Ferrer
Executive Director
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