Outline of the APA’s Governance Structure
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors oversees all Association activities. The vice presidents of its six divisions (Education, Outreach, Professional Matters, Program, Publications, and Research) are all members of the Board as are the President, President-Elect, immediate Past President, two Financial Trustees, and six Directors at large. Each of these directors and officers is elected by the membership. The Executive Director, who is appointed by the Directors, is a non-voting member of the Board.
A comprehensive list of all current officers, directors, and committees is available here.
- Capital Campaign Committee directs the Association's effort to raise an Endowment for Classics Research and Teaching. Both members and nonmembers of the Association are eligible to serve on this Committee. Each year the President selects certain members of the Capital Campaign Committee to serve on a Campaign Steering Committee that will meet regularly by conference call and e-mail to manage the campaign. The Committee is scheduled to complete its work by June 30, 2011.
- Committee on the C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit consists of three elected members, normally of complementary scholarly interests, to evaluate books, monographs or articles by members published within a period of three years before the end of the previous calendar year, in order to identify an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship worthy of the only honor for scholarly achievement given by the Association.
- Development Committee assesses the Association's needs for outside support, recommends fund-raising goals for adoption by the Board of Directors, helps to develop appeals for fund-raising campaigns, and participates in the identification of potential donors and, where appropriate, the solicitation of contributions.
- Finance Committee is responsible for establishing and overseeing the annual budget of the Association, and supervising its investments. Committee members monitor the Association's bank accounts and invested funds and regularly advise the Executive Director on Association policy and practice.
- Nominating Committee is elected by the membership to compile a slate of candidates for all elected positions of the APA. It prepares a ranked list of potential candidates for each office and committee where vacancies are scheduled to occur, and the co-chairs then ask the preferred members listed whether they are willing to run.
- Outreach Prize Committee reviews nominations for and selects the winner of a prize that recognizes an outstanding work of an APA member or members that makes an aspect of classical antiquity available and attractive to a non-specialist audience. The project or event to be considered must have been developed entirely or in part within ten years of the nomination deadline; candidates for the prize must currently be APA members.
- Pearson Fellowship Committee oversees the annual selection process and award of the Pearson Fellowship which enables an outstanding student who majored in Classics or a related field in a North American college or university to study for a year in a university in the United Kingdom.
Education Division
The Education Division of the Association is responsible for all of the Association's activities in the fields of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education.
- Education Committee consists of elected members who serve as a central resource of information and activity responsive to the educational concerns of teachers and scholars in all fields and at all levels of classical studies. Its members serve ex officio on the Joint Committee (with ACL) on the Classics in American Education (see below) and advises the Vice President of the Education Division on the projects and activities of the other standing committees of the division.
- Coffin Traveling Fellowship Committee selects an outstanding secondary school Greek and/or Latin teacher to receive a fellowship to study in classical lands (not limited to Greece and Italy).
- Committee on Ancient History promotes the study and learning of ancient history at all educational levels.
- Committee on Awards for Excellence in Teaching of the Classics reviews nominations and selects up to three recipients annually of the Association's collegiate teaching award.
- Joint Committee (with ACL) on the Classics in American Education (JCCAE) works to improve communication and cooperation among all levels of Classics teachers. A subcommittee selects up to two winners of the Association's award for excellence in precollegiate teaching.
- Committee on Scholarships for Minority Students oversees the annual selection process and awarding of scholarship assistance to undergraduate minority students and considers ways in which more minorities can be brought into the field.
Outreach Division
The Outreach Division is responsible for promoting a wider public understanding and appreciation of Classics. Its goal is to strengthen the APA's ability to communicate with a broadly constituted audience.
- Committee on Outreach coordinates the Association's efforts to transmit information about the Classics to an audience beyond its own membership.
- Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance promotes the performance of classical texts, both in the original and in translation. The committee sponsors panels and workshops on new approaches to the performance of classical texts, maintains a guide to resources for the performance of classical texts and a directory of consultants who can assist others seeking to stage classical drama, and presents a reading of a play with a classical theme at the Annual Meeting.
- Committee on the Classical Tradition fosters research and teaching about the legacy of classical culture not just in Europe but also in the Americas.
- Editor of Amphora, in collaboration with an assistant editor and an editorial board, produces two issues per year of this outreach publication which is intended for anyone with a strong interest in and enthusiasm for the Classical world.
Professional Matters Division
The Professional Matters Division is charged with overseeing the social, ethical, and professional contexts of the discipline of Classics. Its goal is the promotion of equity in all aspects of the profession.
- Committee on Professional Matters oversees all activities of the Division, including but not limited to promulgation of ethical standards, collection and interpretation of data, proposal of remedies for professional inequities, support for programs under threat, and development of policies and procedures for handling professional grievances, subject to the approval of the Directors. Its Subcommittee on Professional Ethics, consisting of six elected members, considers grievances and complaints pertinent to the APA Statement on Professional Ethics with a view toward providing informal and formal resolution of specific disputes within the Association and outside it, according to policies and procedures established by the Board of Directors.
- Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups (CSWMG) serves as an advocate for the inclusion of women, minority groups, and those with physical disabilities in all aspects of the profession of Classics -- equal access to and support in undergraduate and graduate education, employment, scholarship, and professional service. The Committee conducts three annual surveys to monitor the experiences of women and members of minority groups in the placement process, in faculty appointments and promotions, and in publication as authors, book reviewers, and referees.
- Director of Classics Advisory Service provides (a) assistance to institutions conducting external program reviews (primarily by providing names of potential outside reviewers); (b) (in cooperation with the Executive Director and other officers) timely support for departments or programs whose future is threatened; and (c) general support and advice on strengthening programs in Classics.
- Joint Committee (with AIA) on Placement. The Committee on Placement oversees the operation of the Placement Service, monitors current hiring procedures, and suggests modifications and improvements when necessary. It also reviews complaints lodged by individuals or institutions concerning violations of Placement Service guidelines.
Program Division
The Program Division is responsible for the Annual Meeting which the Association holds jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America.
- Program Committee consists of elected members who read proposals and abstracts submitted by panel organizers, affiliated groups, and individual scholars, selects appropriate ones for presentation at the annual meeting, and decides on special sessions and events. It also reviews applications by groups and individuals seeking charters to issue calls for abstracts.
- Local Arrangements Committee assists the APA Office to recruit volunteers to perform various functions at the annual meeting and provides information about the city in which the meeting takes place.
Publications Division
The Publications Division directs the print and digital publication of the Association's scholarly books and its journal Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA). It also oversees the production of computer software for the field of Classics.
- Publications Committee sets editorial policy for the Association's publications programs, approves publishing contracts with authors, monitors costs of all publications, and manages the APA's relationships with its publishing partners: the Oxford University Press for books and the Johns Hopkins University Press for Transactions. It also serves as an editorial board for the Association's book series, examining the comments submitted by reviewers chosen by series editors (see below) and making final publication decisions.
- Committee on the Web Site and the Newsletter sets editorial policy for the APA's web site and its Newsletter.
- Committee on Translations of Ancient Authors identifies ancient works needing translations and helps to produce such works.
- Editor of Monographs Series receives and actively solicits manuscripts on all areas of classical studies, selects external referees, and recommends publication decisions to the Publications Committee. The Editor communicates directly with authors and may work with them to improve manuscripts.
- Editor of TAPA identifies unpublished articles by members of the Association or papers given by participants at the Annual Meeting that deserve to be made available to the scholarly community. The Editor examines submitted manuscripts, has them refereed, and decides to reject or publish them after weighing the recommendations of referees. In collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Editor sees accepted articles through all phases of preparation to final publication in the journal.
- Editor of Textbooks Series oversees two series of publications: Classical Texts and Commentaries (annotated classical texts for use in the classroom) and Classical Resources (aids to study and research such as reference works, bibliographies, translations, casebooks, and reprints of out-of-print standard works). The editor selects external referees, and recommends publication decisions to the Publications Committee. The Editor communicates directly with authors and may work with them to improve manuscripts.
- Editorial Board for Non-Print Publications is currently inactive but is expected to be reconstituted in some form in 2009 to develop and then implement policies and procedures for various digital publications of the Association.
Research Division
The Research Division has charge of all of the Association's activities in fostering scholarly research and the development of materials for research.
- Research Committee supervises and receives reports from research-related committees of the Association, assesses needs of Classicists for scholarly tools, and initiates or responds to other innovative research projects.
- Advisory Board to the American Office (AO) of l'Année philologique supervises the operations of the AO and maintains the Association's relationship with the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique.
- TLL Fellowship Committee awards a fellowship funded in large part by the National Endowment for the Humanities that permits a scholar from the United States to work at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project in Munich.
For further details of individual programs see the Association's By-Laws and Regulations.
Last updated November 07, 2011.
