About SSEA
SSEA Leadership
Executive Director:
Elizabeth Morgan, Springfield College, MA, USA (2021-
)
President:
Abby Goldstein, University of Toronto,
Canada (2021-2023)
President-elect:
Byron G. Adams, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
(2023- 2025)
Past Presidents:
Seth Schwartz, University of Miami Medical School, USA
(2015-2017)
Elizabeth Morgan, Springfield College, MA, USA
(2017-2019)
Larry J. Nelson, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
(2019-2021)
Past Executive Director:
Jeffrey Arnett, Clark University, MA, USA (2012-2021)
Governing Council:
Itzel Eguiliz, Institute of Economic Research, UNAM
Dalal Katsiaficas, University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA
Alan Meca, Old Dominion University, USA
Oana Negru-Subtirica, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Emerging Scholar:
Melissa Fenton, University of Florida, USA (2021-2025)
Hailey Holmgren, University of Minnesota, USA
Samuel McKay, Swinburn University, AU (2021-2023)
Angela Sorgente, Catholic University, Milan, Italy
SSEA Appointed Committees:
Editor - Journal of Emerging Adulthood - Christine
Ohanessian, Florida State University
2021 Conference Program Committee - Byron G. Adams
(chair), Tilburg University, NL
2019 Conference Program Committee - Dalal
Katsiaficas (chair), University of Illinois at
Chicago
Communications Committee -
Kristin M. Anders (chair), Kansas State University, and
Shelby Astle (co-chair), Kansas State University
Membership Committee - Luzelle Naudé (chair), University
of the Free State (South
Africa), and Rimantas Vosylis (co-chair),
Mykolas Romeris University
