Meet the Board
According to our bylaws, board members are elected for a term of two years. The current board has been serving since April of 2025.
Nicole Eggers
President
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Nicole Eggers is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her research interests include 20th-21st Century Congolese history, health and healing, refugees and migration, and religion and politics in Central Africa. She is author of Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo (Ohio University Press, 2023).
Email: eggersna@utk.edu
Jeremy Rich
Vice President
Marywood University
Jeremy Rich is Professor of History at the Marywood University. He is currently working on a book on the Mennonite Central Committee’s development programs as well as a project on white identity and automobiles in post-colonial DRC.
Email: jrich@maryu.marywood.edu
Joshua Castillo
Treasurer
Auburn University
Joshua Castillo is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University. His research focuses on the historical relationship between language, power, and conflict in Central Africa, with a particular focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has learned and researched in Congo’s four national languages, Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, and Ciluba, and has conducted multi-sited interdisciplinary historical research across DRC. His research has appeared in History in Africa and the International Journal of African Historical Studies and is forthcoming in The Journal of African History.
Email: jcafhist@bu.edu
Our Members
Here is a list of members who are current on their CASA membership. The list is updated periodically and is generated by our membership portal on the ASA website. If you would like to join or renew your membership, instructions can be found here.