CANDIDATE STATEMENTS (for member-at-large positions)
CORINNE FIELD
I am Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia. My research focuses on the intersections of age, gender, and race in the nineteenth-century US. I am currently working on two book projects. “Feminist Aging in Nineteenth-Century America: Old Age, Justice, and Power” explores how abolitionists and women rights activists aged in public, contested misogynistic and racist ideas about oldness, and created intergenerational networks for mutual care. “Looking Old: A U.S. History” traces how dynamics of seeing and concealing age shaped the development of heterosexual courtship, chattel slavery, industrial labor, and professionalization. With LaKisha Michelle Simmons, I co-edited The Global History of Black Girlhood (University of Illinois Press, September 2022) and co-organized an international conference on Black girls’ history held at the University of Virginia in 2017. With Nicholas Syrett, I co-led a seminar series and published symposium on chronological age that included historians of India, Latin America, Africa, and Europe as well as the United States. I have been a member of NANAS since 2014, and if elected to the Governing Council, I would work with the anti-racism and anti-discrimination task force to actively recruit scholars whose research looks beyond North America and Europe and who center racialized populations. I am particularly interested in advancing the research of people who theorize age from within Global South epistemologies and who center the lives of women and nonbinary people.
KELSEY HARVEY
Dr. Kelsey Harvey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Experiential Studies in Community and Sport at Cape Breton University in Unama’ki/Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Canada). A social gerontologist by training, her research is at the intersection of physical activity/physical culture, community, and education in later life. She is currently the principal investigator on two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded projects: a Partnership Development Grant with an aim of understanding how interprofessional education in Canada is responding to recent sociocultural, economic, and political shifts in healthcare, social services, and post-secondary education; and an Insight Development Grant with an aim of understanding intergenerational age relations in physical culture eco-activism, where ageist narratives blame older populations for environmental degradation. Dr. Harvey uses community-based, qualitative, and participatory methods to ground her research in the lived experiences and daily realities of older people. To advance her commitment to improving the health of older Nova Scotians through exercise, fitness, physical activity, and movement, Dr. Harvey joined the volunteer Board of Directors at the YMCA of Cape Breton and will be joining the advisory committee for the Centre of Excellence for Healthy Aging at Cape Breton University in 2025. Dr. Harvey has been a member of NANAS since 2019 and would welcome the opportunity to join the governing council as a member-at-large. In this role, she would like to support the growth and sustainability of NANAS, foster inclusive ways for members to engage with one another and with members of ENAS, and promote the study of aging through the advancement of NANAS’s mission and guiding principles.
GUSTAVO MORELOS PADILLA
Since 2018, I have been a faculty member at CETYS Universidad in Tijuana, Mexico, where I work as an educator and researcher in the Graduate Program of Social Gerontology. I hold a Doctorate in Social Science, and I am currently housed in the School of Psychology at CETYS. My work there focuses on the intersection of social forces and subjective experiences to better understand aging and promote well-being and social justice in contexts of adversity, employing critical social science as a framework. In my current research, I am exploring the narratives of aging in Mexican women on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border, a setting where shared cultural dynamics and contrasting economic realities contribute to diverse experiences. Since 2023, I have been a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico at the entry level.
This year, I am seeking re-election as a Member-at-Large for NANAS. I am deeply committed to continuing my active participation in this community—not only to advance the field of aging studies but also to promote the dissemination of a critical perspective on aging. I aim to support initiatives that broaden the impact of aging studies in diverse contexts, challenging traditional narratives and fostering a more inclusive understanding of aging as a dynamic and multifaceted process.
NANAS ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR POSITIONS IN GOVERNING COUNCIL, DUE DEC 16
This year, three positions in the Governing Council are up for re-election and seek nominations. We are looking for three candidates to serve as members-at-large on the Governing Council. Eligible nominees for members-at-large need to have been NANAS members for two consecutive years.
We will accept the nomination of a fellow NANAS member or self-nomination until December 16. Electronic voting will begin shortly after and will remain open for 30 days. Everyone who has been a member in 2023 will be eligible to vote.
Please email your nominations by or on December 16 to joh@uttyler.edu using the subject line: NANAS Nominations 2024. Indicate the names and email addresses of all persons you are nominating. You can nominate someone even if you are unsure whether they have been NANAS members for the required periods – the Governing Council will crosscheck that for all nominations.
We will contact all nominees who did not self-nominate and invite them to accept or decline the nomination as a candidate. All candidates will be asked to write up a brief statement of candidacy. Members of the Governing Council participate in a few digital Governing Council meetings per year, organize NANAS events, and help shape the future of NANAS as an organization.
Terms of Service (from the NANAS bylaws)
i. Governing Council members will serve for terms of three years.
ii. No individual may serve for more than two consecutive terms on the Governing Council in any capacity.
iii. If an individual steps down before the term is over, the Governing Council may appoint another person from that constituency to fill the role until the next election.
You can find the entire NANAS bylaws here: http://agingstudies.org/NANAS/?page_id=725
