Mitch Lerner, professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies Center, was recently elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Founded in 1967, SHAFR is the preeminent professional organization for historians of American foreign relations, and has approximately 1,000 members across the globe. Lerner, who is also a faculty fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, a member of the Distinguished Speakers Bureau of the Association for Asian Studies, and the associate editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, will begin his term as vice-president/president-elect on November 1, 2022, and will ascend to the presidency on November 1, 2023.