2025-2027 AADAS Board

Lisa Jaarsma Zylstra, President (2027)

Henk Aay, Past-President (2027)

Justin Vos, Vice President

David Zwart, Treasurer and Membership Secretary (2027). I grew up in Sioux County, Iowa and graduated from Dordt College in 1999. I went west to California to teach middle school social studies in Visalia, California. While in the Central Valley of California, I completed a M.A. in history at Fresno State and wrote about the Dutch community in Hanford, California. I then continued my education at Western Michigan University where I received my Ph.D. in 2012 with a dissertation on Dutch American commemorations. After teaching at Dordt College for four years, I am currently associate professor in the history department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan where I mostly teach future history and social studies teachers how to get the next generation excited about studying the past.

Mary Risseeuw, Newsletter (2027). Mary has researched 19^th & 20^th century Dutch immigration to Wisconsin for over 25 years.  She has lectured throughout the Midwest and the Netherlands on the subject. Some of her publications include: A Phoenix Sesquicentennial Tribute: 1847-1997 (1997); I end with my pen, but not with my heart: Dutch immigrant letters, memoirs and travel journals, Editor/Compiler, (2008).  She hosted the 2011 AADAS conference in Wisconsin.  She also organized and hosted the Dutch in Wisconsin Conference in 2008; the first Dutch studies conference to focus solely on Dutch immigration to Wisconsin. She is a past AADAS board member and previously was the Development Director at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.  She has a B.S. from UW-Madison and M.A. & M.F.A. degrees from Northern Illinois University.

Cindy Lett, at large

Michael Swanson, at large