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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">CSS 2021 Executive Board and Graduate Student Caucus Elections Results</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Many thanks to all the CSS members who voted in our 2021 elections. We were thrilled to have such a diverse slate of candidates and the highest number of nominees since the Society was founded.
Thank you to everyone who ran, and we hope that many of you will continue to be involved in the Society through our programming, awards committees, mentoring programs, and outreach.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">The results of the Comics Studies Society 2021 Elections are as follows:</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">Second Vice President: Joanna Davis-McElligatt</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">Members at Large: Barbara Postema and Safiyya Hosein</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></span><br>
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</li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">Graduate Student Caucus Vice President: Zachary J.A. Rondinelli</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">Graduate Student Caucus Secretary-Treasurer: Maite Urcaregui</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></span></li><li><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt;">Graduate Student Caucus Members at Large: Sydney Heifler and Frida Heitland</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></o:p></span></li></ul>
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</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Congratulations and the Executive Board looks forward to working with you!</span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b></b><b><b></b></b><b><b><b>PLEASE NOTE: this email address will no longer be in use after May 1, 2021. Please send all correspondence to samlangsdale@berkeley.edu Thank you</b></b></b></p>
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