Committee for LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship
The Committee for LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship was constituted to identify ways that SBL can best support LGBTIQ+ scholars and scholarship. In pursuit of this mandate, the committee seeks to support, promote, and advocate for LGBTIQ+ members through the following:
- Create opportunities for mentorship, mutual support, and networking among and between LGBTIQ+ members.
- Create and maintain regular programming for professional development, pedagogy, and work/life balance (wellness) for LGBTIQ+ members.
- Advocate for better and more visible representation of LGBTIQ+ members on all SBL committees and in the leadership of SBL.
- Advocate for better and more visible representation of LGBTIQ+ scholarship in meetings, programs, book displays, addresses, and lectures.
- Create and maintain policies to ensure safer spaces, free from hostility and antagonism toward LGBTIQ+ scholars and scholarship, and to better promote their professional and interpersonal flourishing.
Originally a task force, it becomes a committee in 2022, and the members’ terms and years of each term will be determined by January.
Members of the Committee:
| Name | Term | Years of Term |
| Shelley L. Birdsong | 1 | 2024-2026 |
| Ericka Dunbar | 1 | 2025-2027 |
| Eric Jarrard | 1 | 2025-2027 |
| Eric Thomas | 2 | 2023-2025 |
| Charlene van der Walt | 2 | 2023-2025 |
| Karri Whipple (Chair) | 1 | 2024-2026 |