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Home  › About APSA  › Leadership & Governance  › Past Officers & Council  › Past Presidents: 1903 to Present APSA Presidents: 1903 to Present Click on the names below for a .pdf file of each presidential address. (Some of the .pdfs may be large and will take time to load.) More recent addresses are linked here when they are published in Perspectives on Politics (usually in the edition published the March after the Annual Meeting).  President  University/Affiliation  Dates  Peter Katzenstein  Cornell University  2008-present  Dianne Pinderhughes  University of Notre Dame  2007-2008  Robert Axelrod  University of Michigan  2006-2007  Ira Katznelson  Columbia University  2005-2006  Margaret Levi  University of Washington - Seattle  2004-2005  Susanne Hoeber Rudolph  University of Chicago  2003-2004  Theda Skocpol  Harvard University  2002-2003  Robert D. Putnam  Harvard University  2001-2002  Robert Jervis  Columbia University  2000-2001  Robert O. Keohane  Duke University  1999-2000  Matthew Holden Jr.  Isaiah T. Montgomery Studies Project, Inc.  1998-1999  M. Kent Jennings  University of California - Santa Barbara  1997-1998  Elinor Ostrom  Indiana University  1996-1997  Arend Lijphart  University of California - San Diego  1995-1996  Sidney Verba  Harvard University  1994-1995  Charles O. Jones  University of Wisconsin  1993-1994  Lucius J. Barker  Stanford University  1992-1993  James Q. Wilson  UCLA  1991-1992  Theodore J. Lowi  Cornell University  1990-1991  Judith N. Shklar  Harvard University  1989-1990  Lucian W. Pye  MIT  1988-1989  Kenneth N. Waltz  University of California - Berkeley  1987-1988  Samuel P. Huntington  Harvard University  1986-1987  Aaron B. Wildavsky  University of California - Berkeley  1985-1986  Richard F. Fenno, Jr.  University of Rochester  1984-1985  Philip E. Converse  University of Michigan  1983-1984  William H. Riker  University of Rochester  1982-1983  Seymour Martin Lipset  Stanford University  1981-1982  Charles E. Lindblom  Yale University  1980-1981  Warren E. Miller  University of Michigan  1979-1980  Leon D. Epstein  University of Wisconsin - Madison  1978-1979  John C. Wahlke  University of Iowa  1977-1978  Samuel H. Beer  Harvard University  1976-1977  James MacGregor Burns  Williams College  1975-1976  Austin Ranney  University of Wisconsin  1974-1975  Avery Leiserson  Vanderbilt University  1973-1974  Robert E. Ward  University of Michigan  1972-1973  Heinz Eulau  Stanford University  1971-1972  Robert E. Lane  Yale University  1970-1971  Karl W. Deutsch  Harvard University  1969-1970  David Easton  University of Chicago  1968-1969  Merle Fainsod  Harvard University  1967-1968  Robert A. Dahl  Yale University  1966-1967  Gabriel A. Almond  Stanford University  1965-1966  David B. Truman  Columbia University  1964-1965  C. Herman Pritchett  University of Chicago  1963-1964  Carl J. Friedrich  Harvard University  1962-1963  Charles S. Hyneman  Indiana University  1961-1962  Emmette S. Redford  University of Texas  1960-1961  Carl B. Swisher  Johns Hopkins University  1959-1960  R. Taylor Cole  Duke University  1958-1959  V.O. Key, Jr.,  Harvard University  1957-1958  E.E. Schattschneider  Wesleyan University  1956-1957  Harold D. Lasswell  Yale University  1955-1956  Charles McKinley  Reed College  1954-1955  Ralph J. Bunche  United Nations  1953-1954  Pendleton Herring  Social Science Research Council  1952-1953  Luther Gulick  National Institute of Public Administration  1951-1952  Peter H. Odegard  University of California - Berkeley  1950-1951  James K. Pollock  University of Michigan  1949-1950  Quincy Wright  University of Chicago  1948-1949  Henry R. Spencer  Ohio State University  1947-1948  Arthur W. MacMahon  Columbia University  1946-1947  Walter F. Dodd  Chicago  1945-1946  John Gaus  University of Wisconsin  1944-1945  Leonard D. White  University of Chicago  1943-1944  Robert E. Cushman  Cornell University  1942-1943  William Anderson  University of Minnesota  1941-1942  Frederic A. Ogg  University of Wisconsin  1940-1941  Robert C. Brooks  Swarthmore College  1939-1940  Charles Grove Haines  UCLA  1938-1939  Clarence A. Dykstra  University of Wisconsin  1937-1938  Thomas Reed Powell  Harvard University  1936-1937  Arthur N. Holcombe  Harvard University  1935-1936  Francis W. Coker  Yale University  1934-1935  Walter J. Shepard  Ohio State University  1933-1934  Isidor Loeb  Washington University  1932-1933  William F. Willoughby  Brookings Insititution  1931-1932  Edward S. Corwin  Princeton University  1930-1931  Benjamin F. Shambaugh  University of Iowa  1929-1930  John A. Fairlie  University of Illinois  1928-1929  Jesse S. Reeves  University of Michigan  1927-1928  William Bennett Munro  Harvard University  1926-1927  Charles A. Beard  Training School Public Service  1925-1926  Charles E. Merriam  University of Chicago  1924-1925  James W. Garner  University of Illinois  1923-1924  Harry A. Garfield  Williams College  1922-1923  William A. Dunning  Columbia University  1921-1922  Leo S. Rowe  Director-Gen. Pan Am American Union  1920-1921  Paul S. Reinsch  U.S. minister to China  1919-1920  Henry Jones Ford  Princeton University  1918-1919  Munroe Smith  Columbia University  1916-1918  Jesse Macy  Grinnell College  1915-1916  Ernst Freund  University of Chicago  1914-1915  John Bassett Moore  Columbia University  1913-1914  W.W. Willoughby  Johns Hopkins University  1912-1913  Albert Bushnell Hart  Harvard University  1911-1912  Simeon E. Baldwin  Yale University  1910-1911  Woodrow Wilson  Princeton University  1909-1910  A. Lawrence Lowell  Harvard University  1908-1909  James Bryce  British ambassador to U.S.  1907-1908  Frederick N. Judson  St. Louis  1906-1907  Albert Shaw  New York City  1905-1906  Frank J. Goodnow  Columbia University  1903-1905