Past Presidents

President	University/Affiliation	Dates
Dianne Pinderhughes	College of Notre Dame	2007-present
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. Lawerence Lowell		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