APSA is guided in its activities by its bylaws and governed by an elected 31-person council, with the Council-appointed Executive Director serving as a non-voting ex-officio member.
President (2018-2019)
- Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
President-Elect (2018-2019)
- Paula McClain, Duke University
Past-President (2018-2019)
- Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vice Presidents (2018-2019)
- Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago
- Lisa L. Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University
Treasurer (2017-2020)
- Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
Council (2016 - 2019)
- Matt Barreto, University of California, Los Angeles
- Mark Crescenzi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Omar Encarnación, Bard College
- Kristian Gleditsch, University of Essex
- Juliet Hooker, Brown University
- Colleen Shogan, Library of Congress
- Renée Van Vechten, University of Redlands
- Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame
Council (2017 - 2020)
- Joseph Carens, University of Toronto
- Lisa Garcia-Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley
- Lilly J. Goren, Carrol University
- Simon Jackman, University of Sydney
- Matthew Kocher, Johns Hopkins University
- Erin Richards, Cascadia College
- Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University
- Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida
Council (2018 - 2021)
- Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ann O’M. Bowman, Texas A&M University
- Julia Jordan-Zachery, Providence College
- Lori Marso, Union College
- Alberto Simpser, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- Charles Smith, University of California, Irvine
- Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan
- Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Executive Director