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 (2019-2020)
- Paula D. McClain, Duke University
President-Elect (2019-2020)
- Janet Box-Steffensmeier, The Ohio State University
Past-President (2019-2020)
- Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Vice Presidents (2019-2020)
- Kerstin Hamann, University of Central Florida
- Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University
- Melissa Williams, University of Toronto
Treasurer (2017-2020)
- Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
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, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Lori Marso, Union College
- Alberto Simpser, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- Charles Smith, University of California, Irvine
- Rocio Titiunik, Princeton University
- Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Council (2019 - 2022)
- Ben Ansell, University of Oxford
- Erik Bleich, Middlebury College
- Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore
- David Leal, University of Texas, Austin
- Suzanna Linn, Pennsylvania State University
- Melanye Price, Prairie View A&M University
Executive Director