The APSA president guides APSA and the Council in its discussions and policies and serves to represent APSA in a variety of venues. Below are the names, institutions, and dates of service for each of the APSA presidents since 1903. In addition, every year at the Annual Meeting, the president delivers a presidential address, which is later published in an APSA journal. The addresses delivered from 1903 to 2001 were published in the American Political Science Review, and the addresses delivered since 2002 have been published in Perspectives on Politics.
| President
|
University/Affiliation
|
Dates
|
| John Ishiyama
|
University of North Texas
|
Present-2022
|
| Janet Box-Steffensmeier
|
The Ohio State University
|
2020-2021
|
| Paula D. McClain
|
Duke University
|
2019-2020
|
| Rogers Smith
|
University of Pennsylvania
|
2018-2019
|
| Kathleen Thelen
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
2017-2018
|
| David Lake
|
University of California, San Diego
|
2016-2017
|
| Jennifer Hochschild
|
Harvard University
|
2015-2016
|
| Rodney E. Hero
|
University of California, Berkeley
|
2014-2015
|
| John Aldrich
|
Duke University
|
2013-2014
|
| Jane Mansbridge
|
Harvard University
|
2012-2013
|
| G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
|
University of Rochester
|
2011-2012
|
| Carole Pateman
|
University of California, Los Angeles
|
2010-2011
|
| Henry Brady
|
University of California, Berkeley
|
2009-2010
|
| Peter Katzenstein
|
Cornell University
|
2008-2009
|
| 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
|
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
|
University of California, Los Angeles
|
1991-1992
|
| Theodore J. Lowi
|
Cornell University
|
1990-1991
|
| Judith N. Shklar
|
Harvard University
|
1989-1990
|
| Lucian W. Pye
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|
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
|
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
|
University of California, Los Angeles
|
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 Institution
|
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
|