2024–2025: Claire Laurier Decoteau
2023–2024: Margaret Frye
2022–2023: Isaac Ariail Reed
2021–2022: Claudio Benzecry
2020–2021: Simone Polillo
2019–2020: Greta R. Krippner
2018–2019: Marion Fourcade
2017–2018: John R. Hall
2016–2017: Neil Gross
2015–2016: John Mohr
2014–2015: Andrew Perrin
2013–2014: Robin Wagner-Pacifici
2012–2013: Wendy Espeland
2011–2012: Phillip Gorski
2010–2011: Mustafa Emirbayer
2009–2010: Richard Swedberg
2008–2009: Peter Burke
2007–2008: Ann Mische
2006–2007: Karin Knorr Cetina
2005–2006: Robin Stryker
2004–2005: Murray Webster, Jr.
2003–2004: Michèle Lamont
2002–2003: Linda D. Molm
2001–2002: Gary Alan Fine
2000–2001: Douglas Heckathorn
1999–2000: Morris Zelditch, Jr.
1998–1999: Janet Chafetz
1997–1998: Guillermina Jasso
1996–1997: Donald Levine
1995–1996: Alan Sica
1994–1995: Charles Camic
1993–1994: Theda Skocpol
1992–1993: Stephen Turner
1991–1992: Craig Calhoun
1990–1991: James S. Coleman
1989–1990: George Ritzer
1988–1989: Charles C. Lemert
1987–1988: Ruth Wallace
1986–1987: Jonathan Turner
1985–1986: Edward Tiryakian
1984–1985: Norbert Wiley
1983–1984: Jeffrey Alexander
1982–1983: Edith Kurzweil
1981–1982: Neil J. Smelser
1980–1981: R. Stephen Warner (Acting)
1979–1980: Randall Collins
1978–1979: Alvin Boskoff
1977–1978: Roscoe Hinkle
1976–1977: Aaron Cicourel
1975–1976: Dennis Wrong
1974–1975: Edward Tiryakian
1973–1974: Ralph Turner
1972–1973: Llewellyn Gross
1971–1972: Peter M. Blau
1970–1971: John McKinney
1969–1970: G. Edward Swanson
1968–1969: Morris Janowitz
1967–1968: Robert Bierstedt
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