Past Chairs · Theory Section
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