| Year | Site | Theme |
| 2025 | Seattle, WA & Vancouver, Canada | Sport, Justice and Belonging: Critical Analysis and Worldmaking <Link to Site> |
| 2024 | Chicago, IL | (Re)Creating NASSS: Communities, Axiologies, Politics and Praxis <Link to Site> |
| 2023 | New Orleans, LA | Ceci est un thème de conférence (This is a conference theme) <Link to Site> |
| 2022 | Las Vegas, NV | Raising the Stakes on Representation <Link to Site> |
| 2021 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada (April 2022) | Inclusivity, Togetherness, Community, and the Sociology of Sport in a Post(?)-Covid World <Link to Site> |
| 2020 | *Virtual* | Change Agents’: Cultivating the Seeds of Access within the Sociology of Sport <Link to Site> |
| 2019 | Virginia Beach, VA | Decolonizing Minds Indigenizing Hearts <Link to Site> |
| 2018 | Vancouver, BC | Sport Soundtrack: Sport, Music, and Culture <Link to Site> |
| 2017 | Windsor, Ontario | Sport Matters: Physics, Politics, Performances, Pedagogies <Link to Site> |
| 2016 | Tampa Bay, FL | Publicly Engaged Sociology of Sport |
| 2015 | Santa Fe, NM | Sports at/on the Borderlands: Translations, Transitions, and Transgressions |
| 2014 | Portland, OR | The Sporting Arena: Academics, Activists, and Activism[s] |
| 2013 | Quebec City | Constructs of Globalization and Cultural Competencies: Navigating a Changing Global Economy |
| 2012 | New Orleans, LA | Sport in Place |
| 2011 | Minneapolis, MN | Revolutionizing Sporting Bodies: Technologies in Practice |
| 2010 | San Diego, CA | Producing Knowledge, Producing Bodies: Cross-Currents in Sociologies of Sport and Physical Culture |
| 2009 | Ottawa | Sport and Bodily Culture in Hard Times |
| 2008 | Denver, CO | Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice |
| 2007 | Pittsburgh, PA | Beyond Other Boundaries: Sport Within/Against/Across Borders |
| 2006 | Vancouver | Reimagining Community/Re-envisioning Sport |
| 2005 | Winston-Salem, NC | Sport/Empires/Globalization |
| 2004 | Tucson, AZ | Interdisciplinary Dialogues |
| 2003 | Montréal, Québec | Sport and Human Rights |
| 2002 | Indianapolis, IN | Sports Organizations: Their Role in Social and Economic Development |
| 2001 | San Antonio, TX | Marginality, Power, and Sport |
| 2000 | Colorado Springs, CO | Sport and Social Justice: What have we learned? What shall we do/teach? |
| 1999 | Cleveland, OH | Sociology of Sport at the Millennium: Making a Difference |
| 1998 | Las Vegas, NV | Ways of Seeing: Evaluating Sport Sociology |
| 1997 | Toronto | Border Crossings: Sports, Bodies, and the Third Millennium |
| 1996 | Birmingham, AL | Civil Rights/Human Rights: Intersections of Difference |
| 1995 | Sacramento, CA | Cultural Diversity and the Sport Experience |
| 1994 | Savannah, GA | Overcoming Inequalities in Sport |
| 1993 | Ottawa | Political Economy of Sport |
| 1992 | Toledo, OH | Sub/Versions: Rethinking Resistance/Re-making Sport |
| 1991 | Milwaukee, WI | The Body and Sport as Contested Terrain |
| 1990 | Denver, CO | Reflections and Projections |
| 1989 | Washington, D.C. | Exploring New Directions for Sport Sociology and Philosophy |
| 1988 | Cincinnati, OH | Sport in the Social Context |
| 1987 | Edmonton, Alberta | Sport and Social Deviance |
| 1986 | Las Vegas, NV | National and International Sociological Perspectives on Sport |
| 1985 | Boston, MA | Sport and Social Change |
| 1984 | Eugene, OR | In conjunction with the Olympic Scientific Congress |
| 1983 | St. Louis, MO | Sport and Social Institutions |
| 1982 | Toronto, Canada | The Sociological Imagination: Issues in American and Canadian Sport |
| 1981 | Ft. Worth, TX | Social Theory and the Future of Sport Sociology |
| 1980 | Denver, CO | (No Theme) |
