Presidential History

The following is a list of all NASSS presidents. To download a PDF of the list, click here.

Term	President	College/University	Conference Site
1980	Andrew Yiannakis*	University of Connecticut	Denver, CO
1981	Andrew Yiannakis	University of Connecticut	Ft. Worth, TX
1982	Barry McPherson	University of Waterloo	Toronto, Ontario
1983	Barry McPherson	University of Waterloo	St. Louis, MO
1984	George Sage	University of Northern Colorado	[Olympic Conf]
1985	George Sage	University of Northern Colorado	Boston, MA
1986	Susan Greendorfer	University of Illinois, Urbana	Las Vegas, NV
1987	D. Stanley Eitzen	Colorado State University	Edmonton, Alberta
1988	Janet C. Harris	University of North Carolina, Greensboro	Cincinnati, OH
1989	James H. Frey	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Washington, DC
1990	Howard Nixon	Appalachian State University	Denver, CO
1991	Barbara Brown^	University of Western Ontario	Milwaukee, WI
1991	Jay Coakley	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs	Milwaukee, WI
1992	John Loy	University of Illinois, Urbana	Toledo, OH
1993	Mary E. Duquin	University of Pittsburgh	Ottawa, Ontario
1994	Don Sabo	DYouville College	Savannah, GA
1995	Mike Messner	University of Southern California	Sacramento, CA
1996	Tim Curry	The Ohio State University	Birmingham, AL
1997	Margaret Carlisle Duncan	University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee	Toronto, Ontario
1998	Mary McElroy	Kansas State University	Las Vegas, NV
1999	Alan Klein	Northeastern University	Cleveland, OH
2000	Peter Donnelly	University of Toronto	Colorado Springs, CO
2001	Michael Malec	Boston College	San Antonio, TX
2002	Earl Smith	Wake Forest University	Indianapolis, IN
2003	Wib Leonard	Illinois State University	Montréal, Québec
2004	Ellen J. Staurowsky	Ithaca College	Tucson, AZ
2005	Mary G. McDonald	Miami University	Winston-Salem, NC
2006	Stephan Walk	Cal State University, Fullerton	Vancouver, BC
2007	Nancy E. Spencer	Bowling Green State University	Pittsburgh, PA
2008	C. Richard King	Washington State University	Denver, CO
2009	Bob Rinehart	University of Waikato	Ottawa, Ontario
2010	Geneviève Rail	Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University	San Diego, CA
2011	Geneviève Rail	Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University	Minneapolis, MN
2012	Faye Linda Wachs	Cal Poly Pomona	New Orleans, LA
2013	Toni Bruce	University of Auckland	Quebec City, Québec
2014	Fritz Polite	Shenandoah University	Portland, OR
2015	Jane Stangl	Smith College	Santa Fe, NM
2016	Cheryl Cooky	Purdue University	Tampa Bay, FL
2017	Theresa Walton-Fisette	Kent State University	Windsor, Ontario
2018	Joshua Newman	Florida State University	Vancouver, BC
2019	Akilah Carter-Francique	San Jose State University	Virginia Beach, VA
2020	Jeff Montez de Oca	University of Colorado-Colorado Springs	New Orleans, LA
2021	Algerian Hart	Missouri State University	Montréal, Québec

*Andrew Yiannakis organized the first NASSS Conference, ^Barbara Brown passed away during her term; Jay Coakley served the remainder of the term