Past Presidents

Year, President, Location of Conference

2021 Poshek Fu, Indiana University at Bloomington

2020 Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University (Online)

2019 Laura Miller, Michigan State University

2018 Robert Hagel, Metropolitan State University

2017 University of Notre Dame

2016 Ethan Segal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2015 Kai-wing Chow, Washington University in St. Louis.

2014 Arjun Guneratne, University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS

2013 Rebecca Copeland, Michigan State University

2012 Yongming Zhou, Western Michigan University

2011 Katherine Bowie, Macalester College2010 Roy Hanashiro, Ohio State University

2010 Roy Hanashiro, Ohio State University

2009 Robert Entenmann, Miami University Ohio

2008 Yasuko Ito, Watt St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges

2007 Linda Johnson, Washington University - St. Louis

2006 Aparajita Sagar, University of Wisconsin - Madison

2005 Jacquetta Hill, Michigan State University, East Lansing

2004 James L. Huffman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul

2003 Parks M. Coble, Illinois State University, Normal

2002 Gerald J. Larson, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

2001 Sally A. Hastings, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

2000 David Buck Indiana, University, Bloomington

1999 Richard M. Cooler, Michigan State University, East Lansing

1998 Louis G. Perez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1997 Daniel H. Bays, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

1996 Eleanor M. Zelliot, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1995 David Plath, University of Missouri-St. Louis

1994 Winston Hsieh, Western Illinois University, Macomb

1993 Donald Emmerson, John Carroll University, Cleveland

1992 Koji Taira, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

1991 Adrian Bennett, University of Iowa, Iowa City

1990 Stephen Cohen, Indiana University, Bloomington

1989 Rita Kipp, Michigan State University, East Lansing

1988 Mikiso Hane, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1987 Ted Farmer, St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield, MN

1986 Harold Gould, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1985 Carl Landes, Miami University, Oxford, OH

1984 Bonnie Oh, Washington University, St. Louis

1983 Willard Elsbree, University of Kansas, Lawrence

1982 Manindra Verma, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1981 Marleigh Ryan, University of Missouri-Columbia

1980 Samuel Chu, University of Iowa, Iowa City

1979 Clark D. Neher, Ohio State University, Columbus

1978 Barbara Ramusack, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1977 Iwao Ishino, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

1976 Byron Marshall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul

1975 Robert Crawford, Ohio University, Athens

1974 Grant K. Goodman, University of Kansas, Lawrence

1973 Barbara Teters, Michigan State University, East Lansing

1972 Bernard Karsh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1971 John Kie-chang Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1970 David Wurfel, Indiana University, Bloomington

1969 Fred von der Mehden, Oklahoma state University, Stillwater

1968 Jackson Bailey, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

1967 Stanley Spector, University of Kansas, Lawrence

1966 George M. Beckmann, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

1965 Earl Swisher, University of Colorado, Boulder

1964 Ping-chia Kuo, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

1963 Fred Parrish, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1962 Yahva Armajami, Washington University, St. Louis

1961 Solomon B. Levine, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

1960 Sidney D. Brown, University of Oklahoma, Norman

1959 Robert K. Sakai, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1958 Mitchell Smith, University of Missouri-Columbia

1957 Rudolph Bjorgan, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

1956 Alfred Crofts, University of Kansas, Lawrence

1955 Haridas Muzumdar, Kansas State University, Manhattan

1954 Oswald P. Backus III, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1953 Percy Buchanan, University of Kansas, Lawrence

1952 Percy Buchanan (Founder), University of Oklahoma, Norman