Links with Other Associations
Links with Other Associations
This website is devoted to making the history of the Rural Sociological Society and rural sociology more accessible.
Additions and suggestions are always welcome!
RSS Presidents
who also Served as President of other Professional Associations
(Dates in parentheses refer RSS presidential term)
Over the years, many rural sociologists have served as president of professional associations other than the Rural Sociological Society.
The list below does not capture all of these, but it is a list of those who were also president of the RSS.
If you know of other societies or other presidents that need to be included, please send them to the RSS Historian.
National
American Sociological Association
1942 Dwight Sanderson (1938-1939)
1946 Carl C. Taylor (1939-1940)
1967 Charles P. Loomis (1947-1948)
1971 William H. Sewell (1954-1955)
Population Association of America
1954-1955 Margaret Jarman Hagood (1955-1956)
1960-1961 C. Horace Hamilton (1949-1950)
2010-2011 Daniel Lichter (2010-2011)
American Country Life Association
1935 Carl C. Taylor (1939-1940)
1938 Dwight Sanderson (1938-1939)
Regional
Southern Sociological Society
1945 Howard Beers (1951-1952)
1947 T. Lynn Smith (1941-1942)
1956 Irwin T. Sanders (1956-1957)
1958 C. Horace Hamilton (1949-1950)
1959 Harold Kaufman (1961-1962)
1963 Alvin Bertrand (1967-1968)
1977 Tom Ford (1972-1973)
2007 Ron Wimberley (1991-1992)
Midwest Sociological Society
1953-1954 William H. Sewell (1954-1955)
1964-1965 Robert L. McNamara (1966-1967)
Eastern Sociological Society
1949-1950 Nathan L. Whetten (1953-1954)
North Central Sociological Association
1940-1941 Charles R. Hoffer (1959-1960)
Southern Rural Sociological Association
1983-1984 Ron Wimberley (1991-1992)
1986-1987 Lionel "Bo" Beaulieu (2003-2004)
Other
Most organizations only list past presidents on their websites. The Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) lists all past officers. While the PSA and the RSS do not have any presidents in common, Paul Landis (RSS President 1945-1946) served as Secretary-Treasurer of the PSA from 1938-1942.
Please send suggestions, ideas, or changes to:
Julie N. Zimmerman
RSS Historian
Professor, Rural Sociology
Department of Community and Leadership Development
Dr. and Mrs. C. Milton Coughenour Professor of Rural Sociology
Graduate Faculty, Dept of Sociology
500 Garrigus Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0215
(859) 257-7583
jzimm@uky.edu
