Past Presidents
Past Presidents
This website is devoted to making the history of
the Rural Sociological Society and rural sociology more accessible.
Additions and suggestions are always welcome!
Past Presidents of the
Rural Sociological Society
Year Name
1938-1939 Dwight Sanderson
1939-1940 Carl C. Taylor
1940-1941 J.H. Kolb
1941-1942 T. Lynn Smith
1942-1943 Charles E. Lively
1943-1944 Lowry Nelson
1944-1945 Edmund des Brunner
1945-1946 Paul H. Landis
1946-1947 W.A. Anderson
1947-1948 Charles P. Loomis
1948-1949 Carle Zimmerman
1949-1950 C. Horace Hamilton
1950-1951 Robert A. Polson
1951-1952 Howard W. Beers
1952-1953 O.D. Duncan
1953-1954 Nathan L. Whetten
1954-1955 William H. Sewell
1955-1956 Margaret Jarman Hagood
1956-1957 Irwin T. Sanders
1957-1958 Olaf Larson
1958-1959 Harold Hoffsommer
1959-1960 Charles R. Hoffer
1960-1961 M.E. John
1961-1962 Harold Kaufman
1962-1963 Eugene Wilkening
1963-1964 Paul J. Jehlik
1964-1965 A. Lee Coleman
1965-1966 J. Allan Beegle
1966-1967 Robert McNamara
1967-1968 Alvin Bertrand
1968-1969 George Beal
1969-1970 Archibald Haller
1970-1971 Glenn Fuguitt
1971-1972 James H. Copp
1972-1973 Thomas R. Ford
1973-1974 W. Keith Warner
1974-1975 Harold Capener
1975-1976 Frederick Fliegel
1976-1977* Walter Slocum
1976-1977 Sheldon G. Lowry
1977-1978 Harry Schwarzweller
1978-1979 Daryl Hobbs
1979-1980 Edward O. Moe
1980-1981 William L. Flinn
1981-1982 Robert C. Bealer
1982-1983 C. Milton Coughenour
1983-1984 Don A. Dillman
1984-1985 Kenneth P. Wilkinson
1985-1986* A. Eugene Havens
1985-1986 Gerald E. Klonglan
1986-1987 James A. Christenson
1987-1988 William D. Heffernan
1988-1989 Cornelia B. Flora
1989-1990 Gene F. Summers
1990-1991 Frederick H. Buttel
1991-1992 Robert C. Wimberley
1992-1993 James J. Zuiches
1993-1994 C. Shannon Stokes
1994-1995 Ann R. Tickamyer
1995-1996 Janet L. Bokemeier
1996-1997 Jan L. Flora
1997-1998 Lawrence Busch
1998-1999 William B. Lacy
1999-2000 Louis E. Swanson
2000-2001 David L. Brown
2001-2002 Sonya Salamon
2002-2003 Linda M. Lobao
2003-2004 Lionel "Bo" Beaulieu
2004-2005 William R. Freudenburg
2005-2006 Carolyn Sachs
2006-2007 Richard Krannich
2007-2008 Jess Gilbert
2008-2009 Joseph Molnar
2009-2010 Joachim Singelmann
2010-2011 Daniel Lichter
2011-2012 Conner Bailey
2012-2013 Michael Schulman
2013-2014 JoAnn Jaffe
2014-2015 E. Helen Berry
2015-2016 Leif Jensen
2016-2017 Tom Rudel
2017-2018 Doug Jackson-Smith
2018-2019 Keiko Tanaka
Please send suggestions, ideas, or changes to:
Julie N. Zimmerman
Historian, Rural Sociological Society
Dr. and Mrs. C. Milton Coughenour Professor of Rural Sociology
Department of Community and Leadership Development
Graduate Faculty, Department of Sociology
500 Garrigus Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0215
(859) 257-7583
jzimm@uky.edu
