SSHA Officers

2025-2026 Officers

President
Ho-fung Hung
Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)

Vice President
Steven Pincus
University of Chicago (History)

Executive Director
Jeremy Land
University of Helsinki (Economic History)

Treasurer
Shai Dromi
Harvard University (Sociology)

Executive Committee

Term Expires 2026
James Mahoney
Northwestern University (Sociology)

Ricarda Hammer
UC Berkeley (Sociology)

Alexandre White
Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)

Term Expires 2027
katrina quisumbing king
Northwestern University (Sociology)

Anna Skarpelis
CUNY Queen’s College (Sociology)

Yang Zhang
American University (Sociology)

Term Expires 2028
Maria Stanfors
Lund University (Economic History)

Sadia Saeed
University of San Francisco (Sociology)

Simone M. Caron
Wake Forest University (History)

Three Most Recent Past Presidents (Voting Members of Board)
Emily Eriskson
Yale University (Sociology)
2024-2025

Lisa M. Dillon
University of Montréal (Demography)
2023-2024

Anne McCants
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History)
2022-2023

Publications Committee

Term Expires 2026
Nicholas Wilson
Stony Brook University (Sociology)

Martin Dribe
Lund University (Demography)

2026 Program Committee

Matthew Norton
University of Oregon (Sociology)

Wenkai He
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Political Science)

Sefika Kumral
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Sociology)

Christy Thornton
New York University (History)

Past Presidents

Emily Erikson
Yale University (Sociology)
2024-2025

Lisa Y. Dillon
University of Montréal (Demography)
2023-2024

Anne McCants
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (History)
2022-2023

Julian Go
University of Chicago (Sociology)
2021-2022

Manali Desai
Cambridge University (Sociology)
2020-2021

Philip Hoffman
California Institute of Technology (Economics)
2019-2020

Steven Ruggles
University of Minnesota (History)
2018-2019

Frederick Wherry
Princeton University (Sociology)
2017-2018

Alice Bee Kasakoff
University of South Carolina (Anthropology)
2016-2017

Myron Gutmann
University of Colorado (History)
2015-2016

Susan Carter
University of California (Economics)
2014-2015

Thomas Sugrue
University of Pennsylvania (History)
2013-2014

Elisabeth S. Clemens
University of Chicago (Sociology)
2012-2013

William Sewell
University of Chicago (Political Science & History)
2011-2012

George Alter
University of Michigan (History)
2010-2011

Ann Shola Orloff
Northwestern University (Sociology, Gender Studies, and Political Science)
2009-2010

Julia Adams
Yale University (Sociology)
2008-2009

Donna R. Gabaccia
University of Minnesota (History)
2007-2008

David I. Kertzer
Brown University (Anthropology)
2006-2007

Margo Anderson
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (History and Urban Studies)
2005-2006

Richard Steckel
Ohio State University (Economics)
2004-2005

Mary Jo Maynes
University of Minnesota (History)
2003-2004

Andrew Abbott
University of Chicago (Sociology)
2002-2003

Leslie Page Moch
Michigan State University (History)
2001-2002

Caroline B. Brettell
Southern Methodist University (Anthropology)
2000-2001

Harvey J. Graff
University of Texas at San Antonio (History)
1999-2000