2023-2024 Officers
President
Lisa Dillon
University of Montréal (Demography)
Vice President
Emily Erikson
Yale University (Sociology)
Executive Director
Jeremy Land
University of Gothenburg
Treasurer
Damon Mayrl
Colby College (Sociology)
Executive Committee
Term Expires 2024
Sasha Mullally
University of New Brunswick (History)Sakari Saaritsa
University of Helsinki (Economic and Social History)Angel Adams Parham
University of Virginia (Sociology)
Term Expires 2025
Shari Eli
University of Toronto (Economics)Nicholas Wilson
Stony Brook University (Sociology)Simone M. Caron
Wake Forest University (History)
Term Expires 2026
James Mahoney
Northwestern University (Sociology)Ricarda Hammer
UC Berkeley (Sociology)Alexandre White
Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)
Publications Committee
Term Expires 2024
J. David Hacker
University of Minnesota (History)Ho-Fung Hung
Johns Hopkins University (Sociology)
Term Expires 2025
Fiona Rose Greenland
University of Virginia (Sociology)Joshua MacFadyen
University of Prince Edward Island (Geospatial Humanities)
Term Expires 2026
Nicholas Wilson
Stony Brook University (Sociology)Martin Dribe
Lund University (Demography)
2024 Program Committee
Sakari Saaritsa
University of Helsinki (Economic and Social History)Shari Eli
University of Toronto (Economics)Matt Nelson
University of Minnesota (Historical Demography)
Past Presidents
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
Announcements
SSHA 2024 Final Conference Program Released
The 2024 SSHA conference (in Toronto, Oct 31 - Nov 3) program has been released and is available here.
SSHA Town Hall, March 25
The SSHA officers invite SSHA members to attend a Zoom town hall on Monday March 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm EST to discuss and answer questions about the four Executive Committee motions passed on December 20, 2023, and February 8, 2024. The zoom link is here (Meeting ID: 895 1708 6578 | Password: 602250).
These motions concern our association journal, Social Science History, specifically editorial procedure guidelines, journal scope and the editor model. These motions have been posted on the SSHA website.
2024 Annual Conference Submissions Now Open
SSHA is now accepting paper and session submissions for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please visit our submission portal to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.