2023-2024 Officers

President
Lisa Dillon
University of Montréal (Demography)

Vice President
Emily Erikson
Yale University (Sociology)

Executive Director

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 Town Hall, Monday 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 ssha2024.ssha.org to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.

Submission Portal


SSHA Call for Papers

50th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association

Toronto, ON, Canada, October 31 - November 3, 2024.

Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age

SSHA Call for Papers PDF


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