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	Ronald 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

Please send suggestions, ideas, or changes to:

Julie N. Zimmerman

RSS Historian

Associate Professor, Rural Sociology

Dept. of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky

jzimm@email.uky.edu

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