Past Presidents
2024
Conference Location: University Notre Dame
President: Michel Hockx
President’s Affiliation: University of Notre Dame
2023
Conference Location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
President: Taylor Easum
President’s Affiliation: Indiana State University
2022
Conference Location: The University of Kansas
President: Hiromi Mizuno
President’s Affiliation: University of Minnesota
2021
Conference Location: (Online) Indiana University Bloomington
President: Poshek Fu
President’s Affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2020
Conference Location: (Online) Michigan State University, East Lansing
President: Siddharth Chandra
President’s Affiliation: Michigan State University, East Lansing
2019
Conference Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing
President: Laura Miller
President’s Affiliation: University of Missouri St. Louis
2018
Conference Location: Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis
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2017
Conference Location: University of Notre Dame
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2016
Conference Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
President: Ethan Segal
President’s Affiliation: Michigan State University
2015
Conference Location: Washington University in St. Louis
President: Kai-wing Chow
President’s Affiliation: University of Illinois
2014
Conference Location: University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS
President: Arjun Guneratne
President’s Affiliation: Macalester College
2013
Conference Location: Michigan State University
President: Rebecca Copeland
President’s Affiliation: Washington University
2012
Conference Location: Western Michigan University
President: Yongming Zhou
President’s Affiliation: University of Wisconsin Madison
2011
Conference Location: Macalester College
President: Katherine Bowie
President’s Affiliation: University of Wisconsin Madison
2010
Conference Location: Ohio State University
President: Roy Hanashiro
President’s Affiliation: University of Michigan Flint
2009
Conference Location: Miami University Ohio
President: Robert Entenmann
President’s Affiliation: St. Olaf College
2008
Conference Location: St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges
President: Yasuko Ito Watt
President’s Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
2007
Conference Location: Washington University – St. Louis
President: Linda Johnson
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2006
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin – Madison
President: Aparajita Sagar
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2005
Conference Location: Michigan State University
President: Jacquetta Hill
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2004
Conference Location: University of Minnesota
President: James L. Huffman
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2003
Conference Location: Illinois State University
President: Parks M. Coble
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2002
Conference Location: Wittenberg University
President: Gerald J. Larson
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2001
Conference Location: University of Nebraska
President: Sally A. Hastings
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2000
Conference Location: Indiana University – Bloomington
President: David Buck
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1999
Conference Location: Michigan State University
President: Richard M. Cooler
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1998
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
President: Louis G. Perez
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1997
Conference Location: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
President: Daniel H. Bays
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1996
Conference Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
President: Eleanor M. Zelliot
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1995
Conference Location: University of Missouri-St. Louis
President: David Plath
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1994
Conference Location: Western Illinois University, Macomb
President: Winston Hsieh
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1993
Conference Location: John Carroll University, Cleveland
President: Donald Emmerson
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1992
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
President: Koji Taira
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1991
Conference Location: University of Iowa, Iowa City
President: Adrian Bennett
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1990
Conference Location: Indiana University, Bloomington
President: Stephen Cohen
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1989
Conference Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing
President: Rita Kipp
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1988
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison
President: Mikiso Hane
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1987
Conference Location: St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, Northfield
President: Ted Farmer
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1986
Conference Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
President: Harold Gould
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1985
Conference Location: Miami University, Oxford
President: Carl Landes
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1984
Conference Location: Washington University, St. Louis
President: Bonnie Oh
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1983
Conference Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence
President: Willard Elsbree
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1982
Conference Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
President: Manindra Verma
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1981
Conference Location: University of Missouri-Columbia
President: Marleigh Ryan
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1980
Conference Location: University of Iowa, Iowa City
President: Samuel Chu
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1979
Conference Location: Ohio State University, Columbus
President: Clark D. Neher
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1978
Conference Location: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
President: Barbara Ramusack
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1977
Conference Location: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
President: Iwao Ishino
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1976
Conference Location: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul
President: Byron Marshall
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1975
Conference Location: Ohio University, Athens
President: Robert Crawford
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1974
Conference Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence
President: Grant K. Goodman
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1973
Conference Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing
President: Barbara Teters
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1972
Conference Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
President: Bernard Karsh
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1971
Conference Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison
President: John Kie-chang Oh
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1970
Conference Location: Indiana University, Bloomington
President: David Wurfel
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1969
Conference Location: Oklahoma state University, Stillwater
President: Fred von der Mehden
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1968
Conference Location: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
President: Jackson Bailey
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1967
Conference Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence
President: Stanley Spector
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1966
Conference Location: Wartburg College, Waverly
President: George M. Beckmann
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1965
Conference Location: University of Colorado, Boulder
President: Earl Swisher
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1964
Conference Location: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
President: Ping-chia Kuo
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1963
Conference Location: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
President: Fred Parrish
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1962
Conference Location: Washington University, St. Louis
President: Yahva Armajami
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1961
Conference Location: Grinnell College, Grinnell
President: Solomon B. Levine
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1960
Conference Location: University of Oklahoma, Norman
President: Sidney D. Brown
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1959
Conference Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
President: Robert K. Sakai
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1958
Conference Location: University of Missouri-Columbia
President: Mitchell Smith
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1957
Conference Location: Macalester College, St. Paul
President: Rudolph Bjorgan
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1956
Conference Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence
President: Alfred Crofts
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1955
Conference Location: Kansas State University, Manhattan
President: Haridas Muzumdar
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1954
Conference Location: University of Nebraska, Lincoln
President: Oswald P. Backus III
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1953
Conference Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence
President: Percy Buchanan
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1952
Conference Location: University of Oklahoma, Norman
President: Percy Buchanan (Founder)
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