Past Presidents

Jo-Marie Burt, 2023 – 2024
George Mason University

Margarita López Maya, 2022 – 2023
Universidad Central de Venezuela

Gerardo Otero, 2021 – 2022
Simon Fraser University

Gioconda Herrera, 2020 – 2021
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Ecuador

Mara Viveros-Vigoya, 2019 – 2020
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Lynn M. Stephen, 2018 – 2019
University of Oregon

Aldo Panfichi Huamán, 2017 – 2018
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Joanne Rappaport, 2016 – 2017
Georgetown University

Gilbert Joseph, 2015 – 2016
Yale University

Debra Castillo, 2014 – 2015
Cornell University

Merilee Grindle, 2013 – 2014
Harvard University

Evelyne Huber, 2012 – 2013
University of North Carolina

Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, 2010 – 2012
Universidade de São Paulo

John Coatsworth, 2009 – 2010
Columbia University

Eric Hershberg, 2007 – 2009
American University

Charles R. Hale, 2006 – 2007
University of Texas, Austin

Sonia E. Alvarez, 2004 – 2006
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Marysa Navarro, 2003 – 2004
Dartmouth College

Arturo Arias, 2001 – 2003
University of California, Merced

Thomas Holloway, 2000 – 2001
University of California, Davis

Franklin Knight, 1998 – 2000
Johns Hopkins University

Susan Eckstein, 1997 – 1998 
Boston University

Jane Jaquette, 1995 – 1997 
Occidental College

Cynthia McClintock, 1994 – 1995 
George Washington University

Carmen Diana Deere, 1992 – 1994 
University of Florida

Lars Schoultz, 1991 – 1992
University of North Carolina

Jean Franco, 1989 – 1991 
Columbia University

Paul Drake, 1988 – 1989 
University of California, San Diego

Cole Blasier, 1986 – 1988 
University of Pittsburgh

Wayne Cornelius, 1985 – 1986 
University of California, San Diego

Helen M. Safa, 1983 – 1985 
University of Florida

Jorge I. Domínguez, 1982 – 1983 
Harvard University

Peter H. Smith, 1981 – 1982
University of California, San Diego

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, 1980 – 1981 
University of Pittsburgh

William P. Glade, 1979 – 1980

Riordan Roett, 1978 – 1979

Evelyn P. Stevens, 1977 – 1978

Evelyn P. Stevens,* 1976 – 1977

Richard R. Fagen, 1975 – 1976

Paul L. Doughty, 1974 – 1975

Henry A. Landsberger, 1973 – 1974

Thomas Skidmore, 1972 – 1973

Federico G. Gil, 1971 – 1972

John J. Johnson, 1970 – 1971

John P.Augelli, 1969 – 1970

Richard Adams, 1968 – 1969

Kalman H. Silvert, 1967 – 1968

*Joseph Grunwald was elected vice – president in 1974 and was scheduled to serve as president in 1976, but resigned to enter government service.