The presidents of the Midwest Political Science Association have been: •
James K. Pollock,
University of Michigan, 1939 •
W.H.C. Laves,
University of Chicago, 1940 •
Francis G. Wilson,
University of Illinois, 1941 •
John E. Briggs,
University of Iowa, 1942 •
Howard White,
Miami University, 1943–47 •
Harold Zink,
DePauw University, 1948 •
Llewellyn Pfankuchen,
University of Wisconsin, 1949 •
Harold M. Door, University of Michigan, 1950 •
Charles M. Kneier, University of Illinois, 1951 •
Harold M. Vinacke,
University of Cincinnati, 1952 •
Kirk H. Porter, University of Iowa, 1953 •
Harry W. Voltmer, DePauw University, 1954 •
Asher Christensen,
University of Minnesota, 1955 •
Edward Buehrig,
Indiana University, 1955 (Acting President) •
David Fellman, University of Wisconsin, 1956 •
Wilfred E. Binkley,
Ohio Northern University, 1957 •
Clarence A. Berdahl, University of Illinois, 1958 •
Jasper B. Shannon,
University of Nebraska, 1959 •
Amry Vandenbosch,
University of Kentucky, 1960 •
Lloyd M. Short, University of Minnesota, 1961 •
Richard Spencer,
Coe College, 1962 •
E. Allen Helms,
Ohio State University, 1963 •
William O. Farber,
University of South Dakota, 1964 •
John E. Stoner, Indiana University, 1965 •
Clara Penniman, University of Wisconsin, 1966 •
Vernon Van Dyke, University of Iowa, 1967 •
John D. Lewis,
Oberlin College, 1968 •
Samuel J. Eldersveld, University of Michigan, 1969 •
Merle Kling,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1970 •
John Wahlke, University of Iowa, 1971 •
Leon D. Epstein, University of Wisconsin, 1972 •
Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1973 •
Frank Sorauf, University of Minnesota, 1974 •
Charles Press,
Michigan State University, 1975 •
Norton Long,
University of Missouri–St. Louis, 1976 •
Samuel Krislov, University of Minnesota, 1977 • Robert Salisbury, Washington University, 1978 •
John Kessel, Ohio State University, 1979 •
Malcolm E. Jewell, University of Kentucky, 1980 •
Samuel C. Patterson, University of Iowa, 1981 •
Dina Zinnes, University of Illinois, 1982 •
Jack Dennis, University of Wisconsin, 1983 •
Lucius Barker,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1984 •
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, 1985 •
W. Phillips Shivley, University of Minnesota, 1986 •
Ada W. Finifter, Michigan State University, 1987 •
John W. Kingdon, University of Michigan, 1988 •
William Crotty,
Northwestern University, 1989 • Richard Watson,
University of Missouri, 1990 •
Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University, 1991 •
Charles O. Jones,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1992 •
Susan Welch,
Pennsylvania State University, 1993 •
Lee Sigelman,
George Washington University, 1994 • John Sprague,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1995 •
James Stimson,
University of Minnesota, 1996 •
Arlene Saxonhouse,
University of Michigan, 1997 •
Harold Spaeth,
Michigan State University, 1998 •
James L. Gibson,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1999 •
Milton Lodge,
Stony Brook University, 2000 •
Robert Huckfeldt,
Indiana University, 2001 •
Herbert Weisberg,
The Ohio State University, 2002 •
Lee Epstein,
Washington University in St. Louis, 2003 •
Virginia Gray,
University of North Carolina, 2004 •
John Aldrich,
Duke University, 2005 •
Kenneth J. Meier,
Texas A&M University, 2006 •
Gregory Caldeira,
The Ohio State University, 2007 •
Rodney Hero,
University of Notre Dame, 2008 •
Jeffrey A. Segal,
Stony Brook University, 2009 •
Gary Segura,
Stanford University, 2010 • Bryan Jones,
University of Texas at Austin, 2011 •
Nancy Burns,
University of Michigan, 2012 • Arthur Lupia,
University of Michigan, 2013 •
Edward G. Carmines,
Indiana University, 2014-2015 •
Paula McClain,
Duke University, 2015-2016 •
Jan E. Leighley,
American University, 2016-2017 •
Vincent Hutchings,
University of Michigan, 2017-2018 •
Elisabeth Gerber,
University of Michigan, 2018-2019 •
Sarah Binder,
George Washington University, 2019-2020 •
Diana Mutz,
University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2021 •
Rick Wilson,
Rice University, 2021-2022 •
Melanie Manion,
Duke University, 2022-2023 •
Eleanor Neff Powell,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023-2024 •
Christina Wolbrecht,
University of Notre Dame, 2024-2025 •
Rikhil Bhavnani,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, President-Elect ==References==