Midwest Sociological Society Explained

The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) is a "… membership organization of academic and applied sociologists as well as students of the discipline." The society was founded in 1936 and held its first annual meeting in 1937. In 2011–12 its membership marked its 75th anniversary at annual meetings held in St Louis and Minneapolis.

While membership of the society is open to everyone, the majority of its 1300 members (2/3) are from the Midwest.

The society publishes the scholarly journal, The Sociological Quarterly; holds an annual meeting each spring; supports fellowship, grant, and award programs; and supports research by its members.

Presidents

Past presidents of the Midwest Sociological Society

Name	Term
L. Guy Brown	1937
J. O. Hertzler	1937–38
Noel P. Gist	1938–39
Leslie D. Zeleny	1939–40
Clyde W. Hart	1940–41
Carrol D. Clark	1941–42
James M. Reinhardt	1942–44
David E. Lindstrom	1944–45
Ernest Manheim	1945–46
Howard P. Becker	1946–47
T. Earl Suellenger	1947
Lloyd V. Ballard	1947–48
Ray E. Wakeley	1948–49
George V. Vold	1949–50
Thomas D. Eliot	1950–51
J. Howell Atwood	1951–52
Donald O. Cowgill	1952–53
William H. Sewell	1953–54
John H. Burma	1954–55
Harold W. Saunders	1955–56
C. Terrence Pihlblad	1956–57
Paul Meadows	1957–58
Elio D. Monachesi	1958–59
Paul J. Campisi	1959–60
Ruth Shonle Cavan	1960–61
Arnold M. Rose	1961–62
Manford H. Kuhn	1962–63
Alan P. Bates	1963–64
Robert L. McNamara	1964–65
Marshall B. Clinard	1965–66
William L. Kolb	1966–67
Raymond Mack	1967–68
Robert W. Habenstein	1968–69
Nicholas Babchuk	1969–70
Roy G. Francis	1970–71
Ira Reiss	1971–72
Robert F. Winch	1972–73
Carolyn Rose	1973–74
Warren A. Peterson	1974–75
Helena Z. Lopata	1975–76
Richard H. Hall	1976–77
Charles K. Warriner	1977–78
Scott Greer	1978–79
Joan Huber	1979–80
Ethel Shanas	1980–81
Hans O. Mauksch	1981–82
Scott G. McNall	1982–83
James L. McCartney	1983–84
Michael Aiken	1984–85
Peter M. Hall	1985–86
John P. Clark	1986–87
Kathleen S. Crittenden	1987–88
Norman K. Denzin	1988–89
Roberta G. Simmons	1989–90
Alan Booth	1990–91
Susan E. Wright	1991–92
Clark McPhail	1992–93
Carl Couch	1993–94
Richard T. Schaefer	1994–95
Barbara S. Heyl	1995–96
Anthony M. Orum	1996–97
R. Dean Wright	1997–98
Joanne Nagel	1998–99
Joel Best	1999–00
John E. Farley	2000–01
Gary Alan Fine	2001–02
Philip Olson	2002–03
Chris Prendergast	2003–04
Eleanor Miller	2004–05
Robert Benford	2005–06
Patricia & Peter Adler	2006–07
Helen A. Moore	2007–08
Susan Stall	2008–09
Diane Pike	2009–10
Peter Kivisto	2010–11
Mary Zimmerman	2011–12
Linda Lindsey	2012–13
Barbara Keating	2013–14

References

• Web site: Midwest Sociological Society . Midwest Sociological Society . 5 December 2015 . .
• Web site: About the Midwest Sociological Society . Midwest Sociological Society . 5 December 2015 . .

Further reading

Web site: Four students found their voice at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting . Boos . Robert . 17 June 2016 . . 3 November 2018 . none.