Formerly the Western Social Science Association
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Tony Amato
2022-2023
Debra Andrist
2019-2020
Christopher Brown
2018-2019
Barbara Bonnekessen
2017-2018
Michèle Companion
2016-2017
Heather Albanesi
2015-2016
N. Prabha Unnithan
2014-2015
Leslie Alm
2013-2014
Tom Isern
2012-2013
Victor Heller
2011-2012
Gil Fowler
2010-2011
Jack Hou
2009-2010
Phaedra Ponds
2008-2009
After several years of discussion, the Western Social Science Association, by unanimous vote of the Executive Council, proposed a name change to the membership. By unanimous vote of the membership at the Annual Business Meeting in Denver on April 1, 2022 the name change was approved, whereby the Western Social Science Association has changed its name to the World Social Science Association. This action was taken, as were similar actions in the past, as both our geographic and pedagogical reach have broadened and evolved.
This will be the fourth name that has been used by the Association. In 1958, the Association began as the Colorado-Wyoming Social Science Association. Over time we began to attract attendees from several of the other Rocky Mountain States; therefore, the name was changed to the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association.
Once again, as we continued to grow and attract academics from every state west of the Mississippi, and even some from east of the Mississippi, another name change was proposed, this time to the Western Social Science Association.
Over the last two decades, the Association has slowly taken on an increasingly international flavor, with new sections focusing on Latin American, Chicano, Latinx, and Iberian Studies, Asian Studies, and Middle East and North African Studies. Additionally, through individual initiatives, and the efforts of the Association for Borderlands Studies, WSSA attendees, participants, and leaders are coming from all around the world.
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